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In 1992, at age 38, author Lillie Shockney was diagnosed with breast cancer. As a nurse, as an administrator at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and as a child growing up on a farm in Maryland, she has seen such cancer before. Her journey to becoming a member of the Breast Cancer Survivors' Club and a tireless crusader for women's health and well-being will inspire and challenge readers, whether they are newly diagnosed, are the caregiver or loved one of a breast cancer patient, or just want to know more about a disease that affects one in eight women.

Praise:

Author Lillie Shockney's folksy style and brilliant humor demystifies and disarms breast cancer. This book returns power and hope to their proper places — the lives of survivors and their loved ones. - Barbara Harris, Shape Magazine

This book is a treasure for all breast cancer survivors, their family and friends. - Gretchen Derewicz, Breast Cancer Education Specialist, American Cancer Society

Most breast cancer patients initially focus only on their distress. No matter how things are, there are always happy and funny moments. Lillie helps you find these by relating her own experiences. - Dr. William Dooley, Medical Director, Johns Hopkins Breast Center

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This is one of the first books to replace specific conventional medications with herbal equivalents. As the natural precursors of today's pharmaceuticals, herbs can reduce, even eliminate, dependence on medications. Arranged by ailment, herbal alternatives are offered for more than 500 prescriptions and over-the-counter drugs. More than 100 ailments are covered, and an encyclopedia details more than 70 medicinal herbs.

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After years of living in awe of the mysterious fungi known as mushrooms-chefs, health enthusiasts, and home cooks alike can't get enough of these rich, delicate morsels. With updated production techniques for home and commercial cultivation, detailed growth parameters for 31 mushroom species, a trouble-shooting guide, and handy gardening tips, this revised and updated handbook will make your mycological landscapes the envy of the neighborhood.

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Acquire herbal healing wisdom with this guide to gathering, drying, storing, and blending 25 common herbs. Create your own all-natural home medicine cabinet filled with teas, tinctures, salves, syrups and lozenges.

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This complete guide presents everything you need to know to enhance your health, beauty and emotional well-being through the practice of aromatherapy. Kathi Keville and Mindy Green, who are masters in the fields of herbalism and aromatherapy, offer a fresh perspective on the most fragrant of the healing arts and discuss such topics as:

• The history and theory of fragrance.
• Therapeutic uses of aromatherapy for circulation, digestion, respiration, immunity, and more.
• Instructions for creating personal beauty and skin-care products.
• Techniques for the home distillation and blending of essential oils.
• A materia medica listing the origins and uses of commonly available essential oils.

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If you're one of the millions of women beginning menopause, it's vitally important to know all of your treatment options and understand how they can work for you. This 288-page book presents dozens of treatments available today in one clearly written, comprehensive guide.

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If you are concerned about too much sugar in your diet and are reluctant to use artificial sweeteners, try these delicious low-sugar recipes, sweetened with an extract of the herb Stevia rebaudiana. You'll learn to cut your calories, improve your health and still enjoy your favorite sweet treats.

The intense flavor of stevia extract is about 200 to 300 times sweeter than sugar, with no calories and a glycemic index of 0. Used by millions of people around the world and deemed safe by doctors and scientists, stevia may be the answer to your sugar woes.

This book is a combination of Rita DePuydt's two previous cookbooks, Baking with Stevia I and II, along with new and revised recipes. It includes information on how to use whole herb stevia, stevia concentrate and stevia extracts as a substitute for other sweeteners.

Inside, you'll find more than 100 recipes, including:

• Cranberry Punch
• Date Shakes
• Yam Pecan Muffins
• Banana Bread
• Breakfast Sweet Rolls
• Cheesecakes
• Lemon Poppyseed Cake
• Blueberry Tofu Bundt Cake
• Molasses, Almond, Jam Dot and Peanut Butter Cookies
• Brownies
• Rice Pudding
• Strawberry Cream Pie
• Sparkling Gelatin
• Orange Sherbet

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The era of the penicillin miracle is over. Through our indiscriminate use of pharmaceutical antibiotics in hospitals and factory farms, humans have created "Superbugs" — tenacious and virulent bacteria that develop resistance to solitary antibiotic compounds at an alarming speed.

In this empowering book, Stephen Buhner offers conclusive evidence that plant medicines, with their complex mix of multiple antibiotic compounds, are remarkably effective against drug-resistant bacteria. You'll learn how antibiotic herbs such as aloe, garlic, and grapefruit seed extract represent our best defense against bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus, E. coli, and Salmonella — and how their use will ensure that, in the future, antibiotic drugs will still be there when we really need them.

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The latest buzz is that anyone from 8 to 80 can learn and enjoy the popular hobby of beekeeping. Whether you live in an apartment with just a small balcony or you have a farm with acres of land, this book will teach you how to get started. Find out where to locate your bees, how to get them home, where and how to house them, and the methods for collecting their wax and honey. Whether you want to start a home-based beekeeping business or simply enjoy a new hobby, you'll become an expert in no time at all. Learn the history of bees and beekeeping and get the best advice available for safely collecting the honey and wax from your bees.

Recommended Product for Wiser Living: Today, more than ever before, our society is seeking ways to live more conscientiously. To help bring you the very best inspiration and information about greener, more sustainable lifestyles, MOTHER EARTH NEWS is recommending books to readers. For 40 years, MOTHER EARTH NEWS has been North America’s “Original Guide to Living Wisely,” creating books and magazines for people with a passion for self-reliance and a desire to live in harmony with nature.