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Take It Off, Keep It Off: How I Went from Fat to Fit . . . and You Can Too -- Safely, Effectively, and Permanently
by Paul Pj" JamesA personal trainer and former runway modelOCOs proven fitness and nutrition program for permanent weight loss and his story of intentionally gaining and losing 100 poundsa
Take It to Heart
by Pamela SerureNobody lived a healthier or more active life. She was the juicing guru to the stars. She exercised and ate right. But at forty-seven Pamela Serure, exhausted, in pain, and with diagnoses ranging from menopause to anxiety, discovered that she had heart disease. Lifestyle and diet couldn’t correct what her genes had determined. With two days to get her affairs in order, Pamela prepared for triple bypass surgery to correct three almost completely clogged arteries. What the doctors missed and what most women don’t seem to know is that heart disease is the number-one killer of American women. It kills more women than all the cancers combined. Traditional markers of heart disease, such as high cholesterol, may not apply to women. As a result, doctors consistently misdiagnose female patients with anxiety, digestive distress, or symptoms of menopause. Blindsided by her sudden bypass surgery, Pamela Serure turned her life-altering experience into a personal mission to help educate other women about this dangerous and far-reaching disease. In this book Pamela opens the door to her recovery process and tells readers what the doctors won’t. She has found experts to offer advice so that readers will know exactly what to look for and what tests to demand. Women share stories of how they persisted in having the cardiac tests run that saved their lives and others share stories of women they lost because of a missed diagnosis. Comforting, funny, and soulful, this is the book that will empower women to take charge of their heart health. As Pamela says, “These days heart disease has all my attention, as it should have yours. ”
Take Me Home from the Oscars: Arthritis, Television, Fashion, and Me
by Christine SchwabForty-six million people suffer from arthritis. Frustrated with the lies, driven to deceit by a career that celebrates beauty and fashion, lifestyle reporter Christine Schwab is not most people. She managed to keep her illness a secret for years, even as a recurring guest on Live with Regis & Kelly, Oprah!, The Today Show, Entertainment Tonight, and elsewhere. She juggled her career with a thrilling personal life in Hollywood: married to Shelly Schwab, then the president of television distribution at Universal Studios, she traveled, dined with celebrities, and met presidents of the United States. How could she allow a devastating disease associated with aging and disfigurement to take over her life? Rather than let it, she hid it-a skill learned well in childhood. In Take Me Home from the Oscars, Schwab openly speaks of her arthritis for the first time, looking to her past for clues of how she managed the deception, but also of lessons learned when she could no longer hide. A turning point came when she had to leave her tenth-row Oscar seat because she was in too much pain to sit for even a moment longer. From her nineteen-year journey through the UCLA Medical Center to the exhilaration of more than twenty years of appearing on national television, Schwab's voice is at once smart and friendly. The reader will root for her at every step, and cheer when, through medication, she ultimately finds remission.
Take Off Your Glasses and See: A Mind/Body Approach to Expanding Your Eyesight and Insight
by Jacob LibermanThis revolutionary new look at vision will broaden your understanding of how you see and how you can see without your glasses or contact lenses. Take Off Your Glasses and See shows you how to free yourself from the crutch of prescription lenses, to build your self-confidence and awareness, and to open up your inner and outer vision in order to see more clearly. Jacob Liberman, an internationally recognized authority on holistic vision care, explains how most vision problems are the result of an unconscious decision to "close your eyes" to emotional discomfort or pain, and how increasingly powerful corrective lenses only encourage eyesight to withdraw even further. By removing lenses and practicing breath- and movement-awareness techniques to shift your perception, you can reintegrate the original disruption in the mind/body system. Dr. Liberman's approach can help you join the thousands who have escaped from the self-defeating cycle of poor vision.
Take One Veg: Over 100 Tempting Veggie Recipes for Simple Suppers, Packed Lunches and Weekend Cooking
by Georgina FuggleCelebrate vegetables! They are cheap, versatile and packed full of goodness. In Take One Veg, Georgina Fuggle explores the colours, textures and flavours of veggies to create delicious and wholesome dishes. In each recipe, she focuses on one veg - the star of the show - and brings out their best qualities, with ideas for brunches, lunches, week-night suppers and weekend occasions. So make the most of gluts from the garden and cheap deals at your local market, grocer or supermarket, try cooking with a new vegetable, or find an interesting way to use an old favourite - these recipes are inspiring, nourishing and easy to create.
