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Access: How Do Good Health Technologies Get to Poor People in Poor Countries?
By Michael Reich, Laura J. Frost. 2014
Many people in developing countries lack access to health technologies, even basic ones. Why do these problems in access persist?…
What can be done to improve access to good health technologies, especially for poor people in poor countries?This book answers those questions by developing a comprehensive analytical framework for access and examining six case studies to explain why some health technologies achieved more access than others. The technologies include praziquantel (for the treatment of schistosomiasis), hepatitis B vaccine, malaria rapid diagnostic tests, vaccine vial monitors for temperature exposure, the Norplant implant contraceptive, and female condoms. Based on research studies commissioned by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to better understand the development, adoption, and uptake of health technologies in poor countries, the book concludes with specific lessons on strategies to improve access. These lessons will be of keen interest to students of health and development, public health professionals, and health technology developers--all who seek to improve access to health technologies in poor countries. This edition now includes a new preface by the authors.Yoga Para Todos
By Marcela Gutiérrez Bravo, Cristiano Pugno. 2014
Un manual que contiene las diez principales posiciones para iniciar a practicar la disciplina del yoga, una base para acercarse…
a esta filosofía de vida e iniciar a disfrutar de los beneficios inmediatamente.Lose It Fast, Lose It Forever
By Pete Thomas. 2012
Foreword by Jillian Michaels One of the most successful contestants on NBC's The Biggest Loser shares his time-tested fitness program,…
which has helped hundreds of his students lose weight . . . and keep it off. Pete Thomas weighed more than 400 pounds when he landed on the NBC hit reality show The Biggest Loser. Nine months later, he won the $100,000 prize after losing a whopping 185 pounds. Determined to help others, he now teaches a weight-loss program that has led to lasting results in hundreds of students from all walks of life. In Lose It Fast, Lose It Forever, he makes his phenomenal four-step process available to everyone. Raised in and out of foster care because of his mother's mental illness, Thomas knew the pain of physical and emotional hunger throughout his childhood. This has given him special insight as a weight-loss coach, and his turnaround is a remarkable testament to his program. These fundamentals provide lasting results: start with a commitment to lose just one pound at a time; create transformational life changes in your mind, mouth, and muscles; get rid of even those last, few, pesky extra pounds; and learn how to maintain a lifetime of fitness and health. Easy-to-implement action steps will keep readers motivated. With recent achievements that include completing two triathlons and delivering the keynote address at the National Congress on Obesity, Thomas's inspiring story will help all readers discover the winner within.Hiking and Backpacking Santa Barbara and Ventura
By Craig R. Carey. 2012
Named for the Spanish padres who established a network of missions along California's southern and central coasts, the Los Padres…
National Forest is the second-largest National Forest in the state, encompassing approximately 1,950,000 acres - nearly half of which is federally-designated wilderness.Hiking and Backpacking Santa Barbara and Ventura fills a huge gap in coverage of this great hiking and backpacking destination, leading the reader through the varied terrain of the forest's southern districts, from the fern-clad grottoes of the Santa Barbara frontcountry to the sweeping vistas and granite-clad ridges of the Chumash Wilderness.No other guide covers the region in such detail, and not since Dennis Gagnon's near-legendary guides in the 70s and 80s has the Santa Barbara (and Ventura) backcountry been given the guidebook treatment ... but this book goes even further. Every official trail (and many use trails) in the Santa Barbara, Ojai, and Mt. Piños districts are covered here, including those in the southern San Rafael Wilderness, Dick Smith Wilderness, Matilija Wilderness, Sespe Wilderness, Chumash Wilderness, the Santa Ynez Recreation Area, Rose Valley, the Santa Barbara and Montecito frontcountry, the Ojai frontcountry, and the Santa Paula/Fillmore frontcountry.The Shawnees and the War for America
By Colin G. Calloway. 2007
With the courage and resilience embodied by their legendary leader Tecumseh, the Shawnees waged a war of territorial and cultural…
resistance for half a century. Noted historian Colin G. Calloway details the political and legal battles and the bloody fighting on both sides for possession of the Shawnees? land, while imbuing historical figures such as warrior chief Tecumseh, Daniel Boone, and Andrew Jackson with all their ambiguity and complexity. More than defending their territory, the Shawnees went to war to preserve a way of life and their own deeply held vision of what their nation should be. .Smart Chefs Stay Slim: Lessons in Eating and Living from America's Best Chefs
By Allison Adato. 2012
How do you stay thin with a job like that? This is the question many food loving mortals often pose…
