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Advances in Overcoming Obesity: Is There a Future for Bariatric Surgery?
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99Advances in Overcoming Obesity: Is There a Future for Bariatric Surgery? by retired surgeon Tom Taylor comprehensively addresses many of the causes, complications, and treatments of obesity for the lay public.
Despite billions of dollars per year being spent on diets, weight-reducing products, and techniques, few understand the fundamental nature of the problem, its complications, or the strategies available to overcome obesity. These challenges may recently have been radically changed with the emergence of new effective medications, not only for obesity, but for diabetes and other related health problems.
Dr. Taylor tackles the issues of energy intake and expenditure, while describing in detail the most popular diets, such as the South Beach Diet and Weight Watchers. He also explores the psychological and physical constraints of losing weight, related socio-economic factors, and the different types of surgical treatments and their possible effects, outcomes, and complications.
Although large amounts of weight can be lost following surgical treatment, for the first time ever, a group of drugs is now available that has been shown to also provide large weight loss, thereby presenting a challenge to surgical treatments.
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All Riled Up : A Story of Wreckage, Restoration, and Rebirth
Price range: $3.99 through $8.99Higginbotham, after a near fatal, debilitating car wreck, regains consciousness after an extended coma and is now catapulted back into the stream of life. Here, Riley Higginbotham is joined by Ted L Carroll (author of The Weathering of Strawberry Ben, The Strawberry Ben Spiritual Workbook, and Illegal Jesus) to co-author this work, Higginbotham’s writing debut. All Riled Up, although fiction, is the parallel story of mid-thirties Rave, his fiancée Annie, Brode (Rave’s best friend), Kade (Rave’s son), Milly (Annie’s mother and Rave’s very own ‘Mrs. Robinson’-esque obsession ). Between Rave’s near-death experience, Brode’s relentless friendship (despite his severe alcoholism) and Kade’s early years’ survival, one can only wonder if Annie’s dragon-chasing habit will kill her – or everyone – involved.
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Caregiving: My Story, Your Guide
Price range: $3.99 through $12.95This book is about the author’s personal experience as a caregiver, how he became one, everything he learned along the way and what a wonderful life two people can have together regardless of the situation.
The author wants to share what he learned; information from doctors, insurance companies, the pharmaceutical industry, disability claims and a number of other important issues including positive thinking and a happy life. His real life experiences have been “battle” tested in the totality of caregiving.
The information he shares relates to all caregivers and many situations; from diseases, accidental disability and war wounded veterans. He further describes how one caregiver, over a period of 24 years, was able to maneuver across the “battlefield,” still survive and not succumb to battle fatigue.
Someone else’s knowledge about something negative can make things more positive for you…and that is an important part of what this book is about.
Many books out there are a wonderful collection of data compiled from the internet and government sources and provide answers to many issues. This book covers the “must do” items which are based on his experiences that can be used as a reference guide and adapted to your individualized situation. Every patient is different and in order to earn the “Caregiver of the year” award, you must find what works best for them.
The most important issue is to realize that a severely disabled person needs to be treated with respect and dignity. Unfortunately, too many handicapped patients are disposed of like a useless piece of furniture or parked out of sight at some poorly run institution. What would you want to happen to you, should you ever be disabled as a result of an accident or disease?
REMEMBER – it can happen to anyone – anytime, including YOU!
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Find the Black Box: Prevent Needless Hospital Deaths: Prevent Needless Hospital Deaths
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99200,000 preventable deaths each year in the US healthcare system is like having 20 Boeing 747 airliners crashing each week. Things are bad in our nation’s healthcare delivery system; people are dying needlessly in hospitals every single day. In Find the Black Box, author Dr. Ira Williams provides a thorough discussion of the American healthcare system and its inherent problems, offering solutions to create a healthcare system that works.
Williams presents a host of facts to show the inadequacies of current healthcare as he answers these questions:
• What has always been missing in our nation’s healthcare delivery system?
• Why have current efforts failed to change the system that will continue to fail?
• Why are some of these efforts highly questionable, if not illegal?
Find the Black Box explores the truths behind the continuing increase in medical errors and explains how healthcare in the nation is unorganized, dysfunctional, and chaotic. Williams shows how better healthcare is possible.
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Great Gobs of Goose Grease: An Account of A Stroke Happening and the Trial and Struggles to Comeback
Price range: $13.99 through $16.99A book like this would have given our family some much needed hope during Connie’s most critical weeks in the hospital. It should be mandatory reading for stroke family members.
– Bonnie Ferrin, twin sister
Watching my mother suffer through the pain and frustration of a stroke has been a horrible experience. However, her determination towards survival and recovery has taught me invaluable life lessons, and with each hurdle crossed, I have learned the powers of faith, hope, and believing in yourself. My mom is my hero.
