Home Health Books

Allows students with beginning reading abilities to access scientific information and a clear format for learning about microscopic life. Great for ESOL students.

This product is amazing. It definately keeps you on track with your exercise and nutrition goals. I am a student of Health and Exercise sciences and have had to use several other diet anaylsis programs before but none compare to the advanced and easy to use technology incorporated in the balance log software. For any one looking to lose weight or maintain a healthy life style, this product is a sure fire way to stay on track!

The Total Package: How To Create Your Ultimate Lifestyle And Live The Life Of Your Dreams by Anthony Palmer (Founder and CEO of Anthony Palmer Multimedia, Inc. which specializes in helping men and women develop their personal possibilities, achieve emotional growth, and live out their lives on their own terms) is a step-by-step self-help guide that directly addresses self-improvement and life-long goal pursuit in a realistic and practical manner. From maximizing the financial and tax advantages of a home-based business; to making the most of the Internet's resources in pursuit of material and other goals; to adopting a properly nutritions diet with the benefit of supplements; to exercises for sculpting the human body; to seven specific key principles for success and personal growth, and so much more, The Total Package is an all-encompassing do-it-yourself guide which is especially commended for its depth and scope.

Traditional Home Remedies is exactly as the title claims. This fantastic book is filled with remedies, healing folklore, and basic how-to instructions for nearly every ailment under the sun. It's a valuable resource for those of us who consider doctors the very last measure. The chapters cover: Kitchen Gardens & Medicinal Herbs, Infusions, Decoctions & Tinctures, Poultices, Salves & Ointments, Elixirs, Tonics & Aphrodisiacs, Food for Health & Well-Being, Women's Complaints, Midwifery & the Moon, Aromatics to Calm & Revive, Caution & Common Sense This book has remedies for earaches, kidney complaints, menstrual cramps, yeast infections, and so on. A definate must have for families large and small.

I find this interesting to read as many of the scenarios and difficulties presented I also encounter in practice. Authors make no secret of political or social views.

Matthew Dumont's powerful description of community psychiatry is a fascinating read as it delves into social commentary in an effort to understand the nature of mental illness and how we see it. You will be glued to this book as he zooms in on single individuals and fans out, viewing them within their family, political landscape, culture, environment.

He takes us through the history of what we take for granted as routine practice. As a nurse I have handed out methadone to patients to control heroin abuse, one was a newborn baby born of an addicted mother. In his book we see the history of competing ideologies of drug rehabilitation: community self help to get completely off drugs versus a drugged methadone constituency. Drugs dominated then, and they are dominating now.

Matthew Dumont confronts environmental hazards, such as lead and chemicals used in factories, that endanger the health of those who are exposed to them. We see the politics of preventing and treating exposure to toxins, and the frustration that accompanies such attempts.

Matthew Dumont challenges the pharmaceutical, biological approach that modern psychiatry is trending towards. This contrasts with the slow pace of community psychiatry, the long term trust that must be built between patient and psychiatrist for the patient to approach healing, as in his gripping account of "Queenie". A woman who murdered her own son, it took nearly fifteen years for her to remember the moments of the event and open up to Dr. Dumont in the healing that she needed. No shock treatment or drug could do that.

Dr. Dumont has no quick fixes, no easy answers. His left leaning politics are apparent, but he does not seem overly tied to any political agenda, and that challenges the reader. Just like there are no quick fixes to the problems of mental health, no little pill to make the problems go away, there are no quick fixes to the culture of medicine for profit, economics that promote wealth for some and poverty for others, environmental hazards that cannot be easily washed away; no political party will make everything okay.

Dr. Dumont contextualizes mental illness, and in so doing contextualizes family dysfunction and even crime. To contextualize does not mean to condone. It means we are all challenged to find its many faceted sources, and just keep trying, like Matthew Dumont did.

Baby Boomers still have worries about their own adult children, they help take care of grandchildren, and now they must face up to the aging of their parents. Boomers can feel like triple-generation-parents even as they age into retirement themselves. Boomers need help! The Unexpected Caregiver: How Boomers Can Keep Mom & Dad Active, Safe and Independent has arrived at just the right time. Read it quickly, searching for advice that matches your particular issues and questions, or read it through slowly grasping the all-important frame of mind and ideas for maintaining a sense of independence by older parents - either way is helpful.

Kari Berit tells it like it is; with humor, respect and wisdom. She is savvy about family challenges that can arise in the care of aging parents and is a fountain of knowledge about creative activities that work. She uses many practical lessons for the seasoned caregiver as well as for the newcomer to the possibility of parenting one's parents. For example, there are several sections on healthy activities include up-to-date material on scrapbooking, mentoring, traveling and writing family histories. The four chapters on end-of-life issues are written with great sensitivity for spiritual issues and with a sense of reality about the different expectations, often unspoken, among family members.

The Unexpected Caregiver: How Boomers Can Keep Mom & Dad Active, Safe and Independent tackles head on what is perhaps the most important yet misunderstood dimension of taking on a caregiving role with ones parents - enabling aging parents to retain a sense of control over their own lives. As need for assistance grows with age, finding ways to keep one's parents in the loop of influence and bi-directional support increasingly calls for resourceful decisions about how to relate to one's parents and to others who provide care and support for your parents. The Unexpected Caregiver has inventive suggestions for how to make that happen.

Not only is The Unexpected Caregiver a helpful guide providing important and workable steps for making a difference in the lives of aging parents, but it is also an emotionally upbeat gift for Boomers. It can reduce Boomer's anxieties over how to handle this new, perhaps unexpected experience of caregiving for their parents. Because of that, Boomers will appreciate any person who hands them a copy of The Unexpected Caregiver to read. It is an especially valuable gift when provided by family members, financial planners, insurance companies, retirement centers... the list goes on.

Bruce B. Roberts, Ph.D.,
Professor Emeritus of Psychology, St. Olaf College
Co-author, I Remember When: Activity Ideas to Help People Reminisce

I was blown away to learn that the memory is the cause of the problems associated with autism. It makes perfect sense to me that if the brain does not record anyhing at all or in a meaningful way a workable language
cannot form or present itself.It makes sense to know that only hard work can beat this monster. Drilling one"s child might not seem like the magic bullet that every one looked for but at least it is the right bullet.

I especially liked the book's history of the development of medicine and the origination of our health care system in the US.

If you are coping with a friend or family member who suffers from autism, or if you are interested in learning more about the disease, you need this book. It opens the door to a community of medical professionals, families and caregivers that is both touching and informative. The book also provides a resource section that will let you know you don't have to face the problem alone.