to celebrity chefs. Clearly they indulge in their love of food, so how is it that they can enjoy the tantalizing dishes we see them create and still look fit, fabulous, and photo-shoot- ready? Like so many Americans, celebrity chefs also face the strain of balancing a good diet with a busy lifestyle full of temptation. Now chefs like Michelle Bernstein, Eric Ripert, Tom Colicchio, Rick Bayless, Jacques Torres, and Cat Cora share their own stories on how you can keep your love for food-without foregoing a healthy life. .The Diet Survivor's Handbook
By Judith Matz, Ellen Frankel. 2006
If you're one of the nearly 116 million Americans trying to lose weight, only to find that every diet you've…
tried has failed you, you are a diet survivor.You can step off the destructive diet bandwagon and reclaim your self-esteem, positive body image and a happy, healthy life. These 60 inspiring lessons will give you the tools you need to change your relationship with food, your body and yourself.Dieting is hazardous to your health. Diets don't work and they won't work, and yo-yo dieting will make you fatter.This book can show you how to:* Never diet again and allow your weight to stabilize* Stop feeling guilty about eating the foods you love* Free up all that mental energy to be more productive and have more fun in life* Get in touch with physical hunger and learn to love your bodyGive up the vicious cycle and stop overeating. Judith Matz and Ellen Frankel are sisters and therapists specializing in eating problems and weight issues. Each holds a Master's degree in Social Work and has over 20 years of clinical experience in teh field of eating disorders. They are the authors of Beyond a Shadow of a Diet.Mi hija se ve gordita
By Dra. Dominique-Adèle Cassuto, Sophie Guillou. 2016
La dictadura de la línea hace estragos. En la adolescencia, cuando es habitual y frecuente que el cuerpo se redondee…
temporalmente, el tema se convierte en una catástrofe. El resultado es que nuestras hijas empiezan dietas de adelgazamiento descabelladas, que ponen en peligro su salud y su crecimiento. Este libro responde a las numerosas preguntas sobre el tema: * Cómo ayudarla a distanciarse un poco de la locura del adelgazamiento. * Qué papel deben desarrollar los padres, y en especial la madre. * ¿Es bulimia o picoteo? * Cómo reaccionar si su exceso de peso está solo en su cabeza. * Cómo transmitirle buenos hábitos alimentarios. * Cómo ayudarla a mantener o perder peso, evitando la trampa de las dietas demasiado restrictivas. * Qué hacer si tiene sobrepeso de verdad. Dominique-Adèle Cassuto doctora nutricionista, recibe todos los días a adolescentes que se lamentan de su peso, con o sin razón. Sophie Guillou periodista. Es coautora, junto a Ginette Lespine, de Surmonter le chômage en famille, de la misma colección.The Edible Flower Garden
By Rosalind Creasy. 1999
Learn how to grow lovely and fragrant flowers then use them create delicious meals with this beautifully illustrated flower gardening…
and cooking book.Anyone who picks up The Edible Flower Garden will be tempted to grow, harvest, and sample at least a few of the more than forty varieties of edible flowers. Among them you'll find more familiar food plants--dill and mustard, for example--in addition to common flowers, such as tulips or roses. Author Rosalind Creasy's stunning photography and detailed plans for an edible flower garden make this a must-gave book for any flower gardener or home chef.Come along with Creasy on a tour in colorful pictures and careful diagrams and descriptions of her own flower gardens. Included is a tour of the edible flower gardens of Alice Waters famed Chez Panisse restaurant.Creasy catalogues each variety of flower and how to grow it, plus gives a myriad of delectable ideas on how to use the flower from candied violets and roses to decorate appetizers and cakes, to nasturtiums for a colorful shrimp salad, to day lily buds, pink clover and wild mustard flowers that are tossed together in a spectacular stir-fry.Dr. Art Hister's Guide To Living a Long and Healthy Life
By M.D. Art Hister. 2004
Popular physician and personality Art Hister's practical, humorous guide to reaching a ripe old age in the best of health.Dr.…
Art Hister is well known for his authoritative, common- sense, and very funny books about how to stay healthy. Following on the heels of the highly successful Midlife Man, this book presents Hister's advice for avoiding disease and living well, now and into the golden years.Taking a straightforward approach, Dr. Hister tells you how to eat, drink, exercise, sleep, and not smoke your way to good health and long life. He also leads you through the maze of conflicting information about diet, weighs the pros and cons of alcohol, and discusses various exercise programs and stop-smoking techniques. In addition, Dr. Hister looks at non-traditional therapies such as acupuncture, naturopathy, reflexology, and herbal therapies, and gives advice about when to see your doctor. Authoritative, up-to-date, and written in Dr. Hister's trademark humorous style, Dr. Art Hister's Guide to Living a Long and Healthy Life contains a plethora of practical, down-to-earth information for anyone who cares about his or her health.Arthritis and Common Sense: With Illustrations And Menus (Cedar Bks.)
