Health & Fitness : Diseases

If you find yourself eating more than you know is healthy-perhaps while standing over the sink in the middle of the night-you may be suffering from Binge Eating Disorder, which affects nearly half of all overweight Americans. You are not suffering from bulimia; binging simply means you're eating more food than feels comfortable. We all do it. But its demoralizing and distressing effects are most felt by yo-yo dieters. The problem is not a lack of motivation or determination, but self-sabotaging eating patterns. Now, one of America's most trusted and well-known weight-loss specialists, Dr. Peter Miller reveals the 6-step program that has already helped thousands of dieters conquer binge eating and lose weight permanently. more...

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Written by an experienced doctor who has done extensive research and collaborative work on diabetes, The Diabetes Answer Book includes 300 questions and answers more...

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A practice-oriented manual, which teaches the examination technique developed and taught by the author known as "Graf's technique". The first part includes the fundamentals of hip sonography, static as well as dynamic techniques, anatomical identification of the echograms, typing, a measurement technique and usability check. more...

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Written by the bestselling author of the groundbreaking Syndrome X , the book that helped bring the attention of the public to this major new health crisis, The Inflammation Syndrome is the first major trade book to identify the Inflammation Syndrome for the consumer and to show how to heal it. Drawing on the cutting-edge research that is being done all over the world, Jack Challem provides a revolutionary approach to healing inflammation—one of the major causes of diseases such as heart disease, arthritis, and diabetes through an easy-to-follow nutritional program. more...

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This book has been created for patients who have decided to make education and research an integral part of the treatment process. Although it also gives information useful to doctors, caregivers and other health professionals, it tells patients where and how to look for information covering virtually all topics related to lupus (also Chronic cutaneous lupus erythematosus; Disseminated lupus erythematosus; Focal glomerulonephritis; Lupus erythematosus; Lupus glomerular disease; Lupus glomerulonephritis), from the essentials to the most advanced areas of research. The title of this book includes the word official. This reflects the fact that the sourcebook draws from public, academic, government, and peer-reviewed research. Selected readings from various agencies are reproduced to give you some of the latest official information available to date on lupus. Given patients' increasing sophistication in using the Internet, abundant references to reliable Internet-based resources are provided throughout this sourcebook. Where possible, guidance is provided on how to obtain free-of-charge, primary research results as well as more detailed information via the Internet. E-book and electronic versions of this sourcebook are fully interactive with each of the Internet sites mentioned (clicking on a hyperlink automatically opens your browser to the site indicated). Hard-copy users of this sourcebook can type cited Web addresses directly into their browsers to obtain access to the corresponding sites. In addition to extensive references accessible via the Internet, chapters include glossaries of technical or uncommon terms. more...

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