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      • Trusted Partner
        Health & Personal Development
        September 2023

        Clusterf#ck

        Decoding your adult ADHD journey with confidence

        by Rosie Gee

        In this groundbreaking book, you'll embark on a transformative journey that explores the unique challenges faced by women with ADHD in the later stages of life. This comprehensive guide offers invaluable insights, practical strategies, and empowering advice to help you navigate the complexities of ADHD and unlock your full potential. Uncover the secrets to identifying how ADHD can often be your superpower: Deep Dive into ADHD Symptoms: Gain a thorough understanding of how ADHD manifests in women over 40, including the often overlooked symptoms and their impact on daily life. Tailored Strategies for Success: From time management techniques to stress reduction strategies, this book provides you with a toolkit of practical solutions to enhance your productivity and overall well-being. Navigating Hormonal Changes: Understand the intricate relationship between hormonal fluctuations and ADHD symptoms. Clusterf#ck is your go-to resource for reclaiming control over your life and embracing your unique strengths. It's time to break free from the limitations of ADHD and unlock your true potential. Say goodbye to overwhelm and hello to a life filled with purpose, joy, and success

      • Health & Personal Development
        December 2015

        The Macrobiotic Kitchen in Ten Easy Steps

        Balanced Eating in 21st Century

        by Kushi, Gabriele / Kushi, Michio / Barnard, Neal D.

        The Macrobiotic Kitchen in Ten Easy Steps Gabriele Kushi with Michio Kushi   When you have a greater connection to your food, you have more power to control your health and your environment. The step-by-step approach for this book was developed over years of experience in macrobiotic counseling and teaching by the authors, and is most helpful in achieving a lasting, health-supportive lifestyle.     This exciting collaboration between Gabriele Kushi and her father in-law, globally acclaimed macrobiotic teacher Michio Kushi, will guide and support you as you learn to skillfully employ many techniques to help you enjoy the entire essential natural and whole food groups in each season.     • The Macrobiotic Kitchen in Ten Easy Steps supports healthy daily eating practices and offers suggestions for family meals as well as workable lifestyle solutions. • In addition to plans for regular meals, guidelines are included for healing meals that provideinspiration for a lifetime of wellness. • The book contains inspirational color photos of many dishes, as well as illustrations and charts that explain cooking techniques on how to prepare dishes for all seasons. • Vegan and gluten-free recipes as well as recommendations for suitable food proportions provide an easy way to create delicious, yin-yang balanced meals. • The authors clarify the unique macrobiotic wellness approach and profound holistic system of living in harmony with nature in relation to seasonal, local, and sustainable food and lifestyle choices. • This book also provides a significant amount of up-to-date, peer-reviewed scientific documentation that supports major macrobiotic teachings on health and nutrition.

      • Health & Personal Development
        January 2015

        HEALTH, MIND BODY & SPIRIT Series

        Understanding Phobias; How To Look Great On Any Budget; Positive Thinking, Positive Living; Yoga and Meditation; A Guide to Diabetes; Healing Foods; Live Longer, Extend Your Life; Detox; A Guide to Headaches and Migraines; The Healthy Eating Plan; A Guide to Back Pain; Practising Reiki

        by Katherine Wright, Rossalyn Patrick, Jennie Austin, Stella McGovern, Dr David Fong

