Best Selling Books by Mayo Clinic

Deciding to start or build a family is a life-changing decision, and, once the choice is made, there''s a whole new set of unknowns—including how challenging the journey will be. For the first time, fertility experts at Mayo Clinic offer an essential guide for those who want to have a baby. With color photographs and graphics throughout, this user-friendly yet comprehensive book provides answers and explanations on nearly every aspect of achieving a successful pregnancy: lifestyle and nutrition; the intricacies of natural conception; common fertility problems; the latest medical treatments (including intrauterine insemination,IVF, and donors); and information on special situations (including fertility preservation, chosen single parenthood, same-sex couples, and more).

The #1 New York Times bestseller adapted for people with diabetes, now in paperback—with 16 brand-new pages, full of menus designed to kick-start your weight loss and control your blood sugar. From Mayo Clinic, a leading authority in health and nutrition, comes The Mayo Clinic Diabetes Diet, adapted for people with pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes from the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Mayo Clinic Diet. This reliable plan is what you need to lose weight to help you control your blood sugar. The medical specialists at Mayo Clinic have created The Mayo Clinic Diabetes Diet as a two-phase plan—Lose It! and Live It! The Diet helps at-risk people prevent and control diabetes by losing weight quickly and safely, and then maintaining that weight loss. The Lose It! phase is a simple, straight-forward, two-week plan that encourages quick but safe weight loss that can help lower blood sugar. The Live It! phase of the diet offers basic and manageable steps and lifestyle changes and choices that are designed to help participants lose one to two pounds a week until a healthy weight is reached, and then to keep the pounds off. Mayo Clinic''s weight-loss and nutrition experts have packed this book with meal plans, practical solutions, and specific tips on how to improve health and lose weight safely. The Mayo Clinic Diabetes Diet tackles all the familiar obstacles that get in the way of weight loss—dislike of exercise, distaste of healthy food, too little time to cook well, a too hectic schedule, struggles with cravings, and minimal support from family and friends. It is a reliable and safe companion for losing weight and controlling diabetes, beginning immediately and into the future. "This diabetes diet isn''t a fad; it''s about changing your habits for the better," states Donald Hensrud, M.D., Mayo Clinic specialist in nutrition and internal medicine and medical editor-in-chief. "With The Mayo Clinic Diabetes Diet, people can truly manage diabetes, eat well, lose weight and enjoy life."

This indispenable guide offers a complete picture of the road to recovery, and the specifics to move ahead with your life. When possible it encourages readers to resume their favorite hobbies, participate in athletic activities and return to the workplace. For the first time, leading medical specialists at the world-renowned Mayo Clinic offer their expert advice on everything from emotional adjustments, to skin care, to home and car modifications, to quality-of-life improvements. Easy-to-read, illustrated, and well organized, Mayo Clinic Guide to Living with A Spinal Cord Inury provides the "how-to" regarding the day-to-day challenges faced by anyone who has a spinal cord injury.

A wide range of medical, nursing, paramedical personnel involved in nutrition, and dietitians find the Mayo Clinic Diet Manual an invaluable reference in their day-to-day work.

New from Mayo Clinic-the essential guide to living gluten-free. Whether diagnosed with celiac disease or just deciding if a gluten-free diet is right for you, Mayo Clinic Going Gluten-Free will help you create and maintain a gluten-free lifestyle. Both authoritative and approachable, the book includes core medical information on celiac disease in addition to focusing on practical, everyday issues, such as: --Determining if gluten-free is right for you --Common signs, symptoms and myths of celiac --Dealing with celiac if you are newly diagnosed --Maintaining a gluten-free lifestyle while traveling, during the holidays, on-the-go and at college --Helping your child manage a gluten-free diet --Properly reading and understanding food labels --A few recipes and meals to jumpstart your gluten-free life

An overview of complementary and alternative medicine discusses various treatments, including herbs and energy therapies, and examines how alternative and conventional therapies can be combined to treat twenty common conditions.

Written by Mayo Clinic faculty and clinicians, this new edition of the Mayo Clinic Internal Medicine Board Review is a study guide for American Board of Internal Medicine certification or recertification. Candidates will learn exactly what to expect on the exam, including format, types of questions and hints on what and how to study. The book contains more than 500 multiple-choice questions that follow the exam format. Answers and explanatory notes follow the questions, and a detailed index aids readers in locating material quickly. This edition features over 100 new questions and extensive revisions in chapters on HIV and infectious diseases.

