In "Put Your Health in Your Own Hands," Bob draws on his personal experience as a physician assistant in family practice to show you many natural ways to improve your health. You will learn about your present level of health and how to overcome any obstacles that might be preventing you from reaching your health goals. By following these simple guidelines, you will learn how to convert your potential for amazing health into a reality.

Recent history has witnessed a revolution in womens health care. Beginning in the late 1960s, women in communities across the United States challenged medical and male control over womens health. Few people today realize the extent to which these grassroots efforts shifted power and responsibility from the medical establishment into womens hands as health care consumers, providers, and advocates. Into Our Own Hands traces the womens health care movement in the United States. Richly documented, this study is based on more than a decade of research, including interviews with leading activists; documentary material from feminist health clinics and advocacy organizations; a survey of womens health movement organizations in the early 1990s; and ethnographic fieldwork. Sandra Morgen focuses on the clinics born from this movement, as well as how the movements encounters with organized medicine, the state, and ascendant neoconservative and neoliberal political forces of the 1970s to the1980s shaped the confrontations and accomplishments in womens health care. The book also explores the impact of political struggles over race and class within the movement organizations.

Modern day practical manual on taking care of your own health based on traditional natural and alternative methods.

If you are among the millions of Americans living with a serious chronic illness, you know how challenging it can be. While you may do your best to manage your condition, you still must live with it every day, and it can be all too easy to succumb to feelings of helplessness and hopelessness-especially if medical science has not yet found a safe and effective treatment for your illness, and a cure is nowhere in sight. But you don't have to live this way. Using the road map Dr. Berkelhammer offers in In Your Own Hands, you can chart your way to wellbeing despite your condition. By engaging in the mindfulness-based practices presented here-all based on sound science-you will learn to take charge of your health, banish unnecessary suffering, and become the master of your own life. The methods you need are now within your reach. And the power to live with greater wellbeing, starting today, is in your own hands. "In Your Own Hands accomplishes what few other books on the topic of chronic illness do: it proposes a fundamentally optimistic approach toward change that re-establishes a life of meaning" -Matthew D. Skinta, PhD, ABPP "In Your Own Hands is a valuable guide for anyone living with chronic illness who wishes to take their life into their own hands despite physical limitations." -Amy Jenks, PsyD, assistant clinical professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of California-San Francisco "In Your Own Hands is based upon science, and its concepts and practices have also been tested in depth through the author's own coping with chronic disease. The result is a must read book for anyone experiencing chronic disease." -Erik Peper, PhD, Professor, San Francisco State University, coauthor of the books Fighting Cancer and Make Health Happen "A treasure of discovery and hope for anyone dealing with a chronic condition." -Wiveka Ramel, PhD, clinical psychologist

You deserve good health--and you can achieve it without prescriptions or breaking the bank! Written by a licensed, practicing naturopathic doctor, this book is designed to put your health back in your own hands with simple, proven rules for everything from breathing and eating to getting better sleep and raising healthy children. With a few simple adjustments, you too can live a physically, mentally, and emotionally healthy life.

If you are among the millions of Americans living with a serious chronic illness, you know how challenging it can be. While you may do your best to manage your condition, you still must live with it every day, and it can be all too easy to succumb to feelings of helplessness and hopelessness-especially if medical science has not yet found a safe and effective treatment for your illness, and a cure is nowhere in sight. But you don't have to live this way. Using the road map Dr. Berkelhammer offers in In Your Own Hands, you can chart your way to wellbeing despite your condition. By engaging in the mindfulness-based practices presented here-all based on sound science-you will learn to take charge of your health, banish unnecessary suffering, and become the master of your own life. The methods you need are now within your reach. And the power to live with greater wellbeing, starting today, is in your own hands. "In Your Own Hands accomplishes what few other books on the topic of chronic illness do: it proposes a fundamentally optimistic approach toward change that re-establishes a life of meaning"-Matthew D. Skinta, PhD, ABPP"In Your Own Hands is a valuable guide for anyone living with chronic illness who wishes to take their life into their own hands despite physical limitations."-Amy Jenks, PsyD, assistant clinical professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of California-San Francisco"In Your Own Hands is based upon science, and its concepts and practices have also been tested in depth through the author's own coping with chronic disease. The result is a must read book for anyone experiencing chronic disease."-Erik Peper, PhD, Professor, San Francisco State University, coauthor of the books Fighting Cancer and Make Health Happen"A treasure of discovery and hope for anyone dealing with a chronic condition."-Wiveka Ramel, PhD, clinical psychologist

Fear of carbs has taken over the diet industry for the past few decades--the mere mention of a starch-heavy food is enough to trigger an avalanche of shame and longing. Here, diet doctor and board-certified internist John A. McDougall, MD, and his kitchen-savvy wife, Mary, show that a starch-rich diet can actually help you lose weight and prevent a variety of ills. By fueling your body primarily with carbohydrates rather than proteins and fats, you'll feel satisfied, boost energy, and look and feel better.--From publisher description.