You may have waited a long time. You may have tried and tried. Now your chances of having a baby are better than ever! There have been remarkable advances in fertility technology and choices in the last few years, with pregnancy success rates skyrocketing. Now Making a Baby provides the information you need to become your most fertile--and increase your chances for having the baby you've always wanted. Up-to-date, comprehensive, written with compassion and clarity, this book reveals how to protect, increase, and extend your fertility, with essential information on: - The optimal frequency, timing, and sexual positions for getting pregnant - Surprising new findings on which foods and exercise programs boost fertility--and which ones actually decrease your chances - Advances in baby-boosting medications--and a complete assessment of risks, costs, and alternatives - Breakthrough medical techniques that help achieve pregnancy without the risk of multiples - Avoiding the common--and often hidden--threats to fertility at work, at home, and in public places - Choosing the A.R.T. (assisted reproductive technology) that's right for you - Special issues for midlife mothers - What every man should know about his long-term reproductive health - How to minimize emotional stress and keep your relationship strong - How to work with your HMO to get the right treatments--at the right cost This detailed, insightful, and meticulously researched book will help guide you to a wonderful new beginning as a parent!

Making a Baby: Everything You Need to Know to Get Pregnant

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Debra Fulghum Bruce

Samuel S. Thatcher

Women's Health

Ballantine Books

You may have waited a long time. You may have tried and tried. Now your chances of having a baby are better than ever! For ten years, Making a Baby has been the definitive source for couples who want to get pregnant, offering vital information on fertility technology, advances in baby-boosting medications, and cutting-edge medical techniques. Written with compassion and clarity, and now with even more tips on the best ways to prepare the body to get pregnant, this invaluable book, in a newly revised and updated edition, reveals how to protect, increase, and extend your fertility. Inside you’ll find • the four basic requirements for reproduction • findings from the Harvard Nurses’ Health Study that explain dietary ways to boost fertility • breakthrough information connecting insulin levels with ovulation • updates on the importance of marine omega-3 fatty acids in your baby’s development • groundbreaking pregnancy advice for women over 35 • news about polycystic ovary syndrome—and the recommended fertility drugs that may temporarily override this condition and boost chances of conception • what every man should know about his long-term reproductive health, including the most recent findings on male infertility This detailed, insightful, and meticulously researched book will help guide you to a wonderful new beginning as a parent!

Samuel Thatcher

Britt Berg

Are you one of the 80 million North American women suffering from the chronic pain of: * Menstrual cramps * Fibromyalgia * Headaches  * Carpal tunnel syndrome * Back or neck pain?   Starting today, you can put an end to your pain and reclaim your active life with Dr. Smith's 8-step holistic program for women.  Don't let chronic pain rob you of life-- preventing you from being productive at work, caring for your family, exercising, and participating in activities you enjoy. The Women's Guide to Ending Pain will show you how to take control today and end your pain with the latest complementary and conventional strategies.  Dr. Smith's 8-step program is different from other approaches because it targets the very reasons that cause women to hurt - - like chronic stress, hormonal fluctuations, sleep problems, depression, arthritis, sports injuries, and syndromes like fibromyalgia, which is increasingly prevalent and causes deep muscle pain and endless fatigue. Dr. Smith believes that no woman should accept pain as "normal" and gives you a pain expert's secrets on how to stop pain quickly without depending on sedating medications that have harsh side effects. In his 8-step program, you'll discover: * How the effects of hormones on a woman's nervous system influence pain * Unique signs, symptoms, and causes of your pain * Ways to alleviate your pain, including natural dietary supplements, "pain-relieving" foods, yoga postures, mind/body exercises, massage and bodywork, new medications, and high-tech solutions * Lifestyle habits and self-care measures you can start today that will provide tremendous relief * Innovative methods to cope with the emotions associated with pain, including anxiety, anger, and depression

