MY DIVA DIET brought you one of the most comprehensive diet books on the market today by incorporating a user-friendly interactive WORKBOOK format to ensure women achieve and maintain their goals for a leaner, healthier, and more functional and vibrant body-for life. MY DIVA DIET is back with the “Compact Version”, where we have taken all of the core value and nutritional information (with a few minor updates) from the WORKBOOK and condensed it so that you can have the meal plans, recipes, guidelines, and special guides at your fingertips and be on your way to attaining the results you are seeking–RIGHT NOW!… More >>
MY DIVA DIET: Compact Version: Sound Nutrition Made Practical!
The mortality rate from cancer hasn’t changed in 60 years despite the billions invested to find a cure. Avoiding Cancer One Day At A Time provides solid, practical advice for preventing cancer by avoiding carcinogens and implementing lifestyle/dietary practices that modify cancer causing factors. Combining their experience in family medicine and epidemiology with their passion for disease prevention, the authors provide the most up to date and effective advice for preventing cancer from developing in ourselves and our loved ones. Many “how to” examples for preventing cancer by being environmentally aware, avoiding infections, living the proper lifestyle and getting the proper nutrition are provided. Chapter by chapter summaries and listings of the latest cancer prevention web sites are great references. Worksheets assist readers in implementing the advice in very tangible ways, and the recipe collection of cancer avoiding meals is a winner! “An empowering book from the first page. Hea… More >>
Avoiding Cancer One Day At A Time: Practical Advice For Preventing Cancer
A food allergy is an immune system response to a food that the body mistakenly believes is harmful. Chemicals released by the immune system to protect the body trigger allergic reactions — varying widely from mild rashes to life-threatening anaphylactic shock. Often difficult to diagnose, food allergies can be lifetime afflictions — with no treatment other than avoiding the offending food. Dealing with Food Allergies presents up-to-date information on current diagnostic methods and treatment options. An authority on food allergies and intolerances, the author describes the effects of food allergies on the skin, mucous membranes, and respiratory and digestive tracts; discusses treatment by allergists and other healthcare professionals; and empowers readers to manage their food allergies. Illustrations, charts, and tables are included…. More >>
Dealing with Food Allergies: A Practical Guide to Detecting Culprit Foods and Eating a Healthy, Enjoyable Diet
A comprehensive guide to every aspect of having a baby from conception through pregnancy and birth and that all important first year…. More >>
Practical Encyclopedia of Pregnancy, Babycare and Nutrition for Babies and Toddlers
This is a one-stop reference guide that will be essential reading from the moment you discover that you are pregnant covering everything you need to know about your pregnancy and new baby. The book is helpfully divided into four sections…. More >>
The Practical Encyclopedia of Pregnancy, Babycare & Nutrition for Babies & Toddlers
A quick practical guide for making decisions about patient’s nutritional care by providing a framework for developing and implementing a nutritional plan of care. Presents information needed to provide optimal nutritional care for individuals who are not able to maintain their nutritional status through normal eating. Addresses nutritional support needs of patients across the life cycle in the home and hospital settings. Features useful information on drug-nutrient interactions and lab value interpretations, and features nutrition education tips throughout the text…. More >>
Practical Aspects of Nutrition Support: An Advanced Practice Guide
Parenteral nutrition in general is required if nutritional needs cannot be met by oral or enteral feeding. In the paediatric patient, its initiation depends both on individual circumstances and the age and size of the infant or child. This compact reference work on parenteral nutrition in children is based on the ‘Guidelines for Paediatric Parenteral Nutrition’ that have been developed jointly by the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN) and the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN), in collaboration with the European Society for Paediatric Research (ESPR).These guidelines were based on systematic literature reviews as well as a formal consensus process of a multidisciplinary panel of professionals. However, as a result of the scarcity of good quality clinical trials in children, many of the recommendations were extrapolated from adult studies and based on expert opinion. A detailed analysis of the available data w… More >>
Paediatric Parenteral Nutrition: A Practical Reference Guide
Filled with practical business writing exercises and activities, this workbook covers basic organizational skills, clear and concise writing, spelling, punctuation tips, and much more. The focus is on ways to edit, tone, and clarify business memos, letters, and reports. Learning Objectives: To give techniques for spelling accuracy. To discuss punctuation and capitalization rules. To explain principles of usage. To suggest ways to write memos, letters, and reports…. More >>
Writing Fitness: Practical Exercises for Better Business Writing
Written by a nutritional expert, this book is the definitive work for everyone looking to improve their health through better eating. Full color.”‘You are what you eat’ is obviously not the whole truth, but what you eat cannot help but contribute to how you are,” writes British nutritional therapist Denise Mortimore in The Complete Illustrated Guide to Nutritional Healing, a beautifully designed and photographed book about enhancing health with diet, vitamins, minerals, and herbs. Mortimore details the detrimental effects of the typical Western diet’s overabundance of animal fat, salt, sugar, processed foods, stimulants, and chemicals. She also goes into detail defining a well-balanced diet–so much detail that only serious students of nutrition will attempt to absorb it all. For optimum health, “every meal should be a balance of carbohydrates, protein, and essential fatty acids, and at the same time attempt to achieve 80 percent alkaline-forming and neutral foods to 20 pe… More >>
The Complete Illustrated Guide to Nutritional Healing: A Practical Approach to Nutrition for Healthy Living
As knowledge and practice of sports nutrition become increasingly sophisticated, there is new appreciation of the fact that basketball players, runners, gymnasts–all athletes–have different nutritional needs. Practical Sports Nutrition is the first text to provide detailed, sport-specific advice enabling you to approach individual athletes and teams with an understanding of their sport and unique nutritional needs.
Unlike other texts on the subject that get caught up with chemistry and science, this book provides information that is applied, practical, and useful. Nutrition expert Louise Burke engages readers with her easy writing style, and she explores a variety of popular sports–road cycling, swimming, sprinting, long-distance running, and many others. Each chapter offers a comprehensive review of competition, training, physique and physiology, lifestyle and culture, dietary surveys, sports foods and supplements–all tailored to the specific… More >>
Practical Sports Nutrition
