Presents a comprehensive guide to achieving and maintaining good health, sharing easy-to-follow advice and challenging common beliefs about such topics as raw foods, daily water intake, and the impact of microwaving on nutrition.

Practice natural health and healing the modern way with more than 1,000 of the world's best home remedies--cures that work using ingredients located right in your kitchen cabinet.

"This book teaches reader how to become active self-managers through problem solving, goal setting, and action planning, while also presenting the basics of healthy eating, exercise, relaxation, communication, and emotional empowerment. Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions offers readers a unique and exciting opportunity - the chance to take control of their health and enjoy their lives to the fullest extent possible with chronic illness"--...

Medical Symptoms is an easy-to-use visual symptoms finder and self-diagnosis book that will help you check out any health problem. Discover what an ailment or pain might be and what you should do. You'll find explanations of symptoms and diseases, clear human anatomy photographs, and suggested home care instructions. Once you've narrowed it down, a cross-reference takes you to easy-to-follow descriptions of the condition at the back of the book. Potentially...

"Knowing which health checks and tests to get when can prevent illness and problems, and even save your life. This easy-to-use guide explains all the common health tests so that you can understand and manage your well-being. When you've had a physical, how often do you understand what the results really mean for your health and your lifestyle? You've probably heard of good cholesterol and bad cholesterol, but what does that mean? And what can you...

A resource that first helps readers discern whether or not a problem can be treated at home offers information on treating common ailments through natural alternatives and provides basic instruction in emergency care.

A terminal diagnosis ... a life-threatening disease ... recognition of one's own mortality ... or simply planning ahead. All of these lead individuals to contemplate difficult end-of-life decisions. But, when they do, they find themselves confused, desperately seeking guidance: about living wills, health care proxies, and their own care, wishes, and affairs. Dr. Shawn D. Glisson and Wynne A. Whitman help people face these issues every day -- Glisson...