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"The Review of Natural Products" is the foremost source of current natural product information for health care professionals. More than 350 in-depth monographs are included, based on scientific research, not just anecdotal information.
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Ideal as a textbook for decision making and a quick reference for managing common medical conditions in massage practice, this book explains important information about various medical conditions and how to adapt massage to each condition. The central tool of the book is the Decision Tree: a simple flowchart diagram that illustrates the interface of massage and disease.
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Although recognised clinically for some time as an important condition that increases risk of ill-health in affected individuals, it is only recently that obesity had been recognised as a population-wide problem that requires preventive action. Obesity is a major contributor to diseases and disability, the associated health costs are enormous and obesity has already reached epidemic proportions in many countries, and incidence is continuing to increase in children and adults.
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Childhood obesity is an international public health concern, with a high profile in both the media and government policy. Controversial issues in the prevention of childhood obesity need to be considered early in the development of school, clinical or community prevention programs, as these issues are often the ones that promote the success or failure of attempts to ameliorate the problem at hand.
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Over the past 20 years, a silent revolution in functional neurosurgery has been unfolding. This revolution, still in the making, is the development of cortical electrical neuromodulation.
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Obesity is now the most common risk factor in pregnancy. Of all pregnant women 10 - 20 per cent are obese and 1 per cent are morbidly obese.
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The emergence of resistance to anti-tuberculosis drugs, particularly of MDR-TB and newly XDR-TB, has become a major public health problem. The current treatment regiment has several disadvantages, i.
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This book presents in a systematic form a solid theoretical background for transport of non-symmetric beams in rotating ion-optical systems. The theoretical considerations are applied to the transport of ion-therapy beams in rotating ion gantries.
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This book brings together leading authorities on cardiovascular disease to present an integrated overview of the factors that combine to increase patients' global cardiometabolic risk and expose them to a greater probability of adverse outcomes, including stroke, myocardial infarction, and cancer. Weight gain and obesity are now recognised as primary risk factors for diabetes and heart disease; describing relationships between obesity, type 2 diabetes and CV risk factors such as hypertension and dyslipidaemias, this new work explains how current demographic trends in diet and lifestyle choices lead to cumulative increases in risk, and explores the strategies by which these risks can be managed and reduced.
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In a world where obesity has now reached epidemic proportions, a thorough understanding of the underlying causes of the problem is essential if society, public health initiatives and government policies are to successfully address the issue. The obesogenic environment describes all the possible influences that our environment presents which encourage overweight and obesity in individuals and populations.
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Obesity and diabetes mellitus continue to affect an ever increasing number of children, adolescents, and young adults. The objective of this book is to provide healthcare trainees and professionals with practical, comprehensive, and contemporary approaches to the pediatric patient at risk for obesity, diabetes mellitus, and related conditions.
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The past generation has witnessed striking increases in the prevalence of childhood obesity and co-morbidities including type 2 diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and fatty liver disease. Despite a wealth of investigation, there is considerable controversy regarding the etiology of childhood obesity and the optimal approaches for prevention and treatment.
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Over the years, approaches to obesity prevention and treatment have gone from focusing on genetic and other biological factors to exploring a diversity of diets and individual behavior modification interventions anchored primarily in the power of the mind, to the recent shift focusing on societal interventions to design 'temptation-proof' physical, social, and economic environments. In spite of repeated calls to action, including those of the World Health Organization (WHO), the pandemic continues to progress.
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"Fascial Release for Structural Balance" combines manual therapy skills with the exciting new field of structural therapy, which employs the unique and newly discovered properties of fascial tissues. Fascia is our biological fabric that plays a vital role in support, posture, and stability.
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Written by leading American practitioners, the Oxford American Handbooks of Medicine each offer a pocket-sized overview of an entire specialty, featuring instant access to guidance on the conditions that are most likely to be encountered. Precise and prescriptive, the handbooks offer up-to-date advice on examination, investigations, common procedures, and in-patient care.
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Over the next 2 years approx 50 titles will be published by Anshan, covering a comprehensive range of disciplines within medicine and health sciences. The full series will develop into an outstanding resource for any medical library and each individual title will be a great value-for-money addition to a personal collection, or for use as a portable reference for work or home.
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Obesity is one of the biggest public health challenges in the 21st century. Devising effective policy and practice to combat childhood obesity is a high priority for many governments and health professionals internationally.
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This book aims at providing an overview and in depth analysis of recent developments in stem cell research and therapy. It is composed of recently published review articles that went through peer-review process.
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