Driving Dilemma or Alberto Salazars Guide to Running

Driving Dilemma: The Complete Resource Guide for Older Drivers and Their Families

Author: Elizabeth Dugan

It's no secret that our population is aging. In fact, it won't be long before one in four drivers will be over the age of 65. Research suggests we'll outlive our ability to drive by almost ten years - but knowing when to stop or limit driving isn't always clear.

The Driving Dilemma is a comprehensive resource for older drivers and their families facing questions about driving safety. Dr. Dugan provides clear, useful information about the effects of age, medical conditions, and medications on driving. She offers practical advice on how to discuss this issue with loved ones. Such talks can be difficult, and the book provides not only the facts, but also a research-based approach to communication, with useful sample dialogue scripts that will help you discuss driving with your loved ones. Also included are state-by-state listings of available resources, making this book a total information source for families.

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Alberto Salazar's Guide to Running: The Revolutionary Program That Revitalized a Champion

Author: Alberto Salazar

A sensible, balanced, low-stress approach to running

In ALBERTO SALAZAR'S GUIDE TO RUNNING, the three-time New York City marathon winner and former marathon world-record-holder draws on the latest research to show you that a twenty-minute, two-to three-mile run can be just as beneficial as a longer, harder run. He offers a complete year-long program designed to build beginning runners' weekly distance to a relatively short fifteen to twenty miles. Salazar also points out the many advantages of helping your running program with aerobic and strength-building activities.

Interspersed throughout the book you'll find fascinating and instructive anecdotal sidebars in which Salazar shares the hard-won lessons he's learned about running, fitness, avoiding injuries, and more. There's also valuable advice for more experienced runners on trail running, winter training, cross training, and increasing distance.

From one of the greatest champions of all time comes a sensible, easy-to-follow fitness program for people of all ages

Here's a revolutionary approach to running for fitness and pleasure developed by one of the all-time great marathon runners. Once Alberto Salazar was renowned for grueling training schedules that included running as many as 130 miles every week. Now, Alberto rarely runs more than five miles at a time, and he's running injury-free and enjoying every minute of it. In Alberto Salazar's Guide to Running, the marathon hall-of-famer draws on the latest research and his own experiences to show why, when it comes to reaping the many health and fitness benefits of running, harder and longer isn't better, and consistency matters most. He shares his hard-won lessons on running and outlines a sensible adaptable low-impact training program for nonrunners wanting to get fit, runners dissatisfied with their current workouts, or recovering from injuries, and anyone looking for a fitness program they can follow for years to come.

Running is an ideal way to burn calories, tone muscles, improve cardiovascular health, and simply put, feel better. Unfortunately, most people presume that any useful running program requires a tough, time-consuming regimen. But nothing could be further from the truth. Three-time New York City marathon winner and marathon world-record holder Alberto Salazar explains why in this groundbreaking guide. Drawing on his personal experiences, as well as the latest research, he shows that a gentle, low-stress workout of just 20 to 30 minutes, 3 to 5 times a week is all you really need.

In Alberto Salazar's Guide to Running, Salazar introduces a sensible, balanced approach to running, suited to people of every age, body type, and degree of fitness. Based on training principles that allowed an athlete once known for his extreme methods to emerge from early retirement after ten years and win the world's leading ultramarathon, the revolutionary year-long program outlined here is designed to help you to build gradually from your first quarter mile to a distance of 15 to 20 miles a week—and have fun doing it!

Alberto Salazar's Guide to Running covers all the bases. You get guidance on choosing the best running shoes, warming up, achieving and maintaining optimum body weight, and dealing with aches, pains, and common injuries. You also learn about the advantages of supplementing your running program with other aerobic and strength-building activities, such as bicycling, cross-country skiing, rowing, weight training, walking, and hiking. For more advanced runners there are valuable tips on trail running, winter training, cross-country training, and increasing speed and distance. And, interspersed throughout the book, you'll find fascinating and inspiring anecdotes in which Salazar shares his hard-won lessons about running and fitness, avoiding injuries, and more.