The Women's Guide to Ending Pain: An 8-Step Program

Howard S. Smith

wiley

A pain-relief expert reveals a proven and unique seven-step program for alleviating arthritis pain
Although sixty-six million American adults suffer from arthritis, Pain-Free Arthritis is the first book by an established rheumatologist to present an effective program to alleviate its often incapacitating pain. Over the last twenty years, Harris H. McIlwain has treated thousands of arthritis-pain sufferers who have found lasting relief by following his treatment program. Scientists have learned a great deal about the mechanisms and types of arthritis in the last few years. McIlwain has distilled this information to its practical essence: the entirety of this book is not geared toward explanation but toward natural relief.
The program created by McIlwain shows readers how to eliminate arthritis pain in joints, knees, wrists, hands and fingers through:
- preventative and therapeutic exercise ? - a low-fat, anti-inflammatory diet reducing Rheumatoid Arthritis? - alternative therapies that really work? - the latest prescription drugs
Victims of any variety of arthritis will find concrete, feasible suggestions enabling them to resume a normal, active life. Now McIlwain's successful methods are made available to all arthritis sufferers for the first time.

Pain-Free Arthritis: A 7-Step Plan for Feeling Better Again

Harris H. McIlwain

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Holt Paperbacks

A pain-relief expert offers a comprehensive program for keeping your back healthy and minimizing the need for drugs and surgery Four out of five adult Americans experience back pain at some point in their lives-it's the nation's third most common reason for surgery, the number-one occupational hazard, and the most prevalent cause of disability in men and women under age forty-five. Whether it results from injury, osteoporosis, or an unusually intense weekend golf game, back pain is a common cause of serious discomfort or even debilitation. Dr. Harris H. McIlwain has devoted his career to bringing relief to sufferers of back pain and arthritis; in The Pain-Free Back, he reveals his six-step program for achieving and maintaining a healthy back. Nearly all of this pain can be controlled without surgery, and McIlwain addresses every aspect of this process, including o exercises to strengthen your back o lifestyle changes that reduce the stress on your back o touch therapies for soothing various types of back pain o tips for maintaining a healthy weight on a back-friendly diet o complementary and alternative medicines that will ease your pain naturally This comprehensive guide diagnoses and explains back pain; more important, it shows you how to eliminate it without expensive medical procedures. Anyone who experiences back pain will find this an indispensable aid to recovering a full and active life. Four out of five adult Americans experience back pain at some point in their lives-it's the nation's third most common reason for surgery, the number-one occupational hazard, and the most prevalent cause of disability in men and women under age forty-five. Whether it results from injury, osteoporosis, or an unusually intense weekend golf game, back pain is a common cause of serious discomfort or even debilitation. Dr. Harris H. McIlwain has devoted his career to bringing relief to sufferers of back pain and arthritis; in The Pain-Free Back, he reveals his six-step program for achieving and maintaining a healthy back. Nearly all of this pain can be controlled without surgery, and 0McIlwain addresses every aspect of this process, including o exercises to strengthen your back o lifestyle changes that reduce the stress on your back o touch therapies for soothing various types of back pain o tips for maintaining a healthy weight on a back-friendly diet o complementary and alternative medicines that will ease your pain naturally This comprehensive guide diagnoses and explains back pain; more important, it shows you how to eliminate it without expensive medical procedures. Anyone who experiences back pain will find this an indispensable aid to recovering a full and active life. Four out of five adult Americans experience back pain at some point in their lives-it's the nation's third most common reason for surgery, the number-one occupational hazard, and the most prevalent cause of disability in men and women under age forty-five. Whether it results from injury, osteoporosis, or an unusually intense weekend golf game, back pain is a common cause of serious discomfort or even debilitation. Dr. Harris H. McIlwain has devoted his career to bringing relief