Dr Jensens Guide to Better Bowel Care or The What Would Jesus Eat Cookbook

Dr. Jensen's Guide to Better Bowel Care: A Complete Program for Tissue Cleansing through Bowel Management

Author: Bernard Jensen

Based on 60 years of patient studies, this book provides specific dietary guidelines for proper bowel maintenance, along with a colonic cleansing system and effective exercise program. 25 color photos. 10 charts.

Book review: The Complete Herbal Handbook for the Dog and Cat or Facing the Cognitive Challenges of Multiple Sclerosis

The What Would Jesus Eat Cookbook

Author: Don Colbert

Based on a biblical and historical study of what Jesus ate, as well as scientific research on why these particular foods are ideal for healthy living, What Would Jesus Eat? is the ultimate program for eating well in the twenty-first century. Now, this companion cookbook helps readers to creatively and practically incorporate these foods into their own diets.

These easy-to-follow recipes are designed to help the reader prepare foods commonly eaten during the time of Christ in a way that will satisfy modern-day palates. Dishes feature fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, legumes, fish, olive oil, and more. This unique cookbook is ideal for anyone desiring to safely lose weight or simply eat healthier.

Recipes for IBS or Walking Your Blues Away

Recipes for IBS: Great-Tasting Recipes and Tips Customized for Your Symptoms (Healthy Living Cookbook Series)

Author: Ashley Koff

Recipes that are specifically designed for people diagnosed with IBS.

It is estimated that about five million people suffer from IBS worldwide. The primary treatment for IBS is lifestyle changes, not medication, so a cookbook for healthy living is essential. Paying special attention to what you eat may go a long way toward reducing symptoms and promoting healing. It is generally recommended that people diagnosed with IBS eat a low fiber, non-dairy diet. (Some people find their symptoms are made worse by milk, alcohol, hot spices, or fiber.) However, Recipes for IBS provides readers with recipes that extend beyond just bland foods, allowing them to eat a 'normal' diet, such as comfort foods like macaroni and cheese and shepherd's pie, baked goods like brownies and pumpkin pie, as well as other sweets like ice cream and smoothies. The book features full-color illustrations, patient testimonials, and offers recipes that will make eating easier, enabling people diagnosed with this disease to live a more active, enjoyable life.

Table of Contents:

Foreword     6
The Recipe for IBS Treatment     14
The Principles: Vegetarian and Nonvegetarian Entrees     39
The Supporting Cast: Soups, Salads, Appetizers and Sides     78
The Extras: Dips, Spreads, Sauces, and Beverages     126
The Finales: Desserts     148
Sample Menus     177
Resources     179
Commmon Eating Traps     182
References     188
Index     189
Acknowledgments     195
About the Authors     196

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Walking Your Blues Away: Practical Bilateral Therapies for Healing the Mind and Optimizing Emotional Well-Being

Author: Thom Hartmann

HEALTH / HEALING

“This book is a prescription for mental wellness that has no bad side effects. Walking, like drawing, is a human activity that calms the brain and induces insight. . . . Buy several copies--you’ll be handing this book out to friends.”
--Betty Edwards, author of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

Our bodies usually heal rapidly from an illness, injury, or wound. Yet our minds and hearts often suffer for years with debilitating symptoms of distress or upset. Why is it so hard for our minds and hearts to heal? One simple key to healing them can be just a short walk away.

Walking--a bilateral therapy that has been a part of human life throughout history--allows people to heal emotionally as quickly as they do physically. Normally the brain converts our daily experiences into long-term memories. However, a traumatic experience can become “stuck” in the brain, unable to be stored as “memory” and persisting in the brain as if it were still a present-time event. Thom Hartmann explains that when we walk, which engages both sides of the body, we simultaneously activate both the left and right sides of the brain. This allows the brain’s two hemispheres to join forces to break up brain patterning and allow the sufferer to release these distresses--from extreme but brief upsets to chronic conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder and depression.

To achieve these results, Hartmann shows how we must learn to walk consciously, holding an awareness of the distress (or desire we hope to attain) in mind as we move. Using a variety of case studies, he demonstrates that it ispossible to dissolve the rigidity of a traumatic memory or negative mind state in as little as a half hour’s time. His techniques have proven successful in helping to alleviate rage resulting from a domestic dispute as well as the chronic traumas soldiers experience during war that are often locked away for decades. While the physical benefits of walking have long been recognized, its importance in promoting and maintaining mental health has only recently been rediscovered. Hartmann’s deceptively simple, yet potent exercises allow us to create our own walking journeys to restore our mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being as well as rejuvenate our body’s health.

THOM HARTMANN is the award-winning, bestselling author of over a dozen books, including The Edison Gene, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, and Attention Deficit Disorder: A Different Perception. His groundbreaking work in ADD/ADHD and psychotherapy has been featured in TIME magazine, the New York Times, and in media around the world. He lives in Oregon.

Rodales Illustrated Encyclopedia of Herbs or The Supermarket Diet

Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Herbs

Author: Claire Kowalchik

Discover a trove of herbal knowledge.

Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Herbs is a virtually endless source of useful information and herbal know-how. Presented in an A-to-Z format, supplemented with easy-to-use charts and lists, beautifully illustrated with drawings and color photographs, it is the only book on herbs you ever need to buy.

More than 1 MILLION copies sold!

Library Journal

An excellent reference on the legend, history, culture, and use of popular herbs. Since it has few color photographs, this is a good companion to The Random House Book of Herbs (above), which has many more pictures but far less information. (LJ 11/15/87) Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

New interesting textbook: Healers on Healing or Delicious Food for a Healthy Heart

The Supermarket Diet

Author: Janis Jibrin

Shop and then drop...your weight! The trusted diet and nutrition experts at Good Housekeeping present a groundbreaking new way to navigate the supermarket aisles for weight loss-and achieve long-lasting success.

Real food for real folks--and real weight loss that you'll be able to maintain. And it's all as easy as going to your local supermarket and picking up ordinary packaged convenience foods. Diets are among Good Housekeeping's most popular features, and now the magazine has created a diet revolution that everyone will want to join. Here, you will learn how to read food labels to eat healthy, shop for packaged foods that won't sabotage a diet, and stick to a healthy balanced menu that is low in calories, high in fiber, and moderate in carbs, fats, and protein.

Why you will love this diet:
* It's inexpensive and easy: the food is affordable and most meal preparation takes less than 20 minutes.
* It's flexible: you can choose from an enormous variety of foods.
* It's forgiving: you can have chocolate, alcohol, and other treats without feeling like you've blown it. There's even a Calorie Counter with 125-calorie snacks to satisfy cravings.

The diet begins with a two-week Boot Camp, which consists of 1,200 calories a day for fast, motivational results-many people will lose three to five pounds. But don't worry--with such items as rotisserie chicken and burritos, you'll come through without feeling deprived. Then, shift to Keep on Losin', a less rigorous daily plan of 1,500 calories--but one that's still highly effective! You might lose one to two pounds a week following these guidelines.

To make things even easier, there are 100 mouthwatering recipes, many incorporating convenience foods--and they're all tested in Good Housekeeping's famed kitchens. And there are dozens of helpful tips about avoiding diet saboteurs-including, believe it or not, eating too little, which slows the metabolism. With advice on things like dieting when your family isn't, the secrets of successful weight-loss winners, and stocking the kitchen wisely, you're set up for sensible weight loss, as well as a lifetime of healthy eating!

