The Checklist: What You and Your Family Need to Know to Prevent Disease and Live a Long and Healthy Life
Author: Manny Alvarez
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Table of Contents:
Foreword Michael F. Roizen, M.D. Mehmet C. Oz, M.D. xiiiIntroduction xv
A Prenatal Preface (for the Mother-to-Be) 1
Think ahead
Nine months and counting
The three major prenatal problems
Fasten your seat belts
The Most Important Years of Your Life (The First Decade: Ages 0 to 9) 17
To Breast-feed or Not
Cord blood
Beyond the "baby blues"
To cut or not?
SIDS
Food allergies
Loading the virus protection program
Childproofing the home
Vaccines
Infectious diseases
Autism
A whole lot going on betweeen the A and the D Problems "down there"
It's all in your hands-parenting
Life Is Beautiful (The Second Decade: Ages 10 to 19) 55
Ah-choo
Asthma
Acne
Our supersized kids (obesity)
The best measure of weight (BMI)
Dental Health
Turning obesity on its head (bulimia)
Too thin (anorexia)
Depression
Substance Abuse
Cigarette smoking
Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs)
The kissing disease-mononucleosis
What's next
Welcome to the Real World (The Third Decade: Ages 20 to 29) 99
Geek lifestyle
Debilitating headaches
Baby time-or not
Kicking the habit
Common skin conditions
Autoimmune but (thankfully) not automatic
The long winding road (gastrointestinal disorders)
Three decades down, the number left is up to you
Living Responsibility (The Fourth Decade: Ages 30 to 39) 131
Nutrition
How to eat
Supplements
Skin health andcancer
A little gland with a big job
Bladder infections
Are you collecting stones?
Gynecological problems (for women only)
Cervical cancer
Infertility
Joints-the first to go
Rheumatoid arthritis
Fibromyalgia
Multiple sclerosis (MS)
Looking toward the next decade
The Cadillac Years (The Fifth Decade: Ages 40 to 49) 163
Dr. Manny's Freedom Diet Plan
To sweeten (artificially)-or not?
Exercise
Doing it-or not (lack of libido and other sexual problems)
E.D. education
Breast cancer
Mental health
Bipolar disorder
Streeeeeess
The silent killer
Testing, testing
The big five-oh
Keeping Up with the Joneses (The Sixth Decade: Ages 50 to 59) 191
The changes
"Machopause"
Healthy metabolism
The storage sack (gallbladder)
Prostate health (for men only)
Cancer of the blood
A cancer of the defense system
The shakilng palsy
Diabetes again
The wonders of plastic
Testing continued
Picking the fruit
We've Only Just Begun (The Seventh Decade: Ages 60 to 69) 223
The big ticker (heart disease)
A heart test for venusians
Know these symptoms (stroke)
Until your last breath (lung cancer)
Gallbladder cancer
Week bones (osteoporosis)
What did you say? (Hearing loss)
I say, can you see? (Vision problems)
Eye care
Pancreatic cancer
Colon cancer
Keeping up
The Beauty of Age (The Eighth Decade and Beyond: Ages 70 to 100) 259
The bottle is still more than half full
Macular degeneration
The big slowdown
Alzheimer's
Ovarian cancer
Pneumonia
Living Long 279
The Master Checklist of Tests and Vaccinations 281
Sources and Resources 301
Index 305
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CHI Kung for Health and Vitality: A Practical Approach to the Art of Energy
Author: Wong Kiew Kit
The benefits of the Chinese art of Chi Kung are increasingly recognized for enhancing fitness in mind and body, developing vitality for sports and sex, and helping in the cure of stress as well as degenerative and chronic diseases. This lucid, easy-to-understand guide, by the internationally acknowledged Grandmaster Wong Kiew Kit, shows how we can all benefit from Chi Kung's energy-cultivating techniques. It offers an enjoyable and fulfilling programme of exercise for beginners and practitioners alike to enhance physical, mental and spiritual well-being. Packed with clear illustrations, it includes: unique sequences of dynamic exercise, planning your own fitness programme, techniques for curing illness, and Chi Kung for sports and the martial arts.
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