Take One Veg: Super simple recipes for meat-free meals
by Georgina FuggleCelebrate vegetables! They are cheap, versatile and packed full of goodness. In Take One Veg, Georgina Fuggle explores the colours, textures and flavours of veggies to create delicious and wholesome dishes. In each recipe, she focuses on one veg - the star of the show - and brings out their best qualities, with ideas for brunches, lunches, week-night suppers and weekend occasions. So make the most of gluts from the garden and cheap deals at your local market, grocer or supermarket, try cooking with a new vegetable, or find an interesting way to use an old favourite - these vegetarian recipes are inspiring, nourishing and easy to create.
Take Your Pediatrician with You: Keeping Your Child Healthy at Home and on the Road (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book)
by Christopher S. RyderNamed One of the Best Consumer Health Books of 2007 by Library JournalIt's three o'clock in the morning and your child is screaming in pain. To make matters worse, you and your family are vacationing in a strange city. What should you do? Call the front desk? Your family pediatrician? An ambulance?From in-flight earaches to strep throat, from poison ivy to insect bites, illness and injury are common and unwelcome traveling companions. You need to know when to treat your child yourself and when to seek professional medical care. This compact handbook tells you how to decide and then puts crucial information for preventing and treating acute childhood illnesses and injuries at your fingertips. In Take Your Pediatrician with You, Dr. Christopher Ryder offers expert advice on keeping children safe and healthy at home and on the road. He includes detailed instructions for creating a children's medical care kit to use at home or while traveling. Also included are descriptions of common childhood illnesses and summer woes; travel tips; accident prevention; and guidelines for emergency care. A chapter on international adoption guides parents through the process of bringing a child home safely. As well as a reassuring travel companion, this valuable resource will become the "turn-to" guide at home and in childcare centers.
Take Your Time
by Eknath EaswaranOver-scheduled, always tired, struggling with the pull of the online world - that's how many of us feel right now. Training a frazzled mind to embrace calm isn't easy. For over forty years, Easwaran dedicated himself to teaching meditation and the wisdom of slowing down. When the mind is unhurried, it is calm, kind, ready for anything, aware of what really matters amidst the clamor of a busy day. The secret is to learn to live in the present, to train our minds to work steadily and with one-pointed attention, however many tasks confront us. Through stories and parables, backed up by practical advice, Easwaran gives us gentle illustrations of a wiser way to live. As we read, we find ourselves in situations where we may get impatient or upset - standing in line, dealing with difficult colleagues, shopping with children with agendas of their own - but as Easwaran relates each event, we see it from the perspective of an unhurried mind. And we see small ways to change how we respond, opening the door to rich, loving relationships, creative and productive work, and a quiet sense of joy that can permeate our lives.
Take a Hike!
by Kathiann M. KowalskiEach year, more than 250 hikers need assistance at the Grand Canyon. If you plan ahead and use safety smarts, you can avoid becoming number 251! And you can have a great hiking adventure.
Take a Moment: 50 Mindfulness Activities for Kids
by Paul ChristelisTake a moment to feel calmer and less stressed with these 50 simple mindfulness activities for kids.This book gives children, teachers and parents ideas for how to introduce more mindful moments into their lives. The book is broken into six sections: Mindful Breathing, Mindful Listening, Mindful Looking, Mindful Emotions, Mindful Awareness and Mindful Appreciation. Each section includes advice as well as practical activities. There are also one-minute exercises that are perfect for time-poor teachers and parents and children with short attention spans. Activities are relevant for different times. Begin the day with some affirmations, aspirations and positivity. Take a moment at lunchtime to engage in mindful eating. Re-energise after lunch with some simple stretches. Release tension in the evening with deep breaths and mindful de-cluttering to help you sleep.Soft, sensitive illustrations will add to the mood of calm. Create some mindful moments in your life with these simple activities.
