Provides a dietary and lifestyle program designed to enhance the body's natural rhythms for optimum health, offering a ten-point program to improve sleep, prevent or treat disease, increase energy, enhance mental abilities, and achieve ideal weight. 25,000 first printing.

The Circadian Prescription: Get in Step with Your Body's Natural Rhythms

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Baar, Karen

Baker, Sidney MacDonald

Diets & Weight Loss

G.P.Putnam's Sons

Provides a dietary and lifestyle program designed to enhance the body's natural rhythms for optimum health, offering a ten-point program to improve sleep, prevent or treat disease, increase energy, enhance mental abilities, and achieve ideal weight. Reprint.

The Circadian Prescription: Get Step w/ your Body's Natural Rhythms Maximize Energy Vitality Longevity

TarcherPerigee

American Indian Healing Arts is a magical blend of plant lore, history, and living tradition that draws on a lifetime of study with native healers by herbalist and ethnobotanist E. Barrie Kavasch. Here are the time-honored tribal rituals performed to promote good health, heal illness, and bring mind and spirit into harmony with nature. Here also are dozens of safe, effective earth remedies--many of which are now being confirmed by modern research. Each chapter introduces a new stage in the life cycle, from the delightful Navajo First Smile Ceremony (welcoming a new baby) to the Apache Sunrise Ceremony (celebrating puberty) to the Seminole Old People's Dance. At the heart of the book are more than sixty easy-to-use herbal remedies--including soothing rubs for baby, a yucca face mask for troubled skin, relaxing teas, massage oils, natural insect repellents, and fragrant smudge sticks. There are also guidelines for assembling a basic American Indian medicine chest.

American Indian Healing Arts: Herbs, Rituals, and Remedies for Every Season of Life

Kavasch, E. Barrie

Alternative Medicine

Bantam]

Women and Pain: Why it Hurts and What You Can Do

This unique and timely book offers startling new research proving that women experience pain differently from men, and respond to medications in vastly different ways. Dr. Young offers specific complementary medicines for each type of pain, as well as healing regimens from the traditional medicine and kitchen cabinets.

Women and Pain: Why It Hurts and What You Can Do

Young, Mark Allen, M.D.

Women's Health

Diane Pub Co.

In Women and Pain, Dr. Mark Young shows readers how to finally end their chronic, agonizing pain. Most women -- and indeed, many health care professionals -- don't know that:
--Women often exhibit different symptoms than men for the same ailments; for instance, with coronary artery disease, where men typically feel chest pain but women more frequently report pain in the back, neck and jaw. Since most doctors are trained to look for and treat the typical male symptoms, many will misdiagnose a woman or tell her it's all in her mind -- when she is actually experiencing very serious symptoms. --Women have both lower pain thresholds and less pain tolerance than do men -- i.e., they feel more pain. --Certain classes of drugs work better to relieve women's pain than they do men's. --Women may be at greater risk for pain-related disability -- in part, because of their reproductive cycles. --Controversial new research reveals how anatomical differences between men and women may at least partially explain their distinct responses to pain.
Finally, here is an empowering and revolutionary book by a medical doctor that recognizes what many women have long known: Our pain is a uniquely female issue . . . and many of our physicians simply don't understand how to deal with it. Studies now demonstrate that women feel more pain, seek help more aggressively, and are more open to alternative treatments than men. At last, Dr. Mark Young offers women the practical and complementary solutions that other practitioners may have overlooked. Women and Pain specifically addresses a complex array of strictly female symptoms and concerns -- from childbirth and menstrual pain to fibromyalgia and osteoarthritis -- that set us apart from men.
Many women live with chronic, agonizing pain that affects every aspect of their lives. Traditional medicine can only offer drugs and surgery, but often neither is successful. Yet most women do not know of the many complementary and holistic treatments for pain that can provide great relief. Nor can they find out about alternative remedies from their doctors, who, when conventional remedies are exhausted, may dismiss pain as stress-related or "in your head." In addition, most traditional treatments are based on research that has only included men.
Not only does Dr. Young show that women respond differently to pain and require different treatments, he also provides very specific remedies, backed by scientific studies, for relieving hundreds of painful ailments. Women and Pain covers the hormonal connection to pain; bone and joint pain; muscle and nerve pain; headache; sports injuries; and chronic, unending pain. In addition to describing the traditional medicine cabinet, the author includes foods that heal; muscle strategies, such as Shiatsu and massage; herbal and botanical remedies; exercises to speed healing; mind-body therapies; and acupuncture. He even includes recipes, such as "migraine meals," for certain problems. You can use most of the remedies on your own, although you will need to consult with your doctor about others, such as traditional medicine and acupuncture.
This groundbreaking book will be welcome news to all the women who suffer from chronic pain, but who have had no lasting relief from doctors and traditional medical approaches.

Women and Pain: Why It Hurts and What You Can Do--Including Complementary and Holistic Remedies, As Well as Traditional Medicine

YOUNG, MARK

Hyperion

In For My Next Act . . . Karen Baar looks at the challenges and opportunities facing women as they struggle to come to grips with their own mortality, unrealized dreams, the myth of the empty nest, aging parents, and raging hormones. Using her own highly personal and emotional story as a jumping off point, and weaving in the personal stories of dozens of midlife women with interviews of medical, psychological, and social experts, she compares and contrasts life before and after 50, offering readers a clear-eyed perspective on the way life changes for women as their roles and relationships evolve. Take, for example, Diana, who, at 56, had to rebuild her career and her sense of self after leaving her high-powered advertising job; she now runs her own ad firm. Or consider Erica, who, since turning 50, abandoned her career, left her husband, and became a full-time writer. And meet Gloria, who took a year's leave of absence as a teacher to become a tai chi instructor, and Stephanie, who earned her Ph.D. at 47 and is now nationally recognized in her field. From these interviews and from further research, Baar realized that most women emerge from their 50s feeling better about themselves, experiencing higher levels of happiness and satisfaction than women at all other stages of life. She found that the hormones, the departing children, the successes, the failures, and the urge to fulfill undeveloped parts of themselves are all colliding, forcing them to reckon with their lives. But the good news is that for most women, life's second act is not a winding down but rather a complex new beginning--which often turns out to be even more fulfilling than the first act. The 50-something women in these pages, like the author herself, are excited, ambitious, and full of creative ideas. Some have concrete plans for the next act of their lives, while others are still figuring out the path. What they have in common, though, is that each is optimistically focused on the future. Growing up as the first major wave of emancipated women, they're still breaking ground today. This book will encourage readers to plunge bravely into this time of life and become the heroines of their own stories.

For My Next Act. . .: Women Scripting Life after 50

Aging

Rodale Books

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