        SERIES SUMMARY, BOOK BY BOOK :   Title: UNDERSTANDING PHOBIAS  Author: Katherine Wright Phobia is characterised by an overwhelming fear or dread of certain objects, animals, events or situations. It can cause severe restriction of everyday activities and, at its worst, intense misery and suffering for the phobic person. In spite of the fact that the experience of phobia is commonplace, phobics themselves frequently go to great lengths to hide the existence of their condition and do not seek treatment that would be helpful to them. The message of this book, Understanding Phobias, is that there is a great deal that can be done to relieve the phobia sufferer, ranging from self-help measures and alternative therapies to psychotherapeutic treatment programmes.   Title: HOW TO LOOK GREAT ON ANY BUDGET Author: Katherine Wright Looking good, and feeling great, is within the reach of most people as long as they have right products, diet, attitude and discipline. Beauty is no longer something possessed by a blessed few. Modern beauty products mean that improving your looks is nothing like the chore it used to be, and few things put a spring in your step like knowing that you look well-groomed, glowing with health and dressed to impress. Many thousands of people have had surgical procedures to enhance their breasts, lift sagging skin and tired-looking features, and subsequently report increased happiness and confidence. But it might not even be necessary to go that far – the answer to a fresher face and more confident outlook could be in your beauty or hairdressing salon, bathroom cabinet, wardrobe or even your fridge! And sometimes the answer is in your head!   Title: POSITIVE THINKING, POSITIVE LIVING  Author: Dr David Fong A positive book bursting with useful advice and invaluable tips. Learn where self-doubt comes from, its effects and how to banish it. Learn how to grow from negative experiences and use them to your benefit. No rash claims – no miracle cures – just a practical and achievable approach to improving your life.   Title: YOGA AND MEDITATION Author: Katherine Wright Yoga and Meditation provides a helpful introduction to the journey towards self-enlightenment, and fitness through yoga and focus. The book shows you clear and concise instructions for the major positions and meditation techniques. It also gives sound practical advice for creating a lifestyle that is conducive to inner calm. The book shows you yoga positions through line drawings.   Title: A GUIDE TO DIABETES Author: Katherine Wright We’ve all heard of diabetes but what does the average person know about it? With growing numbers diagnosed with it, and untold others suffering from it without knowing, it’s important to be informed about this common condition. Diabetes affects the body’s ability to process the sugar (or glucose) that we get from the food we eat. This is caused by a problem in the body’s production and use of a hormone called insulin. There are two kinds of diabetes: type 1, where the body cannot produce insulin, and type 2, where the body does not produce enough or becomes resistant to insulin. Both types can cause serious health problems, however, with medication and careful attention to lifestyle, people with diabetes can lead normal, healthy, active lives. For anyone suffering from diabetes – or for those who feel they may be at risk of developing it – it is important to become informed about the condition. This book aims to present an overview of the many aspects of this complex disorder, to help increase understanding. Covering symptoms and treatments, as well as dietary and lifestyle recommendations, this is an invaluable introduction to living with diabetes,   Title: HEALING FOODS Author: Katherine Wright Great advances have been made in medicine and science in recent years and there is no doubt that these advances have made, and will continue to make, an enormous difference to people’s health and quality of life. However, there has also been a growing realisation that medicine does not have all the answers. When it comes to a healthy lifestyle, there is universal agreement among nutritionists, doctors and scientists about the importance of diet in both the incidence and prevention of disease. Healing Foods looks at the health-enhancing and healing properties of a wide range of foods, helping to explain why these should be included in our daily diet. Individual entries contain a description of the food in question, its essential properties and health benefits, advice on how much should be eaten and cooking methods where appropriate.   Title: LIVE LONGER, EXTEND YOUR LIFE Author: Katherine Wright Humankind has always been fascinated with finding an ‘elixir of life’. This, of course, is the stuff of fantasy. However, in modern times, new medical developments and scientific breakthroughs already mean that successful treatments are now being used against some of the major killer diseases of the past. Other developments in medical science, especially in the field of genetics, are aimed at directly tackling the ageing process itself. A few scientists have even gone as far as to claim that future research will eventually enable ageing to be written out of the human genome altogether! Live Longer, Extend Your Life explores the ways in which an ordinary person can influence his or her own life span and health to achieve longevity and a healthy and active old age.   Title: DETOX Author: Rosalyn Patrick Detox outlines a plan for a healthy diet, which will enhance your body’s natural functions. Within days you will feel refreshed, with your energy levels increased. Your skin will become clearer, your hair glossier and stronger, and your moods highly improved. Contains recipes and some juice recipes.   Title: A GUIDE TO HEADACHES AND MIGRAINES Author: Katherine Wright Explore the symptoms, causes and treatments of tension, cluster or migraine headaches. Look at the role of complementary therapies in the treatment, management and prevention of headaches and migraines.   Title: THE HEALTHY EATING PLAN. Author: Stella G. McGovern This is a helpful and inspiring book as it explains how we should eat and exercise for good health, and then gives a section for recording your diet and exercise so you can chart your progress towards your health goals and target weight and size.   Title: A GUIDE TO BACK PAIN Author: Katherine Wright Back pain is a universal human experience, being an ailment that affects most people throughout the world in one form or another at some stage in life. It is a problem that has many ramifications, not only for the individual sufferer but also for friends and family, the workplace, economy and society as a whole. The aim of this book is to provide straightforward, useful information about the workings of the human back and the things that may go wrong to cause pain. It also provides guidance on the alleviation and management of such pain.   Title: PRACTISING REIKI Author: Jennie Austin This is an updated edition of an affordable and useful book on reiki by Jennie Austin who both writes about reiki, and practices it. Reiki is a way of healing and cleansing your body, and this book is an ideal introduction to a complementary therapy than can bring both positive changes to both mental and physical health, and also help in the process towards self-discovery.

