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comprehensive guide to health
I highly recommend Helene's book.It is a complete guide to a healthylifestyle for vegetarians as well as omivores.The book covers why theglycemic index is important and how to shrink your stomach (overstretchedby overeating).There are recipies and other helpful charts.You can readthe book all at once or go through it weekly.It's a wonderful book! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Consumer Health    2. Diet / Health / Fitness    3. Diet Therapy    4. Diets - Better Health    5. Fitness & diet    6. Popular medicine   

Subjects:  1. Biochemistry    2. Diet Therapy    3. Life Sciences - Biology - General    4. Pharmacology    5. Reference    6. Science    7. Science/Mathematics    8. Dietetics & nutrition    9. Drug metabolism    10. Mathematics and Science    11. Reference works    12. Science / Biology    13. Science: General Issues    14. Specific disorders & therapies    15. drug design    16. drug interactions   

Subjects:  1. Consumer Health    2. Diet Therapy    3. Diets - Special Conditions    4. Nutrition    5. Fitness & diet    6. Health & Fitness / General    7. Medical / Diet Therapy   

Subjects:  1. Diagnosis    2. Endocrinology & Metabolism    3. Health/Fitness    4. Medical    5. Medical / Nursing    6. Methodology    7. Nutrition    8. Nutrition Assessment    9. Obesity    10. Research    11. Behavioural theory (Behaviourism)    12. Dietetics & nutrition    13. Public health & preventive medicine   

Subjects:  1. Consumer Health    2. Diet / Health / Fitness    3. Diet Therapy    4. Diets - General    5. Food Science    6. Functional foods    7. Life Sciences - Anatomy & Physiology    8. Medical    9. Nutrition    10. Nutrition Physiology    11. Pharmacy    12. Science    13. Dietetics & nutrition    14. Diseases & disorders    15. Health & Fitness / Nutrition   

Subjects:  1. Diet / Health / Fitness    2. Diet Therapy    3. Diets - General    4. Medical    5. Nutrition    6. Soyfoods    7. Therapeutic use    8. Dietetics & nutrition    9. Popular medicine    10. Specific disorders & therapies   

Subjects:  1. Diet Therapy    2. Dietary supplements    3. Diseases    4. Medical    5. Medical / Nursing    6. Nutrition    7. Dietetics & nutrition    8. Medical / Alternative Medicine    9. Specific disorders & therapies   

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Excellent!
I am a Dietetic Technician student and this semester for our Medical Nutrition Therapy I class, we didn't have a book, so it made the semester difficult.I was going through the library and found a copy of Nutritionand Diet Therapy by Peggy Stanfield and was astounded.After each chapter,there were chapter questions and the answers were provided on a differentpage, but it gave you a tool to study by.Because we had to pullinformation from so many places, our notes from the class, probably over500 pages if not more and it possibly wasn't all valid information or itcould of been questionable because it was off the internet and some sitesare trying to sell you their products.So information that isn't studiedor researched enough, pulling it off the web is like accepting someone'sbias as the truth.This book is concrete, measurable, accurate, up do datewith the RDA's Recommendations.Each chapter covers a different topic,such as Nutrition and Diabetes, or equations to find someone's BEE, TDE,%body fat, etc...this book has done a superb job laying it out, organizingit and putting the most important information in the book.It is easy tounderstand and follow even if you aren't entering into a medical ornutritional field, but just interested in different topics and hownutrition relates to it.This is the book for you.I'm sad I found thebook at the end of the semester because I was so impressed with thecontent, how thourouh it was and the reviews.Definetly two thumbs up. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Consumer Health    2. Diet Therapy    3. Dietetics    4. Health/Fitness    5. Medical    6. Nutrition    7. Nutrition And Public Health    8. Programmed instruction    9. Reference    10. Dietetics & nutrition    11. Health & Fitness / Reference    12. Specific disorders & therapies   

Subjects:  1. Consumer Health    2. Diet Therapy    3. Diet/Nutrition    4. Diets - General    5. General    6. Health & Fitness    7. Healthy Living   