Library Journal

These two books both educate consumers about food labels, but only one is strictly a diet book. A former health columnist for the Los Angeles Times, nutritionist Ursell (fellow, Royal Soc. of Health) explains all the tricks to reading and understanding food labels and breaks down the U.S. government agencies and their authority in food manufacturing. Did you know, for instance, that the FDA considers irradiation a food additive that must be declared on the ingredients list? Or that durability indications (i.e., "best before" dates) are not required by law except for milk and eggs? Ursell covers children's food and organic food as well and even explains symbols and logos such as "Fair Trade" and "Dolphin Safe." Nutritionist Jibrin (The Unofficial Guide to Dieting Safely) maintains that cooking quick-and-easy meals at home is the key to losing weight and keeping it off. Though she devotes an entire chapter to not being "duped" by food labels, this is a diet book with sample menus and basic recipes tested by Good Housekeeping. The diet begins with a two-week "Boot Camp" that is supposed to help readers lose three to five pounds and leads up to "Keep on Losin'" and "Keeping It Off" programs for maintenance after weight loss. Helpful "Super Tips" such as opting for fiber, nuts, and "good fats" are interspersed throughout. Jibrin's book is well written and practical, and Ursell's is easy to read, small, inexpensive, and could easily be carried to the supermarket to help consumers purchase healthy foods. Both are recommended for all libraries.-Carla McLean, Kent Regional Lib., King Cty. Lib. Syst., WA Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Cholesterol Counter or Skills based Learning for Caring for a Loved One with an Eating Disorder

Cholesterol Counter

Author: Annette B Natow

YOUR LIFESTYLE CHOICES CAN SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVE YOUR HEALTH!

Small, consistent changes in the way you eat and live can help reduce your cholesterol levels and lower your risk for heart disease, stroke, certain kinds of cancer, and dementia. Nationally known nutritionists Annette Natow and Jo-Ann Heslin explain the latest scientific research on evaluating and treating high cholesterol in terms you can understand and apply to your life right now. This totally rewritten and expanded 7th edition of The Cholesterol Counter includes:

• Cholesterol, fiber, calories, and portion sizes for more than 20,000 foods and more than 100 national and regional restaurant chains

• An individual risk-assessment quiz, plus worksheets, tables, and tips to easily keep track of your daily cholesterol intake

• The importance of fiber and cholesterol-lowering "superfoods" in your diet

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	1
	Finding Cholesterol	3
	Measuring Cholesterol	6
	Controlling Cholesterol	9
	Facts on Fiber	14
	Counting Cholesterol	16
	Using Your Cholesterol Counter	20
	Definitions	23
	Abbreviations	24
	Notes	25
Part 1	Brand Name, Nonbranded (Generic) & Take-Out Foods	27
Part 2	Restaurant Chains	695

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Skills-based Learning for Caring for a Loved One with an Eating Disorder: The New Maudsley method

Author: Treasure Smith

Skills-based Learning for Caring for a Loved One with an Eating Disorder equips carers with the skills and knowledge needed to support and encourage those suffering from an eating disorder, and to help them to break free from the traps that prevent recovery. Through a coordinated approach, this book offers information alongside detailed techniques and strategies, which aim to improve professionals' and home carers' ability to build continuity and consistency of support for their loved ones. The authors use evidence-based research and personal experience, as well as practical support skills, to advise the reader on a number of difficult areas in caring for someone with an eating disorder. These include: Working towards positive change through good communication skills, Developing problem-solving skills, Building resilience, Managing difficult behaviour. This book is essential reading for both professionals and families involved in the care and support of anyone with an eating disorder. It will enable the reader to use the skills, information and insight gained to help change eating disorder symptoms.

About the Author:
Professor Janet Treasure is a psychiatrist at Guy's Hospital, King's College London

When Your Loved One Has Dementia or Escape Your Weight

When Your Loved One Has Dementia: A Simple Guide for Caregivers

Author: Joy A Glenner

Eighty percent of persons with dementia live at home, and the family members caring for them are often overwhelmed by the enormous responsibility and the complexities of care. This book is designed to support the caregivers and help them understand the needs and feelings of the person for whom they are caring. A central focus is the goal of sustaining a loving family relationship between the caregiver and the patient.

Developed from a training program for professionals and family caregivers, this book teaches the basics of dementia care while emphasizing communication, understanding and acceptance, and personal growth through the caregiving experience. The result is a guide that integrates the practicalities of caregiving with the human emotions that accompany it.

Book review: Procedures and Theory for Administrative Professionals or Leadership in Organizations

Escape Your Weight: How to Win at Weight Loss

Author: Edward Jackowski

and/or stickers showing their discounted price. More about bargain books

Making Aromatherapy Creams and Lotions or Food 20

Making Aromatherapy Creams and Lotions: 101 Natural Formulas to Revitalize and Nourish Your Skin

Author: Donna Maria

A reader?guide to creating exciting, inventive, and unique cosmetics and body-care products using all-natural ingredients and the power of aromatherapy. Includes an overview of aromatherapy, techniques used to extract aromatic plant materials, tips on creating unique and personal creams and lotions, and a full complement of inspirational recipes.

Table of Contents:

	Dedication and Acknowledgments	iv
	Preface	1
Chapter 1.	Aromatic Self-Care	2
Chapter 2.	The Aromatic Pantry	14
Chapter 3.	Complementary Materials	36
Chapter 4.	Caring for the Skin	54
Chapter 5.	Making Natural Aromatherapy Creams & Lotions	70
Chapter 6.	Recipes for Health and Beauty	91
Chapter 7.	Aromatic Beauty Food	126
	Resources	157
	Index	161

Interesting book: Virtualization for Dummies or BrandDigital

Food 2.0: Secrets From the Chef Who Fed Google

Author: Charlie Ayers

In a cutting edge cookbook for the Internet generation, Google’s legendary founding super-chef, Charlie Ayers, tells you everything you need to know about the newest nutrition buzzword: brainfood. He outlines the basics on how the right foods can transform your mind and body, and then teaches you how to stock your kitchen with the healthiest foods available. Raw, organic, and fermented is Charlie’s mantra, which is reflected in more than 90 easy-to-prepare recipes, whether it’s a Kick-start Breakfast, a Power Lunch, or a Light, Bright Dinner. And, following the world-famous formula Charlie used at Google headquarters, the meals and snacks are designed to feed your brain exactly what it needs at different points throughout the workday. From hipsters looking to think more creatively to high-fliers who need that extra edge for success to new moms and dads, looking to repair the damage of myriad sleepless nights, Food 2.0 has the recipe for delicious food for sharper thinking no matter who you are or what you do.

Publishers Weekly

While working in California as the executive chef for Google, Ayers "came to believe that we can all eat delicious, clean, fast cuisine that is good for us, good for the community, and good for the Earth." In his first cookbook, Ayers shares recipes that fed the young minds at Google for more than six years as well as tips on eating, shopping and cooking smart. Ayers isn't telling readers anything new, but his clear and concise recipes are inspiring. "The Smart Pantry" section includes lists of Ayers's favorite vinegars, oils and grains, and includes creative recipes for homemade condiments like Chutney-Yogurt Crust for fish, Roasted Jalapeno Ketchup, and "Flavor Cubes," such as one made with carrot juice, eggplant and garlic puree frozen in ice trays and used to add quick flavor to soups or sauces. The "Smart Recipes" section offers such original recipes as a Jade Smoothie, made with cucumber, apple cider and lemon sorbet, and Dragon Breath Noodles, with peanut butter, ginger and honey. Photos. (May)

Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Judith Sutton - Library Journal

When Larry Page and Sergey Brin started Google, they wanted an employee cafeteria that offered healthful and delicious alternatives to the pizza and burritos on which most "Googlers" subsisted, and they hired Ayers as their chef in 1999. He was "employee #53," but when he left Google in 2005, the cafeteria (aka Charlie's CafA©) was serving lunch and dinner to more than 1500 people a day. Here, Ayers presents his time-tested recipes and his cooking philosophy (buy organic and local, whenever possible), along with lots of information on ingredients, techniques, and eating well. The recipes are simple but appealing, inspired by a variety of cuisines, and feature many vegetarian choices. Ayers has an engaging style; his book is recommended for most collections.

