Body Sculpting or Sleep

Body Sculpting: Tone and Reshape Your Body in 6 Weeks!

Author: Chrissie Gallagher Mundy

Feel great, lose weight, and reshape your body through this six-week program designed to streamline your form and keep you slim and trim. The well-illustrated and easy-to-follow exercises consist of basic, dynamic movements and draw from the most effective elements of ballet, Pilates, and weight training. The resulting mix of cardiovascular, toning, and stretching
routines provides an all-around, thorough workout. Assess your natural body type, posture, and fitness level to determine the most effective form of training, and address specific problem areas, in particular the thighs, stomach, and butt. Corrective exercises for trimming down after pregnancy and strengthening a bad back complete this simple yet highly effective plan. It's the perfect
program for those on the go.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	6
	Body sculpting basics	8
	Assessing your shape	22
	Problem areas	36
	Stomach and waist	40
	Bottom and hips	58
	Legs and thighs	76
	Arms and upper body	94
	Corrective shaping	114
	Post-natal exercises	118
	Bad backs	122
	Increased flexibility	124
	Index	126
	Acknowledgements	128

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Sleep: The Complete Guide to Sleep Disorders and a Better Night's Sleep

Author: J Paul Caldwell

Revised and updated for 2003.

Although we often take sleep for granted, each of us, at some point in our lives, has had difficulty sleeping. From young children having nightmares to seniors experiencing insomnia, sleep deprivation is a common problem across all ages. In this comprehensive book, Caldwell helps readers understand what makes or breaks a good night's sleep, and offers clear advice on how to achieve better sleep.

Sleep discusses:

• The effects of diet, exercise and sex on sleep patterns
  
• The effects of shift work, jet lag and Seasonal Affective Disorder
  
• What causes snoring and sleep apnea
  
• Sleep disorders in the most vulnerable: children and seniors
  
• Drugs and sleep -- what interferes and what helps
  
• Treatment of major kinds of sleep disorders
  
• The functions of rest, dreams and sleep
  

Complete with up-to-date case studies, diagrams and sidebars, Sleep is your guide to enjoying a healthier mind and body.

April 11, 2000 - Montgomery Advertiser

Helps readers understand what makes or breaks a good night's sleep ... and offers clear advice on how to achieve better sleep.

Healthy Foods for Happy Kids or Promoting Physical Activity and Health in the Classroom

Healthy Foods for Happy Kids: An A-Z Nutritional Know-how

Author: Susannah Olivier

In Healthy Food for Happy Kids, nutrition author Suzannah Olivier covers the details of child nutrition and how to encourage your child to eat a healthy diet. You'll find the answers to many nutritioanl questions such as: Is my child getting enough iron? What is a portion of fruits and vegetables? How much milk does my child need? How much sugar is too much? Olivier also offers the following basic principles to get your child on the road to good nutrition and a healthy life.
• Choose at least five portions of fruits and vegetables daily.
• Always eat a healthy breakfast.
• Make snack choices nutritious.
• Offer desserts by all means, but avoid using them as a bribe to finish a meal.

The fact is, our children's health is suffering from poor nutrition. Healthy Food for Happy Kids will Help you find the right diet and the right approaches to help your children concentrate, do well at school, and resist childhood illnesses-in a nutshell, to be Happy Kids.

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Promoting Physical Activity and Health in the Classroom

Author: Robert P Pangrazi

Promoting Physical Activity and Health in the Classroom responds to the growing trend in K-6 education, where classroom teachers with no specific Physical Education training must increasingly implement activities in nontraditional settings—often with limited space, equipment, time, and planning. The book is colorful, engaging, compact, and user-friendly. Its practical organization, combined with detachable, sortable index-size cards comprising more than 260 separate activities, enables teachers to implement them immediately and provides a unique resource not previously available to instructors. Improving the Health of America’s Children, Understanding Children’s Needs and Readiness for Physical Activity, Teaching Physical Activities Safely and Effectively, Improving the Effectiveness of Instruction and Feedback, Management and Discipline in an Activity Setting, Teaching Children with Special Needs, Integrating Physical Activity and Academics, Increasing Student’s Activity Levels, Helping Students Develop Physical Fitness, Improving Students' Nutrition, Teaching Sun Safety, Promoting Children's Health Beyond the School Day. Intended for those interested in learning about how to promote physical activity and health in the classroom.

