The health series that cuts through the medical jargon and gets straight to the facts people need to know. What is arthritis?What are the treatments available?How can I restore mobility and function? This vital guide clearly answers hundreds of commonly asked questions about arthritis.
L'Actualit� Rhumatologique 2014
by Thomas Bardin, Philippe Dieudé, Marcel-Francis Kahn, Frédéric Lioté, Olivier Meyer, Philippe Orcel, and Pascal Richette
Women's Retirement Security
Elderly women, who comprise a growing portion of the U.S. population, have historically been at greater risk of living in poverty than elderly men. Several factors contribute to the higher rate of poverty among elderly women including their tendency to have lower lifetime earnings, their taking time out of the workforce to care for family members, and outliving their spouses. Other factors affecting older women's financial insecurity include the economic downturn and changing trends in pension p...
Photosynthetic Carbon Metabolism and Regulation of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Oxygen
This volume is an essential addition to the libraries of researchers interested in the "greenhouse effect" and problems arising from increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide. The work covers both the effects on plants and photosynthetic productivity and, alternatively, the role of plants in regulating the chemical balance of the atmosphere. Contributors evaluate recent research and review many aspects of photosynthetic carbon metabolism explored over the past 40 years. Topics include the...
During the course of 30 years of research, Dale Alexander found evidence to indicate that the onset of arthritis can often be directly related to a person's eating habits. He maintains that good nutrition - proper foods, consumed according to certain dietary rules - has helped thousands and can bring relief to millions of arthritis sufferers. He believes also that cod liver oil contains several substances which help lubricate painful, swollen joints. In this revised edition, Alexander explains h...
Home Educator's Guide To Scoliosis
by Dr. Gary Deutchman and Dr. Marc Lamantia
This book teaches parents how to screen their children at home for scoliosis & kyphosis. The book is great for parents, nurses, dance teachers and doctors.
It is absolutely vital for anyone afflicted with a chronic illness to hold on to the fact that their body is a self-healing mechanism. If given the proper conditions in which to do so, the body will heal. That's the core message of this game-changing book. Fibromyalgia affects millions of people in the United States alone. It continues to be tricky to diagnose, but chronic fatigue, cold extremities, impaired memory, and debilitating pain in "pain points" throughout the body are nearly universal...
Reversing Osteopenia
by Dr Harris H McIlwain, Laura McIlwain Cruse, Kimberly Lynn McIlwain, and Debra Fulghum Bruce
Osteoporosis, which afflicts more than half of all women over the age of fifty, is a widespread and all-too-familiar problem. Osteopenia, a milder bone-loss disease that is the forerunner of osteoporosis, is less well known but affects millions of young and middle-aged women including women in their late teens and early twenties. Since many doctors associate low bone density exclusively with postmenopausal women, millions of women in their childbearing years suffer from undetected bone loss, put...