Product Description: "Wellness for Women - a must-read for every woman who wants to take charge of her health, and her life."

Wellness for Women a Guide to Natural Health, Beauty and Well Being (Paperback)

Product Description: This book could serve very effectively as a brief reference handbook or as an introductory textbook for the emerging field of spirituality and health--now a component in the curriculum of many schools of nursing, medicine, and other health-related professions, as well as in some colleges of liberal arts or education. The book is a particularly well-integrated collection of short reports on the current state of the field. It covers concepts and assessment instruments typically used in spirituality-and-health research. It also covers basic techniques for self-management and personal development (such as prayer and meditation) that long have been part of spiritual traditions, and increasingly are recognized as having relevance for health maintenance too. The book concludes with consideration of general ethical issues and with problems characteristic of specific population groups, e.g., adolescents, the elderly, HIV/AIDS sufferers, and cancer patients. Contributors treat these issues with discernment, respect, and appropriate expertise....Recommended. All levels.Choice

Spirit, Science, and Health: How the Spiritual Mind Fuels Physical Wellness (Hardcover)

Product Description: Aimed at everyone from beginner to expert, Triathlons for Women includes specific training plans, offers a history of women in triathlons, and answers common questions. The book also explores overtraining, mental preparation, and time management. This revised edition includes black-and-white photos, charts, tables, worksheets, and a new chapter on transition training and equipment.

Triathlons for Women: Training Plans, Equipment, Nutrition (Paperback)

This dynamic health-and-wellness education program was developed at the Harvard Medical School by a leading clinician and an acclaimed curriculum designer. It addresses critical issues of body preoccupation and reduces risk for disordered eating in girls (grades 3–8). Emphasizing girls’ personal power and overall mental and physical well-being, Full of Ourselves contains a range of upbeat units that foster:

* Increased self and body acceptance
* Healthier eating and exercise habits
* Leadership and media literacy skills
* A range of coping skills for resisting unhealthy peer and cultural pressures

Each unit ends with a "Call to Action" to help girls translate their new-found knowledge into positive action at school, home, and in their community. Older girls are trained as peer leaders and given the opportunity to pass along their learning to younger peers.

Evaluated with more than 800 girls, this primary prevention curriculum is the first of its kind to show sustained, positive changes in girls’ body image, body satisfaction, and body esteem. Educators, health professionals, counselors, and parents will find Full of Ourselves the ideal resource for helping girls make healthy choices for themselves.

Full of Ourselves: A Wellness Program to Advance Girl Power, Health, And Leadership (Paperback)

Comprehensive and easy-to-use, Herbal Healing for Women explains how to create remedies -- including teas, tinctures, salves and ointments--for the common disorders that arise in the different cycles of a woman's life. A complete women's health-care manual, this book discusses:

• common disorders and the herbs that are effective for treating them

• how to select and store herbs

• preparation of hundreds of herbal remedies

• an alphabetical listing of herbs, including a brief description of the herb, the general medicinal usage, and when necessary, warnings about potential side effects.

It is this emphasis upon safe herbology that impressed me most about this book; for example, Gladstar very carefully distinguishes between the safe external applications of Pennyroyal herb and potentially lethal internal misuse of Pennyroyal oil.
 

Herbal Healing for Women (Paperback)

Product Description: The public’s recent exuberance toward cosmetic surgery has spurred an unprecedented demand for appearance-changing procedures. But how can an average consumer discern the hype from solid truth?  Which of the many treatments available can fulfill the promise of a more youthful look, or more beautiful skin, or a more pleasing body shape? Which procedures don’t work at all?
In this up-to-the-minute guide, Dr. Arthur W. Perry, a practicing plastic surgeon for more than two decades, examines in close detail each of today’s surgical and nonsurgical procedures. In everyday language, aided by more than a hundred illustrations, he assesses the benefits and potential complications of legitimate treatments.  He also identifies and frankly discusses ineffective treatments. Dr. Perry’s empowering book guides you through the seductive and somewhat slick world of cosmetic surgery.  He offers criteria for selecting good doctors and facilities. In short, he has written an essential book for anyone who is contemplating cosmetic surgery or other skin-care procedures.
Includes expert advice on:
· Facial rejuvenation including lifts, wrinkle fillers, and peels
· Body contouring from liposuction and tummy tucks to breast implants, reductions, and lifts
· Botox and laser treatments
· Avoiding fraud and procedures that don’t work
· And much more

Straight Talk about Cosmetic Surgery (Yale University Press Health & Wellness) (Paperback)

Product Description: When Dr. E. Fuller Torrey was diagnosed with prostate cancer, none of the books he could find was current enough or comprehensive enough to satisfy his need for information. This book is for the hundreds of thousands of other men who each year receive the same frightening diagnosis. It is the book Dr. Torrey wished he had when he was facing the countless questions that a man with prostate cancer, and his family and friends, all confront.

Complete, up-to-date, and readable, the book explains how to come to terms with the diagnosis of prostate cancer, evaluate the severity of the disease, and assess the variety of treatment options and their complications. Many chapters provide information other books barely consider, such as a full discussion of the causes of prostate cancer and an evaluation of other books on the subject. Also included is a summary of the most useful Web sites.

Surviving Prostate Cancer: What You Need to Know to Make Informed Decisions (Yale University Press Health & Wellness) (Paperback)

Product Description: Your Guide to Healthy Hormones The new book by Dr. Daniel Kalish Understand how to naturally balance hormones and much more! The Traditional Medical Approach, and Why It Has Failed The Systems Approach to Natural Healing Estrogen and Progesterone: Two Key Female Hormones The Adrenal Hormones Gluten Sensitivity and Female Hormones Food Addiction and Eating Disorders Chronic Digestive System Disorders Women, do yourselves a favor and read this as soon as possible. Using simple and inexpensive natural lifestyle techniques to optimize your hormones is far more effective -- and far safer -- than using toxic synthetic hormones. In this engaging resource, Dr. Kalish provides you a clear and thorough understanding of how to successfully balance your hormones naturally. - Dr. Joseph Mercola
 

Your Guide to Healthy Hormones (Paperback)