Explains everything you need to know to make this nutrient work for you.

This is an easy-to-follow diet for losing weight, stabilizing blood sugar and insulin and reducing the risk of diabetes.

Building on the tremendous interest in health, alternative medicine, and nutritional supplementation, the User's Guide to Nutritional Supplements Series is designed to answer the consumer's basic questions about diseases, conventional and alternative therapies, and individual dietary supplements.Written by leading experts and science writers, The User's Guide to Nutritional Supplements Series covers a range of popular alternative medicine and health issues, including specific major diseases, alternative therapies, and vitamins, minerals, herbs, and other nutritional supplements.The User's Guide to Vitamin E explains this remarkable vitamin's benefits and how you can easily put it to work for you.

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"Syndrome X proactively lays out a nutritious, tasty, and simple diet plan to get us back to the basics of healthy nutrition."–Lendon H. Smith, M.D., New York Times bestselling author of Feed Your Body Right

"Syndrome X is the best new book to help you understand the facts about nutrition, health, and aging. . . . It is full of new information and insights most readers have never had access to before. Everyone who values his or her health will want to read the book and then individualize the program to suit his or her needs–the authors have made this easier than ever to do."–Richard A. Kunin, M.D., author of Mega-Nutrition

What is Syndrome X? It’s a resistance to insulin–the hormone needed to burn food for energy–combined with high cholesterol or triglycerides, high blood pressure, or too much body fat. Syndrome X ages you prematurely and significantly increases your risk of heart disease, hypertension, obesity, eye disease, nervous system disorders, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, cancer, and other age-related diseases.

Syndrome X is the first book to tell you how to fight the epidemic disorder that is derailing the health of nearly a third of North Americans. It outlines a complete three-step program–including easy-to-follow diets, light physical activity, and readily available vitamins and nutritional supplements–that will safeguard you against developing Syndrome X or reverse it if you already have it.

"Syndrome X proactively lays out a nutritious, tasty, and simple diet plan to get us back to the basics of healthy nutrition."–Lendon H. Smith, M.D., New York Times bestselling author of Feed Your Body Right

"Syndrome X is a well-written, easy–to–follow guide that provides life–saving information for the whole family. This book offers a smart and easy solution to the problem of insulin resistance. It also provides terrific information on how to lose weight without losing your mind in the process. The recipes are great—you'll want to keep a copy in your kitchen."–Carol Colman, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Shed 10 Years in 10 Weeks and Stop Depression Now

"Syndrome X could very well be the next public health crisis, and the information in this book can keep you from becoming another statistic. The nutritional and supplement advice in Syndrome X should help you stay healthy and lean."–Fred Pescatore, M.D.,author of Feed Your Kids Well and Thin For Good

"Syndrome X clearly shows the importance of antioxidant supplementation in keeping you healthy and preventing disease."–Lester Packer, Ph.D., author of The Antioxidant Miracle; director of the Packer Lab, The University of California at Berkeley

"Syndrome X is the best new book to help you understand the facts about nutrition, health, and aging. . . . It is full of new information and insights most readers have never had access to before. Everyone who values his or her health will want to read the book and then individualize the program to suit his or her needs the authors have made this easier than ever to do."–Richard A. Kunin, M.D., author of Mega-Nutrition

"A much-needed guide for the millions who have Syndome X and don't know it until they suffer serious health consequences. I am recommending it to my many patients who have this problem."–Priscilla Slagle, M.D., author of The Way Up from Down

"Superb. . . . The concepts in Syndrome X need to be understood by every person seeking or giving advice about symptoms like fatigue, lack of vigor, and mental fuzziness."–Hugh D. Riordan, M.D., President, the Center for the Improvement of Human Functioning

Do you remember the last time you worried needlessly? The next time you start ruminating, pick up a pencil and follow these steps: (1) Jot down what's on your mind. (2) List a few things that you can do to address your worries. If the situation is truly out of your control, it can be a relief just to acknowledge it. (3) Later, look back your worries and evaluate them in hindsight. Each page has two tear-off tabs so that you can "tag" the subject as "Worth My Worry" or "NOT Worth My Worry." You'll be shocked to see how often things aren't as worry-worthy as they seem. No Worries is also filled with inspiring quotes and ideas about conquering worries, all set in a bold and empowering design. The package is uplifting, giftable, and holds the promise of lightening your load. Worrying comes naturally to journaling as a topic, but this journal offers a way to redirect your thinking and move on to a more positive place.

Adult-onset, or type 2, diabetes has reached epidemic proportions in the United States and is on the rise worldwide. In this User's Guide, nutritionist Melissa Diane Smith is clear on the cause of diabetes: the increasing consumption of highly processed and refined foods, which boost blood sugar and insulin levels. Smith describes a healthy easy-to-follow diet for losing weight, stabilizing blood sugar and insulin, and reducing the risk of diabetes.