Alberto Salazar's Guide to Running is must-reading for anyone who wants to take full advantage of the most natural, enjoyable, and beneficial method of improving health and fitness.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments	vii
	Introduction	1
Running 101.	Running for Fun and Fitness
1.	Welcome to the New Era of Running	11
2.	Running for the Decades: A Conservative Program for Lifestyle Running	19
3.	The Running Life	33
4.	Equipping Yourself	60
5.	Running Form	85
6.	Stretching	97
7.	Weight Training and Cross-Training	109
8.	Achieving and Maintaining Healthy Body Weight	126
9.	Aches and Pains	139
Running 201.	Expanding your Horizons
10.	Challenges and Adventures	161
11.	Race Training	171
12.	Race Day	187
	Index	203

Moldea tu cuerpo or Everything Dieting Book

Moldea tu cuerpo

Author: Jennifer Wad

Different forms of exercise and bodywork that relieve tension, increase strength, improve balance, and heighten awareness of the physical body and its well-being are presented in each volume of this affordable series.

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Everything Dieting Book

Author: Sandra K Nissenberg

Have you tried every fad and crash diet that's been advertised -- only to find that they don't work? The Everything Dieting Book helps you determine the best diet that will work for your individual health concerns. Registered dietitian Sandra K. Nissenberg provides sensible information about nutrition and exercise, giving you the tools you need to lose weight safely and effectively. Including several health-conscious recipes and a daily diet journal, The Everything Dieting Book helps you develop a fun and encouraging dieting experience -- with guaranteed success!

