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Book Reviews
Book Reviews: 11 June - 17 June 2007

  1. The Canadian Medical Association
  2. Cystitis : the complete self-help guide
  3. Fat Wars : 45 days to transform your body
  4. The Family & Friends Guide To Diabetes - Everything You Need To Know
  5. Smart Medicine For Menopause - Hormone Replacement Therapy and Its Natural Alternatives
  6. Siblings Without Rivalry - How To Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too


1) The Canadian Medical Association

This encyclopedia contains an A-Z reference guide to over 5,000 medical terms-including symptoms, diseases, drugs, and treatments. It is a comprehensive, easy to use format, which puts the latest medical facts at your fingertips. Exceptionally simple to use, it makes even complex medical terms and procedures easy to understand.

Authors: The Reader's Digest Association (Canada) Ltd.
Publishers: 1992
No. of pages: 564


2) Cystitis : the complete self-help guide

A complete self-help guide, simple, practical, medically approved advice to help one guard against recurrent urinary and vaginal problems and gain quick, effective relief from symptoms.

Authors: Angela Kilmartin
Publishers: Warner Books
Date of Publication: 1980
No. of pages: 208


3) Fat Wars : 45 days to transform your body

It is the book that tell one how body works, how it makes energy, how it stores fuel (fats), how it moves fat around and how to get it to burn that fat instead of putting it into storage. It tells about how to take this knowledge to craft an eating and activity plan that will work and make one a leaner, fitter, healthier in 45 days.

Authors: Brad J King
Publishers: Macmillan
Date of Publication: 2000
No. of pages: 179


4) The Family & Friends Guide To Diabetes - Everything You Need To Know

This book is for those who want to learn how to best help someone with diabetes. Learn what diabetes is and how it's treated, how one can help loved one manage low blood glucose and get through periods of illness, how to prepare healthy meals and plan special events with confidence, and how to create positive work and home environments for both the person with diabetes and the family.

Authors: Eve Gehling
Publishers: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Date of Publication: 2000
No. of pages: 282


5) Smart Medicine For Menopause - Hormone Replacement Therapy and Its Natural Alternatives

This book discusses both the short-term symptoms and long-term consequences of menopause. The book outlines the full range of options, both conventional and alternative, that are available to women today: hormone replacement therapy, dietary and lifestyle strategies, the use of herbs and nutritional supplements, and a plan to slow down the aging process. There is even a chapter on "male menopause."

Authors: Sandra Cabot
Publishers: Avery Publishing Group
Date of Publication: 1995
No. of pages: 201


6) Siblings Without Rivalry - How To Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too

A very human book about one of the toughest problems parents have to handle - how to help children live together so that one can live too. The book is written with humor, compassion and understanding, and illustrated with delightful cartoons. It challenges the idea that constant, unpleasant conflict is natural and unavoidable, and in action-oriented, easy to understand anecdotes and stories shows the many ways children can be taught how to get along.

Authors: Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish
Publishers: Avon Books
Date of Publication: 1988
No. of pages: 219

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