Price: $12.99
Healing Foods: Practical Guide to the Health Benefits and Medicinal Properties of Food
The Executive Guide to Healthcare Kaizen
This book supplies an accessible introduction to Kaizen principles and explains the practical actions that are required to create a lasting Kaizen culture in a healthcare system. It is specifically written for senior leaders and managers who need to understand the power of this core Lean methodology. These are the executives and senior-level managers who need to inspire and motivate their organization—leadership that is critical in sustaining meaningful improvement in challenging times.
The text includes stories and examples from the Franciscan St. Francis Health System and others and an introduction by Gary Kaplan, MD, the Chairman and CEO of Virginia Mason Medical Center. Each chapter starts with a "quick take" list of key points and concludes with discussion questions to prompt discussion with your leadership team.
The Executive Guide to Healthcare Kaizen is the ideal companion book to the authors’ Shingo Research Award-winning book, Healthcare Kaizen: Engaging Front-Line Staff in Sustainable Continuous Improvements. You are also invited to interact with the authors and other readers at www.HCkaizen.com.
The Conditioning Classroom publishes Eating Simply, the definitive guide to healthy eating
Filled with great information and real-life implementation tools, this book helps the common man and woman take control of their food life. When you think about healthy eating, don’t you think, “complicated, time-consuming, tasteless and boring?” This book shows you it doesn’t have to be! The first part of the book explains that Eating Simply does not come from a box, nor is it "simple" to just eat out every meal. It covers the 5 tenets of Eating Simply: Eat Frequently, Eat Naturally, Eat Completely, Eat Less Sugar and Eat to be Stable. It explains how and why planning is all important. And it provides a 4-point checklist explaining how you can Eat Simply for weight loss.
The book begins with the mantra: “Eating should be pleasurable. Eating should be flavorful. Eating should provide nutrition to your body. Eating should not take excessive amounts of your time. Eating should support your goals. Eating should not be stressful. Eating should be simple.” We can all agree with these thoughts!
With recipes, preparation tips, planning tools and even 5 simple food exercises to get you going, this book will take the mystery out of taking care of your family’s meal planning. It even admits that weekends can be challenging to stay on the healthy path and gives you guidance that allows fun without destroying all you’ve worked towards during the week! If you are uncomfortable in the kitchen, this book will be a simple compass guiding you as you learn to navigate the incorporation of real, healthy food into your life.
Within each chapter, this book encourages real people to take simple steps toward improving their bodies and their lives by eating well. No need to feel intimidated by cooking or think you must become a gourmet chef. No need to remain in fast food purgatory any more . . . learn that Eating Simply can become the basis for a happier, healthier, spicier you!
The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman
Is it possible to:
Reach your genetic potential in 6 months?
Sleep 2 hours per day and perform better than on 8 hours?
Lose more fat than a marathoner by bingeing?
Indeed, and much more. This is not just another diet and fitness book.
The 4-Hour Body is the result of an obsessive quest, spanning more than a decade, to hack the human body. It contains the collective wisdom of hundreds of elite athletes, dozens of MDs, and thousands of hours of jaw-dropping personal experimentation. From Olympic training centers to black-market laboratories, from Silicon Valley to South Africa, Tim Ferriss, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The 4-Hour Workweek, fixated on one life-changing question:
For all things physical, what are the tiniest changes that produce the biggest results?
Thousands of tests later, this book contains the answers for both men and women. From the gym to the bedroom, it’s all here, and it all works.
You Will Learn (in less than 30 minutes each):
* How to lose those last 5-10 pounds (or 100+ pounds) with odd combinations of food and safe chemical cocktails.
* How to prevent fat gain while bingeing (X-mas, holidays, weekends)
* How to increase fat-loss 300% with a few bags of ice
* How Tim gained 34 pounds of muscle in 28 days, without steroids, and in four hours of total gym time
* How to sleep 2 hours per day and feel fully rested
* How to produce 15-minute female orgasms
* How to triple testosterone and double sperm count
* How to go from running 5 kilometers to 50 kilometers in 12 weeks
* How to reverse “permanent” injuries
* How to add 150+ pounds to your lifts in 6 months
* How to pay for a beach vacation with one hospital visit
And that's just the tip of the iceberg. There are more than 50 topics covered, all with real-world experiments, many including more than 200 test subjects.
You don't need better genetics or more discipline. You need immediate results that compel you to continue.
That’s exactly what The 4-Hour Body delivers.
Price: $27.00
The Baby Care Book: A Complete Guide from Birth to 12-Month Old
Everything a parent needs to know about caring for a baby.
The Baby Care Book is a clear, thoughtful and objective guide that helps parents raise a newborn. The subject of parenting is often confusing. The great value of this book is that it empowers parents with knowledge and allows them to make personal choices for each circumstance and situation.
Both authors are leading experts from the world-renowned Hospital for Sick Children. The Baby Care Book covers an extensive range of topics in clear, easy-to-understand language. Specially commissioned "real life" photographs throughout complement the text, providing additional instructions and information.
The chapters include:
- Getting Ready to Have Your Baby
- Your Baby's First Few Days
- Feeding Your Baby
- Your Baby's First Month
- Helping Your Baby to Sleep
- Your Baby's Months 2 and 3
- Playing with Your Baby
- Your Baby's Months 4 to 6
- Safety and Childproofing
- Your Baby's Months 7 to 12.
Both parent and newborn will benefit from the expert guidance that The Baby Care Book provides.
Price: $29.95