– Angela Bailey, daughter
A stroke is two things:
1. The easy part, the short life or death emergency where everyone exists on fear and adrenaline.
2. The hard part, everything else! I wish I had an idea of what that was going to be like!
– Amber Livsey, daughter
Will a devastating stroke change your life forever? Yes. Will if rule your life forever? At times if feels that way, but time heals all wounds, and in time you will find a way to rule your own life again. Jenny Hughes, daughter. This book gave great insight into the trials of a stroke victim. Had my family only known beforehand that this is how it felt, we could have provided a much better support system.
– Summer Gordon, daughter
This is a book that shows how a person’s life can change in an instant.
This book shows how ordinary people who are confronted with overwhelming obstacles can triumph with a positive attitude and hard work, then become an inspiration to everyone around them.
– Steven Smith, husband
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Honoring Holistic Health Habits: Down to Dealing with Deadly Diets
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99Honoring Holistic Health Habits discusses the major killer health risks in today’s society, as well as how these threats can be significantly reduced by lifestyle modification in diet and exercise.
Heart disease, stroke, obesity, diabetes, cancer, vascular disease, and Alzheimer’s are all exacerbated by eating an unhealthy diet. Plus, these diseases have all dramatically increased over the past century as a result of dietary changes.
The nature of these diseases along with the adjustments necessary to overcome them are important. Issues involve underlying energy intake and expenditure, toxicity, and the unhealthy modifications in modern diet that have brought on these health problems.
Today’s diets contain unhealthy fats and toxic proteins loaded with excess carbohydrates, the latter being the major cause of weight gain and diabetes. Taken in excess, these are the major killers, which for the first time in centuries are causing a reduction in life expectancy.
These conclusions come from the author’s lifelong medical practice treating these disorders.
Dr. Tom Taylor believes it is vital to fight the major killers that are the biggest threats to long life, and to understand the ways in which these can be reduced or deferred, thereby improving our lifestyle.
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I Have Not Picked Up My Dinosaurs Yet Today: A Personal Account of Life with Depression-Anxiety Disorder
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99Helene Meyer grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. After graduating from Washington University with a BA, majoring in English and Spanish, she began a long teaching career in both private and parochial schools. All along, Helene struggled with her own private hell: waging a battle against depression and anxiety disorder. Ashamed to admit to anyone that she had these mental and emotional problems, she decided to write down all she had experienced.
Using new emotional/mental strength, Helene wanted to reach out to others who suffer from these devastating illnesses. Instead of doing so by writing autobiographically, Helene chose to use theatrically-styled readings based on her own life. These readings can be done in mental care settings by social workers, psychiatrists, psychologists or among families and friends who want to overcome the stigma of mental illness. In 2011, Helene founded an NPO called “Slaying Dragons” whose mission is to destroy the stigma of mental illness through theater. The website is www.slayingdragons.org. She hopes many people and organizations will reach out to “Slaying Dragons” performances to help those in need. The impact of these readings are overwhelming.
According to Dr. Collins Lewis, professor emeritus from Washington University, this book will help many people who suffer from depression and anxiety.
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Lifestyle and Longevity
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99Over the past century, life expectancy increased from the mid-forties to the mid-seventies. Now, however, longevity is beginning to decline.
Lifestyle and Longevity by surgeon Tom Taylor provides a comprehensive overview for lay readers about the factors influencing longevity, and the strategies that can potentially increase it.
The major killers – heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and dementia – all have causative factors in common that are related to diet, and most interestingly, they share the same foodstuffs.
The book addresses the energy intake and dietary considerations that can overcome or delay development of these major diseases. There is also information on the genetic, environmental, and psychological factors in a healthy lifestyle, and the importance of exercise.
With historically unprecedented amounts of leisure time, along with massive technological advancements, people have become more sedentary and are subject to the damaging effects of fast foods. Many of these life-shortening effects did not occur in the past, but they are reversible.
“In writing this book, I have utilized my lifelong professional experience in dealing with disease processes in the practice of surgery, and have studied in detail intestinal diseases related to diet, including obesity and diabetes.” Dr. Taylor advises on major disease avoidance and treatment.
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One Touch Nursing Calculations
Price range: $3.99 through $19.99I stumbled upon this formulae when I went for a medication exam at the Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. I was not informed that I would be doing a medication exam so I did not go over my medication calculation formulae. As any nurse would testify, if you cannot remember your medication calculation formulae, you are doomed to fail. Out of desperation, frustration and scratching my head, I tried this formula and it worked. I have been using this formulae since 1995 and it has been successful all the time. I have even modified and made it simple. This formulae is the best because it is based on a system. Just like any system, it is dependable and predictable. This will give nurses the assurance to do their work. But more importantly, it will give them the peace of mind to care for their patients. This is fun.
