Readers who suffere from low thyroid, or think they might, can find the missing answers. For the person who's been told "it's not your thyroid," without then being told convincingly what the problem is. This book provides readers with the knowledge needed to communicate and work with their docteors to get the treatment they deserve.

Readers who suffere from low thyroid, or think they might, can find the missing answers. For the person who's been told it's not your thyroid, without then being told convincingly what the problem is. This book provides readers with the knowledge needed to communicate and work with their docteors to get the treatment they deserve.

WHAT ABOUT MY WEIGHT? is one physician's answer to the near-universal frustration he hears from patients about their weight-management efforts. Not just another weight-loss program, no simple, easy solutions are promised. The notion is banished that "I'm eating right" matters one iota, if the pounds aren't coming off, or worse, are still piling on. WHAT ABOUT MY WEIGHT? is an "anti-program," if you will, starting from the premise that weight control is far more complex than simply eating less and exercising more, however important those interventions might be-and just as humans are widely diverse in general, so are the causes of and solutions for obesity. Hence, when a diet or fitness program or magic pill works for one, there is an excellent chance the same will not work as well, if at all for the next. Rather than presenting the latest and greatest plan, WHAT ABOUT MY WEIGHT? instead takes readers on an educational tour through the mechanisms of human energy balance and what varied factors, touching virtually all aspects of modern society, impact the successes or failures of one's weight-control efforts. It aims to give the individual the necessary tools, and a strategy for figuring out what combination of changes in the areas of nutrition and physical activity and health care and more will work best for him or her to achieve a healthier body weight, preventing or improving diabetes, cholesterol problems, and cardiovascular diseases. It is chockfull of practical advice, ranging from not comparing yourself to others, especially your husband; to how to read and use food labels; to how often to weigh yourself (daily ); to ignoring marketing traps and hype; to throwing away hackneyed assumptions regarding the benefits of exercise and diet drinks and juicing, and the dangers of dietary fat, coffee and alcohol. And while not by any stretch solely responsible for the obesity epidemic, sweet beverages-whether flavored with artificial no-calorie sweeteners, or high-fructose corn syrup-are a particular target in the crosshairs of WHAT ABOUT MY WEIGHT? Everybody struggling to lose or maintain weight owes it to themselves to give this book a read.

IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT meets DELIVERANCE meets THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE. During a 1967 Ku Klux Klan uprising ex-Nashville-PI Sherry Russell is drawn into the investigation, in rural Alabama, of the "Lavonia Massacre"-a heinous racial hate crime counting amongst its victims the brother and pregnant sister-in-law of Sherry's African-American housekeeper. Sherry takes the case partly as a respite from her burly husband's increasing pressure to start a family, the prospects of motherhood as daunting to this Betty Friedan disciple as facing down Klan killers, wielding chains, and baseball bats, even live rattlesnakes and the odd Tommy gun. One of the murdered Negroes, Montie Collins, was a sharecropper charged with killing a white farmer after an open-and-shut investigation by the bigoted local sheriff. When Sherry's fresh feminine perspective deftly clears Collins of the earlier killing, the Klan's justification for the Massacre is lost, threatening the machinations of a megalomaniacal Imperial Wizard. Suddenly square in the Klan's crosshairs Sherry picks her way along a dangerous trail-aided by a grizzled civil rights reporter, and an eight-fingered Klan preacher-to more murder, a ruthless Klan bombing, and an FBI counterintelligence operation run unconstitutionally amok. But when the lead agent needs a woman to infiltrate a big Klan rally, a blown cover strands Sherry at ground zero of a race war to end all race wars.

MAFIA MONEY LAUNDERING. BLACKMAIL. MUSIC ROW. In 1960s Nashville Sherry Russell is the daughter and ex-fiancee of hardnosed newspapermen-"a 35-25-35 blonde, with gams like Marilyn Monroe's"-part Janet Leigh in Psycho, part January Jones in Mad Men, pinches here and there of Scarlett O'Hara and Lisbeth Salander. After falling from grace as a starched-white-uniform nurse the year The Feminine Mystique rocked America, Sherry is reborn a private detective, cutting her teeth on her own philandering police-reporter fiance. Then amid big-money fund-raising to build the Country Music Hall of Fame, Sherry is hired to stop, or perhaps fuel, a scandal targeting the sexpot queen of country-western, threatening to squelch forever the Nashville Sound. The case leads from the Grand Ole Opry, to Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau, to sin-city Biloxi, Mississippi-playground of East Coast organized crime, and epicenter of a grisly swath of murder, graft, and corruption by the infamous "Dixie Mafia." Virginal Sherry gets quickly in over her head on the Biloxi Strip, bounced between competing criminal gangs, and while chivalry in 1965 isn't quite dead, this detective gets treated like a lady for only so long-down mean streets where "no nice girls" walk-encountering the "only one-armed hit man east of the Mississippi," and making a blood enemy out of a misogynistic Mafia money man called "Sally Snake Eyes." This debut Sherry Russell Thriller marches the sub-genre of historical mysteries featuring nurses turned hardboiled PIs-Winspear's Maisie Dobbs in post-WWI London, Stanley's Miranda Corbie in circa-1940 San Francisco-firmly into the 1960s South.