      • Health & Personal Development
        June 2018

        Winning the War on Cancer

        The Epic Journey Towards a Natural Cure

        by Sylvie Beljanski

        President Nixon declared the War on Cancer in 1971. 45 years and billions of dollars later, it looks like we have lost the battle. Or have we? When a natural, non-toxic way to fight cancer is discovered, it is big news in the scientific community. But instead of being embraced, it is fiercely opposed by those tied to the pharmaceutical industry. Research by the late Mirko Beljanski, PhD,—one of the first green molecular biologists—revealed that natural molecules can selectively target cancer cells and work alongside many chemotherapy drugs. Called upon by President Mitterrand of France to treat his prostate cancer, Beljanski allowed Mitterand to reach his second term in office; but upon the president’s death, the scientist became the subject of relentless persecution. This book, written through the eyes of Dr. Beljanski’s daughter, Sylvie, tells the true story of one woman’s quest to carry on her father’s legacy and to discover a new treatment for cancer. The book combines scientific information with a tale of defiance, hope, despair, personal growth and love.

      • Women's health
        June 2020

        Decoding Your Cycle

        Your guide to pre-period mood swings

        by Sina Oberle

        Good times, bad times  When a woman is in a bad mood, people always ask: Is it that time of the month? But in reality, the cycle is about more than just menstruation and the days in between. Different hormones influence the female body depending on life phases and the phases of her cycle. As a result, there are better and worse times for a woman to negotiate her salary, hold a difficult conversation or make a major purchase. These mood swings can be so intense that women may not even recognize themselves, particularly during the second half of their cycle. In her book, Sina Oberle explains which hormones are active in the female body at a given time, what they mean for your wellbeing and how to best use them to live your best life. She also explains how to manage your psychological symptoms just before menstruating.   FACTS It also includes a handy guide for men: Do’s and Don’ts during the different phases of the cycle Managing psychological and physical symptoms before your period Decode your cycle

      • Pregnancy, birth & baby care
        October 2021

        Consultation with a midwife

        by Ingeborg Stadelmann

        Over 750.000 copies sold in Germany. The bestseller for pregnant women: completely revised and expanded.   This guidebook accompanies you competently and reliably from the beginning of pregnancy until the first year of your child's life.   Ingeborg Stadelmann, midwife and naturopathy expert, accompanies you sensitively, expertly and with a realistic view through the time of pregnancy, birth, postpartum and breastfeeding. She encourages you in your self-determination and personal responsibility and takes you gently by the hand in difficult moments.   In most cases, it is "rescue forces" from nature that help and calm the situation, whether aroma mixtures, homeopathic globules, Bach flowers or teas. To which kind of support or therapy you feel attracted, you will recognize yourself.     “Since 'Die Hebammen-Sprechstunde' came into existence, there has been a noticeable change in the self-confident way in which expectant parents deal with pregnancy, birth, the postpartum period and breastfeeding. Ingeborg Stadelmann encourages mothers and fathers-to-be to take their own responsibility and trust in their own strength."  Dr. Christiane Schwarz, Professor of Midwifery at the University of Lübeck

      • Women's health

        The Menopause

        As the Experts

        by Norma Goldman

        Whether you are experiencing the symptoms of menopause or your partner, mother or friend is passing through it, you will find you have lots of questions: what is happening and why; what can we expect; and, how can we relieve the negative aspects using a choice of options. The panel of experts brought together by Norma Goldman for the "Menopause Exchange" has long experience of answering the real-life questions of women with menopausal symptoms. Norma has selected the most relevant of these questions and the most up-to-date answers to cover the broad range of issues relevant to what can, but may not, be a difficult time; general aspects; symptoms; osteoporosis; coping with the menopause, including a variety of approaches - Hormone Replacement therapy (HRT); complementary therapies; nutrition; prescription drug alternatives to HRT; lifestyle and self-help measures; and, womens' and general health issues related to menopause.

