Take Your Pediatrician with You: Keeping Your Child Healthy at Home and on the Road
Author: Christopher S Ryder
It's three o'clock in the morning and your child is screaming in pain. To make matters worse, you and your family are vacationing in a strange city. What should you do? Call the front desk? Your family pediatrician? An ambulance?
From in-flight earaches to strep throat, from poison ivy to insect bites, illness and injury are common and unwelcome traveling companions. You need to know when to treat your child yourself and when to seek professional medical care. This compact handbook tells you how to decide and then puts crucial information for preventing and treating acute childhood illnesses and injuries at your fingertips.
In Take Your Pediatrician with You, Dr. Christopher Ryder offers expert advice on keeping children safe and healthy at home and on the road. He includes detailed instructions for creating a children's medical care kit to use at home or while traveling. Also included are descriptions of common childhood illnesses and summer woes; travel tips; accident prevention; and guidelines for emergency care. A chapter on international adoption guides parents through the process of bringing a child home safely.
As well as a reassuring travel companion, this valuable resource will become the "turn-to" guide at home and in childcare centers.
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The Breast Cancer Prevention Diet: The Powerful Foods That Will Keep You Well
Author: Bob Arnot
Just in time for Breast Cancer Awareness Month comes this breakthrough new diet, compiled by the chief medical correspondent for NBC, designed to help to fight the dreaded disease that strikes one in nine women.
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The chief medical correspondent for NBC News sets up three diets--standard, advanced, and long-term--for women seeking to avoid or to battle breast cancer.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments | ix |
PART ONE NUTRITION AND BREAST CANCER | |
Introduction | 3 |
What Makes Breast Cancer Grow | 17 |
How Foods Can Prevent Breast Cancer | 31 |
PART TWO 12 STEPS TO PREVENT BREAST CANCER | |
Step 1: Block the Estrogen Receptor | 49 |
Step 2: Change Fats | 67 |
Omega-9 Fats | 79 |
Omega-3 Fats | 82 |
Step 3: Make Good Estrogens | 92 |
Step 4: Lower Insulin | 96 |
Step 5: Drop Glucose Overload | 100 |
Step 6: Increase Fiber | 113 |
Step 7: Lower Oxidative Load | 123 |
Step 8: Avoid Chemical Estrogens | 137 |
Step 9: Decrease Body Fat | 144 |
Step 10: Limit Alcohol | 148 |
Step 11: Increase Vitamin D | 150 |
Step 12: Exercise | 153 |
PART THREE BREAST CANCER PREVENTION PLANS | |
Road Map to Breast Cancer Prevention Plans | 159 |
Breast Cancer Prevention Plan for Women with High | |
Estrogen Levels (Before Menopause) | 161 |
Breast Cancer Prevention Plan for Women with Low Estrogen | |
Levels (After Menopause) | 167 |
Breast Cancer Prevention Plan for Breast Cancer Survivors | 175 |
Intensive Intervention Supplements | 183 |
Daughters: Intergenerational Breast Cancer Prevention | 187 |
Healthy Cuisines | 201 |
Meal Plans | 207 |
Close | 222 |
Appendix: Genistein Values | 225 |
Selected References | 229 |
Index | 251 |
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