Forty-one million Americans are estimated to have pre-diabetes compared to 16 million Americans diagnosed with diabetes. This says a mouthful about pre-diabetes! Pre-diabetes is a wake-up call to warn you that you could be getting the real thing. If your blood fasting glucose is above 5.5 mmol/L, this is an indication that your insulin is beginning to lose control over your blood sugar level. You are now diagnosed as a pre-diabetic. Pre-diabetes not only increases your risk of type 2 diabetes within 10 years but also increases your risk of a heart attack or stroke by 50 percent. If you have pre-diabetes, you may experience difficulties in losing weight. Furthermore, damages to your heart, arteries, nerves, and eyes are already taking place at this stage causing no symptoms for the present, but ticking like a time bomb. This is a must-read book for those who have symptoms of pre-diabetes and want to discover what pre-diabetes is, its cause and the harm it can do to your health and the preventive steps you can take to keep diabetes from taking hold of your body. Read this book even if you have never been diagnosed with diabetes. You have a one out of four chances of developing pre-diabetes. Prevention of diabetes is possible at this stage

You may not have it now, but you probably will. People as young as 20, have blood pressure that is high enough to require treatment. If you live long enough, you will most likely get high blood pressure. Only a small minority of Americans escape this condition. High blood pressure is a silent killer as it offers no signs, no symptoms and no warnings but it is one of the easiest to prevent and one of the most responsive to lifestyle changes but deadly if you do not know how to 'tame' it. If your blood pressure reading is 120/80, you are already suffering from pre-hypertension, a sign that you are losing control of your blood pressure. You are now at risk of a heart attack by as much as 5 times and your risk for stroke by about 10 times. You are also increasing your risk of heart failure and renal failure. At this stage you can take preventive steps to say no to high blood pressure. This book gives you seven crucial keys to lower your blood pressure and keep it under control or prevent it in the first place. Start using these keys today to avoid becoming a candidate for a heart attack or stroke.

What is all the big fuss about high cholesterol? The big concern: Excess cholesterol in the blood is a major risk factor for heart attack and stroke in America. If this is you: LDL cholesterol is above 3.36, HDL is less than 1.16, and your Total Cholesterol to HDL ratio is over 4.4 mmol/L, you need to urgently bring down these numbers. You are in control. Do not wait for symptoms to appear. In 50 percent of deaths from a heart attack, sudden death was the very first symptom. We have the knowledge to prevent a tremendous amount of death, disability and suffering right now if we are wise enough to apply it. Visit the cardiac ward of any hospital and you will understand what I mean. In this book, you will discover seven keys in simple and concise language to help lower your cholesterol to a healthy level.

According to World Health Organization, by 2025 there will be more people with diabetes in the world than the entire population of the United States. Diabetes is expected to be one of the challenging health problems of the 21st century. If this is you: Your fasting glucose is above 7 mmol/L, suffer high blood pressure, high LDL cholesterol but low HDL and accompanied by high triglycerides, you are already a diabetic. Within these easy-to-read pages, you will find seven crucial keys to help you control your sugar level to near normal as possible and improve your cell's sensitivity to insulin to prevent or delay the onset of long-term complication of the disease. No one ever dies of diabetes. They die of illness induced or made worse by diabetes such as kidney failure, heart attack, stroke, blindness, amputation, impotence and sexual dysfunction. Your attitude and outlook can influence the course of diabetes – for better or for worse.

In today's stressful world, more and more children are facing pressure from school, home and society. This book introduces the subject of child mental health from the angle of stress. It defines what stress is, and how it affects the child. A detailed description of the factors that predict children's stress levels is also provided. Finally, the book also provides the reader with lots of suggestions on how to make children more resilient.