The Diabetic Athlete or Amazing Honey Garlic and Vinegar

The Diabetic Athlete: Prescriptions for Exercise and Sports

Author: Sheri Colberg

Written by Dr. Sheri Golberg, a diabetic athlete with a PhD in exercise physiology, this book draws on the experiences of hundreds of diabetic athletes to provide the best advice for people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Specific insulin advice is included for NPH and Lente, Ultralente, and insulin pump users. And profiles of elite and amateur athletes, from golf to scuba diving, show how they cope - and thrive - in their different environments." "No other book gives so many sport-specific recommendations to help you safely and fully pursue the activities you enjoy. With Dr. Colberg's advice you'll feel better than ever while training for fitness and sport performance.

Raelene E. Maser

Although exercise is one of the cornerstones in the overall management of diabetes, exercise can be a challenging factor for individuals to incorporate and use as a management tool. Due to the different types of diabetes as well as the various therapeutic regimens used in its treatment, global recommendations regarding exercise can be vague and may therefore contribute to the underutilization of exercise as a management tool. The author of this book provides guidance for individuals to safely and successfully include exercise as a part of their diabetes management plan. Although written for the individual with diabetes, any healthcare professional involved in helping individuals to start and continue exercise programs will find the book to be a helpful resource. Specifically, the author covers both the fundamental interactions between exercise and diabetes control while describing how certain diabetes-related complications can affect an individual's exercise prescription. In addition, recommendations are given for dietary and medication strategies for 86 different activities along with insights for using other diabetes management tools (e.g., blood glucose monitoring) so that individuals can achieve the benefits of that physical activity while maintaining good blood glucose control. Individuals using an insulin pump should find the insulin pump guidelines very useful. The author, an exercise physiologist, uses her personal experience as a diabetic athlete as well as the experiences of other diabetic athletes to provide a significant resource for anyone wanting to know how to safely obtain benefit from just about every conceivable form of physical activity.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Raelene E. Maser, PhD (University of Delaware)
Description: Although exercise is one of the cornerstones in the overall management of diabetes, exercise can be a challenging factor for individuals to incorporate and use as a management tool. Due to the different types of diabetes as well as the various therapeutic regimens used in its treatment, global recommendations regarding exercise can be vague and may therefore contribute to the underutilization of exercise as a management tool.
Purpose: The author of this book provides guidance for individuals to safely and successfully include exercise as a part of their diabetes management plan.
Audience: Although written for the individual with diabetes, any healthcare professional involved in helping individuals to start and continue exercise programs will find the book to be a helpful resource.
Features: Specifically, the author covers both the fundamental interactions between exercise and diabetes control while describing how certain diabetes-related complications can affect an individual's exercise prescription. In addition, recommendations are given for dietary and medication strategies for 86 different activities along with insights for using other diabetes management tools (e.g., blood glucose monitoring) so that individuals can achieve the benefits of that physical activity while maintaining good blood glucose control. Individuals using an insulin pump should find the insulin pump guidelines very useful.
Assessment: The author, an exercise physiologist, uses her personal experience as a diabetic athlete as well as the experiences of other diabetic athletes to provide a significant resource for anyone wanting to know how to safely obtain benefit from just about every conceivable form of physical activity.

What People Are Saying

David E. Kelley
A practical and thoughtful book that will be helpful for individuals with diabetes who want to safely enjoy exercise. Dr. Sheri Colberg is an exercise scientist with special expertise in diabetes.
— David E. Kelley, MD Director of the University of Pittsburgh's Obesity and Nutrition Research Center

Al Lewis
The Diabetic Athlete underscores the fact that exercise is critical to the person with diabetes. The book is designed for the active person with diabetes and the health care provider. The first part provides a basic understanding of the diabetic athlete's response to exercise and sports. The second part provides suggestions for and examples of how diabetic athletes prepare for and respond to exercise-induced changes in blood glucose.
— Al Lewis, PhD Board of directors chairman of the International Diabetic Athletes Association (IDAA)

David E. Kelley
A practical and thoughtful book that will be helpful for individuals with diabetes who want to safely enjoy exercise. Dr. Sheri Colberg is an exercise scientist with special expertise in diabetes. (David E. Kelley, Director of the University of Pittsburgh's Obesity and Nutrtion Reseatch Center)

Al Lewis
The Diabetic Athelete underscores the fact that exercise is critical to the person with diabetes. The book is designed for the active person with diabetes and the health care provider. The first part provides a basic understanding of the diabetic athlete's response to exercise and sports. The second part provides suggestions for and esamples of how diabetic atheletes prepare for and respond to exercise-induced changes in blood glucose. (Al Lewis, Ph.D., Board of Directors, Chairman, International Diabetic Athletes Association)

Rating

4 Stars! from Doody

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Amazing Honey, Garlic, and Vinegar: Home Remedies and Recipes

Author: Patrick Quillin

Discover the legendary healing powers found in these humble ingredients!

Honey, garlic and vinegar have healing powedrs, prized for thousands of years by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Roman, which doctors are just now proving scientifically.
• This book contains hundreds of remedies and delicious recipes to enrich your life.
• Learn scores of easy household cleaning formulas to keep your home sparkling for only pennies.
• Discover dozens of proven beauty preparations you can make in your own kitchen.

These inexpensive, natural ingredients possess astounding properties discovered by health researchers at leading universities. Honey, garlic and vinegar have the following remarkable attributes: they lower blood pressure and cholesterol, improve circulation, and combat arthritis, prostate inflammation, muscle aches, help you sleep and improve digestion. They can also fight age spots, help speed weight loss, kill bacteria, disinfect wounds, ease pain, calm nerves, induce sleep, help fight fatigue, and more. Learn how to make compresses, liniments, tonics, ointments, teas, and more, all in the kitchen. Each preparation is carefully described along with the health condition for which it is formulated.

Aging Well or Cancer and the Lords Prayer

Aging Well: Surprising Guideposts to a Happier Life from the Landmark Harvard Study of Adult Development

Author: George E Vaillant

What can you do to increase the likelihood of living a happy, healthy, fulfilling life into your sixties, seventies, eighties, and beyond? For more than five decades Harvard Medical School has studied the basic elements of adult human development, analyzing the health and happiness of hundreds of individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds. In Aging Well, George E. Vaillant, M.D., the director of the study, draws on the data gathered and reveals for the first time why some people turn out to be more resilient than others. His surprising conclusion is that individual lifestyle choices play a greater role than genetics, wealth, race, or other factors in determining how happy people are in later life. With its step-by-step advice and its revelation of scientific secrets, this inspiring book can help you-whether you are thirty-five or sixty-five-ensure that your golden years are truly golden

Publishers Weekly

This groundbreaking sociological analysis is based on three research projects that followed over 800 people from their adolescence through old age. Subjects were drawn from the Harvard Grant study of white males, the Inner City study of non-delinquent males and the Terman Women study of gifted females, begun respectively in 1921, 1930 and 1911. In all three studies, subjects were interviewed at regular intervals over time, a design that prevented observations from being skewed by the distortions of memory and allowed for analyses that distinguished effect from cause. Vaillant (The Natural History of Alcoholism), a psychiatrist and professor at the Harvard Medical School, brings a nuanced point of view and an acceptance of the project's limitations. (Those followed were not randomly selected and were overwhelmingly Caucasian.) Nevertheless the author makes compelling use of his data, which is based on intensive contacts with a variety of subjects. Vaillant posits that successful physical and emotional aging is most dependent on a lack of tobacco and alcohol abuse by subjects, an adaptive coping style, maintaining healthy weight with some exercise, a sustained loving (in most cases, marital) relationship and years of education. This is good news since factors that cannot be altered, such as ancestral longevity, parental characteristics and childhood temperament, were among those ruled out as predictors. The book's academic tone will reassure some readers and put others off, but Vaillant's arresting interviews with selected subjects (recounted here) and his ability to learn from the subjects make this an outstanding contribution to the study of aging. National publicity. (Jan. 2) Copyright2001 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