Take a Nap! Change Your Life.: The Scientific Plan to Make You Smarter, Healthier, More Productive
by Mark Ehrman Sara C. MednickImagine a product that increases alertness, boosts creativity, reduces stress, improves perception, stamina, motor skills, and accuracy, enhances your sex life, helps you make better decisions, keeps you looking younger, aids in weight loss, reduces the risk of heart attack, elevates your mood, and strengthens memory. Now imagine that this product is nontoxic, has no dangerous side effects, and, best of all, is absolutely free. This miracle drug is, in fact, nothing more than the nap: the right nap at the right time. The work of Sara C. Mednick, Ph.D., a researcher at the Salk Institute and the leading authority on the study of the nap, Take a Nap! Change Your Life. is the scientifically-based breakthrough program that shows how we can fight the fatigue epidemic—which afflicts an estimated 50 million Americans—through a custom-designed nap. Take a Nap! Change Your Life. explains the five stages of the sleep cycle, particularly Stage Two, Slow Wave Sleep, and REM, and the benefits each one provides; how to assess your tiredness and set up a personal sleep profile; and how to neutralize the voice in your head that tells you napping is a sign of laziness. (Not that anyone would have called JFK, Churchill, Einstein, or Napoleon a slug-a-bed.) Using the unique Nap Wheel on the cover and interior graphs and charts, it shows us exactly when our optimum napping time is, and exactly how long we should try to sleep—even how it’s possible to design a nap to inspire creativity one day, and the next day design one to help us with our memory. There are tips on how to create the right nap environment, a 16-step technique for falling asleep, a six-week napping workbook, and more.
Take off Your Party Dress
by Dina RabinovitchJournalist Dina Rabinovitch had just turned 40 when was diagnosed with breast cancer in September 2004. At that point she didn't know a thing about the disease. By the time of her death in autumn 2007, she was an expert. Her experience of the condition and its treatment, from diagnosis through mastectomy to remission and reoccurrence is recounted in this down-to-earth memoir, covering everything from trialling the last anti-cancer drugs to what to wear that's stylish after surgery. Warm, lively, at times irreverent, Rabinovitch's brave story of juggling a hectic career and a large, extended family while living - and dying - with cancer is essential reading.
Take the Fight Out of Food: How to Prevent and Solve Your Child's Eating Problems
by Donna FishAll foods are good. That is the message of this commonsense book that helps parents speak to their kids about food and nutrition. It is a message that is long overdue, especially when you consider that 81 percent of ten-year-olds are afraid of being fat -- half are already dieting -- and twelve million American children are obese.
Takeaway Favourites Without the Calories
by Justine PattisonYour favourite takeaway recipes that will make losing weight as easy as 1-2-3Packed with easy-to-follow, delicious recipes Takeaway Favourites: Without The Calories takes all the hassle out of cooking your favourite food from around the world, the low-cal way. In the Without The Calories series, bestselling recipe writer Justine Pattison's introduces readers to her 123 Plan which provides an easy-to-follow approach to your daily meals. Each calorie-counted recipe has been triple tested, with tips and ideas to enhance your low-cal cooking experience, plus additional nutritional information to suit any diet regime.Includes recipes from around the world:- Indian- Chinese- South East Asian- Japanese- Mediterranean- American- On the high street
Takeaway Favourites Without the Calories
by Justine PattisonTAKEAWAY FAVOURITES WITHOUT THE CALORIES takes all the hassle out of cooking your favourite food from around the world, the low-cal way. In the WITHOUT THE CALORIES series, bestselling recipe writer Justine Pattison's 123 Plan provides an easy-to-follow approach to your daily meals. Each calorie-counted recipe has been triple tested, with tips and ideas to enhance your low-cal cooking experience, plus additional nutritional information to suit any diet regime.