      • Complementary therapies, healing & health
        January 2012

        Natural Wellness Strategies for the Menopause Years

        Women's Wisdom

        by Laurel Alexander

        Positing that shifts in the mind, body, and spiritual energy can be as much of an opportunity as a challenge, this self-help guide offers sage advice to menopausal women. Erasing the stigma that is often attached to this transitional period, experiences of the Dark Goddess are explored and embraced. An exhaustive list of helpful strategies are highlighted, including nutrition and herbs, meditations and imagery, flower essences, vibrational healing through quartz crystals, reflexology, and more. Celebrating a reconnection with natural life cycles, thought-provoking suggestions are explored for envisioning this profound change as a rite of passage, and not something to fear.

      • Complementary therapies, healing & health

        Fully Fertile

        A 12-week Plan for Optimal Fertility

        by Elizabeth Heller

      • Health & Personal Development
        November 2012

        The Cookie Book

        Celebrating the Art, Power and Mystery of Women's Sweetest Spot

        by Maritza Breitenbach

        This international award-winning book offers an intimate guide for women of all ages. It gently weaves through a number of areas such as hygiene, puberby, virginity, the G-spot, masturbation, pregnancy, childbirth and the menopause, while offering amusing snippets from ancient times. The book is written in a conversational and humorous style, and has more than 100 colorful, non-invasive, non-pornographic images and classical art works from the masters. It addresses all the intimate questions women often have, and are too embarrassed to talk about. This valuable book is a beautiful gift to all women and young girls. "Recognising the importance and profundity of the vagin ... philosophical and humorous ... a tome that admirably attempts to unravel and ponder the history, impact and beauty of the vagina." - Oliver Roberts, Sunday Times

      • Women's health
        January 1989

        Contraception and Reproduction

        Health Consequences for Women and Children in the Developing World

        by Committee on Population, National Research Council

        This book examines how changes in reproductive patterns (such as the number and timing of births and spacing between births) have affected the health of women and children in the developing world. It reviews the relationships between contraceptive use, reproductive patterns, and health; the effects of differences and changes in reproductive patterns; as well as the role of family planning in women's fertility and health.

      • Women's health
        January 1989

        Contraceptive Use and Controlled Fertility

        Health Issues for Women and Children

        by Committee on Population, National Research Council

        These four papers supplement the book Contraception and Reproduction: Health Consequences for Women and Children in the Developing World by bringing together data and analyses that would otherwise be difficult to obtain in a single source. The topics addressed are an analysis of the relationship between maternal mortality and changing reproductive patterns; the risks and benefits of contraception; the effects of changing reproductive patterns on infant health; and the psychosocial consequences to women of controlled fertility and contraceptive use.

      • Women's health
        January 1990

        Developing New Contraceptives

        Obstacles and Opportunities

        by Committee on Contraceptive Development, National Research Council and Institute of Medicine

        There are numerous reasons to hasten the introduction of new and improved contraceptives--from health concerns about the pill to the continuing medical liability crisis. Yet, U.S. organizations are far from taking a leadership position in funding, researching, and introducing new contraceptives--in fact, the United States lags behind Europe and even some developing countries in this field. Why is research and development of contraceptives stagnating? What must the nation do to energize this critical arena? This book presents an overall examination of contraceptive development in the United States--covering research, funding, regulation, product liability, and the effect of public opinion. The distinguished authoring committee presents a blueprint for substantial change, with specific policy recommendations that promise to gain the attention of specialists, the media, and the American public. The highly readable and well-organized volume will quickly become basic reading for legislators, government agencies, the pharmaceutical industry, private organizations, legal professionals, and researchers--everyone concerned about family planning, reproductive health, and the impact of the liability and regulatory systems on scientific innovations.

      • Women's health
        January 1994

        Women and Health Research

        Ethical and Legal Issues of Including Women in Clinical Studies, Volume 2, Workshop and Commissioned Papers

        by Anna C. Mastroianni, Ruth Faden, and Daniel Federman, Editors; Committee on the Ethical and Legal Issues Relating to the Inclusion of Women in Clinical Studies, Institute of Medicine

        There is a growing perception that biomedical research has focused more on the health problems of men relative to those of women and that women have been denied access to advances in medical diagnosis and therapy as a result of being excluded from clinical studies. Women and Health Research, Volume 2, addresses issues connected with women's participation in clinical studies: ethical issues related to recruitment, retention, and the inclusion of pregnant women and other women of childbearing age; legal issues such as liability, compensation for injury, constitutional concerns, and federal regulations; and health consequences associated with exclusion or underrepresentation. The commissioned papers focus on the research participation of women from specific racial and ethnic groups and on whether women have been underrepresented in biomedical research, based on a systematic survey of clinical studies reported in a prominent medical journal.