101 Reasons Why Im a Vegetarian or Natural Foot Care

101 Reasons Why I'm a Vegetarian

Author: Pamela Ric

For many years, Pamela Rice authored and produced a pamphlet entitled 101 Reasons Why I'm a Vegetarian, keeping it updated with six editions over thirteen years. Known to all who have read it as "The Mighty Convincer," the pamphlet offered pointed, bite-sized arguments for choosing the meatless diet from the perspectives of human health, animal welfare/rights, economics, and the environment. Over 180,000 copies of the pamphlet have been put into circulation. The success she gained from the pamphlet grew to the point where Ms. Rice was able to open the Vegetarian Center of NYC (the first of its kind in the nation).

Now Ms. Rice has written an expanded and fully resourced book-length version of 101 Reasons Why I'm a Vegetarian, filling out the details of her argument and providing up-to-date information, but maintaining her engaging and informed style. She covers everything from the conditions for animals on factory farms to disappearing fish stocks, lagoons of animal waste, high incidences of heart disease, colon cancer and other diseases, and other information from industry periodicals, newspapers, magazines, Web sites, and other less readily available sources.

A work of prodigious scholarship and dedication, written with wit and skill, 101 Reasons Why I'm a Vegetarian is sure to become the handy reference work for vegetarians who want to give their meat-eating friends one book that explains why they do what they do, and for meat-eaters who want to understand all the arguments for a meatless diet.

Author Bio: Aside from the Vegetarian Center, Pamela Rice is also the founder of the nonprofit VivaVegie Society and the editor of The VivaVine, both based in New York City. As president of the society, Ms. Rice, and scores of volunteers she managed, has engaged in creative methods of vegetarian outreach. Tens of thousands of copies of her pamphlet, 101 Reasons Why I'm a Vegetarian, have been distributed to passersby on New York City streets since 1991. Ms. Rice has appeared on television in the United States on several occasions and has been profiled in The New Yorker magazine.

Library Journal

Expanding on her popular pamphlet of the same title, vegetarian writer/activist Rice thoroughly covers all the practical reasons to go vegetarian, including (in addition to the welfare of animals) social, medical, economic, and-especially-environmental concerns while avoiding spiritual or religious reasons. Examples of her reasons include "The Cancer connection: The `Big C' and meat" and "Fossil fuel alchemy: The oil in your meat." Rice aims to let the facts speak for themselves and not to attack anyone's eating habits or beliefs. She accomplishes this by thoroughly documenting all her 101 reasons, using respected mainstream sources, such as U.S. government reports, major newspapers, peer-reviewed journal articles, and other citations from scientists, doctors, and government officials. Although Rice jumps from topic to topic, intending to give readers the big picture, she includes a page that lists "reasons by category" as well as a comprehensive index for those interested in a specific aspect of vegetarianism. A well-written and -documented indictment of the meat industry and its impact on the world, this is an excellent source for students writing papers on or debating this topic. Recommended for all libraries.-Robert Flatley, Kutztown Univ., PA Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

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Natural Foot Care: Herbal Treatments, Massage, and Exercises for Healthy Feet

Author: Stephanie L Tourles

Say good-bye to sore and irritated feet forever with this comprehensive look at foot care.

In Natural Foot Care you'll find:

* Easy recipes for moisturizing creams, relaxing soaks, and healing ointments

* Instructions and herbal remedies for an at-home pedicure

* Natural solutions to problems like corns, bunions, and cold feet

* Advice for finding shoes that really fit

* Exercises for strengthening and stretching foot muscles

* Illustrated techniques for a relaxing foot massage

Ethnic Variations in Dying Death and Grief or Mental Fitness for Life

Ethnic Variations in Dying, Death, and Grief: Diversity in Universality

Author: Donald P Irish

This volume is directed towards professionals who work in the fields concerning death and dying. These professionals must perceive the needs of people with cultural patterns which are different from the "standard and dominant" patterns in the United States and Canada. Accordingly, the book includes illustrative episodes and in-depth presentations of selected "ethnic patterns". Each of the "ethnic chapters" is written by an author who shares the cultural traditions the chapter describes. Other chapters examine multicultural issues and provide the means for personal reflection on death and dying. There are also two bibliographic sections, one general and one geared towards children. The text is divided into three sections - Cross-Cultural and Personal perspectives, Dying, Death, and Grief Among Selected Ethnic Communities, and Reflections and Conclusions. The book is aimed at those in the fields of clinical psychology, grief therapy, sociology, nursing, social and health care work.

