This book has helped over 90,000 individuals manage their pain and strive to live satisfying, fulfilling lives. In the new second edition, the authors have carefully developed and improved every chapter. Packed with useful advice, tips, strategies, and positive reinforcement, the book empowers readers to become their own informed pain self-managers. Each person with chronic pain is unique and the goal of this book is to help each person manage their lives in the way that works best for the...

Today more than 40 million people in the U.S. find themselves responsible for caring for a parent, relative, or friend. Building Better Caregivers, developed by the author team of the bestselling Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions, shares the best in caregiving research and the most important lessons learned from thousands of caregivers. With a focus on reducing stress through the use of practical skills and tools, this book will help you manage your caregiving tasks so you can ...

The goal of this book is to help people with chronic illness explore healthy ways to live with physical or mental conditions.By showing readers how to become active self-managers through problem solving, goal setting, and action planning while also presenting the basics of healthy eating, exercise, relaxation, and emotional empowerment, Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions offers readers a unique and exciting opportunity—the chance to take back one's life and enjoy it to ...

Your up-to-date guide to living a longer, healthier life with HIV.Having HIV doesn't mean your life is over. Far from it! This completely revised and updated guide provides the latest medical advice and practical tips to help you explore healthy ways to live the best life possible. Learn how to manage your condition, make informed treatment decisions, and cope with emotional challenges.Discover how to:Navigate treatment options and manage side...

Our readers learn how to become active self-managers through problem solving, decision making, goal setting, and action planning. This book shares these tools of self-management as well as the basics of healthy eating, exercise, relaxation, communication and emotional empowerment. Living a Healthy Life with Long-Term Conditions offers readers a unique and exciting opportunity--the chance to take control of their health and enjoy their lives to the fullest extent possible with long-term ill...

The Arthritis Helpbook is the world's leading guide to coping with joint pain, and has been used by more than 600,000 readers over its twenty years in print. It succeeds because of its tested advice, its hundreds of useful hints, and its emphasis on self-management-helping people with arthritis and fibromyalgia to achieve their own health goals. Chapters allow readers to: Learn proven techniques to reduce pain and increase dexterity Build a calcium-rich diet and maintain a healthy...

By showing readers how to become active self-managers through problem solving, goal setting, and action planning while also presenting the basics of healthy eating, exercise, relaxation, and emotional empowerment, Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions offers readers a unique and exciting opportunity—the chance to take back one's life and enjoy it to the fullest extent possible while living with chronic illness.

The Thyroid Diet, the groundbreaking, New York Times bestselling guide for thyroid patients that revolutionized the conversation about thyroid conditions and weight loss, has been expanded and updated to include the latest medical and nutritional information, reviews of the newest diet programs and up to date recommendations, and more. Now more than ever, The Thyroid Diet Revolution by Mary J. Shomon is an essential purchase for the millions of thyroid disease su...

From a doctor who has "pioneered in women's health," an alternative to HRT for managing menopause symptoms (Christiane Northrup, MD, author of The Wisdom of Menopause ).Arguing that giving estrogen replacement therapy to women after menopause is medically the wrong thing to do, Dr. John Lee suggests that natural progesterone can prevent most of the unpleasant side effects of menopause, including osteoporosis and weight ga...

Concerned about making enough milk for your baby? Wondering how to make more? Two lactation experts are here to help.Separate fact from fiction with help from this comprehensive book about improving low milk supply. Written by two leading experts who have been there themselves and officially recommended by La Leche League International, The Breastfeeding Mother's Guide to Making More Milk incorporates the latest research and discoveries about causes of low...

Doctors and researchers are increasingly learning that by the time a woman gets pregnant, she may have already missed a critical window of opportunity to give her baby the best start in life. In this friendly and authoritative guide, Dr. Michael C. Lu, an expert in the field, offers a step-by-step prepregnancy plan that will help you have a safer pregnancy and a smarter and healthier child.Dr. Lu's plan explains how you can help prevent pregnancy complications such as gestational d...

From an endocrinologist, a "groundbreaking" new protocol for reversing the devastating effects of fibromyalgia.In this updated edition, Dr. St. Amand presents his latest findings on guaifenesin—a safe, affordable, and increasingly accessible medication that has shown remarkable success in treating fibromyalgia.This revised edition also includes:- Expanded insights into the current understanding and treatment of fibromyalgia- Updated disease p...