Takedown
by Allison Van DiepenA teen infiltrates a drug ring to settle a vendetta in this fast-paced novel from the author of "Street Pharm" and "Snitch." Darren took the fall for Diamond Tony, the notorious head of the city's drug cartel. Two years later, Darren's finally out of juvie--and determined to get even. Working as an informant for the police, Darren infiltrates Diamond Tony's operation. But falling for sweet, innocent Jessica was not part of that plan. She's a distraction--and a liability. She's also everything Darren dreamed about while he was locked up, and with her, he has the promise of a fresh start. When a deadly turf war breaks out between Diamond Tony and the Bloods, Darren gets caught in the crossfire. The cops think he's playing both sides, and any mistake could be his last. Darren has to stay on his game if he's going to protect Jessica--and if he's going to stay alive.
Takedown
by Allison Van DiepenA teen infiltrates a drug ring to settle a vendetta in this fast-paced novel from the author of Street Pharm and Snitch.Darren took the fall for Diamond Tony, the notorious head of the city's drug cartel. Two years later, Darren's finally out of juvie--and determined to get even. Working as an informant for the police, Darren infiltrates Diamond Tony's operation. But falling for sweet, innocent Jessica was not part of that plan. She's a distraction--and a liability. She's also everything Darren dreamed about while he was locked up, and with her, he has the promise of a fresh start. When a deadly turf war breaks out between Diamond Tony and the Bloods, Darren gets caught in the crossfire. The cops think he's playing both sides, and any mistake could be his last. Darren has to stay on his game if he's going to protect Jessica--and if he's going to stay alive.
Taking Back Your Health and Happiness: Hope and Healing from Chronic Pain, Fatigue, and Invisible Illness
by Marie Anne TagordaTaking Back Your Health and Happiness helps those who suffer from chronic pain discover the source of their pain to achieve self-healing and happiness within. As a nurse for over ten years, an energy healer, and spiritual intuitive healer, Marie Anne June L. Tagorda has seen the effects illness has on people and their loved ones. She herself has had her share of chronic pain and invisible illness. In Taking Back My Health and Happiness, she shares her process for achieving self-healing and happiness. Within Taking Back My Health and Happiness, those who suffer from chronic pain learn:The source and meaning of their chronic pain and illnessHow to deal with their condition in order to live happy and be free to enjoy life How to effectively communicate with loved ones to include them in their care and not be burdened by it The obstacles blocking their healing (and how to overcome them) Tips for healing their body while healing their relationships One’s illness does not define them, and they can begin the process to becoming happy, healthy, and free to enjoy life today with Taking Back Your Health and Happiness.
Taking Care of Mama Rabbit
by Anita LobelMama Rabbit is too sick to leave her bed. Poor Mama! When Papa Rabbit leaves home to get her some medicine, the ten little rabbit children take it upon themselves to help her feel better. One by one they bring her treats from around the house, including a steaming cup of hot chocolate, a cuddly toy, a good book, and a shiny necklace. Before long, Mama Rabbit begins to feel better even without the help of medicine.Picture-book legend Anita Lobel returns with this sweet and funny follow-up to 10 Hungry Rabbits.
Taking Care of Mom (Little Golden Book)
by Mercer MayerWhen Mom gets sick, Little Critter and his sister come to the rescue in this classic Little Golden Book perfect for a Mother's Day gift!Little Critter and his sister decide to help out around the house when Mom gets sick. Before long, they learn how hard her job really is! Children ages two to five will enjoy this humorous full-color Little Golden Book about critters eager to help their mom!
