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4 Weeks to Healthy Digestion
Your medicine cabinet is brimming with antacids, gas relievers, and digestive aids of every description. You may have tried lightening up on rich foods or spending money on tests and pricey medication. But your suffering has only gotten worse! Maybe it's not another pill you need but a good dose of common sense—that and a man with a plan for making you better. Learn more »
6 Steps to Increased Fertility: An Integrated Medical and Mind/Body Program to Promote Conception
Thinking about becoming pregnant? Learn how to enhance your fertility. Been trying to conceive for a while? Learn how to increase your chances of achieving pregnancy without medical intervention. Harvard Medical School brings you a unique program that can maximize your chances of getting pregnant — a program you can begin today, without a doctor's appointment. Learn more »
Beating Diabetes: The First Complete Program Clinically Proven to Dramatically Improve Your Glucose Tolerance
Beating Diabetes provides readers with a practical understanding of how today's typical lifestyle has led to major health problems, including diabetes, and gives them proven strategies to improve health for people who have, or are at risk for, diabetes. Learn more »
Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy
Drawing on the latest nutrition research, Dr. Walter Willett has written Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy as an alternative — and antidote — to the flawed new USDA Pyramid. The book features eye-opening new research on the healthiest carbohydrates, fats, and proteins; an explanation of why weight control is still the single most important factor for long-term health; and menu plans and brand-new recipes that make it even easier to reinvent your diet. Learn more »
Eat, Play, and Be Healthy
Parents are often bombarded with new information on children’s nutrition, and as a result, the most important dietary considerations often get lost in the mix. Drawing on his forty years of clinical research, as well as the latest scientific findings, Dr. Walkers helps guide parents on healthy eating through the various stages of their children’s lives, from infants to eight-year-olds, in his book Eat, Play, and Be Healthy. Learn more »
Heal Your Aching Back
80% percent of the world’s population suffers from back pain at some point in their lives. In Heal Your Aching Back, Dr. Jeffrey Katz, M.D., M.Sc., a leading back specialist at Harvard Medical School, unravels the perplexities of back pain that have led to diagnostic discrepancies and mixed-message treatment for back pain sufferers. Learn more »
Healthy Women, Healthy Lives: A Guide to Preventing Disease, from the Landmark Nurses' Health Study
Healthy Women, Healthy Lives provides women with information obtained from the landmark Nurses' Health Study at Harvard Medical School — as well as data from other significant women's health research — so that they can achieve and maintain good health throughout their lives. Learn more »
Hot Flashes, Hormones, and Your Health
Hot Flashes, Hormones, and Your Health is a unique and indispensable guide to optimal health during menopause — the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on hormone therapy and alternative treatments, written by a highly respected expert in the field and a champion of women’s health. Learn more »
Living Through Breast Cancer
Harvard doctor. Breast cancer surgeon. Breast cancer survivor. Dr. Carolyn Kaelin knows the twists and turns breast cancer can take from both sides of the stethoscope. In Living Through Breast Cancer, Kaelin draws on years of clinical expertise and her own experiences to offer a uniquely authoritative resource. Driven by up-to-date research, this compassionate book guides women from the first numb, fearful days after hearing their diagnosis through the confusing maze of treatment options and on... Learn more »
Mind Over Menopause: The Complete Mind/Body Approach to Coping with Menopause
Based on groundbreaking programs developed by clinicians at the Mind/Body Medical Institute, including Dr. Herbert Benson, Mind Over Menopause is the only book to combine the expertise of the Mind/Body Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, and a leading member of the North American Menopause Society to create a complete plan for coping with menopause symptoms, so that all women can attain that confidence and enhance their midlife experience. Learn more »
Mind Your Heart: A Mind/Body Approach to Stress Management, Exercise, and Nutrition for Heart Health
Based on the innovative Cardiac Wellness Program at the world-renowned Mind/Body Medical Institute, founded by pioneering physician and researcher Herbert Benson, M.D., Mind Your Heart offers a balanced and holistic approach to heart health that combines lifestyle changes with cutting-edge medical procedures. Learn more »
Raising an Emotionally Healthy Child When a Parent is Sick
When a parent is sick it can be an enormously challenging time for the whole family. The child’s reaction to and understanding of the situation may be the hardest issue for a parent to address. And helping children cope can be especially difficult when the parent is dying. Raising an Emotionally Healthy Child When a Parent is Sick supports parents as they encourage and foster their child’s resiliency, emotional health, and well-being. Learn more »
Testosterone for Life
Better sex. Increased vitality. More muscle. Improved health. Greater mental agility. These are just a few of the life-enhancing benefits that men with low levels of testosterone can experience when they increase their testosterone level. If you've noticed a decrease in your sex drive; experienced erectile dysfunction; or felt tired, depressed, and unmotivated, this authoritative, up-to-date guide from an expert at Harvard Medical School will help you determine if you have low testosterone--a... Learn more »
The Breast Cancer Survivor’s Fitness Plan
So much of the road to recovery is beyond the control of breast cancer patients. However, the ever-increasing number of survivors can take charge of one major component of recovery that can significantly improve their health and quality of daily life: exercise. In The Breast Cancer Survivor's Fitness Plan, Dr. Carolyn Kaelin provides effective, inspiring workouts tailored for each type of surgery and adapted for differing fitness levels. Learn more »
The Fertility Diet
For many couples struggling with infertility, the best hope for having a baby often comes from expensive high-tech medical procedures coupled with sometimes unpleasant drugs. Now there's a safer, natural, and virtually free way to improve fertility that's available to all couples: ten simple changes in diet and lifestyle. Learn more »
The Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide
To take advantage of the latest medical advances, and to deal with the often-confusing world of health care, you need information that is clear, accurate, easily understandable, and accessible. Developed by 170 faculty members of Harvard Medical School, physicians who care for patients every day, The Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide brings you the information you need to keep your and your family healthy and to cope with illness when it does strike. Learn more »
The Harvard Medical School Guide to A Good Night’s Sleep
As we are constantly bombarded with commercials for sleep medications, it is clear that America is having a difficult time getting a good night’s sleep. The Harvard Medical School Guide to a Good Night's Sleep is a premium resource for people who suffer from sleep disorders and their families, the doctors and other health care professionals who treat them, and anyone who wants to get a good night’s rest. Learn more »
The Harvard Medical School Guide to Achieving Optimal Memory
Preventing memory loss, whether due to aging or illness is possible. In The Harvard Medical School Guide to Achieving Optimal Memory, Dr. Aaron Nelson describes simple strategies to achieve optimal functioning, including: how much lifestyle factors such as sleep, nutrition, and exercise, affect memory, how to tell if you need to see a doctor, and which proven methods help to build your memory power. Learn more »
The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healing Your Sinuses
Despite the fact that Americans plagued by the symptoms of sinusitis miss about 25 million workdays a year, the disease is so unfamiliar to the general public that people who talk about their discomfort risk being labeled as complainers. Yet sinusitis often has a significant effect on an individual’s ability to lead a normal life, as chronic infections keep returning even with repeated courses of medications. The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healing Your Sinuses enables readers to... Learn more »
The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating During Pregnancy
All parents know that kids need nutritious foods as they grow. New research confirms that what a woman eats during pregnancy can also profoundly affect the health of her baby when that baby becomes an adult — for better or for worse. Healthy Eating During Pregnancy offers solid information and medically sound advice for pregnant and nursing women from one of the world’s leading experts in nutrition. Learn more »
The Harvard Medical School Guide to Lowering Your Blood Pressure
High blood pressure, or hypertension, has been called the biggest threat to health in the United States. Nearly half of all adults have blood pressure that is too high. Sometimes, the only way to achieve a healthy blood pressure is to take medicines. However, the latest national expert guidelines emphasize that nutrition, exercise, stress management and mind-body techniques also have considerable value. The Harvard Medical School Guide to Lowering Your Blood Pressure tells you about how you can... Learn more »
The Harvard Medical School Guide to Lowering Your Cholesterol
High cholesterol affects approximately 50 million Americans and is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease — which half of all men and a third of all women will get at some time in their lives. The Harvard Medical School Guide to Lowering Your Cholesterol provides the most expert, up-to-date advice on reaching and maintaining healthy cholesterol levels, including information on nutrition, exercise, and alternative approaches. Learn more »
The Harvard Medical School Guide to Men's Health
The Harvard Medical School Guide to Men's Health is the ultimate in men's health information, assembled into a single volume containing a quarter-century's worth of hard-won knowledge about men's health — knowledge that men need to lead longer, healthier, more vigorous lives. With results taken from Harvard studies of more than 96,000 men, this all-in-one men's health book features the best and most current information on the behaviors, foods, and preventative activities that make —... Learn more »
The Harvard Medical School Guide to Overcoming Thyroid Problems
With more than 13 million people in the United States suffering from some form of thyroid disease and over 20 thousand suffering from thyroid cancer, The Harvard Medical School Guide to Overcoming Thyroid Problems offers answers and strategies to identifying, treating, and ultimately overcoming these diseases. Learn more »
The Harvard Medical School Guide to Taking Control of Asthma
Asthma affects more than 15 million Americans, including nearly 5 million children — and the prevalence of asthma is on the rise. The Harvard Medical School Guide to Taking Control of Asthma is an essential resource with information on how to create a personalized program for treating, managing, and even preventing asthma flare ups. Learn more »
The No Sweat Exercise Plan: Lose Weight, Get Healthy, and Live Longer
The No Sweat Exercise Plan: A Simple Way to Lose Weight and Improve Your Health Without Spending Hours in the Gym introduces an innovative exercise plan that shows how to be healthy and lose weight through day-to-day activities and without working up a sweat. Written for people who know they need to exercise to look better and improve their health, but who just aren’t into heavy workouts, this book is based on sound scientific data and is endorsed by physicians at Harvard Medical School. Learn more »
Unlocking the Mysteries of Eating Disorders: A Life-Saving Guide To Your Child's Treatment and Recovery
Unlocking the Mysteries of Eating Disorders is an insightful and comforting guide, written by two internationally known experts, that shatters the myths, mysteries, and misconceptions surrounding eating disorders. The book includes the widest range of professional care options available, both psychotherapeutic and medicinal, as well as preventive solutions for children who display early warning signs. Most inspiring of all are the real-life stories of families who have faced eating disorders... Learn more »
Your Developing Baby: Conception to Birth
Congratulations, parents-to-be! You're about to embark on a momentous journey. Even more exciting, you're the first generation of parents who — thanks to 3D and conventional ultrasound — can actually “see” your child before he or she is born. Your Developing Baby is a one-of-a-kind guide that takes you through every stage of your baby's development, from conception to delivery — with more than 200 images and drawings to illustrate each glorious moment. Learn more »
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