A comprehensive guide on how to diagnose, treat, and care for those with eating disorders.Eating disorders, which include such conditions as anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, and pica, represent a challenge to both patients and health care providers alike. For more than 20 years, health care providers have turned to the expert advice found in Eating Disorders to keep up to date with the latest research in the field and to help them provide the best care ava...

First published in 1990. The subject of anorexia nervosa and, more recently, bulimia nervosa in males has been a source of interest and controversy in the fields of psychiatry and medicine for more than 300 years. These disorders, sometimes called eating disorders, raise basic questions concerning the nature of abnormalities of the motivated behaviors: Are they subsets of more widely recognized illnesses such as mood disorders? Are they understandable by reference to underlying abnormaliti...

The book records Karl Holms personal account of his work in rkenen Sur, a shanty town in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn during the worst years of the Depression. Here, in the shadow of Manhattan, he found life at its grimmest, but life that responded to practical love expressed in the form of shelter, food, and the Christian message. Follow his adventures as a cat led him to a desperately ill man. Follow him on his rounds in the hospitals, reconnecting the ill and dying to their families...

This book will be of interest and encouragement to all who have care of the mentally handicapped, and will prove afresh that with God all things are indeed possible. In this book Corrie recounts something of what she learned and experienced while carrying on this work.

Proof of Heaven: From the Bible not a Near Death Experience is a self-directed Bible study booklet that will help individuals work through the myriad of books about near death experiences through the grid of the Bible, God's Word. We cannot argue with a persons experience but we can search out the Scripture to see if they line up with it or not. This is book one in the series Looking at Life Through the Grid of the Bible. Book two "Angelology: A Study of Angels, Good and Bad...

When someone you love dies, Earl Grollman writes, "there is no way to predict how you will feel. The reactions of grief are not like recipes, with given ingredients, and certain results. . . . Grief is universal. At the same time it is extremely personal. Heal in your own way."If someone you know is grieving, Living When a Loved One Has Died can help. Earl Grollman explains what emotions to expect when mourning, what pitfalls to avoid, and how to work through feelings of l...

In ACSM’s Exercise for Older Adults world-renowned researchers and practitioners make a compelling case for older adults to engage in physical activity. Over the course of ten chapters, the text highlights the physiological, psychological, and social benefits of a physically active lifestyle. Students and professionals will benefit from implementation strategies including motivation to initiate and maintain exercise; options for healthy older adults; options for older adults with special n...

God loves you a million times more than you love yourself. I know a million times sounds like a lot of times. But I assure you it is truth and not an exaggeration. While I was in Heaven I was shown and taught many different times of how great God’s unconditional love is for us.

How to Aim Your Anger in the Right Direction" God, why did you let this happen to me? " The death of a spouse, the betrayal of a friend, and the disability of a child are often so painful that we want to blame God. We all have times of anger, disappointment, and frustration. But when we aim that anger at God, we end up feeling empty, frustrated, and lost. Our anger can either destroy us with self-pity, or God can us...

The most challenging questions in many church members' minds, including the leadership is, "Can a person who is affected or infected by the HIV/AIDS virus remain a Christian?" This book will help you understand what it's all about. It will give you the answers beyond the shadow of a doubt.This book is a direct encouragement to those Christians who are living with HIV/AIDS. It is also a great source of encouragement to those who have not yet believed in Christ Jesus, as long as they ...

Lifestyle Medicine: Lifestyle, the Environment and Preventive Medicine in Health and Disease, Third Edition, is an adjunct approach to health practice that seeks to deal with the more complex modern determinants of chronic diseases—primarily lifestyle and the environments driving such lifestyles—in contrast to the microbial 'causes' of infectious disease. Our lifestyle choices have a profound effect on our health. As we live longer, one thing is clear: many of us will spend time living wit...

As Jem, the Shoemaker's boy, works at night in his father's shop he has three strange visitors asking for some silver keys. Jem must keep the silver keys safe, but how...?