Today, the diet of children has gone from basically fresh whole food to over-processed, grease-soaked, chemical-driven, sugar and salt-filled and nutritionally questionable dietary choices. Coupled with a sedentary lifestyle, your precious kids are now facing a whole new set of lifestyle and diet-related diseases such as diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure and heart disease, all unrelated to germs. You need to inculcate healthy eating habits and lifestyle to your kids during their formative years, as diseases develop, it doesn't start overnight. Prevention is about taking steps while your kids are healthy and not until they are faced with a crisis. Health is like money, we will never have a true idea of its value until we lose it. In easy to understand language, this book addresses the need for parents to make changes to their children's lifestyle and diet while they are young in order to fight diet related diseases; if you want to raise disease free kids.

Obesity is not simply weight gain nor is it a cosmetic or fitness issue. Your goal is to reduce the hazardous and ugly fats that surround your abdomen and organs, deep within your belly that put you at risk for degenerative diseases such as heart attack, stroke, high blood pressure, diabetes, sleep apnea, cancer, gout, osteoarthritis and others. There is no quick fix to fat loss, only prevention, as obesity is a lifestyle disease. It took you years of poor eating habits and a sedentary lifestyle to make you fat. Fat loss is therefore not an event, a program (dieting) nor merely a number you see on the weighing scale or your BMI. A pair of “loose pants” is a better indicator of fat loss. In essence, if you lost weight without reducing your waist circumference, you haven't done much for yourself. To escape from the obesity trap, counting calories, dieting or cutting fat out of your diet or starvation will not help. Instead, to lose fat, you need to know how the body stores and burns fat. You need to incorporate certain lifestyle changes to mobilize your hormones to co-operate with the body to burn fat to overcome your body’s resistance to permanent fat loss. That is what this book is all about.

Today, the diet of children has gone from basically fresh whole food to over-processed, grease-soaked, chemical-driven, sugar and salt-filled and nutritionally questionable dietary choices. Coupled with a sedentary lifestyle, your precious children are now facing a whole new set of lifestyle and diet related diseases such as diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure and heart disease, all unrelated to germs. You need to inculcate healthy eating habits and lifestyle to your children during their formative years, as diseases develop, it doesn't start overnight. Prevention is about taking steps while your children are healthy and not until they are faced with a crisis. Health is like money, we will never have a true idea of its value until we lose it. In easy to understand language, this book addresses the need for parents to make changes to their children's lifestyle and diet while they are young in order to fight diet related diseases; if you want to raise disease free children.

Physical movement has a positive effect on physical fitness, morbidity, and mortality in individuals with diabetes. Although exercise has long been considered a cornerstone of diabetes management, many health care providers fail to prescribe it. In addition, many fitness professionals may be unaware of the complexities of including physical activity in the management of diabetes. Giving patients or clients a full exercise prescription that take other chronic conditions commonly accompanying diabetes into account may be too time-consuming for or beyond the expertise of many health care and fitness professionals. The purpose of this book is to cover the recommended types and quantities of physical activities that can and should be undertaken by all individuals with any type of diabetes, along with precautions related to medication use and diabetes-related health complications. Medications used to control diabetes should augment lifestyle improvements like increased daily physical activity rather than replace them. Up until now, professional books with exercise information and prescriptions were not timely or interactive enough to easily provide busy professionals with access to the latest recommendations for each unique patient. However, simply instructing patients to “exercise more” is frequently not motivating or informative enough to get them regularly or safely active. This book is changing all that with its up-to-date and easy-to-prescribe exercise and physical activity recommendations and relevant case studies. Read and learn to quickly prescribe effective and appropriate exercise to everyone.

More people than ever before have diabetes. The disease affects an estimated 21 million adults and children in the US and many people with the disease don't have it under control. Unlike years ago, you have a good chance of living an active and healthy life with diabetes - provided you work with your health-care team to take the necessary steps to control your blood sugar. This title covers: the pre-diabetes stage - taking charge to prevent diabetes; types of diabetes; symptoms and risk factors; treatments and strategies for managing your blood sugar; avoiding serious complications; advances in insulin delivery and new medications; and, recipes.