Nearly everyone seems confused about dietary fats. Not all fats are bad for your health. In fact, some fats are essential for optimum health. This User's Guide to Good Fats and Bad Fats helps you understand the difference. You'll learn how to avoid unhealthy fats hidden in many foods, while learning about the benefits of good fats.

Many vitamins, dietary supplements, and herbs can greatly reduce cold and flu symptoms and shorten the duration of colds - if you begin taking them at the first sign of an infection. In this User's Guide, Laurel Vukovic describes the most important natural ways of fighting off colds and flus, including the use of such venerable herbs as echinacea, goldenseal, and elderberry.

User's Guide To Healthy Digestion is an easy-to-read information-packed book that will teach you how to put an end to your digestive problems. Heartburn, indigestion, bloating, gas, constipation, diarrhoea, and other digestive problems affect nearly everyone at one time or another. Health writer Victoria Dolby Toews describes the most common digestive problems and diseases and recommends safe dietary, herbal, and nutrition remedies to improve digestive health.

Overweight and obesity have now reached epidemic proportions. However, this guide will teach you how to sort through all the fads and supplements and successfully lose weight. Dr. Dallas Clouatre cuts through the conflicting and confusing information about weight-loss diets and supplements, providing clear advice about what works - the foods and supplements for losing weight and keeping it off.

The latest research shows that it is possible to slow down the aging process and reduce the risk of age-related degenerative diseases. In this User's Guide, two leading health writers describe the scientific research and the steps you can take to improve energy levels, sharpen the mind, and turn back the biological clock.

This is an easy-to-follow diet for losing weight, stabilizing blood sugar and insulin and reducing the risk of diabetes.

Menopause has traditionally signaled a time of change and uncertainty in women's bodies. In this remarkable User's Guide, Dr. Cynthia M. Watson explains that most women can use foods and natural supplements--not drugs--to ease and often stop many of the undesirable signs of peri-menopause and menopause, including hot flashes, bone loss, and an increased risk of heart disease.

This User's Guide focuses on specific supplements, including herbs and vitamin-like substances that help the body protect itself from pollutants, synthetic hormones, and cancer-causing chemicals.

Dr. Hunninghake explains exactly how inflammation is involved in arthritis, allergies and asthma and how to prevent and reverse the effects of inflammation through supplements and foods.

In this primer, the authors introduce readers to the top ten natural therapies so they can determine which therapy is best for them.