A respected researcher, psychiatrist, professor at Harvard Medical School, and author of several books (e.g., The Natural History of Alcoholism), Vaillant uses individual life histories to illustrate how social and emotional development is an ongoing process. His work is based on Harvard's Study of Adult Development, which followed "824 individuals all selected as teenagers for different facets of mental and physical health more than half a century ago and studied for their entire lives." Participants answered biennial questionnaires and underwent physical examinations every five years. Vaillant points out that, while studies like this one are not representative, they do reveal how lifestyle choices can affect whether we reach a happy and healthy old age. He describes the developmental processes that make old age vital being ill without feeling sick, regaining the capacity of creativity and play, acquiring wisdom, and cultivating spirituality and offers suggestions for successful and happy aging. Highly recommended. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 9/15/01.] Jodith Janes, Cleveland Clinic Fdn. Lib. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Table of Contents:

1	The Study of Adult Development	3
2	Ripeness Is All: Social and Emotional Maturation	39
3	The Past and How Much It Matters	83
4	Generativity: A Key to Successful Aging	113
5	Keeper of the Meaning	141
6	Integrity: Death Be Not Proud	159
7	Healthy Aging: A Second Pass	185
8	Retirement, Play, and Creativity	219
9	Does Wisdom Increase with Age?	249
10	Spirituality, Religion, and Old Age	257
11	Do People Really Change Over Time?	281
12	Positive Aging: A Reprise	307
	Appendices
A	The Three Cohorts	327
B	An Illustrated Glossary of Defenses	334
C	Methodology for Assessing Maturity of Adaptive Mental Mechanisms (a.k.a. Defenses)	336
D	Assessment of Childhood Scales	338
E	Basic Trust at Age 50 Associated with Childhood Environment and Future Successful Aging	339
F	Scale for Subjective Physical Health (Instrumental Activities of Daily Living)	340
G	Scale for Objective Mental Health (Age 50-65)	342
H	Scale for Objective Social Supports (Age 50-70, Harvard Cohort Only)	343
I	Scale for Subjective Life Satisfaction	344
J	Table Contrasting the Happy-Well with the Sad-Sick and the Prematurely Dead	345
K	Graceful Aging Scale	346
	Notes	347
	Acknowledgments	359
	Index	361

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Cancer and the Lord's Prayer

Author: Greg Anderson

Join best-selling author Greg Anderson as he explores the Lord's Prayer in a new and uplifting way. Anderson invites cancer patients, survivors and loved ones to find emotional and spiritual health in his new book Cancer and the Lord's Prayer.

Line-by-line, Anderson walks readers through the well-known and beloved prayer that has brought hope and healing to millions worldwide.

See how the daily discipline of following Jesus' words can help leave "dis-ease" behind and bring faith forward.

The Cure or Fitness for Dummies

The Cure: Heal Your Body, Save Your Life

Author: Timothy Brantley

According to Dr. Timothy Brantley, most health problems are not caused by genetics or germs but by the standard American diet. Drawing on Brantley's groundbreaking research and his years of working with nutritional healing, The Cure contains a revolutionary step-by-step program that can flush toxins out of the body, restore balance, promote natural healing, and increase vitality.

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Fitness for Dummies

Author: Liz Neporent

In the exercise world, there's something new in equipment, research, gadgets, videos, and Web sites just about every day. Health clubs are offering innovative new classes like cardio kickboxing and firefighter boot camp, and nifty new machines, like the elliptical trainer. Meanwhile, scientists have published scores of new studies suggesting that exercise may, among other things, improve memory, reduce the risk of breast cancer, and give you a mood boost.

Fitness For Dummies, 2nd Edition, updates you on all the latest – the good, the bad, and the totally weird. But the central mission of this book is to tackle your fears, whether you worry that operating a stairclimber requires a degree in mechanical engineering or fret that no matter what exercise routine you start, sooner or later you'll end up back in the recliner. This book is for anyone who wants to

• Set realistic fitness goals

• Analyze your eating habits

• Maximize your cardio workout

• Demystify strength equipment

• C hoose a health club

This down-to-earth guide tells you the stuff you really want to know, such as:

• Will you burn more fat if you exercise at a slower pace?

• Which brands of home exercise equipment are most reliable?

• Can you actually become "Rock Solid in 6 Weeks," like the magazines say?

• Which weight training exercises are best for beginners?

• What the heck is Pilates, and how do you pronounce it?

• How many days a week do you really need to work out?

• How can you tell if a fitness trainer isqualified?

• Will exercise ever be fun?