In the winter of 1996–97, state and federal authorities shot or shipped to slaughter more than 1,100 Yellowstone National Park bison. Since that time, thousands more have been killed or hazed back into the park, as wildlife managers struggle to accommodate an animal that does not recognize man-made borders. Tensions over the hunting and preservation of the bison, an animal sacred to many Native Americans and an icon of the American West, are at least as old as the nation's first national park. Established in 1872, in part “to protect against the wanton destruction of the fish and game,� Yellowstone has from the first been dedicated to preserving wildlife along with the park’s other natural wonders. The Smithsonian Institution, itself founded in 1848, viewed the park’s resources as critical to its own mission, looking to Yellowstone for specimens to augment its natural history collections, and later to stock the National Zoo. How this relationship developed around the conservation and display of American wildlife, with these two distinct organizations coming to mirror one another, is the little-known story Diane Smith tells in Yellowstone and the Smithsonian. Even before its founding as a national park, and well before the creation of the National Park Service in 1916, the Yellowstone region served as a source of specimens for scientists centered in Washington, D.C. Tracing the Yellowstone-Washington reciprocity to the earliest government-sponsored exploration of the region, Smith provides background and context for many of the practices, such as animal transfers and captive breeding, pursued a century later by a new generation of conservation biologists. She shows how Yellowstone, through its relationship with the Smithsonian, the National Museum, and ultimately the National Zoo, helped elevate the iconic nature of representative wildlife of the American West, particularly bison. Her book helps all of us, not least of all historians and biologists, to better understand the wildlife management and conservation policies that followed.

There's never been a better time to live and work in Rural America. Distance and isolation once defined America's rural landscape- but not anymore. The technology revolution created a new opportunity equation for small towns and rural communities across our Nation. Now, entrepreneurs are leveraging technology, combing it with scenic beauty and small town spirit and prospering in rural locations. Join us as we explore Rural Entrepreneurship and Economic Development, Politics, Technology and Communications Infrastructure, Distance Learning, Remote Healthcare, the Arts, Energy, the Environment, Guns, and the location Lottery. Included in the book are questions for Community Leaders, Residents and Potential Residents to determine whether they are looking at a good fit and maximizing their communities opportunities for success. For anyone interested in promoting Rural America's vitality, living there, or thinking of moving there - this book's for you.

With tips, recipes, and names of the healthiest gluten-free food brands and products, this two-year, month-to-month guide is a handbook for living the gluten-free lifestyle like no other.

It's perfect for Mainland seniors who have always seen Hawaii as the Paradise to which they might retire. I congratulate you for writing a book that will be of so much help to future Hawaii retirees.--Wm. Carse, Professor Emeritus, University of Hawaii at Hilo ...excellent source of information...very honest advice--Bill Taylor, Hawaii Island Journal All you need to know about retiring in isles is in this book.--Hawaii Tribune Herald The average person can retire to Hawaii. How? The answers are found within the pages of Living and Retiring in Hawaii. James R. Smith, Ph.D., and spouse Diane Smith, B.S., detail the options available to emigres, including: Whether to rent, buy or build and what to look for in a new home. Retirement communities, catered living, and assisted living. Choosing an island--Oahu, Hawaii, Maui, Kauai, Molokai or Lanai. Recreation and leisure pursuits. Living and Retiring in Hawaii focuses on the health considerations and lifestyle adjustments that predominantly concern retirees. The Smiths demonstrate how to secure a dream retirement in Hawaii by successfully forecasting cost of living expenses and planning for maximum enjoyment.

Washington Roebling is well known as the man who supervised construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. His path to overseeing that monumental task began during the Civil War. In addition to his brave, dramatic actions at Gettysburg, his Civil War service was remarkable: artilleryman, bridge builder, scout, balloonist, mapmaker, engineer, and staff officer. His story reveals much about Gettysburg but also about Civil War intelligence and engineering and the politics and infighting within the Army of the Potomac's high command. Roebling's service-leadership, engineering, decision-making, and managing personalities and politics-prepared him well for overseeing the Brooklyn Bridge.

Globally, far too many discussions about Indigenous governance and development are dominated by accounts of disadvantage, deficit and failure. This book paints a different international picture, testifying to Indigenous peoples as agents of governance innovation and successful developers in their own right, telling stories in their words, from their own experiences and countries. From Indigenous voices, we hear alternative concepts and measures of effectiveness, legitimacy, success and sustainability. Indigenous stories and voices are captured as case study chapters, written in lively, clear language about what is happening that is promising and productive in Indigenous self-determined governance for self-determined development in Canada, Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand and the USA; all English colonial-settler countries.

Globally, far too many discussions about Indigenous governance and development are dominated by accounts of disadvantage, deficit and failure. This book paints a different international picture, testifying to Indigenous peoples as agents of governance innovation and successful developers in their own right, telling stories in their words, from their own experiences and countries. From Indigenous voices, we hear alternative concepts and measures of effectiveness, legitimacy, success and sustainability. Indigenous stories and voices are captured as 20 case study chapters, written in lively, clear language about what is happening that is promising and productive in Indigenous self-determined governance for self-determined development in Canada, Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand and the USA; all English colonial-settler countries.