Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills

Ex-ci'-to-tox-in: a substance added to foods and beverages that literally stimulates neurons to death causing brain damage of varying degrees. Can be found in such ingredients as monosodium glutamate aspartame (NutraSweet®) cysteine hydrolyzed protein and aspartic acid.

Citing over five hundred scientific studies Excitotoxins explores the dangers of aspartame MSG and other substances added to our food. This is an electrifying and important book that should be available to every American consumer.[]

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Crisis Preparedness Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Home Storage and Physical Survival

A complete guide to emergency preparedness for our uncertain times. Virtually an encyclopedia of food storage and personal preparedness it covers topics from exactly how to design a food storage program tailored for your particular family to growing and preserving food storing fuel alternate energy emergency evacuation kits medical and dental surviving biological chemical and nuclear terrorism communications selection of firearms and other survival tools and preparing for earthquakes.

Dozens of detailed expert checklists and tables with photographs and index. Extensive book and resource lists with regular and Internet addresses. An absolute must for those serious about preparing for and surviving during our dangerous times.[]

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Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane)

Safety skills for children outside the home
Warning signs of sexual abuse
How to screen baby-sitters and choose schools
Strategies for keeping teenagers safe from violence

All parents face the same challenges when it comes to their children's safety: whom to trust whom to distrust what to believe what to doubt what to fear and what not to fear. In this empowering book Gavin de Becker the nation's leading expert on predicting violent behavior and author of the monumental bestseller The Gift of Fear offers practical new steps to enhance children's safety at every age level giving you the tools you need to allow your kids freedom without losing sleep yourself. With daring and compassion he shatters the widely held myths about danger and safety and helps parents find some certainty about life's highest-stakes questions:

How can I know a baby-sitter won't turn out to be someone who harms my child? (see page 103)
What should I ask child-care professionals when I interview them? (see page 137)
What's the best way to prepare my child for walking to school alone? (see page 91)
How can my child be safer at school? (see page 175)
How can I spot sexual predators? (see page 148)
What should I do if my child is lost in public? (see page 86)
How can I teach my child about risk without causing too much fear? (see page 98)
What must my teenage daughter know in order to be safe? (see page 191)
What must my teenage son know in order to be safe? (see page 218)
And finally in the face of all these questions how can I reduce the worrying? (see page 56)[]

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Principles Of Personal Defense

This new edition of Cooper's classic Principles of Personal Defense - with a fitting tribute by firearms expert Louis Awerbuck and all-new drawings by renowned illustrator Paul Kirchner - presents his timeless theory of individual defensive behavior clearly concisely and practically. All free people who aspire to stay that way should read study and share the wisdom found within these pages. Considered by many to be one of the greatest books on combat mindset and proper defensive mental conditioning ever writte it deserves a place of honor in every library.[]

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The Unhealthy Truth: One Mother's Shocking Investigation into the Dangers of America's Food Supply-- and What Every Family Can Do to Protect Itself

Robyn O’Brien is not the most likely candidate for an antiestablishment crusade. A Houston native from a conservative family this MBA and married mother of four was not someone who gave much thought to misguided government agencies and chemicals in our food—until the day her youngest daughter had a violent allergic reaction to eggs and everything changed. The Unhealthy Truth is both the story of how one brave woman chose to take on the system and a call to action that shows how each of us can do our part and keep our own families safe.

O’Brien turns to accredited research conducted in Europe that confirms the toxicity of America’s food supply and traces the relationship between Big Food and Big Money that has ensured that the United States is one of the only developed countries in the world to allow hidden toxins in our food—toxins that can be blamed for the alarming recent increases in allergies ADHD cancer and asthma among our children. Featuring recipes and an action plan for weaning your family off dangerous chemicals one step at a time The Unhealthy Truth is a must-read for every parent—and for every concerned citizen—in America today. []

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Field Guide to Wilderness Medicine 3e

Completely revised and updated the new edition of this portable guide offers fast-access solutions to all of the medical situations that can occur in non-traditional settings. Based on Dr. Auerbach's critically acclaimed text Wilderness Medicine 5th Edition this handbook is packed with how-to step-by-step explanations and the latest practical advice on diagnosis and treatment-emphasizing ways of improvising care with whatever materials you have available. It's small enough to be carried in a car's glove compartment or in your backpack-yet detailed enough to cover the clinical presentation and treatment of a full range of emergencies!

• Offers appendices that address everything from environment-specific situations to lists of essential supplies medicines and many additional topics of care enabling you to meet a full-range of emergency situations with the utmost effectiveness.
  
• Includes line drawings-along with a section of color plates-that aid in the identification of skin rashes plants snakes insects and more.
  
• Provides Signs and Symptoms and Treatment sections in most chapters-combined with bulleted lists and text boxes-that facilitate quick and easy retrieval of information.
  
• Presents full chapter coverage of both animal attacks and zoonoses for handling life-threatening situations.
  
• Features peerless guidance in a portable format for consultation anywhere from the office setting to the open outdoors.

• Features a new appendix on jungle travel and survival and new chapters on forest fires bandaging and taping techniques mental health hydration and dehydration malaria-and more-equipping you to handle any emergency you might encounter in the wilderness.
  
• Includes more tips for improvisational care (eg how to make a rigid litter using skis poles snowshoes canoe paddles or tree branches) to help you respond to wilderness and nontraditional emergencies with the materials that you have on hand.
  
• Presents thorough revisions to all previously existing chapters-ensuring that you have the latest knowledge at your fingertips.

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NOLS Wilderness Medicine: 4th Edition (NOLS Library)

"One of the finest first aid books I've seen." -- Mel Otten M.D. Wilderness Medical Society

Make informed decisions about medical treatment and urgency of transport

Essential items and suggestions for packing a standard first aid kit

Two new chapters on common non-urgent medical problems and legal issues

This revised edition of NOLS Wilderness First Aid reflects the changing field of wilderness medicine. Designed as a field textbook for the NOLS wilderness first aid curriculum it helps train outdoor leaders to prevent recognize and treat common medical problems and to stabilize a severely ill or injured patient for evacuation. A vital resource for outdoor enthusiasts this book covers fundamental topics in first aid--patient assessment shock soft tissue injury burns fractures and dislocations and chest head and abdominal injury. It explains how to handle environmental problems posed by heat cold water altitude and poisonous plants and animals. Also discussed are issues related to expedition medicine as well as leadership teamwork and communication for rescue groups. While risk can be minimized through good judgment skills and experience being prepared for emergencies in the wild is an essential component of good outdoor leadership.

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