      • Women's health
        March 1997

        In Her Own Right

        The Institute of Medicine's Guide to Women's Health Issues

        by Beryl Lieff Benderly, for the Institute of Medicine

        Right to life. Right to choice. Masectomy, lumpectomy. Vitamin therapy, hormone therapy, aromatherapy. Tabloids, op-eds, Phil, Sally, Oprah. Yesterday, women confided in their doctors about health problems and received private, albeit sometimes paternalistic, attention. Today, women's health issues are headline material. Topics that once raised a blush now raise a blare of conflicting medical news and political advocacy. Women welcome the new recognition of their health concerns. Now women are less often treated, as the old saw goes, as "a uterus with a person attached." At the same time, they need help in sorting through the flood of reports on scientific studies, claims of success for new treatments, and just plain myths. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has responded to this need with In Her Own Right. Throughout its 25-year history, the IOM has provided authoritative views on fast-moving developments in medicine--bringing accuracy, objectivity, and balance to the hottest controversies. Talented science writer Beryl Lieff Benderly synthesizes this expertise into a readable overview of women's health. Why do women live longer than men? Why do more women than men suffer vertebral fractures? Benderly highlights what we know about the health differences between men and women and the mysteries that remain to be solved. With a frank, conversational approach, Benderly examines women's health across the life span: Issues of female childhood, adolescence, and sexual maturity, including smoking, eating behavior, teen pregnancy, and more. The host of issues surrounding the reproductive years; contraception, infertility, abortion, pregnancy and birth, AIDS, and mental health. Postmenopausal life and issues of aging, as health choices made decades earlier come home to roost. Benderly addresses women's experience with the nation's health care establishment and the controversy over the lack of female representation in the world of scientific research. Much more than a how-to guide, In Her Own Right translates the finest scholarship on topics of women's health into terms that will help any woman ask the right questions and make the right choices. Covering the spectrum from traditional beliefs to cutting-edge research, this book presents the personal insights of leading investigators, along with clear explanations of breakthrough studies written in plain English. February

      • Women's health
        March 1996

        In Her Lifetime

        Female Morbidity and Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa

        by Christopher P. Howson, Polly F. Harrison, and Maureen Law, Editors; Committee to Study Female Morbidity and Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa, Institute of Medicine

        The relative lack of information on determinants of disease, disability, and death at major stages of a woman's lifespan and the excess morbidity and premature mortality that this engenders has important adverse social and economic ramifications, not only for Sub-Saharan Africa, but also for other regions of the world as well. Women bear much of the weight of world production in both traditional and modern industries. In Sub-Saharan Africa, for example, women contribute approximately 60 to 80 percent of agricultural labor. Worldwide, it is estimated that women are the sole supporters in 18 to 30 percent of all families, and that their financial contribution in the remainder of families is substantial and often crucial. This book provides a solid documentary base that can be used to develop an agenda to guide research and health policy formulation on female health--both for Sub-Saharan Africa and for other regions of the developing world. This book could also help facilitate ongoing, collaboration between African researchers on women's health and their U.S. colleagues. Chapters cover such topics as demographics, nutritional status, obstetric morbidity and mortality, mental health problems, and sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV.

      • Women's health
        November 1996

        Contraceptive Research and Development

        Looking to the Future

        by Polly F. Harrison and Allan Rosenfield, Editors; Committee on Contraceptive Research and Development, Institute of Medicine

        The "contraceptive revolution" of the 1960s and 1970s introduced totally new contraceptive options and launched an era of research and product development. Yet by the late 1980s, conditions had changed and improvements in contraceptive products, while very important in relation to improved oral contraceptives, IUDs, implants, and injectables, had become primarily incremental. Is it time for a second contraceptive revolution and how might it happen? Contraceptive Research and Development explores the frontiers of science where the contraceptives of the future are likely to be found and lays out criteria for deciding where to make the next R&D investments. The book comprehensively examines today's contraceptive needs, identifies "niches" in those needs that seem most readily translatable into market terms, and scrutinizes issues that shape the market: method side effects and contraceptive failure, the challenge of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, and the implications of the "women's agenda." Contraceptive Research and Development analyzes the response of the pharmaceutical industry to current dynamics in regulation, liability, public opinion, and the economics of the health sector and offers an integrated set of recommendations for public- and private-sector action to meet a whole new generation of demand.

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