Don't become a fitness statistic. The fact is, among people who start an exercise program, half quit within eight weeks. Fitness For Dummies, 2nd Edition, presents strategies for making exercise a habit and explains the basics of healthy eating so that you steer clear of fad diets and useless supplements. This book gives you the knowledge and motivation to stick with fitness for the rest of your life.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	1
	About This Book	1
	Conventions Used in This Book	2
	Foolish Assumptions	2
	How This Book Is Organized	3
	Icons Used in This Book	6
	Where to Go from Here	6
Part I	Getting Your Butt off the Couch	7
Chapter 1	Fitness 101: Getting the Scoop	9
	Yes, This Class Has Tests	9
	Choosing Your Weapon	10
	Stretching Your Mind (and Body)	11
	What Are You Eating?	12
	At Home or at the Gym - Choosing What's Best for You	12
	Special Exercises for Special People	13
Chapter 2	Testing Your Fitness	15
	What's Your Health History?	16
	What's Your Heart Rate?	17
	What's Your Blood Pressure?	17
	How Fit Is Your Heart?	18
	How Much of You Is Fat?	19
	How Strong Are You?	25
	How Flexible Are You?	28
	Your Fitness Test Results	31
Chapter 3	Establishing Your Plan of Attack	33
	Setting Goals	33
	Finding Ways to Reward Yourself	36
	Writing Everything Down	36
	Making Exercise a Habit	40
Chapter 4	Hiring a Trainer	45
	Five Smart Reasons to Hire a Trainer	45
	Weeding Out the Poseurs	46
	Knowing a Quality Trainer When You See One	53
	Getting the Most out of Your First Training Session	54
	Being the Best Client You Can Be	55
Part II	Enjoying Total-Body Health: Eating Well and Staying Injury-Free	57
Chapter 5	This Doesn't Have to Happen to You: Avoiding Common Injuries	59
	Taking Care of Common Injuries	59
	RICE, RICE Baby	67
Chapter 6	The Scoop on Stretching	69
	Why You Need to Stretch	69
	Before, After, During? Knowing When to Stretch	70
	Following a Few Rules of Stretching	71
	A Simple Stretching Routine	71
	Finding Alternative Ways to Stretch	79
Chapter 7	Nutrition Basics	85
	Control Your Calories	86
	Get the Skinny on Fat	87
	Choose Your Carbs Carefully	89
	Get Enough Protein, but Don't Fall for High-Protein Propaganda	91
	Analyze Your Eating Habits	92
	Follow a Food Pyramid	93
	Fuel Up for Your Workouts	97
	Drink Lots and Lots of Fluids	99
	Don't Waste Money on Useless Supplements	101
Part III	Getting to the Heart of the Matter	103
Chapter 8	Cardio Crash Course	105
	Two Cardio Rules That You Can't Break	105
	How Hard Do You Need to Push?	108
	How Much Do You Need to Do?	115
	Following a Cardio Plan for Good Health	116
	Following a Cardio Plan for Weight Loss	117
	Following a Cardio Plan to Maximize Your Fitness	121
	Giving It a Rest	124
Chapter 9	Using Cardio Machines	127
	Can You Trust Those Calorie Counters?	128
	Combating Boredom on Aerobic Machines	129
	Exercising in the Great Indoors	132
Chapter 10	Exercising Outdoors	147
	Walking	147
	Running	149
	Bicycling: Road and Mountain	151
	In-Line Skating	154
	Swimming	156
	Snowshoeing	158
Part IV	Lift and Curl: Building a Stronger Bod with Weights	161
Chapter 11	Why You've Gotta Lift Weights	163
	Five Important Reasons to Pick Up a Dumbbell	163
	Building Muscle: Myths and Reality	166
Chapter 12	Your Muscles: Love 'Em or Lose 'Em	171
	Shoulders	174
	Back	176
	Chest (the Pectorals)	179
	Arms	180
	Abdominals	183
	Butt and Hips	185
	Legs	188
Chapter 13	Demystifying Strength Equipment	191
	Weight Machines	191
	Free Weights	196
	Cable Pulleys	201
	Tubes and Bands	202
	Your Body	203
Chapter 14	Designing a Strength-Training Program	205
	The Building Blocks of a Weight Workout	205
	All about Abs	213
	A Simple Functional Workout	214
Part V	Cardio-Strength Workouts: Getting the Best of Both Worlds	237
Chapter 15	Circuit Training for Fitness and Fun	239
	Setting Up Stations and Knowing Which Exercises to Do	239
	Moving through Sample Stations	246
	Putting the Stations Together into a Circuit	247
Chapter 16	All about Yoga: Mind and Body	249
	Knowing Your Asana from Your Elbows	249
	Finding a Yoga Style That's Right for You	250
	Taking Yoga Classes	251
	A Yoga Routine	252
Chapter 17	Pilates: Sculpting and Strengthening	259
	Understanding How Pilates Works	259
	Finding a Class or Instructor	260
	Looking at a Some Pilates Exercises	262
Part VI	Conquering the Gym (Even at Home)	265
Chapter 18	Health-Club Primer: Getting the Most Out of Your Gym	267
	Should You Join a Health Club?	268
	Knowing How to Judge a Gym	269
	Braving the Gym Alone	276
	Health-Club Etiquette: The Unwritten Rules	278
	A Classroom Code of Conduct	282
Chapter 19	Choosing an Exercise Class or DVD	283
	Why Take a Class?	284
	Choosing from Among All the Exercise DVDs	294
Chapter 20	Designing a Home Gym	303
	Planning Your Exercise Space	303
	Equipment Shopping Tips	305
	Investing in Cardio Equipment	307
	Buying Strength Equipment	316
	Considering Flexibility Gadgets	324
Part VII	Exercising for All Ages and Stages	327
Chapter 21	Fit Pregnancy: Exercising for Two	329
	Understanding the Benefits of a Fit Pregnancy	330
	Working with Your Healthcare Provider	331
	Great Activities to Consider During Pregnancy	332
	Monitoring Your Prenatal Workout Routine	335
	Keep Exercising after the Baby Arrives	338
Chapter 22	Kids, Tweens, and Teens: Fun Activities for the Whole Family	339
	Getting Your Toddler Outdoors	340
	Finding Time with Your Preteen	342
	Connecting with Your Teenager	344
Chapter 23	Staying Active as You Age	347
	Keeping Yourself Young with Exercise	347
	Knowing Where to Begin	348
	Staying Safe	351
Part VIII	The Part of Tens	353
Chapter 24	Ten Great Reasons to Break a Sweat	355
	You Reduce Your Risk of Medical Problems	356
	You Can Control Your Weight	359
	You Improve Your Looks	360
	You Gain Psychological Benefits	360
	You Enjoy Social Benefits	361
	You Improve Your On-the-Job Performance	362
	Your Family Benefits	362
	You Satisfy Your Competitive Urges	363
	You Have Fun	364
	You Enjoy Life More	364
Chapter 25	Ten Great Fitness Investments under $100	367
	A Water Bottle	367
	A Good Pair of Socks	368
	Stretching Mat	368
	Weightlifting Gloves	369
	A Workout Log	369
	PlateMates	370
	A Gym Bag	370
	A Heart-Rate Monitor	371
	A Personal Training Appointment	371
	A Massage	372
Chapter 26	Ten Fitness Rip-Offs	373
	Anti-Cellulite Products	374
	Metabolism Boosters	374
	Fat Blockers	375
	Effortless Exercisers	375
	Electronic Muscle Stimulation Machines	375
	Spot-Reducing Gadgets	376
	Weight-Loss Clothing	376
	Four-Minute Workouts	377
	Gym Cardio Machine Knockoffs	377
	Hand Weights	378
Chapter 27	Ten Ways to Stay Motivated	379
	Train for an Event	379
	Keep Your Goals in Plain Sight	380
	Work Out with a Club or a Team	380
	Work Out with a Buddy	381
	Join an Internet Fitness Community	381
	Test Your Fitness Regularly	382
	Mix Up Your Workouts	382
	Dress the Part	383
	Keep Yourself Entertained	383
	Read Success Stories	384
Appendix	Educating Yourself	385
	Sifting Through Scientific Research	385
	Look for context	386
	Consider the source	386
	Don't assume cause and effect	387
	Look for comparison groups	387
	Do some math	387
	Notice the length of the study	388
	Pay attention to the number of subjects	388
	Don't make too much of animal studies	388
	Recognize that people lie in surveys	388
	Fitness Magazines	389
	Check out specialty magazines	389
	Beware of sensational headlines	389
	Know that advertisers influence editorial copy	390
	Newspapers	390
	The Internet	391
	Index	393

Breathe or Knock Yourself Up

Breathe: Yoga for Teens

Author: Mary Kaye Chryssicas

Is it the way she looks, or the way she looks at the world? Breathe speaks directly to teen girls about the benefits of a peaceful, positive outlook in developing a yoga practice and in navigating the wild world of high school. Complete with inspirational quotes, pithy tips for happy living, and embarrassing stories from the author's own hilarious teen years, every chapter guides girls through challenging and relaxing poses and invites young yoginis to open their minds and hearts through yoga. Whether they're stressed out, bummed out, or just interested in trying something new, every teen can find something to learn and something to smile about in the bright, cheerful pages of this special book.

Table of Contents:

Why yoga?     6
History of yoga     8
Who does yoga?     10
Yoga as a way of life     12
Creating energy     14
Finding the breath     16
Breathing techniques     18
Chakras     20
Warm up     22
Om: focus the mind     24
Easy does it     26
Persevere     28
Confidence Builders     30
Fearless warriors     32
Follow your own path     34
Soul mates     36
Hip-hop hips     38
Shine inside out     40
Open hips: open mind     42
Commanding respect     44
Open your heart     46
Compassion rocks     48
Bend over backward     50
Advanced backbends     52
Cool to be me     54
Balance the body     56
Balance your life     58
Tricky arm balances     60
More tricky stuff     62
Powerful posture     64
Tummy toners     66
Tone and twist     68
Stand tall     70
Strong, steady, and bold     72
Athleticism     74
Inversions     76
Love life upside down     78
Stretch the shoulders     80
Let's split     82
Running wild     84
Creativity     86
Partner poses     88
Why not?     90
Go with the flow     92
Make your own poses     94
What's right for your body     96
All about props     98
If you're overweight     100
If you're not flexible     102
If you have a headache     104
If you have back problems     106
If you just want to take it easy     108
Savasana     110
Restful poses     112
Why and how to meditate     114
Meditation prompts     116
Be happy     118
Practices     120
Sun salutations     122
Wake-up call     124
Energize     126
Stress relief     128
Bendy back     130
Balance your nerves     132
Power yoga     134
Total confidence     136
Yoga booty      138
Bedtime yoga     140
Your yoga journal     142
What's your style?     144
What's your dosha?     146
Dos and don'ts     148
Yoga journal     150
Karma check     152
Yoga chicks     154
Yoga speak     156
Glossary     157
Index     158
Acknowledgments     160

New interesting book: Just in Case or Overthrow

Knock Yourself Up: No Man? No Problem: A Tell-All Guide to Becoming a Single Mom

Author: Louise Sloan

More and more women are choosing not to let being single stand in the way of becoming a mom. In this honest and often hilarious guide, Louise Sloan shares the details of her own funny and heartbreaking journey to single motherhood-including cyberstalking an anonymous sperm donor, dealing with exploding semen vials, and being mistaken for a horse breeder-as well as the experiences of many other women across the country. Knock Yourself Up offers an inside look at the logistical and legal processes of opting for single motherhood, drawing on the personal stories of women who have done it. Addressing a range of topics such as coping with loneliness, financial struggles, complex reactions of family members, and more, Knock Yourself Up covers the emotional and practical issues and provides the kind of intimate answers you won't find anywhere else to questions like:

•When is the right time to decide to have a baby alone?
•How do I choose the right sperm?
•Is this fair to the kid?
•How do I tell my parents?
•How do I tell my dates?
•What's it like to be pregnant on your own?
•If I do this, will I ever have sex-or a life-again?

