Browsing the "Health & Fitness" category: 965 books
Special Features: This PerfectBound e-book contains: three Adventure Girl adventures: "My Date with Betty Dodson"; "I Came! I Shot!"; "I Go to a Swingers' Party"! A frank and witty tour of modern sexuality from a knowing young "sexpert" who's see ...more »
ISBN: 0060086939 / PerfectBound / Pub Date: Sep 2001 / File Size: 621K
The information in this book won't raise your IQ, get you a better-paying job, or improve your table manners. It will, however, raise your eyebrows, provide a wealth of amusing material to spice up dull conversations, and satisfy your lust for arcane ...more »
ISBN: 0743211340 / Fireside Books / Pub Date: Sep 2000 / File Size: 167K
When it comes to answering patients' questions simply and directly, nurses are widely recognized as the most trusted of all health professionals. So who better to provide inside information about how to manage common health conditions, simple home tr ...more »
ISBN: 0743213556 / The Free Press / Pub Date: Mar 2001 / File Size: 599K
At last, a book about eating (and eating well) for health -- from Dr. Andrew Weil, the brilliantly in-novative and greatly respected doctor who has been instrumental in transforming the way Americans think about health. Now Dr. Weil -- whose nati ...more »
ISBN: 0375412689 / Knopf / Pub Date: Apr 2000 / File Size: 358K
A doctor-nurse with wonderful credential team join forces to show readers how they can heal illness and prevent disease through imagery, creativity, and meditation. ...more »
ISBN: 0471417025 / John Wiley & Sons / Pub Date: Oct 2000 / File Size: 334K
Ground-breaking research provides an exciting new approach to treating the most common mental problem in America -- depression. For years, scientists have searched for a "magic bullet" to relieve the pain and trauma of mood disorders -- one safe enou ...more »
ISBN: 0743217209 / The Free Press / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 1351K
"No matter what your age or health, you can improve in just 24 hours -- with increased energy, stamina, and libido; elevated mood; more fat-burning enzymes; and youthful vitality. In her years as exercise physiologist and trainer to the stars at the ...more »
ISBN: 006008541X / PerfectBound / Pub Date: Jun 2002 / File Size: 1115K
This important new book documents a major breakthrough in the treatment of the three most widespread learning disabilities--ADHD, dyslexia, and dyspraxia ("clumsy child syndrome"). Although these conditions have reached epidemic proportions, treatmen ...more »
ISBN: 0345446879 / Ballantine / Pub Date: Jan 2001 / File Size: 759K
Written by four leading experts in the fields of health, financial planning, and law, Boomer Basics is a one-stop reference that addresses the challenges of our generation. ...more »
ISBN: 0071367144 / McGraw-Hill / Pub Date: Nov 2000 / File Size: 624K
100 Super Supplements for a Longer Life highlights the many vitamins, minerals, herbs, amino acids, phytonutrients, and other natural substances that are being used to prevent and/or treat heart disease, stroke, cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes, ...more »
ISBN: 0071392289 / McGraw-Hill / Pub Date: Nov 2001 / File Size: 648K
"Special E-Book Feature! This PerfectBound E-Book contains hyperlinks to a Glossary of Useful Terms. We are gripped by a personal energy crisis of epidemic proportions. The culprit? Low thyroid-you and your doctor may not even know you have it. T ...more »
ISBN: 0060010320 / PerfectBound / Pub Date: Jun 2001 / File Size: 347K
Apparently in robust health at age forty-five, Matt Bayan exercised every day, ate a low-fat diet, never smoked, and successfully avoided excess stress. But in the early hours of May 6, 1996 he was jolted awake by a massive, unexpected heart attack. ...more »
ISBN: 0743213750 / Simon & Schuster / Pub Date: Oct 2000 / File Size: 1136K
Hari! Mankind's Historic Quest to End Baldness is a social history of one of humanity's most irksome problems: male pattern baldness. Throughout the centuries, man has tried everything to hide, treat, and repair baldness: Will it soon be a thing of t ...more »
ISBN: 0679647090 / At Random / Pub Date: Mar 2001 / File Size: 370K
A guide to the natural and effective supplements that boost testosterone levels--complete with detailed information for both men and women and how and when to use them responsibly. ...more »
ISBN: 0684824523 / Simon & Schuster / Pub Date: Sep 2000 / File Size: 2478K
Through her own unique experiences as a nurse in a geriatric hospital, Dr. Deborah Forrest reveals the rich spiritual life of those suffering with Alzheimer's and offers a message of hope, comfort and inspiration to the 4 million families coping with ...more »
ISBN: 031227646X / St Martins / Pub Date: Nov 2000 / File Size: 290K
Alzheimer's has been called "death by subtraction." The Forgetting is at once a thoughtful meditation on what this means and a forthright discussion of the impact the disease is having on America. ...more »
ISBN: 0385504837 / Doubleday / Pub Date: Oct 2001 / File Size: 312K
"E-book exclusive special feature: No more flipping pages! This PerfectBound e-book contains in-text hyperlinks to key terms and concepts in The 90-Day Healthy High-Tech Body Program. Now having to ""look it up"" is no longer an excuse not to stick w ...more »
ISBN: 0060086998 / PerfectBound / Pub Date: Sep 2001 / File Size: 470K
Many people are allergic to types of food, and to the chemicals that are in them. This book helps people to discover the foods that have been afflicting them, learn how some foods react to the body in different people, and discover how to avoid trou ...more »
ISBN: 0471417076 / John Wiley & Sons / Pub Date: Oct 2000 / File Size: 623K
An estimated 34 million cancer patients presently battle chronic pain. In The Cancer Pain Sourcebook, top pain management specialists discuss the anatomy of pain and provide patients with a comprehensive and compassionate approach to managing pain du ...more »
ISBN: 0071394931 / McGraw-Hill / Pub Date: Apr 2001 / File Size: 614K
In 50 Ways Women Can Prevent Heart Disease bestselling health writer M. Sara Rosenthal explores why this killer disease so often goes undetected in women, which unique symptoms place women at a higher risk, treatment options, and the pros and cons of ...more »
ISBN: 0071395520 / McGraw-Hill / Pub Date: Nov 2000 / File Size: 258K
An accessible guide to everything chronic bronchitis and emphysema sufferers need to know to get the best treatment for their ailment and live life to the fullest. This new edition is revised throughout, including up-to-date information on new altern ...more »
ISBN: 047141705X / John Wiley & Sons / Pub Date: Nov 2000 / File Size: 2927K
Recent surveys suggest that 30 million Americans suffer from hypertension (high blood pressure). In The Hypertension Sourcebook, a leading expert offers simple steps toward curing this highly destructive disease or avoiding it altogether. Also featur ...more »
ISBN: 0071392025 / McGraw-Hill / Pub Date: Apr 2001 / File Size: 785K
In a non-fiction narrative that reads like a medical thriller, Richard Rhodes follows virus hunters on three continents as they track the emergence of a deadly new brain disease that first kills cannibals in New Guinea, then cattle and young people i ...more »
ISBN: 0684867605 / Simon & Schuster / Pub Date: Oct 2000 / File Size: 459K
A panacea for the nearly 10 percent of the adolescent population with some degree of scoliosis. ...more »
ISBN: 0071392017 / McGraw-Hill / Pub Date: Nov 2001 / File Size: 396K
After being diagnosed with chronic myelogenous leukemia in October 1991, "Wall Street Journal" Entertainment Editor Laura Landro writes about her remarkable account of her inspiring battle against the devastating, potentially fatal cancer. ...more »
ISBN: 0684867907 / Simon & Schuster / Pub Date: Dec 2000 / File Size: 310K