MADDVOCATE

The strength of the book is that contributors write about their own traditions rather than reporting on studies about traditions... the reader gains a respect for the varied ways racial, ethnic, and cultural groups have learned to try to make sense of death.

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Mental Fitness for Life: 7 Steps to Healthy Aging

Author: Sandra A Cusack

This timely book, written by experts in gerontology and based on recent, solid research debunks the myth that slipping into one's dotage is inevitable for baby boomers. Authors Sandra Cusack and Wendy Thompson draw on studies from Harvard, Berkeley, UCLA, and elsewhere to show how to keep an active, alert mind throughout life. The book explains the importance of goal setting, replacing old beliefs with "power thinking," finding "new creativity," and putting together a program and strategies that lead to staying mentally fit for life.

Words That Heal the Blues or The South Beach Diet

Words That Heal the Blues: Affirmations and Meditations for Living Optimally with Mood Disorders

Author: Douglas Bloch

DOUGLAS BLOCH is a teacher and counselor who writes and speaks on topics of psychology, healing, and spirituality. He has authored 10 books including the inspirational self-help trilogy Words That Heal, Listening to Your Inner Voice, and I Am With You Always. He lives in Portland, Oregon, where he runs support groups for those healing from depression and anxiety.

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The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss

Author: Arthur Agatston

For years, cardiologist Arthur Agaston, M.D. urged his patients to lose weight for the sake of their hearts, but every diet was too hard to follow or its restrictions were too harsh. Some were downright dangerous. Nobody seemed to be able to stick with low-fat regimens for any length of time. And a diet is useless if you can't stick with it.

So Dr. Agaston developed his own. The South Beach Diet isn't complicated, and it doesn't require that you go hungry. You'll enjoy normal-size helpings of meat, poultry, and fish. You'll also eat eggs, cheese, nuts, and vegetables. Snacks are required. You'll learn to avoid the bad carbs, like white flour, white sugar, and baked potatoes. Best of all, you'll lose that stubborn belly fat first!

Dr. Agaston's diet has produced consistently dramatic results (8 to 13 pounds lost in the first 2 weeks!) and has become a media sensation in South Florida. Now you, too, can join the ranks of the fit and fabulous with The South Beach Diet.

Publishers Weekly

Despite the glitzy title, this is one of the more appealing diet books among the new "anti-carb" programs. Agatston, a doctor based at Miami Beach's Mt. Sinai Medical Center, found that his patients not only were unable to stay on various popular diets but their cholesterol and blood sugar levels remained dangerously high after trying these plans. The doctor chose to alter his own diet-first avoiding all carbohydrates and fruit and then reintroducing these foods in moderation. Feeling better and losing weight, he then consulted a nutritionist to modify his strategy to devise a sound method for his patients. The South Beach diet begins with a somewhat restrictive two-week program, generally producing a weight loss of from eight to 13 pounds. The initial phase may be difficult for those who crave bread, pasta and fruit. But there are still choices, and snacks (cheese, hummus, vegetables) are a necessary part of the diet. People shouldn't feel hungry on this part of the diet, stresses the author. The second phase offers somewhat more choices, including whole wheat bread and other selected carbohydrates. Agatston advocates combining the "bad" with the "good." For example, take whole wheat bread and dip it into olive oil, rather than using butter. Eat a very small amount of pasta with lots of vegetables, meat and healthy oils. Complete meal plans along with simple recipes comprise roughly half the book. Of course, there's no perfect diet that works for everyone but the enthusiasm of the conversational tone and the inviting manner make the book more appealing than many other diet tomes. (Apr.) Copyright 2003 Cahners Business Information.