Diabetes or Goal Digger Fitness

Diabetes: A Guide to Living Well

Author: Gary Arsham

Completely revised and updated to meet current ADA Clinical Practice Recommendations, this book offers patients three levels of commitment, letting them decide which level they can commit to in order to live healthier with diabetes. Topical coverage includes:

• Medications
• Cardiovascular disease
• Obesity
• Emotional issues
• Treatment plans
• And more

Ernest Lowe is a counselor, educator, producer, and television series writer. He has lived with diabetes for 45 years.

Gary Arsham, M.D., Ph.D., is a physician/educator and a member of the national boards of directors of the American Diabetes Association and the American Association of Diabetes Educators. He has lived with diabetes for more than 40 years.

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Patient guidance integrating recent developments. Published by the Diabetes Center, Inc. 13911 Ridgedale Drive, Minneapolis, MN 55343. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

LEARNING TO LIVE WELL

Willing to Live Well

Living Well At the Beginning of Diabetes

Help!

LIVING WELL WITH DIABETIC CONTROL

Diabetes--Defining the Choices

The Intensive Regimen

Living Well with Type 2 Diabetes

The Moderate Regimen

The Loose RegimenLiving Well with Insulin Reactions

LIVING WELL WITH THE KEYS TO CONTROL

Living Well with Your Food Choices

Living Actively with Diabetes

Living Well with Stress

SUPPORT FOR LIVING WELL

Living Well with Your Medical Team

Living Well with Others with Diabetes

Living Well with Yourself

LIVING WELL WITH DIABETIC COMPLICATIONS

Neutralizing the Threat of Complications

If Complications Develop

Complications Simplified

WOMEN AND CHILDREN LIVING WELL

Living Well As a Diabetic Woman, by Catherine Feste

Living Young with Diabetes

Living Well in the Future

Appendices

Index

Goal Digger Fitness: Look, Feel, and Perform Your Best with a Breakthrough 14-Day Exercise Plan Tailored to Your Goals and Your Life

Author: Eric Harr

There is a Fitness Goal Digger in each of us, a person who thrives upon movement, who is ready to set exercise goals and do what it takes to achieve them. Perhaps you consider yourself a runner, cyclist, golfer, or Rollerblader. Then again, maybe you're at the point where you just take the stairs instead of the elevator, do some yard work or vacuum the living room vigorously, and park in the farthest spot from the entrance when you shop. Whatever the case, you want to lead a reasonably active life--when you have the time and, of course, the motivation. But lately, "whenever you can" and "whenever life allows" are not as often as you'd like them to be. Goal Digger Fitness will show you how to fit exercise into the context of your everyday life. In this book, you'll find:

• A test to help you match your fitness program to your psychology, physiology, and schedule
• A three-step program to identify personal obstacles, define your goals, and execute a personalized fitness plan
• Exercise plans prescribed in 10-day doses with 4-day breaks in between
• Tips and strategies to overcome mental and physical roadblocks
• The Goal Digger Diet, with an array of healthy, tasty meals that can be prepared in less than 10 minutes

With special programs such as the Look Better Program, Feel Better Program, Perform Better Program, and Better Health Program, this superb guide will help you set and achieve your goals so that you reach your full fitness potential.

Reflexology for Womens Health or Resiliency in the Face of Disaster and Terrorism

Reflexology for Women's Health

Author: Ann Gillanders

Written by a world-renowned reflexologist, this book takes the gentle, drug-free and noninvasive alternative therapy of reflexology and shows how it can be effectively used to treat over 100 women-specific ailments. The author's approach is simple and straightforward, with clearly written text and color photographs teaching healing therapies for a whole range of common problems, both physical and psychological.

Topics addressed in Reflexology for Women's Health range in scope from PMS, cramps and stress to Candida, breast health and osteoporosis. Special chapters also cover conception and pregnancy including morning sickness and fertility boosting. Practical and helpful, Reflexology for Women's Health is also a pleasure to read and includes sidebars that provide supporting hints, tips and complementary health advice.

