If you or someone you love has diabetes, you need thisup-to-date, accessible, and comprehensive guide. Written by twoexperienced physicians, this trusted reference, now completelyrevised, shares everything you need to know to keep yourself in thebest possible health. Discover ? the causes of diabetes–and how to prevent it and cure it ? the differences between type 1 and type 2 diabetes ? ways to reduce the risk of long-term complications ? the pros and cons of the insulin pump ? the facts on how diabetes can affect pregnancy ? how to manage diabetes-related impotence ? the proper diet, even when dining out and traveling ? alternative therapies and medical advances Addressing hundreds of patient concerns, this essential guide willhelp you deal constructively with virtually every challenge adiabetic may encounter, so that you can live a full, productive,and meaningful life.

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Escape Your Desk Sentence! Dr. James Levine, one of the country’s top specialists inobesity, says America suffers from “sitting disease.” We spendnearly ten to fifteen hours of our day sitting–in cars, at ourdesks, and in front of the television. The age of electronics andthe Internet has robbed us of the chance to burn up to 1,500 to2,000 calories per day, leaving Americans less active (and muchheavier) than we were thirty years ago. We are facing a humanenergy crisis. What you need, according to this doctor’s orders, is to getmoving, or nonexercise activity thermogenesis (NEAT). NEAT is assimple as standing, turning, and bending. Research proves thatdaily NEAT activity burns more calories than a half hour running onthe treadmill. Just by the very act of standing and moving, you canboost your metabolism, lower your blood pressure, and increase yourmental clarity. It’s about using your body as it was meant to beused. Move a Little, Lose a Lot gives you literal step-by-stepinstru

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In A Barefoot Doctor’s Guide for Women, Georgette Delvaux, DC,focuses on hormonal health explaining in a conversational tone howissues related to menstruation, pre-menopause, and menopause canbegin as mere annoyances and gradually develop into major problemsthat affect both body and mind. She describes the harmful lateeffects of treating hormonal imbalances with artificial hormones—apopular practice—and introduces Thermography, the exciting butstill little-known method of detecting dangerous changes in breasttissue. With spirit and intelligence, Dr. Delvaux takes on theseand other often-taboo topics, encourages women to trust subtlechanges in their own sensations, and helps them understand bothalternative and conventional medicine.

The Knopf Canada Book of Healing Foods is a guide for everydayliving, and the fastest way to understand how the foods you eat canhelp to heal, and help you remain healthy. There's a healing food for almost every common health problem -from colds, stress, insomnia and high blood pressure to morecomplicated illnesses - and most are as close as your local grocer.Healing Foods is an indispensable guide to choosing the best foodsfor an active life - a bright and friendly market of knowledge thatmakes the time you spend at the dinner table an investment inspirited living. In beautiful colour, it also highlights health-giving foods andtheir nutritional and medicinal benefits. Information on buying,storing and preparing healing foods is clearly listed, and eachitem - from pineapples and chilies to almonds and apricots - islinked to delicious, easy-to-prepare recipes from around theworld. A questionnaire helps you assess your diet and general health topinpoint problem areas, while a section on

Wholeness and Healing for Women Caught in the Crossfire. As the wife of a man who is addicted to lust, pornography, ormasturbation, you are not alone. Millions of men can’t get throughthe day or the week without clicking on to their favorite Internetporn sites, thumbing through adult magazines, or watching sensualvideos–and millions of wives suffer as a result. Over the past decade, nearly 400,000 men have found inspirationand hope in Every Man’s Battle, the best-selling men’s guide tovictory over ***ual sin. Now, here at last is the book for everywoman who has become a casualty in the fight for ***ual purity.Every Heart Restored offers godly guidance and wisdom for a womanfacing such personal betrayal. “WHAT DOES GOD EXPECT FROM ME?” “HOW CAN I TRUST AGAIN?” “IS IT POSSIBLE TO OVERCOME PAIN AND UNFORGIVENESS?” “CAN MY MARRIAGE BE REBUILT?” “WHAT IF I JUST WANT OUT?” Filled with stories from wives and husbands at every stage in

All those baby boomers who have embarked on the journey ofraising their second and third children have found themselves leftin the lurch by existing child care literature. Now child careexpert Nancy Samalin, who has earned a reputation for her forgivingand empowering approach to parenting, brings her inspiring outlookto this guide to the pitfalls and rewards of parenting two or morechildren. Parents who consider themselves pros after the first child are infor a surprise when the encounter life after the second child isborn and beyond. Suddenly their world is an exhausting haze ofcompeting demands, perpetual squabbling, sibling rivalry,complaints of unfairness and "you love him more" (and sometimes youdo), unrelenting stress, and a pervasive sense of guilt andinadequacy. Culled from her years of workshops with hundreds ofparents, Nancy Samalin shares the trials and joys of parenthood andprovides specific advice on steering your way through the parentingrapids. This is a must-read for today's harri