Medical Resources: New Books

One of the most renowned sports surgeons in the country, with clients from Drew Brees to Jack Nicklaus, uses his extensive experience with athletes across all sports for the prevention and treatment of sports injuries--especially among young athletes.

Over time, dialysis can become both physically debilitating and psychologically difficult. To address these issues, kidney specialist Dr. Rich Snyder offers practical advice and strategies, as well as complementary options that can help you deal successfully with the many aspects of your treatment plan.

From the first time you hear the word, through the myriad of emotional and physical changes after the cancer crisis, Deborah Cornwall has shared caregivers' experiences with compassion and honesty. This book helps support the caregiver in ways that are often overlooked; an honest and must-read for all caregivers, irrespective of age, race, or economic status.

The Power of 200 Medical Professionals Is in Your Hands!

Perfect Health Diet tells you exactly how to optimize health and make weight loss effortless with a clear, balanced, and scientifically proven plan to change the way you eat and feel forever!

Robert Lustigs documents the science and the politics that has led to the pandemic of chronic disease over the last 30 years. To help us lose weight and recover our health, Lustig presents personal strategies to readjust the key hormones that regulate hunger, reward, and stress; and societal strategies to improve the health of the next generation. Compelling, controversial, and completely based in science, "Fat Chance "debunks the widely held notion to prove "a calorie is NOT a calorie," and takes that science to its logical conclusion to improve health worldwide.

In The Thyroid Solution Diet, Dr. Arem makes his comprehensive hormone-balancing nutrition and weight-loss plan available to the public. Dr. Arem perfected his unique diet after extensive research, modifying the Mediterranean Diet so that his plan is higher in protein, higher in fiber, and also low glycemic. This way meals are both satisfying and filling.

Dr. Cousens presents a three-week plan that focuses on a moderate­-low complex carbohydrate, live food, plant-source-only diet that reverses diabetes to a physiology of health and well-being by resetting the genetic expression of a person's DNA. The program renders insulin and related medicines unnecessary, within four days, as the blood sugar drops to normal levels, and the diabetic shifts into a nondiabetic physiology within two weeks. Substantially revised throughout, this practical and encouraging guide reveals the risks of low cholesterol and low omega 3s in one's diet and includes more than 140 delicious and healthy recipes.

In The End of Diabetes, Dr. Joel Fuhrman shows how you can prevent and reverse diabetes and its related symptoms and lose weight in the process. While the established medical protocol aims to control diabetes by limiting your carbohydrate intake, monitoring glucose levels, and prescribing bottomless doses of medicine, Dr. Fuhrman believes this long-standing approach to fighting diabetes is wrong-and possibly fatal. His simple and effective plan offers great food, starts working right away, and puts you on a direct path to a longer, better, fuller, disease-free life.

Dr. Ruth's guide for the Alzheimer's caregiver: how to care for your loved one without getting overwhelmed and without doing it all by yourself.

'The IBD Healing Plan and Recipe Book' gives readers the knowledge they need to manage their pain and offers compassionate emotional support during the process. The book does not advocate a "one size fits all" solution, nor does it leave readers reliant on prescription drugs or surgery. Though Korth is not claiming to cure IBD, she believes that with appropriate intervention, there is great hope for someone to live symptom-free using natural methods.

In the tradition of Christiane Northrup, a renowned cardiologist integrates emotional and physical well-being in a revolutionary new approach to women's heart health.

Let's face it you've been thrown a curve ball, and are probably feeling very overwhelmed as you think about everything involved in treating cancer. The first step to regaining some control is to develop an Action Plan. Diagnosis: Breast Cancer will help you develop this plan AND keep you organized throughout your entire medical journey. It tackles the questions that you may be afraid to ask and provides useful information about what to expect after surgery to aid in the recovery process.