By Dan Dale Alexander. 2018
A startling revelation on arthritis…and what you can do about it in your own home.Here are the results of 12…
years of research by the author, Dan Dale Alexander. In these pages an authority reports on his findings about the disease…he lists successful steps which can be taken to bring relief.Laboratory tests by the author developed a plan and a dietary regime which have brought better health to arthritics and have caused their pains to disappear.The Science Editor of The New York Times has reported that arthritis is a lubrication problem. The Times said, in part, that while both cortisone and ACTH are still more precious than radium it is predicted that both are on the way out as far as arthritis is concerned.Unlike present “cures supposedly caused by costly miracle drugs, this book gives a complete outline of an inexpensive corrective diet which lubricates the patient’s joints and returns arthritis to better health.Mission to Tashkent
By Lt. 2018
Colonel F M Bailey whose extraordinary adventures are told here was long accused by Moscow of…
being a British master-spy sent in 1918 to overthrow the Bolsheviks in Central Asia As a result he enjoyed many years after his death an almost legendary reputation there that of half-hero half-villain In this remarkable book which was first published in he tells of the perilous game of cat-and-mouse lasting sixteen months which he played with the Bolshevik secret police the dreaded Cheka At one point using a false identity he actually joined the ranks of the latter who unsuspectingly sent him to Bokhara to arrest himself Told with almost breathtaking understatement Bailey s narrative set in a region once more back in the headlines reads like vintage Buchan one of the best books about secret intelligence work ever written Peter HopkirkThe Hero of Delhi: A Life of John Nicholson, Saviour of India, and a History of His Wars
By Hesketh Pearson. 2018
An Irishman, like so many other great British generals, John Nicholson received a cadetship in the Bengal Infantry at the…
age of sixteen. Apart from one short visit to England, the rest of his life was spent in India. The Afghan and Sikh wars of the eighteen-forties brought out the titanic powers of a character that “flowered in action,” and before he was thirty, “Nikal Seyn” was a legend throughout India, a god to the Sikhs and to certain fakirs who called themselves Nikal-seynites, and a thorn in the side of incompetent and idle officials of the British Government. In an unquiet country where quick movement was the secret of military success against an elusive enemy, Nicholson’s energy, even more than his absolute personal courage, was the factor that made him the most powerful instrument of British policy in India. Passionately sincere, arrogantly self-confident, insubordinate without remorse when he saw cause, and always in the right, Nicholson provoked no ordinary emotions. He was loved, admired, feared, envied, and hated in the most violent degree.The climax of his career was the Indian Mutiny. Very seldom in history have the man and the task matched each other so notably. “Mutiny is like small-pox,” he said. “It spreads quickly and must be crushed at once.” Not all his superiors thought the same, but when he had freed himself from the trammels of authority he saved the Punjab, and so India, by sheer exertion. It is a breathless story of march, surprise, and counter-march, thrusting quickly into the hills and as quickly back to Peshawar, the danger-spot. When that situation was under control he marched to Delhi, where his arrival transformed the rôle of the British troops from besieged to assaulters. The assault succeeded but cost Nicholson his life. He was thirty-four years old, a general, and “the idol of all soldiers.”Extra Lean
By Mario Lopez, Jimmy Pena. 2011
Facing the reality that a third of the nation's children are overweight, Mario Lopez developed a plan with one simple…
understanding: what you eat affects those closest to you. As a proud new father, Mario is committed to helping his family start on the right foot when it comes to what they eat by applying the principles of Extra Lean to the household. In Extra Lean Family, Mario shows you how to use rules from his New York Times bestseller Extra Lean to broaden the spectrum of foods your family eats and maintain your best health by cooking nourishing, quick, and delicious meals. Take charge of your food, control the quality and preparation of your meals, and consistently achieve lean results with: Simple, delicious recipes that can be prepared in 20 minutes or less Double-duty options, offering two quick meal variations with the same ingredients Metabolism boosting and nutritious snacks to combat hunger between meals Weekly grocery lists and easy tips for efficient meal preparation Practical steps to control your metabolism and maintain target weight Extra Lean Family is full of delectable, healthy recipes that can be served for quick meals the entire household will love.Grocery Makeover
By Julie Feldman. 2013
Are your grocery shopping trips less than inspiring? Do you write the same list of items, week after week, and…
