self-care, health

Explains how to assess one's risk of disease, including heart disease and stroke, cancer, diabetes, and lung and kidney disease, and shows how to take charge of one's health, presenting planners for eating right, exercising, and quitting smoking.

The USDA has replaced its Food Pyramid nutrition guidelines with the straightforward MyPlate. This volume introduces the new program in simple terms. Using basic vocabulary, the text emphasizes the importance of staying healthy, presents the five food groups, and explains the purpose of MyPlate. Includes a list of helpful facts, glossary, and index.

Offers teens with Asperger's syndrome practical strategies to help them deal with the impact their condition has on their schoolwork and social lives and learn to overcome their weaknesses.

Offers advice on relieving stress by eliminating stressors, meditating, and practicing relaxation methods; and includes recipes with calming ingredients and a CD with guided meditations.

A guide to help individuals improve their health and well-being through mind and body relaxation techniques, dietary supplements, self-acceptance and positive thinking, keeping fit through exercise, and more.

Explains how to take an informed approach to alternative medicine and discusses herbal treatments, manipulation and touch, the mind-body connection, and methods that treat natural energy forces, such as acupuncture and tai chi.