Informative and entertaining, Knock Yourself Up is a fun-to-read, up-to-date guide for any woman who is considering taking the baby plunge, with inspiring stories from women who have created happy families on their own.

Graham Kerrs Simply Splenda Cookbook or All Is Forgiven Move On

Graham Kerr's Simply Splenda Cookbook

Author: Graham Kerr

Cooking with Splenda® made easy . . . eating made healthier

Splenda is today's artificial sweetener of choice because it tastes more like real sugar yet doesn't have the calories or carbohydrates. But, cooking with it may not be easy for many people. That all changes with this cookbook!

It contains an array of recipes for breakfast to dinner and dessert in which Splenda® can be used to satisfy a sweet tooth and a hearty appetite. Graham Kerr's Simply Splendid Cookbook may make it easier for people to lose weight and keep it off and to get better control of their diabetes.

Recipes include:

• Carrot Cake
• Roasted Vegetable Lasagna
• Sweet Sour Red Cabbage Casserole with Pork Tenderloin
• Almond Macaroons
• Chocolate Cookies
• Marbled Cheese Cake Brownies
• And more

Graham Kerr is the world-renowned Galloping Gourmet TV celebrity and an award-winning author. He is host of "Graham Kerr's The Gathering Place," and he is a dedicated healthy living and nutrition expert. Former Cooking Light editor at large, Kerr has published 23 books, with more than 14 million sold.

Suzanne Butler, R.D. is a registered dietitian who has worked with Graham Kerr on various cookbook projects and on developing recipes for the past 10 years.

New interesting book: Guide to Elegance or Ultimate Guide to Accurate Carb Count

All Is Forgiven, Move On: Our Lady of Weight Loss's 101 Fat-Burning Steps on Your Journey to Sveltesville

Author: Janice Taylor

An inspiring new book from Janice Taylor- the ultimate weight loss cheerleader

In Our Lady of Weight Loss, Janice Taylor put a new, creative spin on weight loss, offering humor and art projects to make slimming down fun. Now, in All Is Forgiven, Move On, Taylor takes us on a journey to Sveltesville-the magical place where we can free ourselves from the food and weight madness for good.

As Taylor explains, to change our bodies we need to radically shift our attitude-get out of our ruts, forgive ourselves for past sins, and move on with a positive outlook. Here she offers 101 forgiving, fun, and fat-burning steps along the road to weight loss to help readers recharge and stay inspired when the journey gets rocky. Each step ends with a "new point of view"-a fresh perspective on weight loss-and includes advice and activities such as:

• "I Can" mental exercises to keep you confidently on track
• Fuel stops: indulgent healthy recipes to keep your body moving
• Fashion stops: for looking your glamorous best while shedding pounds
• Creativity curves: mind-bending activities to keep your perspective expanding

All Is Forgiven, Move On is not just a road map for weight loss-it is a journey of reinvention where food is not the main course. With gorgeous and uplifting four-color artwork throughout, this book is for anyone who is ready to make this time the time and reach Sveltesville once and for all.

Judith S. Beck

A great mix of tips, tricks, and anecdotes, All is Forgiven, Move On has excellent ideas for your weight loss journey and for improving your life along the way! (Judith S. Beck, Ph.D., author of The Beck Diet Solution)

O Magazine

Janice Taylor is "a kooky kind of genius."

Yeast Connection or How to Quit Drinking without AA

Yeast Connection: A Medical Breakthrough

Author: William G Crook

An in-depth guide to those health problems in people of all ages and sexes that can be traced to sensitivity to the yeast germ candida albicans.

Book review: Innovation and Growth in the Global Economy or Contesting Global Governance

How to Quit Drinking without AA: A Complete Self-Help Guide

Author: Jerry Dorsman

Now You Can Take Control of Your Own Recovery Process

Alcoholics Anonymous is not the only answer or even the best answer for many people. In fact, seven of every eight people who start AA's 12-step program abandon it within three years. Fortunately, there are more effective ways to quit drinking—proven methods that will help you be successful on your own terms.

Inside this life-affirming book is the new beginning you're looking for. Certified addictions counselor and 16-year recovering alcoholic Jerry Dorsman offers more than 100 proven techniques to gain control of your recovery. His self-help approach includes the best:

·Step-by-step instructions for breaking the habit

·Foods to help you beat the cravings

·Methods for internal cleansing and detox

·Nutrition information for rebuilding your health

·And much more!

"A thorough approach backed with practical guidelines and techniques."—Addiction and Recovery Magazine

"The right blend of substance and simplicity. Bubbling with resources."—Natural Health magazine

Juicing Bible or Multiple Sclerosis For Dummies

Juicing Bible

Author: Pat Crocker

The comprehensive source of information on the health benefits of juicing.

This new edition of a beloved best-seller features 100 brand new recipes, now bringing the total number to 350. In addition, it offers new pages of health information, including a "healthy body systems" section that provides information on the critically important cardiovascular and immune systems. Any health-conscious person can now readily optimize the selections and combinations of prescriptive juices, which are thoroughly cross-referenced. Unchanged is the most popular section of the book, which addresses more than 80 common health conditions.

Some of the new juicing recipes from the "heart-healthy" section are:

• Deep orange heart -- a tantalizing combination of mango, cantaloupe, apricot and orange


• Strawberry sparkle -- a wonderful blend of strawberries, pomegranate, raspberries and cranberry juice


• Orange sunrise -- a mix of orange, kiwi, papaya and carrot... a glorious way to greet the day


• Melon mania -- a tasty blend of cantaloupe, honeydew, watermelon and orange.

With health tips, preparation techniques, helpful sidebars and 16 pages of color photographs, this new edition of The Juicing Bible is packed with information that is essential for anyone who wants to explore all the nutritional benefits that natural foods can provide.

Karen Rallo

This book makes a good nutritional reference for anyone who is serious about his or her wellness.

KLIATT

For many years, nutritionists have urged people to eat more fruits and vegetables because they are low in fat and are important sources of vitamins and minerals. In this helpful book, you will find the nutritive values and healing properties of over 185 fruits, vegetables and herbs. There is also a special section that addresses over 80 common health conditions with prescriptive advice using specific juices, along with over 250 juicing recipes. These include both fruit and vegetable juices: for example, Cherry Sunrise, Watermelon Strawberry, Orange Zinger, Apple-Beet-Pear Spiced Carrot, and Tomato Tang. A special section includes "roughies," made with the pulp from juicing: e.g., Apple Rice Pudding, Papaya Marinade. A large section features recipes for smoothies: Cherries Jubilee, Frozen Fruit Slurry, Mango Madness, and Taste of the Tropics. Pat Crocker is a culinary herbalist who has written extensively in newspapers and magazines as well as producing an award-winning cookbook, also on herbs. Susan Eagles is a recognized expert in the field of medical herbalists. This book is an essential for anyone who wants to explore all the nutritional benefits that natural foods can provide. KLIATT Codes: JSA—Recommended for junior and senior high school students, advanced students, and adults. 2000, Firefly, 288p. illus. bibliog. index. 26cm., $18.95. Ages 13 to adult. Reviewer: Shirley Reis; IMC Dir., Lake Shore M.S., Mequon, WI , July 2001 (Vol. 35, No. 4)

Look this: Generations and Globalization or Understanding the Digital Economy

Multiple Sclerosis For Dummies

Author: Barbara Giesser MD

Being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) doesn’t have to mean your life is over. Everyone’s MS is different and no one can predict exactly what yours will be like.

