Proactive advice to maintaining your health is
available at the library. Here are some new books that can help.
George Demirakos is the
author of Fix My Knee: A Guide to
Preventing and Healing from Injury and Strain. He is a licensed physical
therapist who has worked with Canadian professional hockey, tennis, and Olympic
teams. Demirakos explains how the knee works, why your knee is at risk for
injury, and the different types of knee injuries. Then he discusses different
techniques that help such as acupuncture, yoga, Pilates, cortisone injections,
and more. Strengthening exercises, accompanied by photographs, are included.
You
Are Getting Sleepy: Lifestyle-Based Solutions for Insomnia provides
techniques based on research to induce sleepiness. To aid with this, authors
Paul Glovinsky and Arthur Spielman discuss changes to make to your daily
routines and show you how to use cognitive behavioral treatments. They also
instruct on managing anxiety, depression, an out-of-sync biological clock, and
dependence on sleep aids in order to lessen insomnia.
The
Diabetes Carbohydrate & Fat Gram Guide, 5th edition,
is a concise guide to preventing or delaying the complications of diabetes. The
reader learns how to plan meals using carbohydrate counting, calorie counting,
and food lists as published by the American Diabetes Association. The main part
of the book consists of nutrient tables that include the amount of
carbohydrates, sodium, sugar, fiber, protein, and fats from a wide variety of foods, along with calorie counts and serving
sizes.
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