Taking Care of Myself: A Hygiene, Puberty, and Personal Curriculum for Young People with Autism
by Mary WrobelWinner of an iParenting Media Award! Puberty can be especially tough when young people have autism or other special needs. Through simple stories similar to Carol Gray's Social Stories, author Mary Wrobel teaches caregivers exactly what to say and not say, and shows how you can create helpful stories of your own. Mary addresses hygiene, modesty, body growth and development, menstruation, touching, personal safety, and more. Young students can benefit from self-care skills such as using the toilet, brushing teeth, and washing hands. Parents and teachers should begin teaching these necessary skills as early as possible, even from ages 3-5. The ultimate goal is to maximize the child's potential for independence and lifelong social success. Helpful sections include: Hygiene Health Modesty Growth and Development Menstruation Touching and Personal Safety Masturbation Using A Urinal
Taking Care of Our Own: A Year in the Life of a Small Hospital
by Susan GarrettGarrett's compelling depiction of the hospital in York, Maine, that she administered for six years becomes her occasion to examine what she terms the "fix" today's medical practitioners find themselves in. Noting that market competition has not contained medical costs, she shows us the turf battles within the system as her not-for-profit hospital attempts to reinvent itself to survive. What services should be added to compete in the hospital marketplace? Contract for a traveling CAT scanner owned by a for-profit firm? Institute a cardiology lab, a market niche? The 79-bed, 80-year-old York Hospital is vexed by its perceived mandate to take care of its own. Along with the affluent summer folk, the hospital's "neighbors" include the likes of homeless Tim Bailey, who turns up with chest pains each Christmas Eve and is hospitalized so he needn't be alone for the holidays; Elizabeth Littlejohn, a 19-year-old bulimic with a hospital bill of $76,000, who defaults on her $10 monthly payments and whose dirt-poor family has looked to York Hospital for social services for three generations. As Garrett ruminates on what hospitals should contribute to their communities, she vivifies the daily happenings at her own. And if she doesn't have ready answers, Garrett, who is now a freelance writer, makes us ponder the price of valuing too highly the cold logic of cost-benefit analysis.
Taking Care of Your "Girls"
by Marisa C. Weiss Isabel FriedmanThe real facts about your “girls” and how to take care of them “Well, all my friends think they will never have breasts—and it’s not funny—because a lot of girls feel this way. ” —Elena, 13 “I went up two sizes over summer break! I started seventh grade with a ‘C’ cup. Then my breasts got weird pink stripes on the side. What happened?” —Veronica, 12 Girls are as anxious and confused about their breasts as ever. That’s why Marisa Weiss, M. D. , an oncologist and breast health specialist, and her teenage daughter, Isabel, decided to createTaking Care of Your “Girls. ”Together, they polled more than three thousand girls and their moms and came up with a surprisingly huge list of worries and misconceptions. Based on their research, you’ll get answers to questions like: • How do I know when I need to get my first bra—and what kind should I get? • Do big breasts have a higher risk of breast cancer than small ones? • How do I get rid of stretch marks? • When will my breasts stop growing? • How do I examine my own breasts? • Will the size of my breasts even out? • Do tanning, antiperspirants, wearing a bra at night, and talking on a cell phone cause breast cancer? A groundbreaking book for both mothers and daughters,Taking Care of Your “Girls”is a practical guide to breast care and a girl-to-girl conversation about the feelings and emotions that come with the territory. “This all-in-one, indispensable breast health guide captures exactly what teen girls and their moms really need: practical, easy-to-read, great advice. It’s one of the best gifts you can give to your girl. ” —Harvey Karp, M. D. , F. A. A. P. , author ofThe Happiest Toddler on the Block, board member of Healthy Child, Healthy World
Taking Care of Your Child, Ninth Edition: A Parent's Illustrated Guide to Complete Medical Care
by James F. Fries Donald M. Vickery Robert H. PantellWinner of the American Medical Writers Association Book Award The award-winning go-to guide that has helped millions of families keep their children healthy--now revised and updated with the most recent advances in health care For more than thirty years, Taking Care of Your Child has been an indispensable resource for parents and caregivers. Covering more than 175 health care problems and symptoms, it offers the most recent information on critical childcare issues--from what to do in the event of a minor injury to everyday issues such as common allergies and ailments. Taking Care of Your Child is easy to use, even in a crisis: you can simply look up a symptom to find a complete explanation of probable causes, how to treat the problem at home, and when to see a doctor. With the very latest on ADHD, autism, breast-feeding, childhood depression and obesity, discipline, immunizations, and more, this new edition also features new sections on youth sports and head trauma, genetic screening, and minimizing risks of medical procedures.
Taking Care of Your Child: A Parent's Illustrated Guide to Complete Medical Care
by James F. Fries Donald M. VickeryGuide to medical care for children from pre-natal preparation to adolescent problems. Dispels many myths about children's health and clearly explains procedures to take in response to various symptoms, such as when it is or is not necessary to visit a doctor. Includes growth charts and an index.