The Checklist电子书

Cover

Title Page

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

A Prenatal Preface (for the Mother-to-Be)

Think ahead

Nine months and counting

The three major prenatal problems

Fasten your seat belts

Chapter 1

To Breast-feed or Not

Cord blood

Beyond the “baby blues”

To cut or not?

SIDS

Food allergies

Loading the virus protection program

Childproofing the home

Vaccines

Infectious diseases

Autism

A whole lot going on betweeen the A and the D

Problems “down there”

It’s all in your hands—parenting

Chapter 2

Ah-choo

Asthma

Acne

Our supersized kids (obesity)

The best measure of weight (BMI)

Dental Health

Turning obesity on its head (bulimia)

Too thin (anorexia)

Depression

Substance Abuse

Cigarette smoking

Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs)

The kissing disease—mononucleosis

What’s next

Chapter 3

Geek lifestyle

Debilitating headaches

Baby time—or not

Kicking the habit

Common skin conditions

Autoimmune but (thankfully) not automatic

The long winding road (gastrointestinal disorders)

Three decades down, the number left is up to you

Chapter 4

Nutrition

How to eat

Supplements

Skin health and cancer

A little gland with a big job

Bladder infections

Are you collecting stones?

Gynecological problems (for women only)

Cervical cancer

Infertility

Joints—the first to go

Rheumatoid arthritis

Fibromyalgia

Multiple sclerosis (MS)

Looking toward the next decade

Chapter 5

Dr. Manny’s Freedom Diet Plan

To sweeten (artificially)—or not?

Exercise

Doing it—or not (lack of libido and other sexual problems)

E.D. education

Breast cancer

Mental health

Bipolar disorder

Streeeeeess

The silent killer

Testing, testing

The big five-oh

Chapter 6

The changes

“Machopause”

Healthy metabolism

The storage sack (gallbladder)

Prostate health (for men only)

Cancer of the blood

A cancer of the defense system

The shaking palsy

Diabetes again

The wonders of plastic

Testing continued

Picking the fruit

Chapter 7

The big ticker (heart disease)

A heart test for venusians

Know these symptoms (stroke)

Until your last breath (lung cancer)

Gallbladder cancer

Week bones (osteoporosis)

What did you say? (Hearing loss)

I say, can you see? (Vision problems)

Eye care

Pancreatic cancer

Colon cancer

Keeping up

Chapter 8

The bottle is still more than half full

Macular degeneration

The big slowdown

Alzheimer’s

Ovarian cancer

Pneumonia

Living Long

The Master Checklist of Tests and Vaccinations

Sources and Resources

Searchable Terms

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Copyright

About the Publisher