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The second book in this series features five gems about birth and midwifery from the heart and mind of Jan Tritten. more...

Building and shaping your glutes so that they sit high off your legs, hard and muscular, yet round enough that they give that perfect silhouette to your figure is not impossible, and through incorporating a few different exercises into your training programme, you too can have the sexy, shapely butt of a fitness model. Shaping the Perfect Glutes tells you what those exercises are. more...

There are many myths when it comes to the subject of females and training, many with the misconception that for a female to lift weights or train seriously she will become like the stereotype Miss Olympia bodybuilder, causing many females to shy away from the training that would create for them the lean, fit, sexy body that they desire. The following articles break open a couple of those myths. more...

Read five inspiring editorials on birth and midwifery: Birth Odyssey, Birth Is a Human Rights Issue, Drugs in Labor-A New Hope, Baby's Choice and Hands-On Care. more...

Would you like to know how to prepare for total hip surgery, minimize pain afterwards, and take care of a new implant so that it lasts for years? Let Sigrid Macdonald take you step by step through total hip replacement surgery. more...

INTRODUCTION "... Argentea proles,Auro deterior, fulvo pretiosior aere." (Ovid) Succeeding times a silver age beholdExcelling brass, but more excelled by Gold. Hessiod, in his celebrated distribution of mankind, divides the species into three orders of intellect. "The first place," says he, "belongs to him who can, by his own powers, discern what is fit and right, and penetrate to the remoter motives of ... more...

THE INTRODUCTION This author-physician's cure for "nerves" vividly recalls the simplicity of method employed in the complete restoration to health of one of olden time whose story has come ringing down the ages in the Book of Books. Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, a mighty man of valor and honorable in the sight of all men, turned away in a rage when Elisha, the prophet of the Most High, ... more...

Part I.—introductory While there is Fruit there is hope. While there is life—and fruit—there is hope. When this truth is realised by the laity nine hundred and ninety-nine out of every thousand professors of the healing art will be obliged to abandon their profession and take to fruit-growing for a living. Many people have heard vaguely of the "grape cure" for diseases arising from ... more...

Preliminary Bout Rule to Find Ideal Adult Net Weight Multiply number of inches over 5 ft. in height by 5½; add 110. For example: Height 5 ft. 7 in. without shoes. 7 x 5-1/2 = 38½   + 110    ——— Ideal weight 148½ If under 5 ft. multiply number of inches under 5 ft. by 5½ and subtract from 110. Are You Thin and Do You ... more...

PREFACE The title of this book is not ambiguous, but as it relates to a subject rarely thought about by the generality of people, it may save some misapprehension if at once it is plainly stated that the following pages are in vindication of a dietary consisting wholly of products of the vegetable kingdom, and which therefore excludes not only flesh, fish, and fowl, but milk and eggs and products manufactured ... more...