Strength for Sports Performance DVD or High Powered Plyometrics

Strength for Sports Performance DVD

Author: Allen Hedrick

Bring your strongest effort to the field, court, or mat. Strength for Sports Performance provides the tools to build a program for your needs, your sport, and your goals.

Through a series of self-assessments, you will identify areas of improvement and establish a baseline for your training regimen. Then, incorporate functional strength exercises designed for the movement patterns, muscle contractions, and energy demands of a variety of sports. In addition, learn to include nonstandard equipment exercises, using items such as chains and tires, to complement your standard program with variable and dynamic resistance training.

Sample training programs may also be customized to your sport's seasonal workout schedule and position demands. Best of all, these programs and workouts may be printed from the DVD, so you can take instruction directly into the gym. Developed by Allen Hedrick, the head strength and conditioning coach at the United States Air Force Academy, the Strength for Sports Performance DVD will help you maximize training time for peak performance in competition.

Human Kinetics DVDs are coded for universal playback and can be played in all regions of the world.

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High-Powered Plyometrics

Author: James C Radcliff

The depth and breadth of this book make it a must for both sports andconditioning coaches, as well as for anyone involved in reconditioning or rehabilitation. Its scientific basis and background are nicely complemented by its practical application.

Natures Sports Pharmacy or Let Them Eat Prozac

Nature's Sports Pharmacy

Author: Frederick C Hatfield

Herbs are "hot" today, especially in sports. Athletes in all sports will benefit from this comprehensive and integrated health program based on the power of herbs and herb-based phytochemicals. This authoritative resource shows readers the natural way to build muscle mass, improve strength and energy levels, sharpen mental focus, prevent or reduce body fat, and develop the ability to adapt to the stresses of intense training. It also includes a complete glossary of commonly used herbs.

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Let Them Eat Prozac: The Unhealthy Relationship Between the Pharmaceutical Industry and Depression

Author: David Healy

Prozac. Paxil. Zoloft. Turn on your television and you are likely to see a commercial for one of the many selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) on the market. We hear a lot about them, but do we really understand how these drugs work and what risks are involved for anyone who uses them?

Let Them Eat Prozac explores the history of SSRIs—from their early development to their latest marketing campaigns—and the controversies that surround them. Initially, they seemed like wonder drugs for those with mild to moderate depression—patients take just one daily dose, and unlike the tranquilizers that were popular in the 1960s, they supposedly did not lead to addiction. When Prozac was released in the late 1980s, David Healy was among the psychiatrists who prescribed it. But he soon observed that some of these patients became agitated and even attempted suicide. Studies were soon published, citing numerous cases in which patients became anxious and reported increased suicidal thoughts while taking Prozac. Could the new wonder drug actually be making patients worse?

Healy draws on his own research and expertise to demonstrate the potential hazards associated with these drugs. He intersperses case histories with insider accounts of the research leading to the development and approval of SSRIs as a treatment for depression. Let Them Eat Prozac clearly demonstrates that the problems go much deeper than a disturbing side-effect of a particular drug. Current FDA regulations encourage drug companies to patent a specific compound and market it effectively to a large population on the basis of minimal effectiveness in a handful of trials.

The pharmaceutical industry would like us to believe that SSRIs can safely treat depression, anxiety, and a host of other mental problems. But as Let Them Eat Prozac reveals, this "cure" may be worse than the disease.

 

David Healy is a former secretary of the British Association for Psychopharmacology and author of over 120 articles and 12 books, including The Antidepressant Era and The Creation of Psychopharmacology.

Library Journal

Recent Food & Drug Administration hearings have explored links between antidepressant use and suicide. Expert testimony on the safety of these drugs conflicts, and pharmaceutical companies have been accused of covering up evidence of serious side effects. In his timely new book, psychiatrist Healy (Univ. of Wales Coll. of Medicine, U.K.; The Antidepressant Era) chronicles these very issues at length, drawing on his extensive experience in antidepressant studies and involvement in legal actions against drug manufacturers. (He was fired from a position at the University of Toronto for his outspokenness.) In effect, Healy is continuing the conversation started by Peter D. Kramer (Listening to Prozac) and Peter Breggin (Talking Back to Prozac; The Anti-Depressant Fact Book), both of whom are psychiatrists concerned with the way antidepressants are being marketed and what the current love affair with mood-altering drugs means in our culture. Healy has the advantage of access to internal pharmaceutical industry documents and makes a strong case. Somewhat academic in tone, his book includes extensive notes to relevant case law as well as medical literature. Recommended for larger public libraries and special collections in public policy, medicine, and public health.-Eris Weaver, Redwood Health Lib., Petaluma, CA Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

What People Are Saying

Jonathan Cole
The author is an excellent historian who offers a gripping interpretation of the role of the pharmaco-industrial complex in the introduction of SSRIs. His recommendation for a funded agency that would carefully evaluate the benefits and harms of marketed drugs is a superb idea and much needed.
—Harvard Medical School

John Le Carrй
This very important book will demonstrate beyond your worst dreams that the commercial needs of Big Pharma are the natural-born enemy of independent scientific research.