The fact is, lots of people live their lives with MS without making a full-time job of it.

MS for Dummies gives you easy to access, easy to understand information about what happens with MS—what kinds of symptoms it can cause, how it can affect your life at home and at work, what you can do to feel and function up to snuff, and how you can protect yourself and your family against the long-term unpredictability of the disease. You'll learn:

• Why some people get MS and others don’t

• How to make treatment and lifestyle choices that work for you

• What qualities to look for in a neurologist and in the rest of your healthcare team

• How to manage fatigue, walking problems, and visual changes

• Why the road to diagnosis can be full of twists and turns

• How to understand the pros and cons of alternative medicine

• Why and how to talk to your kids about MS

• How to find stress management strategies that work for you

• Your rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act

Complete with listings of valuable resources such as other books, Web sites, and community agencies and organizations that you can tap for information or assistance, MS for Dummies will tell you everything you need to know in order to make educated choices and comfortable decisions about life with MS.

Table of Contents:

Foreword     xix
Introduction     1
About This Book     1
Conventions Used in This Book     2
What You're Not to Read     2
Foolish Assumptions     2
How This Book Is Organized     3
When MS Becomes Part of Your Life     3
Taking Charge of Your MS     3
Staying Healthy and Feeling Well     4
Managing Lifestyle Issues     4
Creating Your Safety Nets     5
The Part of Tens     5
Appendixes     5
Icons Used in This Book     6
Where to Go from Here     6
When MS Becomes Part of Your Life     7
Meeting MS Face to Face     9
Introducing the Roles Your Immune and Nervous Systems Play in MS     10
The immune system: Your body's frontline defender     10
The nervous system: Your body's CEO     10
What happens in MS     11
Taking advantage of the body's natural healing process     13
Exploring Possible MS Triggers     14
Gender clues     14
Ethnic or racial clues     15
Geographical clues     15
Genetic clues     16
Lifestyleclues     16
Understanding Why Your MS is as Unique as Your Fingerprint     17
Distinguishing the four disease types     17
Scanning the possible symptoms     19
Perusing the MS Treatment Menu     19
Recognizing How Your MS Affects Your Loved Ones     21
Talking about the tough stuff     21
Keeping daily life on track     22
Maintaining healthy partnerships     22
Becoming confident parents     22
Minimizing the Impact of MS on Work and Play     23
Taking Steps to Protect Your Quality of Life     24
So, What Is it, Doc? Getting a Diagnosis     25
Clarifying the Diagnostic Criteria     25
Getting Familiar with the Neurologist's Diagnostic Tools     27
Medical history     28
Neurologic exam     28
Various medical tests     30
Identifying a clinically isolated syndrome     35
Understanding Why the Road to Diagnosis Can Be Full of Twists and Turns     36
You've Been Diagnosed - So What's Next?     37
First Things First: Sorting Out Your Feelings     37
Shock: "This can't be happening"     38
Denial: "This isn't happening"     38
Confusion: "Why me?"     39
Anxiety: "What's going to happen to me?"     39
Anger: "Why can't you fix what's happening to me?"     40
Relief: "Thank goodness - I thought it was something worse!"     40
Deciding on the Next Steps     41
Catch your breath before making any major changes or decisions     42
Have a heart-to-heart conversation with your neurologist about treatment     42
Begin talking about MS with the people in your life     42
Make a commitment to your health     44
Facing the Longer-Term Challenges of a Chronic Illness     44
The how-to of healthy grieving     45
Living with unpredictability     47
Making Treatment and Lifestyle Choices That Work for You     50
Minimizing the stress of decision-making     50
Getting the professional help and personal support you need     51
Creating Your Healthcare Team     53
Working with Your Physician     53
Finding a neurologist with the qualities you value     54
Establishing a pattern of routine care     56
Making the most of your doctor visits     56
Knowing when to call in the MS specialist     58
Getting a second opinion     59
Rounding Up Other Key Players     60
The nurse for education, guidance, and support     60
The rehabilitation specialists to help you keep on truckin'     61
The mental health specialists to help you keep your head on straight     63
The general medical doctors     65
Considering Comprehensive MS Treatment Centers     65
Taking Charge of Your MS     67
Developing Your Management Plan to Take Charge of Your MS     69
Using Multiple Strategies to Manage MS     69
Modifying the disease course     70
Managing acute relapses     70
Taking charge of your symptoms     71
Enhancing function through rehabilitation     71
Providing psychosocial support     72
Taking care of your health     72
Tapping Your Creativity and Flexibility     73
Creating Your Own Treatment Template     74
Managing the Disease Course and Treating Relapses     77
Managing the Disease Course     78
Understanding the whys and wherefores of early treatment     78
Getting familiar with the immunomodulators     79
Turning to immunosuppressants     85
Setting realistic expectations for the DMTs     86
A word about primary-progressive MS     87
Managing Relapses     88
Defining a relapse     88
Treating an acute relapse     90
Getting Comfortable with Your Treatment Decisions     93
Managing Fatigue, Walking Problems, Visual Changes, and Tremor     95
Foiling Your Fatigue     96
Identifying and dealing with the causes of fatigue     96
Managing your energy bank to help put your sleepiness to bed     101
Envisioning Solutions to Vision Problems     102
Managing visual symptoms     102
Exploring longer-term management strategies     106
Getting Around Walking Problems     106
Addressing the sources of the problem     106
Using aids to take charge of your mobility     110
Taming Tremor     113
Handling Problems with Bladder and Bowel Function, Pain, Sex, and Speech and Swallowing     115
Eliminating Elimination Problems     115
Managing your bothersome bladder     116
Dealing with your bowel symptoms     119
Sizing up Sexual Symptoms     122
Identifying the changes you may be experiencing     122
Silence isn't golden: Talking is the first step     124
Treating your sexual symptoms     126
Sidestepping Sensory Symptoms and Pain     130
Sorting out Speech and Swallowing Problems     133
Speech and voice problems: Articulating the facts     133
Watching out for swallowing problems     134
Getting Your Head around Problems with Thinking and Mood     137
Handling Problems with Thinking and Memory     137
Defining cognition     138
Understanding how MS can affect your cognition     138
Deciding when an evaluation is in order     141
Knowing what to expect during an evaluation     142
Identifying treatment options     143
Employing practical strategies for managing daily cognitive challenges     144
Managing the Emotional Ups and Downs     145
Controlling mood swings     146
Getting a handle on uncontrolled laughing or crying     147
Dealing with severe depression     148
Considering Complementary and Alternative Medicine     153
Defining CAM     154
Understanding the Allure     155
Putting CAM to the Test     155
Understanding the role of the FDA     156
Sorting out the wheat from the chaff     156
Identifying CAM Interventions That May Be Useful in Managing MS Symptoms     158
Herbs, vitamins, and other CAM options that go into the body     158
Exercise, prayer, and other CAM options done independently or in a class     160
Acupuncture, massage, and other CAM options performed by a practitioner     161
Becoming a Cautious Cam Consumer     162
Staying Healthy and Feeling Well     165
Paying Attention to Your Health - It's Not All about MS     167
Enhancing Your Wellness by Paying Attention to the Whole You     167
Scheduling Routine Checkups to Protect Your Health     168
Making Healthy Eating a Priority     169
Taking MS into account when planning your menu     170
Battling the barriers to healthy eating     171
Improving Your MS and Overall Wellness with Exercise     172
Overcoming the hurdles     173
Exercising your options     174
Maximizing your comfort and safety during exercise     176
Increasing Your Chances of Success     177
Handling Stress without Giving Up Your Life     179
