You've been hearing it since you were a little kid: 'You are what you eat'. But unlike most of the adages you've long since debunked, this wise saying is true! Good nutrition is the key to achieving and maintaining a healthy weight and lifelong good health - no matter how you slice it. This edition of "Nutrition for Dummies" has been updated with ...
Need to get your cholesterol in check? You'll find the latest information about cholesterol, including treatments, drug information, and dietary advice, in "Controlling Cholesterol For Dummies, 2nd Edition", an easy-to-understand guide to cholesterol control. You'll learn how to lower your numbers and maintain healthy cholesterol levels. You'll ...
If you or someone you love suffers from heartburn, you know that it can be very disruptive to your daily life. Most heartburn sufferers say it stops them from enjoying food. Others say it keeps them from getting a good night's sleep, it makes it hard to concentrate at work, and it interferes with family activities. Sound familiar? Don't worry. ...
Accounting for one out of every twenty consumer-dollars spent in America, the diet industry is booming like never before. There are water diets, low-fat diets, high-fat diets, low-carb diets, high-fiber diets, color-coded diets and fixed-menu diets. There are over-the-counter "fat burners" and prescription diet pills of every description and, lord ...
Est buscando consejos de nutricin que sean fciles de seguir? Esta gua le ofrece todo tipo de sugerencias prcticas sobre cmo mejorar sus hbitos alimenticios y satisfacer sus necesidades nutricionales, bien sea que a usted le guste comer carne, sea amante de los carbohidratos, siga una dieta vegetariana o tenga otros hbitos de alimentacin.
We all know that men and women, though equal, are not the same. But the concrete physiological differences between the sexes are more numerous than most people realize. From alcohol tolerance to zinc deficiency, this entertaining and informative work describes and explains over a hundred gender differences, ranging from the apparent - differences ...
The author of this work warns women not to be too hasty in embracing oestrogen replacement therapy, which so many doctors are now recommending. Basing her conclusions on medical research and interviews with leading physicians and medical investigators, the author documents the epidemic proportions of breast cancer in American women and shows ...
This resource guide contains over 150 entries, including hazardous herbs, complete with each seasoning's history, nutritional value, chemical makeup, medicinal benefits, various uses, and potential side effects.
This text helps identify over 100 diseases and medical conditions, and gives some simple guidelines on how to reduce risk. It is arranged alphabetically, and provides information on topics such as: alcoholism; anorexia, depression; diet; glaucoma; insomnia; and kidney stones.
This work offers everything readers need to know about food - in more than 300 entries. "The New Complete Book of Food, Second Edition" catalogs the physical, chemical, and medical properties of food; their benefits and hidden dangers; how foods change when they are processed or cooked; how to properly select, prepare, and store food; and, much, ...
The Romans sterilized wounds with wine. The Egyptians poured honey into their injuries to help them heal. Grandmothers have long cured the common cold with chicken soup. In "The New Complete Book of Food
Conventional medicine has offered menopausal women an unhappy choice: suffer hot flashes and osteoporosis or take artificial estrogen and increase the risk of breast cancer. It doesn't have to be this way! Exciting research in North America, Europe, and Japan shows that there are extremely effective natural ways to combat the adverse effects of ...
Does eating garlic protect you from various maladies? Does hair grow faster in warm weather? These and over 600 examples of medical folklore are confirmed or dispelled in this volume. If you want to find out the truth about whether people dream in colour, or if sitting in a draught can give you a cold then "Medical Folklore" will offer a theory. ...
This handbook is intended to help the reader separate the myth from reality among the legends surrounding the retention of good health and the fight against disease. It attempts to answer such questions as "does and apple a day keep the doctor away?" and "can you die of a broken heart?".
Since the 1990s, herbal remedies and foods have become more popular than ever. This volume looks at herbal seasonings and condiments, presenting them as individual health products. This new edition includes a section on using herbs and spices as remedies rather than seasonings.
From Botox[registered] to rhinoplasty - an A-to-Z guide to plastic surgery. In more than 400 entries, "The A to Z of Cosmetic and Plastic Surgery" provides sound information on cosmetic and plastic surgery for general readers and professionals alike. This new title covers all aspects of this popular topic, detailing surgical techniques and ...
Plastic surgery is a surgical specialty dedicated to the reconstruction of facial and body defects due to birth disorders, trauma, burns, and disease. The most common plastic surgery procedures include tumor removal, scar revision, hand surgery, and breast reduction, while the most popular cosmetic surgeries are Botox[registered], breast ...
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