trudge through the store on autopilot? Have you been stocking the same ingredients in your pantry for decades? As you stare at the endless varieties of food on the shelves, do you know how to determine the options that are the most beneficial to your health?.Sounds like you could use a Grocery Makeover!.Let nutritionist Julie Feldman, RD, MPH, guide you through each isle of your local store and help you make new selections that can lead to better overall health and wellness. Demystify nutritional information and learn how to decipher unclear and even misleading labels. Learn great ways to indulge without adding to your waistline. Above all else, discover foods that are both better for you and more delicious. Win-win!.After your Grocery Makeover, you may experience uncontrollable fits of happiness as you shop. With your newfound knowledge and this book in hand, your market will no longer be a place of frustration, boredom, confusion, or doubt. Start your Grocery Makeover today and see how smart shopping can lead to better health.Chris Carmichael's Food for Fitness
By Chris Carmichael, Jim Rutberg, Kathy Zawadzki. 2004
The coach of one of the world's greatest athletes-Lance Armstrong-outlines his incredible nutritional program, which will help anyone take his…
or her fitness to the next level of peak performance. Chris Carmichael's Food for Fitness provides the nutritional information any active man or woman needs to achieve his or her health and training goals. Along the way, Carmichael outlines his revolutionary eating program for everyone-from weekend warriors to those just trying to lose a few pounds and be more fit. Most diets focus on treating a problem, pitting nutrient against nutrient in a battle over what can be eaten. Active men and women need to think of food as fuel that enables them to achieve their goals. In this context, all nutrients play integral roles and the emphasis is on consuming the right foods, in the right proportions and at the right times, to yield the energy we need to perform at an optimal level. Chris Carmichael's Food for Fitness includes: * step-by-step methods for matching your eating to your activity level; * menu plans for home-cooked meals, restaurant dining, and on-the-go snacks; * exercise plans that lead to improved fitnessA Geography of Blood
By Candace Savage. 2012
*Finalist, Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Non-FictionWhen Candace Savage and her partner buy a house in the romantic little…
town of Eastend, she has no idea what awaits her. At first she enjoys exploring the area around their new home, including the boyhood haunts of the celebrated American writer Wallace Stegner, the back roads of the Cypress Hills, the dinosaur skeletons at the T.Rex Discovery Centre, the fossils to be found in the dust-dry hills. She also revels in her encounters with the wild inhabitants of this mysterious land-three coyotes in a ditch at night, their eyes glinting in the dark; a deer at the window; a cougar pussy-footing it through a gully a few minutes' walk from town.But as Savage explores further, she uncovers a darker reality-a story of cruelty and survival set in the still-recent past--and finds that she must reassess the story she grew up with as the daughter, granddaughter, and great-granddaughter of prairie homesteaders.Beautifully written, impeccably researched, and imbued with Savage's passion for this place, A Geography of Blood offers both a shocking new version of plains history and an unforgettable portrait of the windswept, shining country of the Cypress Hills.The Lakotas and the Black Hills
By Jeffrey Ostler. 2010
A concise and engrossing account of the Lakota and the battle to regain their homeland. The Lakota Indians made their…
home in the majestic Black Hills mountain range during the last millennium, drawing on the hills' endless bounty for physical and spiritual sustenance. Yet the arrival of white settlers brought the Lakotas into inexorable conflict with the changing world, at a time when their tribe would produce some of the most famous Native Americans in history, including Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, and Crazy Horse. Jeffrey Ostler's powerful history of the Lakotas' struggle captures the heart of a people whose deep relationship with their homeland would compel them to fight for it against overwhelming odds, on battlefields as varied as the Little Bighorn and the chambers of U. S. Supreme Court. .How to Exercise When You're Expecting
By Lindsay Brin. 2011
A simple, easy-to-follow guide for staying fit while pregnant and shedding the post-baby pounds after! Being a mom is the…
toughest job in the world. It's difficult to take time for yourself. Now, in How to Exercise When You're Expecting, even the busiest moms can learn how to stay strong and fit during their pregnancy and lose the post-baby weight after. Lindsay Brin, a women's fitness expert and creator of #1 bestselling Moms Into Fitness DVD series, shares insider tips to: ? Understanding and tackling food cravings ? Exercises that are safe to perform during different stages of pregnancy ? Preparing for labor through relaxation and yoga techniques ? How your body and metabolism changes after childbirth ? Keeping fitness and nutrition a priority when time is scarce Battle-tested through Lindsay's own pregnancies, How to Exercise When You're Expecting offers a before, during, and after guide that will get moms back in pre-baby shape-or better. .A História Não Contada De Kim
By Ed Robinson, Mayara Alves Pereira Leal. 2014
O autor best-seller de não ficção Ed Robinson traz para você uma história forte e verídica do triunfo de uma…
mulher sobre a dor. Você vai passar a odiar médicos, advogados e companhias de seguros. No momento em que terminar de ler este livro, você terá se apaixonado por Kim. Este conto profundamente inspirador é destinado a se tornar o livro mais importante já escrito sobre dor crônica e controle da dor no ambiente de saúde de hoje.