Heal Yourself with Flowers and Other Essences or The Fats of Life

Heal Yourself with Flowers and Other Essences

Author: Nikki Bradford

This groundbreaking new title is the first to bring this wonderfully simple, gentle and effective therapy to a general market.Being hailed as the new medicine for the 21st century, flower essences are already used successfully by pain clinics, child psychotherapists, and vets, as well as all manner of complementary therapists. These miraculous essences act subtly but effectively to ease depression, restore energy and vitality, purify and detox, heal past traumas, release suppressed emotions and bring relief for many other problems. Now you too can experience the phenomenal power and energy of these essences which goes straight to the heart of the most challenging problems, fast! They are perfectly safe with no side effects so are ideal for self-help and for giving to family and friends. They work equally well on women, men, children, animals and even plants. Each entry includes a brief description of the essence, the negative points it can address and the positive invitation it offers.

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The Fats of Life

Author: Caroline M Pond

Fat has a bad reputation in modern society despite being an essential part of our health and well-being. Across the animal kingdom, fat plays all sorts of vital roles in energy storage and insulation for migration, breeding and mating. Written by an expert in the field, this intriguing popular science book fills the gap between unscientific comments about dietary fats, weight control and the health hazards of high- or low-fat diets found in magazines; and technical medical reports about lipid biochemistry and obesity in animals and humans. It explains in clear, nontechnical language where fats come from and how the body handles them; the natural roles of fats; and the biology of feasting and fasting, and fattening and slimming in wild animals as well as people. All readers with an interest in fat and its uses and manifestations will find this book an enjoyable and informative read.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgements
	Prologue	1
1	Introduction to fats	5
2	Introduction to fatty tissues	27
3	Diverse fatty acids	77
4	Lipids in action	113
5	The functions of fattening	159
6	The functions of fat	195
7	Fat people	217
8	Fat and health	267
	Epilogue	313
	Notes and references	315
	Index	329

Understanding Chronic Pain or Encyclopedia of Medicinal Plants

Understanding Chronic Pain: A Doctor Talks to His Patients

Author: Robert T Cochran

Chronic pain, whether in the form of headache, fibromyalgia, backache, neuralgia, endometriosis, or countless other states of painfulness, affects millions. If you are one of them, spending your days in incessant pain and your nights in sleepless, hopeless despondency, then this book is for you. Robert T. Cochran Jr., MD uses his more than thirty years of experience among victims of chronic pain and the discoveries that came from those encounters to speak to those who suffer from this disease. This expanded second edition now includes a glossary, index, and up-to-date pharmaceutical list.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments	ix
	Drugs Useful for Pain	xi
	Introduction	xiii
1.	Failure to Recover	3
2.	What is Chronic Pain?	9
3.	Identifiers and Risk Factors	13
4.	Mind-Soul Disease	23
5.	Drugs for Pain	39
6.	Memory	54
7.	Triavil	64
8.	The Painful Brain	77
9.	Sexual Abuse	85
10.	Referred Pain	95
11.	Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy	99
12.	Kindling	110
13.	Substance Abuse	117
14.	Bipolarity	125
15.	Chronic Fatigue	143
16.	Migraine	155
17.	Neurogenic Inflammation	169
18.	Attention Deficit Disorder	179
19.	Summing Up	192
	Epilogue	200
	About the Author	202

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Encyclopedia of Medicinal Plants (2 Volume Set)

Author: George D Pamplona Roger

A 2-volume complete, up-to-date, and scientific encyclopedia, the Encyclopedia of Medicinal Plants is based on rigorous botanical, pharmaceutical and chemical research.

• More than 470 plants botanically and medically described and classified by diseases
• Natural treatments explained and illustrated in simple and clear language. Now the healing virtues of medicinal plants and their practical applications are in reach of everyone.
• Instructions on the therapeutic preparation of fomentations, compresses, poultices, infusions, ointments, baths, cold extracts, and more...
• Numerous charts describing the most frequent disorders of each part and system of the body, and the plants that have the active ingredients to heal them
• Detailed explanation of the complex vegetable world, how to identify medicinal plants, and what parts of the plants to use medicinally.
• Practical step-by-step instructions for the preservation and administering of medicinal herbs and medicinal plants
• Beautifully illustrated and photographed throughout
• Includes artists renditions of most plants, and actual in-the-wild pictures of most plants.
• Includes synonyms and alternate names for most plants, as well as Spanish and French names for each plant.
• Includes warnings and special considerations for any plants that need them, including interaction precautions, sensitivity and substitution advice, and dosage restrictions.

