High Blood Pressure for Dummies: Improve Your Health - Lengthen Your Life

High Blood Pressure for Dummies: Improve Your Health - Lengthen Your Life

High Blood Pressure for Dummies 360 Pages | PDF | 3.23 MB Just been diagnosed with high blood pressure? Don?t fret you?re not alone. In fact, you?re a member of a club that includes an estimated one-quarter of the world?s population! But just because it?s common doesn?t mean you should treat it lightly. People with high blood pressure are at significantly greater risk for stroke, heart attack, kidney failure and blindness. There?s a reason why it?s often referred to as ?the silent killer??most people never experience any symptoms... until it?s too late. Now for some good news: tons of money has been pouring into high blood pressure research over the last couple of decades, and nowadays it is a very manageable condition. If you think you may be at risk for high blood pressure, or already know that you?ve got it and are looking for the best way to manage it, this book is for you. Written by bestselling health author Dr. Alan Rubin, it clues you in on everything you need to: * Find out if you have high blood pressure or if you?re at risk * Determine what type you have and how serious it is * Understand what causes it * Know how it affects your body?s organs * Work with a doctor to get your pressure down * Take charge of your health and add years to your life In plain English, Dr. Rubin explains the role of genetics, sex, age, and ethnicity in high blood pressure. He explores lifestyle factors that contribute to high blood pressure. And he offers: * Expert advice on various blood pressure medications, their effectiveness, side affects, and alternatives * Nutritional guidelines for managing high blood pressure, including the AMA?s DASH diet * Tips on how to lose weight, quit smoking, and make other key lifestyle changes guaranteed to get your pressure under control * Guidance on how to design a blood-pressure-lowering exercise program that you can stick with * The inside track on alternative treatments, including yoga, meditation, hypnosis, biofeedback, and more Packed with basic strategies for managing high blood pressure, High Blood Pressure For Dummies will set you on the path to a long and healthy life.


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Women's Health Today Magazine - Spring 2008

Women's Health Today Magazine - Spring 2008

English | PDF | 23 Pages | 1.49 MB
Women’s Health Today magazine is part of Women’s Health Experience, the flagship program of the Foundation for Female Health Awareness. Women’s Health Experience is a unique initiative aimed at connecting women with health care experts, as well as their local hospitals, to learn about important issues that may affect their health.

IN THIS ISSUE

LETTER FROM THE FOUNDER
Keeping balance
Tipping the scale
8 tips to prepare for pregnancy
Survival strategies
What you need to know about heart attacks

HEALTH HEADLINES
What’s making news in women’s health
5 reasons you’re not losing weight
SEX & GENDER MATTERS

Is sex always painful?
It could be vulvodynia

On balance
How Martina McBride maintains a healthy lifestyle

Polycystic ovary syndrome
More than a reproductive problem

Are you too old for asthma?

HEALTHY BITES
Eat your vegetables!
How to fit veggies into your family’s meals

HEALTHY MIND
Help for the ‘baby blues’

Your health: It’s a family affair
Knowing your health history could save your life

HEALTHY MOVES
You should be dancing!

HEALTH SMARTS
Are you hip to health screenings?


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Anger Management For Dummies

Anger Management For Dummies

If your anger, or that of a loved one, is out of control and threatening your life and livelihood, you need the calm, clear, and understanding help you’ll find in Anger Management For Dummies. This concise and practical guidebook shares specific anger management methods, skills, and exercises that will help you identify the sources of your anger and release yourself from their grip. You’ll find out how to:

* Defuse your anger before it strikes
* Express your feelings calmly
* Respond rather than react
* Prevent anger incidents in the future
* Release healthy anger in a healthy way
* Confess your anger in a journal
* Use anger constructively
* Get beyond old anger through forgiveness

Complete with coverage of road rage, air rage, office rage, and dealing with angry children, Anger Management for Dummies gives you the tools you need to overcome your anger and live a happier, more productive life.


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Meditation For Dummies

Meditation For Dummies

The popular guide-over 80,000 copies sold of the first edition-now revised and enhanced with an audio CD of guided meditations

According to Time magazine, over 15 million Americans now practice meditation regularly. It's a great way to reduce stress, increase energy, and enjoy better health. This fun and easy guide has long been a favorite with meditation newcomers. And now it's even better. For this new edition, author Stephan Bodian has added an audio CD with more than 70 minutes of guided meditations that are keyed to topics in the book, from tuning in to one's body, transforming suffering, and replacing negative patterns to grounding oneself, consulting the guru within, and finding a peaceful place. The book also discusses the latest research on the health benefits of meditation, along with new advice on how to get the most out of meditation in today's fast-paced world.

Stephan Bodian (Fairfax, CA and Sedona, AZ) is a licensed psychotherapist and the former editor-in-chief of Yoga Journal. He has written for Fitness, Alternative Medicine, Cooking Light, and Tricycle and is the coauthor of Buddhism For Dummies (0-7645-5359-3).


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Nutrition For Dummies, 4th Edition

Nutrition For Dummies, 4th Edition

By Carol Ann Rinzler ISBN: 978-0-471-79868-2 Format: Paper Pages: 408 Pages Pub. Date: June 2006 Size: 3.6mb

You've been hearing it since you were a little kid: "You are what you eat." But unlike most of the adages you’ve long since debunked, this wise saying is true! Good nutrition is the key to achieving and maintaining a healthy weight and lifelong good health—no matter how you slice it. This edition of Nutrition for Dummies has been updated with the latest revisions of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, new recommended daily allowances for all the nutrients a healthy body needs, plus the real low-down on all the conflicting opinions about vitamins and minerals, protein, fats, and carbs. You’ll discover how to: * Interpret nutrition labels * Prepare delicious, healthy meals * Keep nutrients in food, even after cooking * Eat smart when eating out * Evaluate dietary supplements Nutrition for Dummies, Fourth Edition, is a one-size-fits-all guide to nutrition for anyone who may have fallen asleep in health class, wants to brush up on what they already know, or is looking to keep up-to-speed on all the latest guidelines and research. It shows you how to manage your diet so you can get the most bang (nutrients) for your buck (calories) and gives you the skinny on how to put together a healthy shopping list, how to prepare foods that are good for the body and the soul, and ten easy ways you can cut calories. An apple a day may not necessarily keep the doctor away, but with the simple guidance of Nutrition for Dummies, you can live happily—and healthily—ever after.


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