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Quick Answers for a Healthy Start
A healthy pregnancy starts with a well-balanced diet, but there's much more to know. For example: True or False?
* You need to eat an extra 500 calories a day when pregnant.
* Iron needs triple during pregnancy.
* A high-fiber diet is important during pregnancy.
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* False. Pregnant women require 300 extra calories a day and nursing women need an extra 500 calories a day. You'll find more on calories and...
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Children's fitness book. For 7 - 17 year olds. Get fit - stay fit in 11 minutes a day. Kid's exercises with colour illustrations and progress charts. Ideal for children, parents, carers, and teachers. Promotes fitness in schools. Chapters on healthy eating, how the body works, fitness as fun and more.
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This report analyzes the complexities of health financing in Papua New Guinea with a focus on resource allocation, use, and accountability. It explores information gaps and transparency issues that undermine health service delivery and outcomes. Recommendations in this report aim to improve health sector governance and capacity, which will ultimately contribute to a more robust and equitable health care system.
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Summary of The Longevity Book by Cameron Diaz and Sandra Bark | Includes Analysis Preview: The Longevity Book by Cameron Diaz and Sandra Bark is a nonfiction book that explains how women can embrace the latest science of aging to live more fully in optimal health and emotional well-being. Diaz is clear: This is not an anti-aging tome. In the era of injectable plastic surgery and youth obsession, the media creates a cloud of secrecy and shame around...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Sylvia Tara's The Secret Life of Fat by Instaread Preview: The Secret Life of Fat: The Science Behind the Body's Least Understood Organ and What It Means for You is a thorough summary and synthesis of recent research surrounding the science of human fat. Author Sylvia Tara explores the many intricacies of fat including its composition, its functions as a bodily organ, and its seemingly indomitable ability to persist and...
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The need for informed analyses of health policy is now greater than ever. The twelve essays in this volume show that public debates routinely bypass complex ethical, socio-cultural, historical, and political questions about how we should address ideals of justice and equality in health care. Integrating perspectives from the humanities, social sciences, medicine, and public health, this volume illuminates the relationships between justice and health...
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Ce livre offre un regard sur des programmes atypiques qui utilisent la danse pour réfléchir et intervenir différemment. Une vision plurielle des modes d'intervention se dessine et repousse les limites de la pensée classique. Cet ouvrage s'adresse aux acteurs appartenant aux différents milieux d'intervention et de recherche, d'enseignement et de formation, de même qu'aux danseurs, danse-thérapeutes et artthérapeutes qui sont confrontés dans...
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En esta traducción de 'Approches et pratiques en évaluation de programmes' el lector encontrará herramientas importantes para la reflexión y práctica de la evaluación de efectividad, así como para hacer frente a desafíos teóricos y metodológicos propios de la investigacion evaluativa en intervenciones de naturaleza social. Esta obra condensa el esfuerzo de diversos autores, los cuales comparten los resultados de sus experiencias en diversos...
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National polls show that Americans are increasingly concerned about vaccine safety and the right to make individual, informed choices together with their healthcare practitioners. Vaccine Epidemic focuses on the searing debate surrounding individual and parental vaccination choice in the United States. Featuring more than twenty experts from the fields of ethics, law, science, medicine, business, and history, Vaccine Epidemic urgently calls for reform....
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What can be more vital to each of us than our health? Yet, despite unprecedented health care spending, the U.S. health system is substantially underperforming, especially with respect to what should be possible, given current knowledge. Although the United States is currently devoting 18% of its Gross Domestic Product to delivering medical care-more than $3 trillion annually and nearly double the expenditure of other advanced industrialized countries-the...
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At some time, most families will need to provide home care for an aging family member who is ill or disabled. While home caregiving provides many benefits, it takes careful planning, support, and patience.
The American Medical Association Guide to Home Caregiving provides the information you need to take the best possible care of an elderly, ill, or disabled person in a home setting. Written by experts from the American Medical Association, the book...
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The 11th edition of Development Asia looks into the double burden of communicable and noncommunicable diseases in Asia and the Pacific. Asian and Pacific countries are facing unprecedented challenges related to health care. While wealthier countries tend to suffer from noncommunicable ailments, such as cancer and diabetes, and poorer countries from communicable diseases, like malaria and dengue, many parts of Asia and the Pacific are plagued by both....
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Los licuados son de los más populares brebajes que aparecen en muchos menús. De hecho, son tan populares que existe un suministro prácticamente ilimitado de recetas para diferentes tipos de licuados y la gente es capaz de disfrutarlos sin importar donde se encuentren, desde un restaurante predilecto hasta una feria. Han llegado a ser tan arraigados en la cultura, especialmente en los Estados Unidos, que pueden encontrarse, prácticamente, en cualquier...
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This book may help explain what China did to largely, contain the novel coronavirus to the city of Wuhan within China. To fight the novel coronavirus, China has adopted a series of powerful and extraordinary measures and achieved remarkable results. We compile some of the measures formulated, advocated, and/or organized by the Chinese central government and its departments. China's defense measures against the novel coronavirus are, divided into five...
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Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Richard Russo and five other Maine authors here prove that the close of life need not be filled with darkness, when hospice help is at hand. These writers recount intensely personal and profoundly moving end-of-life accounts that cover a wide spectrum of human experience.
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This book is the outcome of a path-breaking symposium on HIV and human rights organized by the University of the West Indies Cave Hill, Barbados, together with the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). An impressive gathering of international agencies, the judiciary, human rights experts, lawyers, nongovernmental organizations, academics, activists, business persons, union...
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Les hormones sont des substances chimiques sécrétées dans le sang à partir des glandes, comme les glandes hypophysaires et surrénales. Ils fonctionnent faisant partie d'un réseau complexe, appelé système endocrinien. Les systèmes endocrinien et nerveux travaillent ensemble pour former les systèmes de contrôle du corps. Un système hormonal équilibré est capable de régir correctement la croissance, le cycle du sommeil, l'humeur, le système...
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Summary of Eat Dirt by Dr. Josh Axe | Includes Analysis Preview: Eat Dirt is a practical overview of Dr. Josh Axe's theory that repairing and preventing leaky gut is a crucial part of wellness. Leaky gut, also known as increased intestinal permeability, is a condition in which the intestinal lining becomes depleted or damaged, compromising its ability to function as the body's filtration system. Healthy intestinal walls are usually able to keep toxins...
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La «super immunité » est un terme qui décrit l'état dans lequel le système immunitaire fonctionne aussi efficacement que possible. En dépit des avancées technologiques modernes, de nombreuses personnes pâtissent encore d'un système immunitaire affaibli et sont plus enclines à attraper des maladies et des affections. Savoir comment renforcer votre immunité est essentiel pour s'assurer que chaque cellule de votre corps est protégée contre...
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