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Product Description: Smart women understand that taking care of their health is essential to maintaining an active lifestyle. This comprehensive guide shows you how to work with your body instead of against it to stay healthy and happy through menopause and beyond. Written by two practicing doctors who have been close girlfriends since they met during medical training at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, The Smart Woman's Guide to Midlife and Beyond includes the doctors' own personal experiences, patient stories from their medical practices, and all the information you need to age with good health, grace, and humor.

• Paperback: 280 pages
• Publisher: New Harbinger Publications; 1 edition (September 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1572245565
• ISBN-13: 978-1572245563
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #10,915 in Books

The Smart Woman's Guide to Midlife and Beyond: A No Nonsense Approach to Staying Healthy After 50 (Paperback)

Product Description: Nothing beats the pleasure of running. Unfortunately, many runners are slowed down by injuries that could be avoided through changes in training or technique.

• Paperback: 184 pages
• Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers; 1 edition (December 5, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0736077456
• ISBN-13: 978-0736077453
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #36,784 in Books

Running Well (Paperback)

Product Description: Weight training increases strength and stamina, improves balance and co-ordination and, by turning fat to muscle, will give you a leaner, healthier, sexier body. There are several proven health benefits for women, too, including a decreased risk of osteoporosis, heart disease and arthritis. In this book you will discover that weight training is easy - in fact all it takes is two or three 20-minute sessions per week!

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Hamlyn (January 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0600619222
• ISBN-13: 978-0600619222
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 7.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.7 ounces
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,505,615 in Books

Weight Work for Women (Paperback)

Product Description: Features of the Eat This Not That! Supermarket Survival Guide: - the 20 Worst Foods in the Supermarket - the Ultimate Supermarket Label Decoder - 17 Secrets the Food Industry Doesn't Want You to Know - Shop Once, Eat for a Week - How to Stock the Perfect Pantry Investigative, comprehensive, and compelling, this guide helps consumers navigate their shopping carts through the thousands of nutritional pitfalls in every grocery store to help you lose weight, save cash, and bring home the tastiest, healthiest choices every time.

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Rodale Books; 1 edition (December 30, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1605298387
• ISBN-13: 978-1605298382
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 6.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #21 in Books

Eat This Not That! Supermarket Survival Guide: The No-Diet Weight Loss Solution (Paperback)

Product Description: In The Essential Green You!, the third volume in the New York Times bestselling Green This! series, Deirdre Imus shares tips on how to "green" the way you take care of yourself, whether with the food you eat or the clothes you wear, or the cosmetics, toiletries, and hair products you use every single day. Deirdre provides detailed, practical advice that includes:

- How to find everything from organic groceries to nontoxic personal care items

- Toxic ingredients to avoid in the products you use every day

- Where to find clothes that are both environment-friendly and fashionable

- Healthy alternatives to commonly used medications

- How to make better eating habits a priority and live more consciously

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster (December 30, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 141654125X
• ISBN-13: 978-1416541257
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #42,615 in Books

The Essential Green You: Easy Ways to Detox Your Diet, Your Body, and Your Life (Green This!) (Paperback)

Product Description: From the award-winning champion of culinary simplicity who gave us the bestselling How to Cook Everything and How to Cook Everything Vegetarian comes Food Matters, a plan for responsible eating that's as good for the planet as it is for your weight and your health.

We are finally starting to acknowledge the threat carbon emissions pose to our ozone layer, but few people have focused on the extent to which our consumption of meat contributes to global warming. Think about it this way: In terms of energy consumption, serving a typical family-of-four steak dinner is the rough equivalent of driving around in an SUV for three hours while leaving all the lights on at home.

• Hardcover: 336 pages
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster (December 30, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1416575642
• ISBN-13: 978-1416575641
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,426 in Books

Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes (Hardcover)

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Triumph Books (IL) (December 24, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 160078206X
• ISBN-13: 978-1600782060
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #117,604 in Books

101 Fat Burning Workouts & Diet Strategies for Women (101 Workouts) (Paperback)

Product Description: Starred Review. This excellent addition to the literature on women's health and weight loss will help veterans of the dieting roller-coaster overcome hunger, build lean muscle mass, burn fat and maintain energy and mood levels. Developed by the editors of Women's Health magazine, the eight-week program consists of two eating plans, with each of the five-to-six daily meals containing a balance of protein, fat and carbohydrate.

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Rodale Books (December 23, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1605298972
• ISBN-13: 978-1605298979
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #412,668 in Books

Women's Health Perfect Body Diet: The Ultimate Weight Loss and Workout Plan to Drop Stubborn Pounds and Get Fit for Life! (Womens Health) (Paperback)

Product Description: Satisfying our hardwired instincts has been critical to our survival for as long as we have been human. That's why we eat when food is available, choose the most calorie-dense foods, and hate the feeling of hunger. Today, these same drives are leading millions down the path of obesity. But Dr. Susan B. Roberts, an internationally recognized nutrition researcher at Tufts University, shows how to turn our food instincts into an engine for permanent, healthy weight loss.

• Hardcover: 338 pages
• Publisher: Workman Publishing Company (December 17, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761150196
• ISBN-13: 978-0761150190
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 6.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #551 in Books

The Instinct Diet: Use Your Five Food Instincts to Lose Weight and Keep it Off (Hardcover)

Product Description: For the 16.5 million yoga practitioners in America, Swedish yoga instructor Ulrica Norberg's fresh look at Hatha yoga ("the way of the body") will be a perfect entrée to the art of exercising to produce a strong mind and a harmonious soul. Focusing on pacing not perfection, Norberg explains proper breathing and asanas, poses developed to increase consciousness, relaxation, strength, and concentration. Throughout, she maintains a thoughtful balance between philosophy and instruction, and offers step-by-step directions and wisdom for personal and communal well-being. Lavishly illustrated with gorgeous full-color photographs, Hatha Yoga is sure to inspire beginning and advanced yoga practitioners alike.

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing (April 8, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1602392188
• ISBN-13: 978-1602392182
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #706,276 in Books

Hatha Yoga: The Body's Path to Balance, Focus, and Strength (Paperback)