Living with food intolerances without losing out on flavour
Distinguishing between food intolerances and food allergies is crucial. While lactose and gluten intolerance are widely recognized, mentioning other types such as salicylates and glutamate often elicits confusion. Simplifying it by labeling it as an allergy is sometimes easier than spending time explaining the differences.
What is it that makes some therapists so much more effective than others, even when they are delivering the same evidence-based treatment? This instructive book identifies specific interpersonal skills and attitudes - often overlooked in clinical
Describes what happens during a menstrual cycle and how a baby is conceived. This title explains how to chart the bodys fertility signs to know which days are best for becoming pregnant or avoiding becoming pregnant, without the use of hormonal drugs. It includes dietary advice for successful conception and healthy babies and families.
This is an intimate, empowering collection of stories focussing on Black experiences of menopause. Each story centres lived experiences and contains contributions from a diverse range of people spanning various heritages, sexual orientations, gender identities, and ages allowing for a nuanced understanding of this rite of passage.
Combining the wisdom of classical Chinese medicine with modern nutritional science, this book explores the concept of Yang Sheng, which means to nourish life by nurturing body, mind and spirit in harmony with the natural rhythms and universal laws, revealing the importance of nutrition within it and outlining how our modern lifestyle and ......
Understanding the Experience of Pain and Suffering and the Role of Heali
A reconsideration of our treatment and understanding of pain and suffering in all its forms, and approaches to its relief and management. Keynote speakers from the British Pain Society explore innovative approaches to pain management, recentring the importance of healing within the biomedicine-dominated field of pain medicine.
Life Cycle Nutrition for Public Health Professionals is the first textbook using a public health approach and population-focused lens to explore nutrition across each life cycle phase. It provides the basic principles of normal nutrition across each developmental phase in the life course, along with the foundational knowledge of key determinants, ......
This innovative text for graduate and undergraduate nursing students fills a void in global health nursing literature by providing essential tools and strategies for building and sustaining productive international partnerships. Based on the premise that partnership is paramount for sustainable outcomes, the book demonstrates how nurses can build ......
Presents examples of evidence-based and culturally appropriate models for reducing global health disparities. Divided into eight parts, this work covers: the legacy and role of racism in contributing to disparities; recommendations for research with practice applications; and key role of collaborations, partnerships and community-based research.
Once rarely discussed in medical circles, the relationship between spirituality and health has become an important topic in health care. This title draws from philosophical and theological sources to illuminate how the art of healing is integrally tied to a sense of the divine and our ultimate interconnectedness.
A Fascinating Study of Those Who Have Survived Long, Solitary Ordeals
Charles Lindbergh endured 33 hours of flying without sleep to become the first aviator to cross the Atlantic alone... Eleven-year-old Terry Jo Duperrault survived four days at sea, drifting on a tiny life raft, after her family was murdered by the skipper of their chartered boat... Admiral Richard Byrd struggled through nearly five months of ......
Opportunities in Global Health Nursing, whether as a career or as a short-term experience for personal and professional growth, are vast and the rewards significant. This book presents first-hand accounts from nurses from all professional levels, who describe their experiences and provide practical insights for nurses interested in delving into ......
Presents major issues in health literacy from the standpoint of the patient, and the challenges that the problem places on health care providers. This book looks at some specific methodologies that have been demonstratively effective in communicating with low-literate patients. It describes alternatives to written forms of patient communication.
Dr Lester Breslow has been a force behind the most important public health developments. He tells what it took to garner the Surgeon General's cigarette warning, the high tax on tobacco sales, and air pollution emission standards. It is useful for medical and public health students, educators, and policy makers.
Why More Sun Exposure and Vitamin D are Essential to Your Health
Sunlight is a vital component of good health. Like plants that thrive in the sun, we humans too depend on sunlight, in our case for the production of Vitamin D. This book examines the historical and cultural factors that have created our indoor lifestyles and the medical evidence that suggests we need to get out in the sun.
Aims to give both the professional and patient a tool for finding reliable health information on the Internet. This book includes sites that have been selected and reviewed by expert nurses in over 40 specialties. Sites have been reviewed for ease of use by the general public, accuracy, currency, sponsorship, and availability in languages.
The government, the media, and individual Americans have all embraced programs to promote disease prevention. Yet obesity is up, exercise is down, teenagers continue to smoke, and sexually transmitted disease is rampant. Why? This title examines the ethical and social problems that create subtle obstacles to changing Americans' unhealthy behavior.
Qigong (CHEE-GUNG) has swept America as the newest approach to healing and was on the rise in China until the recent Falun gong crackdowns. This book discusses the nature and practice of Qigong and its various manifestations. It exposes such alleged Qigong practices as: clairvoyance, telepathy, weightlessness, and energy discharge.
Born in Venezuela in 1920, Benacerraf's childhood was spent in Paris, until fear of war with Nazi Germany compelled his family to flee to Venezuela in 1939. By the time he received a Nobel prize in 1980 for his discovery of immune response genes, he had travelled a long way on the road to success. This book presents the story of his life.