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	xi
Chapter 1	Facing the Weight Challenge	1
	Overweight Versus Obesity	2
	So Why Lose Weight?	3
	How Your Shape Affects Health Risk	4
	Other Factors Affecting Risk of Obesity	5
	What Causes Obesity?	6
	Where Do Eating Habits Come From?	8
	Evaluating Your Lifestyle	9
	Making Permanent Changes	10
Chapter 2	What Should I Weigh?	13
	The Benefits and Limitations of the Bathroom Scale	14
	Understanding Body Weight	15
	Determining a Healthy Weight	16
	Determining Body Fat	19
	Body Mass Index	23
	Accepting Yourself for Who You Are	25
Chapter 3	Why We Eat What We Eat	27
	Factors Affecting Food Choices	28
	What about the Media?	30
	Behaviors that Lead to Overeating	31
	Physical Versus Emotional Hunger	33
	What Type of Eater Am I?	34
	Tackling the Challenges of Overeating and Uncontrollable Overeating	37
	Starting a Diet Diary	38
Chapter 4	How Fast Can I Lose?	41
	The Current Diet Industry	42
	The Real Story of Fad Dieting	43
	The All-Dreaded Diet	44
	Psychological Concerns from Excess Dieting	48
	Spotting a Fad Diet	49
	What about Weight-Loss Medications?	50
	Surgery as a Weight-Loss Option	54
Chapter 5	Dietary Guidelines for Americans	55
	Current Guidelines	56
	Aim for Fitness	56
	Build a Healthy Base	57
	Choose Sensibly	62
Chapter 6	Smart Eating/Smart Snacking	71
	The Food Guide Pyramid	72
	Daily Serving Recommendations	75
	It All Takes Planning	82
Chapter 7	What's the Best Way to Lose?	87
	Are You Ready to Lose?	88
	Losing Weight Safely and Effectively	88
	Examining Your Attitude about Food	90
	Seeking a Plan That Works for You	91
	Setting Some Weight-Loss Rules	95
	Seeing How Small Changes Add Up	96
	Looking at Commercial Weight-Loss Programs	97
	Identifying Secrets to Successful Weight Loss	99
Chapter 8	Understanding Energy and Caloric Needs	101
	What Is a Calorie?	102
	Where Do Calories Come From?	103
	Carbohydrates: Your Primary Energy Source	105
	Protein: The Body's Building Blocks	106
	Fat: An Essential Nutrient	108
	How Many Calories Do You Need?	111
	Understanding Nutrition and Weight Loss	113
	The Connection Between Age and Decreasing Metabolism	114
Chapter 9	The Noncaloric Nutrients: Vitamins, Minerals, and Water	117
	Vitamins: The Organic Compounds	118
	Fat-Soluble Vitamins	118
	Water-Soluble Vitamins	120
	Minerals: The Inorganic Elements	123
	Macrominerals	123
	Microminerals	124
	Phytonutrients	126
	Are Vitamin and Mineral Supplements Necessary?	127
	What about Water?	129
Chapter 10	The World of Sugar and Fat Substitutes	131
	Cutting the Sugar out of Food	132
	Types of Sugar Substitutes	132
	Using Sugar Substitutes	135
	Removing the Fat from Food	136
	Types of Fat Replacers	137
	Safety Concerns	139
	Reducing Total Sugar and Fat Calories	140
Chapter 11	Going Vegetarian	143
	Why Become a Vegetarian?	144
	The Health Benefits	144
	A Vegetarian Food Pyramid	145
	What Does Going Vegetarian Mean?	146
	The Challenges of Vegetarian Eating	148
	Vegetarian Meal Planning	152
Chapter 12	Problems Associated with Eating Disorders	155
	What Causes an Eating Disorder?	156
	Who Is at Risk?	158
	Early Signs of Eating Disorders	160
	Anorexia Nervosa: The Starvation Disorder	161
	Bulimia: The Bingeing-Purging Disorder	163
	Binge Eating Disorder: Compulsive Overeating	165
	Seeking Proper Treatment	166
Chapter 13	Handling an Overweight Child	169
	Potential Causes of Weight Gain	170
	How to Recognize a Problem	170
	Encouraging Healthier Habits in Children	173
	Building Positive Body Image in Your Child	177
	Establishing Good Habits You Can Live With	179
Chapter 14	Fitting in Fitness	183
	The Truth about Exercise	184
	The Benefits of Physical Activity	185
	What Kind of Exercise Should I Do?	189
	How Much Should I Exercise?	191
	Getting Started on Your Exercise Program	192
	Starting a Walking Program	195
	What about Fluids?	196
	Measuring Your Heart Rate	197
	Exercise Motivators	199
Chapter 15	Eating Out	201
	Why We Eat Away from Home	202
	Weight Control and Maintenance Challenges	202
	Healthy Choices in and Around Town	203
	The Fast-Food Dilemma	206
	Restaurant Choices: Good and Bad	207
	Packing Lunches to Go	216
Chapter 16	Meal Planning and Shopping	219
	Planning Appealing Meals	220
	Managing Your Food Budget	221
	Preparing Shopping Lists	223
	Stock Those Staples	227
	Reading Food Labels	231
	The Nutrition Facts Label	234
Chapter 17	Taking It off and Keeping It Off	237
	Accepting Body Weight	238
	Setting Realistic Goals	239
	Creating Meal Plans	239
	Keeping Active	242
	Making Changes to Last a Lifetime	242
	Resisting Fads and Trends	245
	Making the Transition from Losing to Maintaining	246
Chapter 18	Suggested Meal and Snack Plans	249
	Evaluating Your Favorite Meals	250
	Creating Meal Plans for Weight Loss	250
	Using Meal Plans to Meet Your Needs	251
Chapter 19	Keeping Your Personal Records and Diet Diary	257
	Your Records	258
	Setting Goals	259
	Creating Your Diet/Exercise Diary	261
	Evaluating Results	267
Chapter 20	Recipes for Dieting Success	269
Appendix A	Index of Recipes	296
Appendix B	Resource Information	297
Appendix C	Helpful Web Sites	298
	Index	299

Plantas Para Triunfar or The Perricone Weight Loss Diet

Plantas para triunfar: 22 nuevas alternativas para la salud

Author: Octavio Deniz

If you believe in the curative power of plants, this new work by Octavio Déniz will become an invaluable resource guide. This book provides descriptions of more than twenty plants capable of curing and preventing the most common modern illnesses. You will learn about the properties of the most important traditional herbs, as well as become familiar with the healing powers of recently discovered plants.

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The Perricone Weight-Loss Diet: A Simple 3-Part Program to Lose the Fat, the Wrinkles, and the Years

Author: Nicholas Perricon

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Perricone– respected physician, award-winning research scientist, and trusted expert on health and beauty–comes the biggest breakthrough in weight loss since Atkins.

Millions of women and men have restored youthful radiance, smoothness, and suppleness to their skin through Dr. Nicholas Perricone’s advice, care, and transformative eating plan–and all with the welcome yet unexpected benefit of losing excess weight along with the wrinkles! Building on this discovery, Dr. Perricone breaks new ground with his trademark anti-inflammatory program based on the foods, supplements, and lifestyle changes with the proven ability to accelerate fat loss by increasing metabolism and building and maintaining muscle mass.