Subjects:  1. Diet Therapy    2. Diets - General    3. Epilepsy in children    4. Ketogenic diet    5. Medical    6. Medical / Nursing    7. Pediatrics    8. Recipes    9. Health & Fitness / Diets    10. Popular medicine   

Subjects:  1. Encyclopedias    2. Food    3. Food Science    4. Health & Fitness    5. Medical / Nursing    6. Nutrition    7. Nutrition And Diet    8. Reference    9. Dietetics & nutrition    10. Physiology    11. Reference works    12. Technology / Food Industry & Science   

Subjects:  1. Diet Therapy    2. Diet in disease    3. Dietetics    4. Medical    5. Medical / Nursing    6. Nutrition    7. Public Health    8. Dietetics & nutrition    9. Medical / Nutrition   

Subjects:  1. Consumer Health    2. Food    3. Labeling    4. Medical    5. Nutrition    6. Nutrition And Diet    7. Safety    8. Dietetics & nutrition   

Subjects:  1. Cooking    2. Cooking / Wine    3. Diet Therapy    4. Endocrinology & Metabolism    5. Health & Healing - General    6. Health & Healing - Weight Control    7. Lactose intolerance    8. Metabolism Disorders    9. Milk-free diet    10. Recipes    11. Cooking / Dietary    12. Dietetics & nutrition    13. Diseases & disorders    14. Endocrinology    15. Health & wholefood cookery    16. Metabolism    17. Specific disorders & therapies   

Subjects:  1. Health & Fitness    2. Health/Fitness    3. Healthy Living   

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Information for the healthy.
Does what it says it will, gives all the skinny on the good things in food. A great help. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Consumer Health    2. Diet / Health / Fitness    3. Food Content Guides    4. General    5. Health & Fitness    6. Health/Fitness    7. Healthy Living    8. Nutrition    9. Health & Fitness / General   

Subjects:  1. Diet / Health / Fitness    2. Diet Therapy    3. Folk Medicine    4. General    5. Health/Fitness    6. Macrobiotic diet    7. Homoeopathy    8. Personal & public health   

Editorial Review

If you have a friend or family member with diabetes, you probably feel poorly educated about the disease and uncertain about how you can help your loved one cope. You may believe myths or have outdated information about diabetes. This book offers the up-to-date information you need, written in a question-and-answer format and in a chatty, friendly style. The book starts with the "nitty-gritty details about the disease--what it is and isn't, who gets it, and how it's treated." Then you learn the nutritional guidelines and how to prepare healthy meals for someone with diabetes, how to deal with illness and hyperglycemia, how to plan holiday occasions, and much more.Read more

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A Powerful Diabetes Support Book
This book contains everything you need to know about how to support your friends and family members who have diabetes. My mom was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes a few months ago and I have 3 co-workers with diabetes. Two of them are on insulin, and one wears an insulin pump. I feel so much more comfortable after reading this book...it's amazing! I now know exactly what to do if one of them is having an episode of low blood sugar. This book told me just what to expect when a person has a low blood sugar reaction, and how to treat a reaction. I really love the section on how to handle special situations such as weddings, birthdays, and holidays. Since I invite my mom over for dinner frequently, it's important for me to know what kinds of meals to prepare. This book has it all. Great meal plans, practical tips, up-to-date sound advice and more. The question and answer format is easy-to-read and covers so much information about diabetes. I would highly recommend this book for anyone who has a family member or a friend who has diabetes. It's even helpful for the person who has diabetes.

