If you suffer from insomnia, sleep apnea, restless leg syndrome, or other sleep disorders, you don't have to endure another long, sleepless night. This second edition of ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE MAGAZINE'S DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO SLEEP DISORDERS holds the keys to lasting relief from such sleep-disturbing factors as toxic overload and body clock disruptions. Outlining seven reasons why people have trouble falling and staying asleep, sleep specialist Dr. Herbert Ross recommends several natural techniques-detoxification, dietary change, mind-body therapies, exercise, and more-to promote better sleep while enhancing your overall health. Unlike sleeping pills, which decrease sleep quality and become less effective over time, these holistic treatments will benefit your whole body over the long term to help you lose weight, increase immune system function, boost energy, improve mood, and enhance concentration. Good health and vitality are just a good night's sleep away.

This comprehensive guide provides safe and sound natural therapies to combat insomnia and other sleep disorders. It examines 12 reasons why you can't sleep or stay asleep.

Alternative medicine holds the key to losing weight permanently. By correcting imbalances resulting from such conditions as food allergies, overactive hormones, yeast infections, an underactive thyroid, or parasites, the health-promoting tips and techniques in this book will help you restructure your health-and melt away unwanted pounds. This simple program kicks off with a comprehensive detox to flush toxins-commonly stored in fat cells-out of the system. Next it presents new ideas for losing weight by matching your diet to your unique body type and learning to choose the right fats, sweeteners, and supplements.Featuring more than twenty healthy recipes, detox teas and juices, lymph-stimulating methods for banishing cellulite, a menu-based eating plan, and the Super Seven Home Workout, ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE MAGAZINE'¬?S DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO WEIGHT LOSS contains everything you need to get energized and become the healthy, trim person you'¬?ve always wanted to be.

21st Century Science Collection.

Clinical practice related to sleep problems and sleep disorders has been expanding rapidly in the last few years, but scientific research is not keeping pace. Sleep apnea, insomnia, and restless legs syndrome are three examples of very common disorders for which we have little biological information. This new book cuts across a variety of medical disciplines such as neurology, pulmonology, pediatrics, internal medicine, psychiatry, psychology, otolaryngology, and nursing, as well as other medical practices with an interest in the management of sleep pathology. This area of research is not limited to very young and old patientsâ€"sleep disorders reach across all ages and ethnicities. Sleep Disorders and Sleep Deprivation presents a structured analysis that explores the following: Improving awareness among the general public and health care professionals. Increasing investment in interdisciplinary somnology and sleep medicine research training and mentoring activities. Validating and developing new and existing technologies for diagnosis and treatment. This book will be of interest to those looking to learn more about the enormous public health burden of sleep disorders and sleep deprivation and the strikingly limited capacity of the health care enterprise to identify and treat the majority of individuals suffering from sleep problems.

Proceedings of a Japanese-German International Symposium held in Erfurt, Germany, October 9-10, 1996