Describes what is currently known about the human body's immune system and explains how new drugs are taking advantage of the body's own defense mechanisms

In Self-Defense

Jaret, Peter

Mizel, Steven

Medical Books

Harcourt

This is not just another exercise book; it is a 20-step program developed to help get you off the couch and onto your feet! 
Active Living Every Day is a self-paced course that uses checklists, charts, four-color illustrations, and photos to make the information clear and easy for you to use anytime, anywhere. This book is the text for Active Living courses offered at health and medical education agencies across the country and is supported with additional interactive exercises on the Internet. 
In just 20 weeks this new guide, developed by scientists and presented by leading health writers, will have you on the road to a long life of good health, a fit body, and effective weight control.

Active Living Every Day: 20 Weeks to Lifelong Vitality

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Blair, Steven N.

Carpenter, Ruth Ann

Dunn, Andrea L., Ph.D.

Marcus, Bess H., Ph.D.

Exercise & Fitness

Human Kinetics

Having energy, feeling good, and being healthy are all benefits of active living. You can achieve these benefits with Active Living Every Day. 
The Active Living Every Day Participant's Packet has everything you need to get moving and stay moving. It includes access to and support from the Active Living Partners Web site as well as the textbook and ALED Online. 
The Active Living Every Day textbook is the text for all Active Living Every Day classes. Whether you are just getting started with an exercise routine, have been in a slump, or simply want to start leading a less sedentary life, Active Living Every Day will help you reach your physical activity goals.
ALED Online enhances Active Living Every Day group sessions. For each week's lesson you'll find forms, weekly quizzes, Web links, and suggested readings that will help broaden your understanding of the week's topic. ALED Online is also home to many practical tools designed to help you track your progress, including:
 -an activity minutes log,
-the 1000+ plan, which will help you find ways to burn 1000 extra calories per week,
-a steps log,
-a short- and long-term goal log, and
- a walk test

Active Living Everyday Participant Package

Dunn, Andrea L.

Marcus, Bess H.

Adding regular physical activity to your week can make a huge difference in your health. Move more and you’ll have more energy, less stress, a reduced risk of chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease, a healthier weight, and better sleep quality. And those are just a few of the benefits. If you’ve decided that you want to lead a more active life, Active Living Every Day, Second Edition, offers you all the tools you need to take the first steps toward success. 
Active Living Every Day, Second Edition, is more than just a book. It’s a step-by-step plan for building a healthier life. With Active Living Every Day, you’ll learn how enjoyable physical activity can be—even if you’ve never been active before—and how easy it is to add activity to your day. You’ll create your own activity plan based on your preferences and lifestyle, and you’ll be encouraged to choose activities that you like and that fit easily into your routine. You’ll even learn how everyday activities, like housecleaning and gardening, can count toward your weekly physical activity goals. Along the way you’ll develop confidence by building on small successes and overcoming obstacles—methods that have proven effective in producing lasting change. The advice and participants’ stories in the book and the supplementary online tools offer support and guidance to help you achieve your activity goals. 
 Making important lifelong changes takes commitment. With the right structure and encouragement, those changes can be easier to accomplish. Let Active Living Every Day, Second Edition, show you how building on small successes can add up to healthy, life-changing habits.

Active Living Every Day

Provides strategies and tips to help live a heart healthy lifestyle, offering natural ways to lower blood pressure and cholesterol, tips to add exercise to any schedule, and recipes that incorporate foods for a healthy heart.

Heart Healthy for Life

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Readers' Digest

A richly illustrated overview of public health around the world examines the triumphs and failures in humankind's attempts to eradicate disease, discussing the factors that makes the world vulnerable to the spread of new or reemerging diseases--overpopulation, war, environmental destruction, and mass movement of refugees--as well as efforts to find creative solutions.

Impact: On the Frontlines of Global Health

Kasmauski, Karen

National Geographic

To care. To advocate. To innovate. To be a nurse. In a moving tapestry of words and photographs, Nurse: A World of Care, documents and celebrates the vital and often invisible work of nurses throughout the globe. The many faces and voices of nurses are captured in compelling detail by photographer Karen Kasmauski and writer Peter Jaret. Together they paint an unforgettable and varied portrait of the profession, from the nurse midwives who walk long distances to deliver basic health care in the remote villages of Bangladesh, to the Alaska public health nurse who lives out of a sleeping bag to reach her patients, to the Thai hospice nurses who comfort and care for patients with AIDS. Nursing requires expertise, ingenuity, and a deep sense of compassion. Like the profession it celebrates, this book appeals to both hearts and minds. Around the world, health care delivery systems are in crisis. In the poorest places, millions of people lack access to even the most basic care. In the world s prosperous nations, the soaring cost of advanced medicine has begun to exact a crippling strain on budgets. High-tech medicine saves lives, but it has also led to impersonal health care systems that leave many patients feeling confused and sometimes abandoned. Shortages of nurses, meanwhile, have left rural clinics and state-of-the-art hospitals alike dangerously understaffed. Nursing itself is rising to the challenge. Innovative programs, many of them created by nurses, offer solutions to the most pressing problems we face. As this book powerfully argues, nursing is critical to delivering health care in every corner of the world. Nurses are there when life begins and when it ends offering expertise, comfort, and care. Only by recognizing and supporting their work can we hope to heal our ailing health care systems and ensure that nurses will continue to be there when we need them most.

Nurse: A World of Care

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Emory Univ

Regular physical activity is an important key to a healthy, happy lifestyle. The many benefits of daily physical activity include more energy; less stress; better sleep; reduced risk of chronic diseases such as heart disease and diabetes; stronger bones, joints, and muscles; and an overall healthier and longer independent life. If you're ready to become active, fit, and healthy, Active Living Every Day, Third Edition With Web Resource, provides all the tools you need to get moving and make physical activity part of your everyday life.\nMore than a book, Active Living Every Day presents a scientifically tested step-by-step program with evidence-based behavior change strategies for becoming more physically active. Designed to make active lifestyles available to people everywhere, it offers updated research showing the need to be physically active and demonstrates the proven effectiveness of this program.\nPractical and accessible, this third edition offers streamlined delivery for a clear, focused read. Learn simple and enjoyable ways to fit physical activity into your life, concentrating on activities you can easily add into your daily routine. Create your own personalized activity plan unique to your individual preferences and lifestyle. With an emphasis on moderate-intensity activities, you'll also learn how everyday activities, like housecleaning and gardening, can count toward your weekly physical activity goals. Develop confidence by gaining problem-solving skills, overcoming obstacles, and learning how to increase intensity when desired. The tips and participants' stories in this book, plus a web resource offering activities for practice, offer the support and guidance you need to make healthy changes in your life.\nWith Active Living Every Day, Third Edition, join thousands of people just like you who have used this program to achieve lifelong success in becoming active every day.

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In Self-Defense

Active Living Every Day: 20 Weeks to Lifelong Vitality

Active Living Everyday Participant Package

Active Living Every Day

Heart Healthy for Life

Impact: On the Frontlines of Global Health

Nurse: A World of Care

Active Living Every Day