Product Description: For the first time, a mother and daughter tell both sides of an eating disorder struggle. In an era when weight and eating issues are more prominent than ever, Distorted brings the causes, impact, and struggle for resolution and recovery involved with the anorexia and bulimia into sharp relief. Benson and her daughter Taryn each tell their sides of the story, illustrating the psychological issues that underlined the beginning and spread of the disease, the therapies, and programs they struggled with, the consequences the disease had on their family life and emotional health, and, ultimately, the significant consequences and responsibilities that evolved as Taryn reached adulthood. In this revealing back-and-forth telling of a story, Lorri and Taryn Benson reveal the difficult journey they traveled toward health for their family, for themselves, and for their relationship. They demonstrate the many mistakes and misconceptions they each had to face throughout the progress of the disease. And in the end, they explain how that journey was resolved through loving communication and an ability to take responsibility for their own lives.

Distorted: How a Mother and Daughter Unraveled the Truth, the Lies, and the Realities of an Eating Disorder (Paperback)

Product Description: Lyme disease has become the fastest-growing infectious disease transmitted by ticks (or other vectors) in the United States, but still remains a condition that is frequently misunderstood, overlooked, and misdiagnosed. Written by a leading practitioner of Lyme-aware medicine, this comprehensive guide will reveal to you the facts about this very serious disease - symptoms of which can mimic cardiac, neurological, and rheumatoid conditions - and will tell you what you need to know about the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of Lyme disease.

The Lyme Disease Solution (Paperback)

Product Description: The book's greatest strength is that it serves as a source of dozens of ideas for meaningful activities for persons with dementing illness... This book should be required reading for the adult day-care staff with an interest in dementia. But this reviewer hopes the book will find a wider audience. Patient educators and counselors will find this a valuable reference and teaching guide; the book will be especially helpful to those counselors who work with families caring for persons with dementing illness. Families living with the day-to-day stress of caregiving will find hope in the book's optimism and viewed that we can strive to bring out the best in persons with dementia.

Doing Things: A Guide to Programing Activities for Persons with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders (Paperback)

Autoimmune diseases affect 50 million Americans, mostly women, who frequently remain undiagnosed and untreated, or are treated ineffectively. Living Well with Autoimmune Disease helps readers pinpoint symptoms, find the right practitioner, and learn cutting-edge approaches to reduce symptoms and reverse their disease.

Author Mary Shomon, who has the immune disease Hashimoto's thyroiditis, explains how the immune system is supposed to work, and what can go wrong. Then she discusses more than 20 specific autoimmune diseases--such as chronic fatigue syndrome, inflammatory bowel disease, lupus, thyroid disease, Graves' disease, rheumatoid arthritis, type 1 diabetes, fibromyalgia, scleroderma, and multiple sclerosis. For each, she covers symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.

Living Well with Autoimmune Disease: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You...That You Need to Know (Paperback)

Product Description: This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program.

A treatise on the diseases of females. Disorders of menstruation. By John C. Peters, M.D. (Paperback)