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Organ Orgasms: My Experiences with Conscious Blood Flow
Price range: $9.99 through $49.99Conscious blood flow (CBF) is about enhancing our physical, mental, and spiritual wellbeing through the pleasurable and mindful exercising of your body’s internal arteries and organs. This is brought about by becoming attuned to your natural abilities to just “be” and by learning to sense your interior body, and then being able to consciously direct and control the flow of your blood. And, one can orgasm many organs, hence the book’s title of Organ Orgasms.
Despite the catchy (but true) title, this book is about the mystery and joy of experiencing one’s existence in a unique way (an aspect of being), and about discovering our bodies and nourishing them so we can experience our lives in the healthiest and longest way possible (an aspect of wellbeing).
Thus, Organ Orgasms is really about being and wellbeing. It will enable people (no matter what stage they are at in life) to see more clearly into themselves, and then use the book as a guide in developing their own personal plan for living more joyously and healthily. Organ Orgasms is not formulaic or like other self-help books, but it will help people learn how to take care of themselves better and get them re-thinking about their purpose in life and ensure their wellbeing.
The book is written for the lay reader and includes over 150 extremely useful illustrations. Yet, it has also been cleverly crafted to meet the needs of the scholarly reader by the use of endnotes and appendices, which provide a stunning amount of scientific evidence for how the body, brain and mind work to make CBF possible.
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The Caregiver’s Guide to Self-Care: Help For Your Caregiving Journey 2nd Edition
Price range: $12.99 through $18.99Hundreds of millions of people around the globe care for loved ones who are ill, disabled, elderly or a special-needs child. Despite compassion and commitment, caregiving is stressful and takes a toll on body and mind; heart and soul; on finances, family and work life.
This 2nd Edition of The Caregiver’s Guide to Self-Care: Help for Your Caregiving Journey is packed with sensible self-care strategies and effective solutions for your problems with caregiver stress. Rooted in research, tested in the real-life trials of a family caregiver, the tools and tactics found in this concise, compassionate book will equip you to care for yourself as you care for others.
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“The Caregiver’s Guide to Self-Care artfully blends self-care tips and personal experiences to empower caregivers to do one of the most important things they can do for themselves… take care! Jane Hamilton also provides resources and evidenced-based tools that empower family and professional caregivers alike. If you are looking for a practical and engaging resource The Caregiver’s Guide to Self-Care was written with you in mind. | highly recommend this book!”
– Dr. Eboni |. Green: CEO/Co-Founder Caregiver Support Services
“Reading this book felt like getting a warm hug. It eased my mind immensely to know that I am not alone in the caregiving journey.”
-Isa Welsch: Family Caregiver
“In addition to using this book for myself, | have given it to lots of friends who are overwhelmed in their caregiving role. The compassionate tone of Jane’s writing and the wisdom therein have given me comfort and refreshed my spirit.”
– Sarah Elliott: Family Caregiver
“Caregivers need compassion but also a clearly drawn path forward. Jane Hamilton provides both. Her voice is warm and inviting. Her advice is sound. You’ll be glad to have her as a wonderful companion and guide on this long, winding path.
– Barry J. Jacobs, Psy.D: Co-author of AARP Meditations for Caregivers
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The Orsetti Method
Price range: $3.99 through $7.99Have Pain and want to Eliminate it Any Time, From Home?
If you suffer from mild, moderate, or severe pain preventing you from comfortable living or restful sleep. The Orsetti Method may be the answer.
The Orsetti Method is a quick and simple process to relieve back-pain, neck-pain, headaches, or other body pain, without any side effects. -
Time of Trial
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99Exploring the pernicious underpinnings of the medical malpractice industry, Time of Trial is a novel that chronicles one doctor’s struggle to defend himself against an unjust malpractice suit. Employing the protagonist as narrator adds a personal tone to the narrative. Early one morning in a Vermont emergency room, Martin Wennar dies of cardiac arrest despite the best efforts of the staff to save him. Having suffered from senile dementia and the frequent falls that accompanied the condition, no one is surprised when the seventy-year-old man passes away. His primary care physician, Jon Ziebaska, is very surprised, however, when he receives word that Martin’s wife, Kathy, is suing him for malpractice. Initially confident, Jon reviews the patient’s records and believes nothing even remotely questionable occurred during the care of his patient. Yet forces beyond his comprehension are at work. To make matters worse, Cassy, Jon’s beautiful and loving wife of several decades, is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and begins to slowly slip away from him. Ultimately, Time of Trial critiques the legal and medical professions for their involvement in an industry that in the end helps no one.
