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1801 Home Remedies
: :Here is a plethora of ordinary household remedies to treat over 100 common ailments and health complaints safely, effectively, and inexpensively in an easy-to-use A-to-Z format. Treat everyday health problems with cures from a wide range of sources, all examined by a panel of leading medical doctors-sure-fire safe and effective treatments.
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A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives: Descriptions in Plain English of More Than 12,000 Ingredients Both Harmful and Desirable Found in Foods (Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives)
: :The essential guide for making sure your food is safeA Consumer’s Dictionary of Food Additives is back again, in an updated sixth edition. This valuable reference gives you all the facts about the relative safety and side effects of more than 12,000 ingredients that end up in your food as a result of processing and curing, such as preservatives, food-tainting pesticides, and animal drugs. For example, drugs used to tranquilize pigs may sedate diners!There are hundreds of new entries to this edition, and topics ...
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Bowes & Church's Food Values of Portions Commonly Used
: :This classic guide to nutrition has helped put the balance in balanced diets since 1937. Now completely updated for the Seventeenth Edition, this bestseller continues to fulfill its purpose, to supply authoritative data on the nutritional value of foods in a form for quick and easy reference. The book's main table reflects the current food supply -- listing more than 8,500 common foods -- and contains data on the nutritional content of foods, organized by food groups. Supplementary tables define the content of lesser ...
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The Hair Pulling 'Habit' and You: How to Solve the Trichotillomania Puzzle, Revised Edition
: :Shows young people how to break their hair pulling habit by identifying trigger situations, developing resistance strategies, charting progress, modifying environments, motivating themselves, and staying with the program. Advice for therapists and parents, too.
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Fixing Your Feet: Prevention and Treatments for Athletes
: :Too often athletes spend vast amounts of money, time, and energy on training, equipment, and travel, but little or no preparation on their feet. The highly successful Fixing Your Feet has been revised and updated to make it an even more complete source of information about proper foot care for the runner, hiker, adventure racer, or any athlete. Learn to be proactive in preventing foot problems through proper techniques, reactive with treatments when problems develop, and what supplies and resources are available. This highly ...
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The Owner's Manual for the Brain, Second Edition: Everyday Applications from Mind-Brain Research
: :Since the first edition of The Owner's Manual, Dr. Howard has appeared on Oprah, conducted countless seminars and added new topics and 300+ pages of new brain research to the book.
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Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide
: :The Harvard Medical School provides state-of-the-art health care to millions of Americans. Now, with this newly updated guidebook you can benefit from the expertise of more than 8,000 health professionals from some of the nation's most esteemed hospitals and research centers.Today Americans have a better chance of living longer, healthier lives than ever before. But before we can utilize the benefits of modern medicine we must learn how to manage our own health. The Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide is an essential, empowering ...
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Risk Management in Health Care Institutions, Second Edition: A Strategic Approach
: :This book offers governing boards, chief executive officers, administrators, and health profession students the opportunity to organize and devise a successful risk management program.
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Patients Beyond Borders: Everybody's Guide to Affordable, World-Class Medical Tourism
: :Patients Beyond Borders is the first comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide to medical tourism, written by the world's leading spokesperson on international health travel. Impartial, extensively researched and filled with authoritative and accessible advice carefully culled from hundreds of resources in the US and abroad.Patients Beyond Borders lists the 30 top medical travel destinations, where patients can choose from hundreds of hospitals and save 30-80% on medical procedures, ranging from a comprehensive health check-up to heart work, orthopedics, dental and cosmetic surgery, in vitro fertilization and ...
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Essential Concepts for Healthy Living
: :The critical thinking personal health textbook. Timely topics--such as alternative medicine, reproductive health, and noninfectious conditions--informed by current research provide a comprehensive overview of today's health issues.
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