The Family & Friends Guide to Diabetes: Everything You Need
The Family & Friends Guide to Diabetes is a wonderful compilation of helpful information for people with diabetes as well as those who love them.It is filled to the brim with up-to-date informtion and helpful tips, explaining medical facts and offering helpful suggestions on how to be supportive of your loved one with diabetes.The 282 page book answers questions about everything from what to serve for holiday meals to emotional challenges faced by people whith diabetes.If you cook or entertain people with diabetes, you will enjoy the many practical cooking and meal planning suggestions offered. Where's the Science?
This book goes to show what happens when dieticians instead of doctors write books containing medical information. While the Q & A format is easy to read many of the answers are based on science taught 100 years ago. An example: to the author calories are king a belief disputed by many discoveries of the twentieth century. Gehling when asked about low carbohydrate diets and their ability to control glucose levels responds that they could only work for a short time and the resulant weight loss can be attributed to water loss. Water loss? A friend who went on this diet reduced serum cholestrol by 34 points and dropped SIXTY pounds. Yet the author would have you believe that water loss caused the weight drop. It's this kind of closed mindedness that diabetics and their families don't need to be exposed to. Michael and Mary Eades authors of the best selling "Protein Power" have over twenty years of experience running a weight loss clinic proving the efficacy of the high protein, low carbohydrate diet. Perhaps the author should try and convince them that water is all that's being lost.There are many better and more informative texts. Check out the "American Diabetes Association Complete Guide to Diabetes" for helpful information. Avoid this book. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Consumer Health    2. Diabetes    3. Diabetics    4. Diseases - Diabetes    5. Family relationships    6. General    7. Health & Fitness    8. Health/Fitness    9. Popular works    10. Coping with illness    11. Health & Fitness / Diseases / Diabetes    12. Popular medicine   

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Prevention's New Food for Healing by Yeager et al. Editors
This book has a compendium of foods for weight loss, cancer
A Real Life Saver!
The advice is this book is as informative as it is enlightening.It is my trusted reference for informatiion on the healing/nutritional powers of anything from avocados to ginger, kale to mangoes, nori to tomatoes. Research findings, suggested recipes, and really good writing make this book an excellent buy -- and a true life saver!

More than Helpful - Best Reference for good health
I have had this book for several years. Some helpful remedies include treating and preventing the Flu. It states that VITAMEN C, GARLIC, TEA AND HOME-MADE CHICK NOODLE SOUP HELP WITH the FLU. I've personally tried the Garlic, and it gets rid of a sore throat almost immediately after eating it. I found out that it has to be fresh garlic, not minced and not flavored with, like powder or salt. I usually eat some garlic pods in my potato soup or fried potatoes when I notice a cold or the flu coming on. Usually the garlic shortens the duration of which the cold would have lasted on anyone else. Like most people will get a cold for 2 weeks, I might have it for 3 days. Also B6 relieves carpal tunnel, migraines, and stress.Read more

Subjects:  1. Diet Therapy    2. Health/Fitness    3. Herbs    4. Medical    5. Popular works    6. Therapeutic use   

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An excellent "plan" for eating that is not a "diet."
I read this book because of an article that I saw in Women First Magazine, and also because I had been hearing a lot about "phytonutrients."I had experienced my worst winter yet in terms of feeling sluggish with noenergy, and wanted to take charge of my health after my doctor told me thatI was "just getting older."I also have a family history ofheart disease and cancer.I am 44 years old and not ready to give up yet! So, I posted the "phytofood pyramid" on my refrigerator and beganto follow it - 6 servings of vegetables, 1 serving of soy, 1-2 servings offruit, 1-2 servings of whole wheat and beans.Within a week, I have gainedmuch more energy and have dropped weight - (a friend told me to takechromiun picolinate 3 times a day before meals - it regulates your bloodsugar and burns fat). I feel so good that I am going to continue on thisfor the rest of my life.Incidentally, I still walk by candy bars and icecream and want them badly, but after reading about what the high fat, highsugar & high salt does to my body to give me heart disease, cancer anddiabetes, I stay away from them and substitute them with real fruit,sorbet, and nonfat frozen yogurt.And a wonderful way to drink soy milk isto use it in your chai - it makes a great nightcap! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Consumer Health    2. Diet Therapy    3. Diets - Better Health    4. Diets - General    5. Diets - Special Conditions    6. Health & Fitness    7. Health/Fitness    8. Healthy Living    9. Popular works    10. Coping with illness    11. Diets & dieting    12. Health & Fitness / General