Around 54 million Americans live with osteoporosis or low bone mass, but many don’t recognize the symptoms until it is too late. Before a bad fall or fracture renders you immobile, learn how to reduce your risk of developing osteoporosis, manage your day-to-day symptoms, and even treat the disease with the tools provided in Mayo Clinic Guide to Preventing & Treating Osteoporosis. Throughout your life, your bones are constantly rebuilding. But as you age, you run a greater risk of your new bone growth not being able to keep up with the old bone you’re losing. Osteopenia and osteoporosis develop when this imbalance makes bones weak and likely to break. A stooped posture, low-trauma fractures, and collapsed vertebrae are a few of the tell-tale signs associated with weakened and brittle bones. But fortunately, an osteoporosis diagnosis doesn’t have to be permanent. By taking the right steps, you can reduce your risk of future fractures, stop bone loss, and even rebuild your low bone density. In this book, Dr. Ann E. Kearns, a leading endocrinologist at Mayo Clinic, provides clear, practical information on the common causes of osteoporosis and osteopenia, simple ways to prevent bone loss with nutritious foods and supplements, and how to test for low bone mass before a fracture occurs. You will also learn tips for healthy eating and beneficial exercises, using modern medications to stop bone loss and encourage new bone growth, and how to quickly and safely recover from injuries sustained from low bone density. Together with your health care provider, you can take action to maintain strong bones and a full, healthy life.
Growing up in southern Utah during the years of World War I and an influenza epidemic, twelve-year-old Dell Jorgensen and his family learn to deal with life's difficult challenges while still maintaining their faith.
The psychological blinders Jill is wearing cause her to think that she has her eating disorder under control. Instead, she exercises more and eats less. When she does eat, it is usually late in the day. Often, she is unable to stop eating until what she intended to sample is completely gone. After, she purges in the toilet. For a few minutes after this detestable habit, Jill feels relief, which is followed by remorse and shame.
The first Mormon pioneers settled southern Utah in 1862, fifteen years later the mines 20 miles north had a booming production of silver. There 17-year-old Rebecca Larson meets Henry Williams, from Silver Reef, at her family's vegetable wagon. Mama Larson's back was turned, but she saw Henry kiss her daughter's hand and Rebecca didn't seem to mind. She told Papa they must find a good Latter-day Saint boy for Rebecca. The young man they found worked in the Larson's garden which was good because Papa worked full time on the Virgin River Dam, but neither of the young people seemed interested. Papa's brother, Abner, from far-away Cedar City brought his large family to visit. There weren't enough sleeping rooms, so the boys were sent to barn. Next morning, Papa was awakened by an inferno in his barn. His nephew's thigh was deeply burned. He is taken to the Silver Reef hospital where Henry, is an assistant to the doctor. Readers watch a romance blossom between a young woman and a man from two different worlds.
Through close examination of ancient, medieval, and modern Lives of the saints, Ann W. Astell demonstrates how the historical transformation of hagiography as a genre correlates with similar changes in biblical studies. Christian hagiography flourished from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries, illuminating the gospel through the overlapping forms of exempla and vita. Originally, the Lives of the saints were understood as hermeneutical extensions of the Bible—God authors the saint, just as God authors the divinely inspired scriptures. During the medieval period, a sense of dual authorship between God and the cooperating saint developed, paralleling the Scholastic impulse to assign greater agency to the human writers of scripture. Then, in the sixteenth century, powerful new anxieties about historical truth pushed hagiography aside for biography, its successor. Drawing on her expertise in the history of Christianity and biblical exegesis, Astell convincingly shows how this radical shift in hagiography’s status—the loss of the literal, allegorical, tropological, and anagogical senses of the Lives—serves as a bellwether for modern biblical reception.
The first of a six-level program to teach English to second-language elementary students. Uses classic stories and fables. Neither student book nor workbook has text.
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The chapters of this book are categorized and chronological. Poems launch each category which then consist of essays and letters. You may recall a particular incident and other memories of your own may come to light. Little 'chestnuts' you'd forgotten may bring a smile or a frown to your face as they now come alive in your mind.
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