Consider this staggering fact: As we age, we can expect to gain ten pounds of fat and lose five pounds of muscle each decade. In three easy steps, Dr. Perricone shows how to fight this weight gain and rebuild muscle mass, and avoid the haggard, aging, and drawn appearance that results from other weight-loss programs.

Inside The Perricone Weight-Loss Diet discover

• the rejuvenating and slimming secrets of the anti-inflammatory diet
• which foods, supplements, and lifestyle changes enable us to lose fat while maintaining muscle
• how to control hormones such as insulin and cortisol to lose weight
• how to maintain youthful, firm, and radiantly toned skin on the face and body during weight loss

As an added bonus, as you follow Dr. Perricone’s program you’ll sleep better, have more energy and less stress, and experience greatermental clarity without the food cravings. Lose the weight, the wrinkles, and the years!

Library Journal

The Perricone prescription for toning down the wrinkles can also help tone down the fat and keep up the muscle as we age. With a national tour. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Lighting the Lamp of Wisdom or Recovery from Smoking

Lighting the Lamp of Wisdom: A Week Inside a Yoga Ashram

Author: John Ittner

The powerful combination of exercising both mind and body in the quest for spiritual enlightenment is integral to Hindu spiritual life, and the ashram is where it takes place. This guide introduces you to the typical ashram schedule as experienced in three different communities -- India, New York, and the Bahamas -- to show you what you can expect from the yoga, meditation, worship, and study that define an ashram retreat. Whether you're simply curious about this millennia-old spiritual practice, or interested in experiencing it firsthand, this is the ideal handbook to get you started, no matter what your faith tradition. A helpful glossary of terms, a list of resources for further reading, and a directory to yoga ashrams in North America and elsewhere will enable you to set up your own visit and explore the spiritual benefits of yoga ashram life for yourself.

Publishers Weekly

This installment in SkyLight Paths' "Week Inside" series opens the doors of an ashram, introducing a community of yoga practitioners as taught by venerable Indian guru Swami Sivananda. The author is himself a yoga teacher, freelance journalist and veteran of the New York Post, who offers testimony from his experience of the healing and cleansing power of yoga practice. As serious students know, yoga is the Sanskrit word for "yoke," implying discipline. The sets of postures that many Americans know as yoga are only one part of a comprehensive system of mind-body training, which Ittner outlines by explaining key concepts and activities that characterize yoga practice. Chapters explore different aspects of the disciplined life, including diet and work, making for an appropriately holistic approach. The personal frame of reference and Ittner's everyday-guy voice (with a discernible New York accent) are the greatest virtues of the book, offering you-can-do-it-too encouragement to curious beginners who don't know asana (yoga posture) from ahimsa (the principle of non-harming). These and other commonly used Sanskrit terms are defined in a helpful glossary. The reading list is a little short; there are plenty more doors offering access to this vast spiritual mine. On the whole, however, the book is a competent, friendly introduction to a complex and ancient spiritual tradition that was exotic to Americans little more than 100 years ago. (Nov.) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

A journalist and yoga instructor, Ittner casually engages the reader in stories of his many adventures visiting yoga ashrams in both the United States and abroad, treating the reader to what feels like an enjoyable dinner conversation with a friend. He flows from topic to topic and ashram to ashram, with transitions that are sometimes so seamless that readers may forget where he has taken them, though they will feel light and relaxed from the journey. Like other titles in the "A Week Inside" series, this volume serves as a handbook for spiritual retreat. Ittner gives details about each aspect of the typical ashram day, including meditation, chanting, spiritual talks, asana (posture) classes, work, free time, and eating. He ends the book with his personal, day-to-day journal of one particular week spent in an ashram in the Bahamas. The short glossary, selected bibliography, and directory of ashrams will help those who would like to pursue the experience further. Recommended for all libraries with religious or spiritual collections.-Annette Haines, Univ. of Michigan Lib., Ann Arbor

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Recovery from Smoking: Quitting with the Twelve Step Process

Author: Elizabeth Hanson Hoffman PhD

Second Edition

Elizabeth Hanson Hoffman rationalized her smoking for 27 years, then she finally accepted the fact that she was powerless over cigarettes. Using her own story, the Twelve Steps and techniques she has developed as a practicing psychologist, Hoffman will help you find the strength to finally let go of smoking.