Understanding the Relationship between Stress and MS     179
Recognizing Your Own Signs of Stress     180
From sweaty palms to pounding hearts: Knowing your physical signs of stress      180
Anxiety and irritability: Knowing your emotional signs of stress     181
Identifying the Major Stresses in Your Life     182
Dealing with the devil: Job stress 101     182
Handling family stress with grace and composure     183
Controlling the uncontrollable: Managing your MS stress     183
Developing Your Stress Management Plan     184
Figuring out your priorities     185
Setting realistic goals     185
Cutting yourself some slack     186
Taking some practical steps     186
Tapping available resources     188
Zoning in on your "MS-free zone"     188
Practicing stress management techniques     189
Coping with Advanced MS     191
Scouting Out the Treatment Scene     191
Understanding your disease-management options     192
Exploring ways to feel and function at your best     194
Taking steps to prevent unnecessary complications     195
Maintaining Your Quality of Life     197
Holding on to what's important to you     197
Stay in touch: Preserving your connections with other people     198
Establishing goals and enjoying the satisfaction of meeting them     198
Keeping your self-image well-polished     199
Finding your "MS-free zone"     199
Helping yourself by helping someone else     200
Discovering Long-Term Care Services (Just In Case)     201
Defining long-term care     201
Getting help in your home     202
Looking into adult day care     203
Identifying assisted living options     204
Considering nursing home care     204
Important Tips for Caregivers     205
Managing Lifestyle Issues     207
Presenting Your MS Face to the World     209
Explaining Your MS to Others     209
Providing the basics     210
Dealing with common reactions     211
Remembering that MS is part of you but not all of you     214
Disclosing Your Diagnosis to a Prospective Partner     215
Communicating Your Needs     218
Giving clear messages     218
Staking out your independence     219
P.S. The doctor can't read your mind either     220
Making MS a Part of the Family     221
Addressing Your Family Members' Feelings about Your Diagnosis     221
Communicating Effectively with Adult Family Members     223
Recognizing communication barriers     223
Getting the ball rolling toward more open communication     224
Keeping the Family Rhythm Going so Your MS Doesn't Steal the Show     227
Coping with the direct and indirect costs     228
Managing energy and time     228
Establishing family priorities     230
Problem-solving: Many heads are better than one     230
Building and Maintaining Healthy Partner Relationships     231
Making time for each other     231
Keeping the intimacy alive     232
Maintaining a balanced partnership     233
What to do when one partner can't participate in joint activities     233
Turning a caregiving relationship into a care partnership     234
When Your Child Has MS     235
Helping your adult child with MS     235
Young children and teens get MS too     237
And Baby Makes Three, Four, or More: Planning a Family around Your MS     241
MS and Babies: Here's the Good News!     241
Fertility isn't affected by MS     242
Pregnancy hormones reduce disease activity     242
Pregnancies don't increase a woman's long-term disability level     243
Childbirth isn't a piece of cake for anyone but women with MS do just fine      243
Parents with MS have healthy babies     244
Breastfeeding is definitely an option     244
Considering Key Issues when Making Family-Planning Decisions     245
Minding your medications     245
Remembering that babies don't stay babies very long     246
Facing the uncertainties: The future doesn't come with guarantees     247
Strategies for Smart Decision-Making     247
Consult your MS doctor     247
Evaluate your financial situation     248
Take a good look at your teamwork     248
Check out your support network     249
Have a heart-to-heart with your partner     249
Talk to other parents living with MS     249
Remember that your plans can change     250
Parenting: It Wasn't Easy Before You Had MS!     251
Keeping the Communication Lines Open     252
Telling the kids about your MS makes good sense     252
Sharing info with your children when secrecy is important     254
Finding ways to broach the big issues     255
Explaining those pesky invisible symptoms     256
Parenting around Your MS Symptoms     258
"I'm so tired that I'm in bed before they are!"     258
"How can I be a good dad if I can't even play ball?"     259
"How can I discipline 'em if I can't catch 'em?"     261
Employing Effective Parenting Strategies     262
Call a spade a spade: Let MS take the blame when it needs to     262
Polish up your creativity and flexibility     262
Call on your support network     263
Remember, MS isn't always to blame - other people's teenagers are a pain too     263
Handle little problems before they get bigger     264
Allow kids to be kids     265
Creating Your Safety Nets     267
Keeping Your Place in the Workforce     269
Understanding the High Rate of Unemployment in MS     269
Counting the Reasons to Keep on Truckin'     270
Speed Bumps Ahead: Recognizing the Job-Related Challenges     271
When symptoms get in the way     271
When attitudes get in the way     272
Knowing Your Rights under the ADA     275
Disclosing your MS in the workplace     275
Understanding the terms used in the law     277
Requesting reasonable accommodations     278
Calling in the EEOC     279
Thinking about Leaving Your Job     280
Exhausting your short-term leave options      280
Looking into long-term disability options     280
Making the choices that are right for you     282
Getting a Grip on Insurance     283
Considering Your Health Insurance Options - It's All about Eligibility     283
Employment-based insurance programs     284
Public health insurance programs     284
Self-employment options     285
Options if you don't have health insurance     285
Keeping a Tight Hold on Your Health Insurance     286
Continuing coverage with COBRA     286
Protecting your coverage with HIPAA     289
Seeing COBRA and HIPAA work as a team     290
Understanding the Ins and Outs of Your Health Insurance Plan     290
Filing Successful Insurance Appeals     292
Check your coverage     292
Confirm why coverage was denied or was less than expected     292
File an appeal     293
Replacing Your Income with Disability Insurance     293
Commercial disability insurance     294
Public disability insurance: SSDI     295
A Brief Word about Life and Long-Term Care Insurance     296
Planning for a Future with MS     297
Preparing for the Worst While Hoping for the Best      297
Facing those scary "what-ifs?"     298
Taking charge of your future     298
Navigating the Planning Process: It's as Easy as One, Two, Three     300
Where are you now?     300
What might the future bring?     303
What can you do now to be ready?     306
The Part of Tens     309
Ten Must-Do's for Living with MS     311
Educate Yourself about MS     311
Work with Your Neurologist     312
Start Treatment Early     312
Make MS a Part of the Family     312
Develop Your Support Network     313
Plan for the Future     313
Feel Healthy and Well     313
Create Your Tool Chest     314
Monitor Your Mood     314
Keep Your Sense of Humor Well-Oiled     314
Ten MS Myths Debunked     315
MS is Fatal     315
Everyone Eventually Needs a Wheelchair     315
Because There's No Cure, There's Nothing You Can Do about Your MS     316
People with MS Can't Handle Stress     316
People with MS Shouldn't Have Children     317
"Natural" Treatments Are Safer     317
No One Can Understand How You Feel      317
Having a Relapse Means Your Medication Isn't Working     318
Scientists Aren't Making Any Progress     318
If You Can't Walk, Your Life Is Over     318
Ten Tips for Trouble-Free Travel     319
Tap the Right Resources     319
Calm Your Medical Concerns     320
Save Energy for the Fun Stuff     320
Check Ahead for Accessibility     320
Rent Accessible Vehicles     321
Keep Your Cool     321
Navigate Air Travel with Confidence     321
Safely Pack Your Prescriptions     322
Get Vaccinated     322
Look for Adventure     322
Appendixes     323
Glossary     325
Additional Resources     339
Reading Other Books about MS     339
Finding Helpful Information Online     341
General information sites     342
Assistive technology sites     342
Government sites     343
Organizations and services     343
Chat rooms and bulletin boards     344
Medications Commonly Used in MS     345
Index     349