Volume 1 - Generalities

• The vegetable world
• Gathering and preservation
• Methods for preparing and using plants
• Active principles
• Caution: Plant toxicity
• From the plant to the medicine

Volume 2 - Descriptions

• Plants for each body system
• Plants for each organ
• Plants for the skin
• Plants for the metabolism
• Plants for infectious disease
• Plants for other ailments

Keeping Mozart in Mind or Good Fats Bad Fats

Keeping Mozart in Mind

Author: Gordon L Shaw

The demand for math and science skills in our technology-driven world is at a premium, and yet U.S. students continue to lag behind many other industrialized countries in these areas. This book, based on studies conducted on 8000 elementary school-aged children, proposes that not only is there a relationship between music and math comprehension, but that music can be utilized to heighten higher brain function and improve math skills. The enclosed CD-Rom includes (1) a recording of Allegro con spirito from Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major (K. 448), by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, performed by Murray Perahia and Radu Lupu, courtesy of Sony ClassicalTM, and (2) a descriptive interactive version of S.T.A.R.TM (Spatial-Temporal Animation Reasoning) software program. While this book's discussion of the breakthroughs in understanding of spatial-temporal reasoning abilities will be of particular interest to neuroscientists and cognitive researchers, the book is also accessible to parents and educators.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Preface to the First Edition
	Preface to the Second Edition
	Acknowledgments
	Prologue
Pt. I	Higher Brain Function: Music, Mathematics, Chess
Ch. 1	History, Anecdotes, Correlations, and Interviews	3
Ch. 2	Spatial-Temporal and Language-Analytic Reasoning in Learning Math and Science	17
Ch. 3	Music Enhances Spatial-Temporal Reasoning	29
Ch. 4	Implications: Scientific, Educational, Clinical	35
Pt. II	Structured Brain and Symmetry
Ch. 5	Symmetry as a Common Theme	43
Ch. 6	Introduction to the Brain: Basic Brain Features and Brain Imaging	53
Ch. 7	Mountcastle Theory of Mammalian Cortex: Internal Neural Language of Higher Brain Function	73
Ch. 8	Trion Model and Symmetries	87
Ch. 9	Trion Music: Reasoning and Creativity	121
Ch. 10	Trion Model of Higher Brain Function: Prediction that Music Enhances Spatial-Temporal Reasoning	141
Pt. III	Tests of Predictions in Human Behavior
Ch. 11	Highly Accurate Mental Rehearsals: Correlation with Top Performance in Sports	147
Ch. 12	Listening to Mozart Sonata (K.448) Enhances Spatial-Temporal Reasoning: The "Mozart Effect"	159
Ch. 13	Music Training Enhances Spatial-Temporal Reasoning in Preschool Children	169
Ch. 14	Music Training Plus Spatial-Temporal Training Equals Improved Math	185
Pt. IV	Tests from Brain Imaging and Animal Studies
Ch. 15	EEG and fMRI Studies of the Mozart Effect	205
Ch. 16	Symmetry in Primate Higher Brain Function	211
Ch. 17	Musical Structure of the Internal Neural Language of the Brain: Using Music as the Rosetta Stone to Help Decode this Internal Language	229
Ch. 18	Animal Behavior While Listening to Music and Doing Higher Brain Functions	239
Pt. V	The Future of Music as a Window into Higher Brain Function
Ch. 19	Child Brain Development and Adult Brain Reorganization	255
Ch. 20	Education: Music Training Plus Spatial-Temporal Training Improves Math	269
Ch. 21	Clinical Implications	281
Ch. 22	The Spatial-Temporal Thinking Machine	295
Ch. 23	Thoughts	301
Pt. VI	New Scientific and Educational Results
Ch. 24	Science Updates and Breakthroughs	325
Ch. 25	Revolution in Math Education	341
	Glossary	357
	Notes	369
	References	387
	Index	401

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Good Fats, Bad Fats: An Indispensable Guide to All the Fats You're Ever Likely to Encounter

Author: Rosemary Stanton

Most of us regard fat as the number-one food enemy — the element in food that stands between us and good health. But most people are unable to make informed choices about which foods to eat and which to avoid because they lack the basic facts about fats and are unaware of the differences between them. In Good Fats, Bad Fats, nutritionist Rosemary Stanton provides readers with an indispensable resource that looks at all types of fats — saturated, poly- and monounsaturated, cholesterol, evening primrose oil, omega-3s, and omega-6s — and explains in simple language what they are, what they do, which ones we should be eating, and which we should be avoiding or eating in moderation. A concise guide to the health pros and cons of every type of fat, the book provides information about how different fats are related to excess weight, heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, and various types of cancer. Illustrated with nine charts, this easy-to-read, informative guide will show that when it comes to diet and good health, all fats are not created equal.