Snooze or Lose or Healing Herbs Health Foods of the Zodiac

Snooze... or Lose!: 10 ''No-War'' Ways to Improve Your Teen's Sleep Habits

Author: Helene Emsellem

Snooze ... or Lose! explains the critical role that sleep plays in teens' lives and provides guidelines for helping teens get the sleep they need. Written in a lively and down-to-earth style, with lots of tips and advice from teens themselves, this book will be the go-to guide for parents and kids looking for a good night's sleep.

Library Journal

Many American teenagers aren't getting enough sleep. Sleep deprivation may contribute to many behaviors otherwise ascribed to teenage "growing pains," such as moodiness, inattention in class, and abuse of alcohol and mood-altering drugs. In Snooze, Emsellem (medical director, Ctr. for Sleep and Wake Disorders, MD) reviews the scientific evidence regarding sleep, provides several methods to evaluate sleep deprivation, and offers several practical suggestions to help teenagers take up more healthful sleep habits, from changing their daily routines to lobbying for later school start times. There are several similar books on the market addressing this issue, but Emsellem's book differs from its closest competitors by emphasizing practical methods to improve teens' sleep habits, relying in part on input from the author's teenage daughter and her daughter's friends.-Sarah Boslaugh, Washington Univ. Sch. of Medicine, St. Louis Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction : waking up to the need for sleep	1
1	Why teens stay up all night and sleep all day	9
2	The real reason teens are tired, low performing, stressed, overweight, and incredibly hard to live with	23
3	Inside sleep : what it is, how it works, why teens need it	47
4	The sleep-learning link : why all-nighters don't work	63
5	Trying to sleep in a no-sleep teen culture	77
6	Off the charts : measuring teen sleepiness	93
7	Tips from teens : how parents can talk with their teens about the importance of sleep	107
8	10 "no-war" ways to improve your teen's sleep habits for optimum health, learning, and living	117
9	Getting off the night shift : resetting your teen's internal clock	135
10	What are sleep disorders and how should they be treated?	153
11	Handling serious problems that can accompany lack of sleep	175
12	Supporting your teen	195
13	Making changes in your school and community	209
14	Sleep deprivation around the world	225

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Healing Herbs & Health Foods of the Zodiac

Author: Ada Muir

The Plant Kingdom is the foundation for all life. From it, as herbalists of old maintained, we can find a cure for every ill. A deep understanding of astrological factors in human health has been developed. In Healing Herbs and Health Foods of the Zodiac, you will discover the secrets of these two systems and how they can work together to benefit you and those around you.

Master Herbalist Jude C. Williams adds a brilliant and informative introduction. It will show you how to harvest and prepare the herbs described throughout the text.

Many healing decisions can be made in the kitchen and in the herb garden. Now you can consciously understand the medicinal uses of over 100 plants when you read Healing Herbs and Health Foods of the Zodiac.