Explains how to improve one's aerobic condition, endurance, flexibility, nutrition, and mental attitude, gives advice on preventing sports injuries, and shows how to plan a training schedule

Designed for women at every fitness level, this illustrated guide provides day-to-day walking programs for weight loss, injury management, aerobic conditioning, muscle toning, and stress reduction

Rewritten and updated, this quick-reference guide to both medical and surgical intensive care distils the essential principles, protocols and techniques from the fourth edition of "Irwin and Rippe's Intensive Care Medicine". The user-friendly format features tables, illustrations and annotated references to the key literature. This edition's highlights include: expanded coverage of all aspects of surgical intensive care; an updated atlas of procedures and techniques; and a complete 33-chapter guide to pharmacology, overdoses and poisonings. Sections on shock and trauma, coronary care, neurologic problems, rheumatologic and immunologic problems, and psychiatric issues have been fundamentally rewritten.

A survey of more than 1,000 American corporate executives reveals what they are doing to stay in shape and presents week-by-week fitness programs, nutrition and diet plans, and tips on managing stress

A guide to fitness walking provides advice on preventing injury, walking gear, stretching, hiking and backpacking, racewalking, and walking with weights

Product Description: ...offers a systematic approach to nearly every disease entity in the critical care setting...incorporates a large internal medicine component with increased coverage of surgery and anesthesiology.

Explains how to design an everyday workout regimen suited to individual needs that utilizes an exchange system for food, aerobic exercise, and strength training and includes recipes, a food-exchange list, and a thirty-day diet and exercise program. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: "The Exercise Exchange Program" is for anyone who has ever found diet and fitness programs restrictive, regimented, dull, and just plain ineffective. It's a proven and flexible alternative that adds variety and interest to your current plan, or helps you create one of your own...read more

Product Description: Companion text to the main reference, "Intensive Care Medicine", 2nd edition, this text has an easy-to-use format for on-site reference, is well illustrated to help the novice understand procedures and coverss when, why and how to perform diagnostic / therapeutic manoeuvres. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Includes ten simple tests to assess fitness levels and guidelines for tailoring individual fitness programs

Product Description: Containing all of the new and updated information from Irwin and Rippe's Intensive Care Medicine, Fifth Edition, this bench manual of procedures and techniques is available as a separate portable paperback reference. This extremely practical "how-to" guide provides graphically illustrated, step-by-step instructions for every diagnostic and therapeutic procedure used in adult critical care...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Delivers information on heart disease, and discusses the causes and best treatments for this common and deadly ailment.

A distinguished cardiologist shares the principles of a heart healthy diet, along with more than 125 creative, healthful recipes for main dishes, soups, snacks, vegetarian dishes, and desserts, contributed by some of America's leading chefs, along with complete nutritional analyses and tips on adapting favorite dishes with a heart healthy touch. Original. (view table of contents)

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Describes how a program of everday exercise, stretching and strengthening routines, a nutritious diet, and dietary supplements such as gelatin and herbs can help protect and restore joints and reduce arthritis pain.

Product Description: Obesity represents the second leading cause of preventable mortality in the United States each year behind only cigarette smoking. Underlying causes of obesity include genetic propensity, inadequate physical activity and poor nutritional habits...read more

An up-to-date edition shares accessible information by a leading cardiologist on the many different forms of heart disease as well as the latest research, diagnostic techniques, treatments, and medications offering practical advice on how to prevent and reverse heart disease through diet, stress reduction, exercise, and more. Original.

The world's most recognizable brand in weight loss offers readers an inspiring guide to losing weight successfully that bursts many of the myths of dieting while presenting stories of long-term successful dieting. Reprint.

Product Description: Completely rewritten and updated for the Fourth Edition, this Spiral(R) Manual remains the leading quick-reference guide to both medical and surgical intensive care. The essential principles, protocols, and techniques from Irwin and Rippe's Intensive Care Medicine, Fifth Edition have been distilled into a portable, practical manual that is ideal for rapid bedside consultation...read more

Presents advice from a leading cardiologist on follwing a ten-step program for maximizing physical and mental health, focusing on diet, exercise, relaxation and stress reduction, and spirituality.