Aromatherapy for Bodyworkers
Author: Jade Shutes
As aromatherapy gains in popularity among complementary medical modalities, more and more bodywork professionals now integrate essential oils into their practices. Aromatherapy for Bodyworkers embraces the expansion of knowledge about the application and benefits of this emerging practice and presents a most complete and authoritative source of information for health care workers and spa professionals. It begins with the basics on plants, oils, quality, safety, and chemistry. It then progresses into blending methods, an exploration of the skin and olfaction, and finally a concrete discussion about integrating aromatherapy into bodywork practice. Massage Therapists or any bodywork professionals.
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Heart Care for Life: Developing the Program That Works Best for You
Author: Genell Subak Sharp
More than 70 million Americans have some form of heart disease. For each of them, obtaining accurate information about the disease and the many options for dealing with it can be both empowering and life saving. In this book, cardiologist Dr. Barry L. Zaret and Genell Subak-Sharpe offer up-to-date facts about the best treatments available and an innovative approach that shows how treatment programs can be tailored to meet the needs of each unique patient.
There are no short-term fixes and no one-size-fitsall programs, explain Zaret and Subak-Sharpe. Although certain characteristics are common to each form of heart disease and its treatments,these constants must be tempered against individual variables. The authors outline the constants for the full range of cardiovascular conditions, from angina and heart attacks to high blood pressure and cardiac arrhythmias. They then guide readers through the process of assessing personal variables to develop an individual treatment and life-style program.
Written in a warmly reassuring style, this indispensable guide to heart care offers realistic hope and specific directions for designing a lifelong heart care program. Filled with practical advice, instructional case histories, a philosophy for controlling your health, self-tests to assess risk, and questions to ask your doctor, it looks toward an even better future for those with heart disease.
Library Journal
Heart disease continues to be a preventable plague in the American population, with one of every five individuals suffering from some form of cardiovascular disease. Zaret (medicine & radiology, Yale Univ. Sch. of Medicine) and Stein (director of preventive cardiology, Beth Israel Medical Ctr., NY) have each written books that stress patient responsibility in understanding and maintaining one's own heart health. In Heart Care, Zaret, whose coauthor, Subak-Sharpe, has produced or collaborated on more than 40 health and medicine books, stresses that a personalized plan adapted to an individual's preferences and lifestyle is critical to success. Warning against making many changes at once, he advises on exercise, diet, psychological factors, and smoking cessation. A broad overview of tests and treatments for common heart conditions, including benefits and disadvantages, is offered. Alternative treatments are briefly covered, as are heart disease in special populations (e.g., women, the elderly, minority ethnic groups, young athletes) and advances in medical devices, therapies, and procedures. In Outliving, Stein underscores the new medical research that has improved available treatments for heart disease, challenging readers to become knowledgeable about their health. Chapters offer one of ten "New Rules" to beat heart disease, starting with discovering whether one already has it. Throughout, evidence-based studies are interspersed with Stein's recommendations for lifestyle changes. Readers will also learn about risk assessments; tests and treatments; exercise, diet, and the mind-body connection; and clinical studies on alternative and complementary therapies. Questions that patients should ask their doctors and tips on partnering with the medical team are excellent; Stein's description of how heart disease develops is enlightening. Both books contain valuable, current, evidence-based information, although Stein's volume is more personal and features more concrete advice. Both are recommended for larger libraries.-Janet M. Schneider, James A. Haley Veterans' Hosp. Lib., Tampa Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
Table of Contents:
| List of Abbreviations | ix | |
| Preface | xi | |
| Introduction | xvi | |
| 1 | A Personalized Plan: The Key to a Lifelong Heart Program | 1 |
| Part I | Lifestyle and Heart Health | 25 |
| 2 | Exercise Your Way to a Healthy Heart and Body | 31 |
| 3 | Adopting a Heart-Healthy Diet | 50 |
| 4 | Stress, Depression, and Other Psychological Factors | 69 |
| 5 | Controlling and Stopping Smoking | 82 |
| Part II | The Basics of Lifelong Treatment | 93 |
| 6 | Diagnostic Tests and Procedures | 97 |
| 7 | Treating Your Heart Condition | 120 |
| 8 | Alternative and Complementary Therapies | 154 |
| Part III | Populations with Special Concerns | 165 |
| 9 | Heart Care for Women | 169 |
| 10 | Heart Disease in the Elderly | 179 |
| 11 | Heart Disease in Minority Populations | 186 |
| 12 | Young Athletes and Heart Disease | 192 |
| 13 | Adults with Congenital Heart Disease | 199 |
| 14 | Practical Advice for Travelers | 206 |
| Part IV | Advances in Treating Heart Disease and Hope for the Future | 213 |
| 15 | Recently Developed Devices and Procedures | 217 |
| 16 | Biologically Based Therapies | 228 |
| 17 | Experimental Treatments and Clinical Trials | 239 |
| Epilogue | 244 | |
| Acknowledgments | 246 | |
| Glossary | 247 | |
| Further Reading and Resources | 256 | |
| Index | 261 |
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