Understanding the concept of being pregnant

This manual provides a detailed guide to the performance of nuclear medicine procedures. Focuses on the performance of over 80 clinical nuclear medicine procedures Gathers all the information required into one source Contents follow the format of the nuclear medicine requisition card Includes uncommon proceduresfor rare cases Special emphasis on GI procedures

This volume, "Collected Papers of the Mayo Clinic, Volume 4," presents a compilation of significant medical research and clinical observations from the renowned Mayo Clinic. Documenting advancements in medical science and practice, this collection offers valuable insights into the evolution of healthcare. With contributions from leading physicians and researchers, the papers cover a wide range of medical specialties and reflect the Mayo Clinic''s commitment to innovation and excellence in patient care. This volume serves as a historical record of medical progress and a testament to the enduring legacy of the Mayo Clinic''s contributions to the field of medicine. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Hoy más que nunca, la gente habla de la menopausia como una parte normal de la vida... ¡porque lo es! Con las herramientas adecuadas, podrás adaptarte con facilidad a las nuevas reglas de tu cuerpo en la siguiente fase de la vida. Los bochornos, los problemas de sueño, el aumento de peso, la perimenopausia... ¡nada de esto se menciona en las clases de educación sexual! De hecho, a menudo ni siquiera se aborda en el consultorio del médico. Este libro busca llenar ese vacío como guía para la transición a la menopausia, ese cambio hormonal en la mediana edad que desencadena una cascada de transformaciones físicas y mentales en las mujeres. La doctora Stephanie Faubion aporta toda su experiencia y conocimiento sobre los últimos tratamientos e investigaciones, con un enfoque honesto y realista, para ayudar a entender cómo se van modificando las reglas que gobiernan el cuerpo de las mujeres y qué pueden hacer al respecto. Este libro está dividido en tres partes que llevan al lector a entender la menopausia, a manejarla y a vivir en plenitud con ella en los años subsecuentes. El contenido incluye: • Experiencias de mujeres reales. • Una perspectiva histórica sobre la menopausia. • Información amplia sobre la comprensión y el manejo de la perimenopausia. • Las mejores terapias y tratamientos para sobrellevar la menopausia y sus síntomas. ¡Toma las riendas de tu salud en la transición a la menopausia!

Bajar de peso no tiene por qué ser complicado. Con este gratificante programa integral, los nuevos hábitos te ayudarán a crear una versión de tu vida más sana y feliz. La Dieta Mayo Clinic se basa en un enfoque práctico y simple para perder peso y, lo más importante, no recuperarlo. No es una dieta de moda, es el resultado de años de investigación en miles de personas que buscaban controlar su peso. Pero no sólo eso, también es una forma de abordar el estilo de vida que te acompañará para siempre. Por medio de herramientas concretas como planificadores diarios de actividad y consejos para escoger ingredientes nutritivos en el supermercado, este libro te ayudará a crear un plan personalizado de pérdida de peso que funcione para tu cuerpo, mejorando tu salud y haciéndote sentir lleno de energía. Encontrarás deliciosas recetas y planes de comidas que se adaptan a una variedad de estilos de alimentación, incluyendo las dietas: • Cetogénica saludable. • Mediterránea. • Sustituciones vegetarianas. • Alta en proteínas Cuando se trata de alimentación, no existe una única solución para todos. Aquí encontrarás el conocimiento y sugerencias de cómo mejorar tus hábitos, pero eres tú quien decide qué hacer y cuándo hacerlo. En lugar de imponer un esquema de rígido centrado en lo que no debes comer y prometer resultados inalcanzables que pueden dañar tu cuerpo, La Dieta Mayo Clinic ofrece un plan flexible y saludable con el que podrás vivir toda la vida. Come bien, disfruta la vida, ¡y pierde peso!

"Even if your body has been exposed to bad things for 30 or 40 years, six months of doing the right thing can lead to positive changes." Francisco Lopez-Jimenez, M.D. Cardiologist & Professor of Medicine Mayo Clinic Improving your heart health and reducing your risk of heart disease are two central goals of Mayo Clinic Healthy Heart for Life! The book identifies all the factors Mayo Clinic doctors know you can use to achieve those ends, organized into 10 easy-to-follow steps. This book helps you start making the changes that will improve your heart health. You can start small. In fact, we''ll bring you page after page of ordinary but effective things you can do to fight heart disease. They''re often part of routine activities that you do every day anyway. What''s your chance of a heart attack in the next 10 years? We''ll help you calculate it but more important, we''ll help you reduce it. See page 93. If you take medication for cholesterol, high blood pressure or other heart-related conditions, flip to page 98 the first moment this book is in your hands. You''ll get key tips for improving medication effectiveness and avoiding harmful side effects. See what three heart-healthy goals you can take action on as soon as your book arrives. The quick-start goals discussed on page 25 show that making your heart healthier and stronger doesn''t have to be complicated or difficult. "You might be surprised to learn that keeping your heart healthy doesn''t really take a lot of time. You can start with as little as 10 minutes a day. Small changes, such as standing up and moving more, can make a big difference One of the most important keys is learning to enjoy life." Martha Grogan, M.D., Medical Editor Cardiologist & Assistant Professor of Medicine Mayo Clinic.