to sufferers of back pain and arthritis; in The Pain-Free Back, he reveals his six-step program for achieving and maintaining a healthy back. Nearly all of this pain can be controlled without surgery, and McIlwain addresses every aspect of this process, including o exercises to strengthen your back o lifestyle changes that reduce the stress on your back o touch therapies for soothing various types of back pain o tips for maintaining a healthy weight on a back-friendly diet o complementary and alternative medicines that will ease your pain naturally This comprehensive guide diagnoses and explains back pain; more important, it shows you how to eliminate it without expensive medical procedures. Anyone who experiences back pain will find this an indispensable aid to recovering a full and active life. Four out of five adult Americans experience back pain at some point in their lives-it's the nation's third most common reason for surgery, the number-one occupational hazard, and the most prevalent cause of disability in men and women under age forty-five. Whether it results from injury, osteoporosis, or an unusually intense weekend golf game, back pain is a common cause of serious discomfort or even debilitation. Dr. Harris H. McIlwain has devoted his career to bringing relief to sufferers of back pain and arthritis; in The Pain-Free Back fs20, he reveals his six-step program for achieving and maintaining a healthy back. Nearly all of this pain can be controlled without surgery, and McIlwain addresses every aspect of this process, including o exercises to strengthen your back o lifestyle changes that reduce the stress on your back o touch therapies for soothing various types of back pain o tips for maintaining a healthy weight on a back-friendly diet o complementary and alternative medicines that will ease your pain naturally This comprehensive guide diagnoses and explains back pain; more important, it shows you how to eliminate it without expensive medical procedures. Anyone who experiences back pain will find this an indispensable aid to recovering a full and active life. Four out of five adult Americans experience back pain at some point in their lives-it's the nation's third most common reason for surgery, the number-one occupational hazard, and the most prevalent cause of disability in men and women under age forty-five. Whether it results from injury, osteoporosis, or an unusually intense weekend golf game, back pain is a common cause of serious discomfort or even debilitation. Dr. Harris H. McIlwain has devoted his career to bringing relief to sufferers of back pain and arthritis; in The Pain-Free Back, he reveals his six-step program for achieving and maintaining a healthy back. Nearly all of this pain can be controlled without surgery, and McIlwain addresses every aspect of this process, including o exercises to strengthen your back o lifestyle changes that reduce the stress on your back o touch therapies for soothing various types of back pain o tips for maintaining a healthy weight on a back-friendly diet o complementary and alternative medicines that will ease your pain naturally This comprehensive guide diagnoses and explains back pain; more important, it shows you how to eliminate it without expensive medical procedures. Anyone who experiences back pain will find this an indispensable aid to recovering a full and active life. Four out of five adult Americans experience back pain at some point in their lives-it's the nation's third most common reason for surgery, the number-one occupational hazard, and the most prevalent cause of disability in men and women under age forty-five. Whether it results from injury, osteoporosis, or an unusually intense weekend golf game, back pain is a common cause of serious discomfort or even debilitation. qlDr. Harris H. McIlwain has devoted his career to bringing relief to sufferers of back pain and arthritis; in The Pain-Free Back, he reveals his six-step program for achieving and maintaining a healthy back. Nearly all of this pain can be controlled without surgery, and McIlwain addresses every aspect of this process, including o exercises to strengthen your back o lifestyle changes that reduce the stress on your back o touch therapies for soothing various types of back pain o tips for maintaining a healthy weight on a back-friendly diet o complementary and alternative medicines that will ease your pain naturally This comprehensive guide diagnoses and explains back pain; more important, it shows you how to eliminate it without expensive medical procedures. Anyone who experiences back pain will find this an indispensable aid to recovering a full and active life.