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Resiliency in the Face of Disaster and Terrorism: 10 Things to Do to Survive

Author: V Alex Kehayan

Addressing issues of physical and mental health, this practical pocket guide offers concrete strategies for surviving a disaster and outlines how to best sustain mental health and emotional resiliency long after the event is over. Ten streamlined chapters present a clear path of response to stressful events of any scale, from individual traumas to terrorism. Readers immediately benefit from the reassurance that comes from having a map for responding appropriately. They also learn what to say and not to say to comfort and support others, sustaining communities if catastrophe strikes. Reassuring in a time of uncertainty, this handbook empowers readers with a collection of personal tools to prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from calamity.

What People Are Saying

John P. Wilson
"An incredibly useful set of practical things to do in real life situations. . . . This is a must have reference volume."
—PhD, professor and Fulbright scholar, Cleveland State University

Beverley Raphael
"Provide[s] a strong basis for both prevention of adverse outcomes and mitigation of impacts."
—MD, professor and director, Mental Health Services, New South Wales Health Department

Diana Brown
"This is a much needed inclusive book. I've never seen all this material in one place."
—LCSW, BCD, disaster mental health specialist

Barbara Varenhorst
"An essential book for everyone concerned about the safety of their families, homes, schools and communities."
—PhD, counseling psychologist and specialist in resiliency and asset building

Joseph J. Licata
"This book will certainly assist us to educate the public about the basics of disaster survival."
—coordinator, Fort Lee Office of Emergency Management

Patricia M. Berliner
"Does an excellent job of helping us to prepare ourselves, homes and loved ones for what we might someday face."
—CSJ, PhD

Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America.org
"Personal and private aspects of tragedy are explored with defined approaches written simply."
—

A Holistic Guide To Embracing Pregnancy Childbirth And Motherhood or Building for Life

A Holistic Guide To Embracing Pregnancy, Childbirth, And Motherhood

Author: Karen N Salt

The newly pregnant woman faces a multitude of changes in her mind, life, and body, some of which are addressed by traditional medical care but many of which are not. In this holistic guide, the expectant mother will find warm and reassuring advice that will help her stay calm, focused, and energized during this exciting time and beyond.Rather than treat the arrival of a baby as strictly a one-moment-in-time medical event, author Karen Salt provides advice and wisdom to "treat" the whole woman-her emotions and her physical changes-and covers the entire year-long experience of pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period. Salt's holistic approach unveils for mothers-to-be the backbone of the doula role-to provide support, information, advocacy, and facilitation to women during pregnancy, labor, and early motherhood-and teaches her the many ways to use the doula philosophy to nurture herself through the process. From meditation and relaxation exercises, to fitness and nutrition advice to tips for achieving "positive energy living," this comprehensive guide puts mothers in control of their pregnancy, their birthing experience, and their approach to this wonderful and life-altering time.

Journal of Human Lactation

This refreshing, almost poetic book talks with much wisdom and sensitivity about all aspects of the journey to motherhood.
— August, 2003

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Building for Life: Designing and Understanding the Human-Nature Connection

Author: Stephen R Kellert

Sustainable design has made great strides in recent years; unfortunately, it still falls short of fully integrating nature into our built environment. Through a groundbreaking new paradigm of "restorative environmental design," award-winning author Stephen R. Kellert proposes a new architectural model of sustainability.

In Building For Life, Kellert examines the fundamental interconnectedness of people and nature, and how the loss of this connection results in a diminished quality of life.

This thoughtful new work illustrates how architects and designers can use simple methods to address our innate needs for contact with nature. Through the use of natural lighting, ventilation, and materials, as well as more unexpected methodologies-the use of metaphor, perspective, enticement, and symbol-architects can greatly enhance our daily lives. These design techniques foster intellectual development, relaxation, and physical and emotional well-being. In the works of architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen, Cesar Pelli, Norman Foster, and Michael Hopkins, Kellert sees the success of these strategies and presents models for moving forward. Ultimately, Kellert views our fractured relationship with nature as a design problem rather than an unavoidable aspect of modern life, and he proposes many practical and creative solutions for cultivating a more rewarding experience of nature in our built environment.