The Pain-Free Back: 6 Simple Steps to End Pain and Reclaim Your Active Life

For the eighteen million American women afflicted with early bone-loss disease, here is the first comprehensive guide to identifying and controlling the condition before it progresses to osteoporosis
Osteoporosis, which afflicts more than half of all American women over the age of fifty, is a widespread and all-too-familiar problem. Osteopenia, a milder bone-loss disease that is the forerunner of osteoporosis, is less well known but affects an estimated eighteen million young and middle-aged women-including women in their late teens and early twenties. Since many doctors associate low bone density exclusively with postmenopausal women, millions of women in their childbearing years suffer from undetected bone loss, putting them at risk for debilitating fractures down the road.
In Reversing Osteopenia, Dr. Harris H. McIlwain and his two daughters, also rheumatologists, fill the knowledge gap about this easily diagnosable disease, help younger women recognize the risk factors for bone loss, and provide a five-step program for controlling and even preventing bone loss. Their age-specific recommendations for women in their twenties, thirties, forties, and fifties include - exercises that strengthen rather than threaten your bones - new information about foods that build bone density - ways to avoid medicines that rob bones of their strength - recommendations of natural dietary supplements 
This groundbreaking book offers new hope for young women at risk for osteopenia.

Reversing Osteopenia: The Definitive Guide to Recognizing and Treating Early Bone Loss in Women of All Ages

Harris McIlwain

How our nation's abuse of antibiotics and other germ killers is hurting your health, and what you can do about it. If you use antibacterial soaps - stop! Don't ask for antibiotics for viral infections.

Overkill: How Our Nation's Abuse of Antibiotics and Other Germ Killers is Hurting Your Health and What to Do About It

Kimberly M. Thomson

George D. Lundberg

Rodale

Do you wake up each morning aching with joint or muscle pain? Have you been trying to lose stubborn belly fat for years? Do you wish you could be active without pain medications? Look no further: Diet for a Pain-Free Life is the simple-to-follow, doctor-designed solution to improve your health. Leading rheumatologist, Dr. Harris McIlwain shares his revolutionary prescriptions in this first proven lifestyle plan that will help you drop pounds and decrease pain at the same time. Losing just 10 pounds can reduce chronic pain by as much as 90 percent. Learn the secrets of how to: Eat Well and Lose Weight with the Pain-Free Diet—even if you've never been able to succeed on a diet before Exercise Your Pain Away—even if you dislike traditional exercise, or if your pain makes movement difficult Stop the Stress-Pain Connection—even if you're overworked and easily stressed Improve the Quality of Your Sleep—even if you suffer from insomnia or other sleep conditions Those who have followed Dr. McIlwain's program have been able to resume the activities they love and transform their lives in as few as 21 days—now you can too.

Diet for a Pain-Free Life: A Revolutionary Plan to Lose Weight, Stop Pain, Sleep Better and Feel Great in 21 Days

Diets & Weight Loss

Da Capo Lifelong Books

Are you guilty of overkill? Experts warn that if we don't stop overusing antibiotics and antibacterial products now , we will shoulder the blame for creating a warrior class of drug-resistant supergerms that will threaten not only our children but their children and beyond. Hard evidence exists that the crisis has already begun. But understanding the long-term effects of antibiotic abuse is one thing, and taking responsibility for our own health day after day, year after year, is another. Or is it? In this timely and thought-provoking reference, Dr. Kimberly M. Thompson tells you exactly what you need to do to protect and promote your family's good health without endangering their future. Because, let's face it--there is no real comfort in winning the battle against germs if we are destined to lose the war.

Overkill: Repairing the Damage Caused by Our Unhealthy Obsession with Germs, Antibiotics, and Antibacterial Products

Dr. Kimberly Thompson

Rodale Books

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Making a Baby: Everything You Need to Know to Get Pregnant

Making a Baby: Everything You Need to Know to Get Pregnant

The Women's Guide to Ending Pain: An 8-Step Program

Pain-Free Arthritis: A 7-Step Plan for Feeling Better Again

The Pain-Free Back: 6 Simple Steps to End Pain and Reclaim Your Active Life

Reversing Osteopenia: The Definitive Guide to Recognizing and Treating Early Bone Loss in Women of All Ages

Overkill: How Our Nation's Abuse of Antibiotics and Other Germ Killers is Hurting Your Health and What to Do About It

Diet for a Pain-Free Life: A Revolutionary Plan to Lose Weight, Stop Pain, Sleep Better and Feel Great in 21 Days

Overkill: Repairing the Damage Caused by Our Unhealthy Obsession with Germs, Antibiotics, and Antibacterial Products