Ahead of the Curve
By Jenny Rushmore
Ahead of the Curve is the first sewing book to empower curvy and plus size sewists to feel body confident by sewing a wardrobe that fits. Don’t change your body to fit your clothes – change your clothes to fit your body! Ahead of the Curve includes 5 basic garments patterns, which includes a pair of trousers, a t-shirt, a sleeveless top and two dress designs. Jenny takes you through a series of “Fit Clinics” – tutorials and case studies demystifying the fitting process – showing you how to adjust these patterns to master the perfect fit for your body shape. Once you have got to grips with this, you can go on to customize your closet and create an unlimited array of fantastic clothes that celebrate your body. If you’re curvy or plus size, trying to find clothes that fit and reflect your personal style can be incredibly difficult and frustrating. Plus size people so often feel excluded and like they can’t express their personality through clothes. This book finally changes that. Available at Abe Books, Amazon, Booktopia and Cashmerette.
Aqua Therapy for Lipedema and Lymphedema
By Susan O’Hara
Aqua Therapy For Lipedema And Lymphedema shares the personal story of a women who has lipedema and lymphedema and how she has used exercise in the water to feel good and move lymphatic fluid in her body to reduce swelling and pain. Many exercises are difficult for women with these conditions, as mobility limitations, hypermobility and joint pain often go hand in hand with lipedema. However, being in water creates a sense of freedom of movement and can enhance mental and physical health. Learn how Susan and other women make it work, including specific techniques in the water to modify exercises, sample workout routines, what to wear to feel confident in a pool, and what kinds of supplies might be helpful! the book is full of pictures of a real lipedema patient performing and demonstrating the exercises. Written by Susan O’Hara, who is not only a lipo-lipedema patient but an active social media influencer who shares products, ideas, and information about lipedema in her LegsLikeMine.com site and through the LegsLikeMine social media presences. Available at Amazon.
BioDiet
By David Harper PhD
For the past 40 years, we have been slowly eating ourselves to death – and doing so based on government guidelines about what constitutes a healthy diet. This grand low-fat, high-carbohydrate dietary experiment has led to epidemic increases in obesity and other chronic conditions, including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and Alzheimer’s. It’s time to hit the reset button. In BioDiet, health educator and researcher Dr. David G. Harper offers a new, scientifically validated approach: a low-carbohydrate, high-fat, ketogenic plan that works with the body’s natural processes to improve health and reverse decades of damage caused by our collective carbohydrate addiction. BioDiet isn’t a “diet” in the usual sense: it’s not a quick fix designed to help shed ten pounds before beach season. Drawing on his professional experience and the latest research in nutritional science, BioDiet is a lifestyle that will leave you healthier and happier. No hype or gimmicks: it’s what the science says. Available at Amazon, Audiobooks, Barnes and Noble, Indigo and Rakuten Kobo.
The Book of Lymph
By Lisa Levitt Gainsley
In this first-of-its-kind guide, veteran lymphatic drainage practitioner, educator, and advocate Lisa Levitt Gainsley explains how to maintain lymphatic health, sharing the five-minute self-massage techniques she originally developed for her high-powered Los Angeles clientele. These simple sequences are tailored to address a number of specific and common issues: bloating, headaches, digestive problems, immune health, anxiety, weight loss, acne, inflammation, and more.
Thanks to the astonishing results, it provides glowing skin, a flatter stomach, enhanced immunity, and full-body detox – the practice of manually stimulating the lymphatic system has become one of the most popular wellness practices today. Lymphatic drainage works because the lymphatic system – a complex geography of rivers that snake throughout the body just beneath the surface of the skin – connects every other bodily system. When lymph flows, everything else flows, too. Available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Books A Million, Harper Collins, and Target.
The Complete Lymphedema Management and Nutrition Guide
By Jean LaMantia RD and Ann DiMenna PT CDT
Physiotherapist Ann DiMenna and dietitian Jean LaMantia share their expert knowledge of lymphedema, explaining its link with diet and exercise. Together they offer lifestyle adjustments and self-management strategies that may help those living with lymphedema gain control of their conditions, lessen their symptoms and improve the overall quality of their lives.
This is an essential guide for anyone experiencing symptoms of lymphedema. The book includes expert information on underlying causes, symptoms, effective treatments and therapeutic exercises supported by both clinical and scientific research. It offers a friendly, easy-to-understand approach with step-by-step photographs and illustrations along with supplementary videos hosted on the authors’ site. It also delivers over fifty recipes to support an anti-inflammatory diet characterized by low sodium, low fat, adequate fluid and sufficient protein. Available at Abe Books, Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Walmart.
Jeans on a Beach Day
By Susan O’Hara
A book for women who are lipedema patients, or who have symptoms of lipedema, including unusually large legs, hips, or arms, nodules, and fat deposits that may not make sense, and are exploring the possibility that they may have the painful fat disease. The book provides numerous resources, personal patient stories, and quotes that will help the reader understand that she is not alone and is part of a community of 11% of women in the world with lipedema. Includes QR codes for easy linking to important resource sites and information for medical professionals who may not have been exposed to lipedema during their medical training but wish to gain information to help their patients with lipedema symptoms. Available at Amazon.
The Ketogenic Solution for Lymphatic Disorders
By Leslyn Keith OTD OTR/L CLT
The idea of using diet for lymphedema therapy is rapidly gaining ground, and the Ketogenic Solution for Lymphatic Disorders e-book was written to help those with lymphatic disorders implement a ketogenic diet as an effective treatment. Dr. Keith has extensive experience in helping her patients lose weight and dramatically reduce lymphatic swelling by showing them how to switch their standard diet to a low-carb, high-fat way of eating. Her methods and the results of a 2017 study she published in which she and her colleagues showed the positive effect the diet had on treatment outcomes are included in the e-book.
Lipedema Treatment Guide
By Kathleen Lisson CMT CLT
Are you newly diagnosed with lipedema? Maybe you have had the condition for years and are looking for ideas for self-care from a holistic perspective. In this book, you will learn: Treatment goals for lipedema/lipoedema, tips for reducing pain and inflammation, and how to boost your lymphatic system. Available at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Also available at Spanish at Amazon.
Living Life to the Fullest with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
By Kevin Muldowney PT and Kathleen Muldowney PT
Kevin Muldowney has been treating people with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome since 2005. As a physical therapist, he has developed an exercise protocol to help stabilized the many joint subluxations and dislocations associated with this genetic disorder. This book is intended for the person diagnosed with EDS to both inform them about the healthcare team needed to properly treat them as well as to guide both the physical therapist and their patient with EDS through the Muldowney exercise protocol. This book will cover such topics as: how joints sublux in this population, how to find the right physical therapist, how to exercise without injury and what physical therapy techniques works best. By the end of this protocol people with EDS should be better informed about what is going on with their body and how to make it better. Available at Amazon, Better World Books, Thrift Books and Walmart.
The Lymphatic Code
By Leslyn Keith OTD OTR/L CLT
The Lymphatic Code also concisely covers chronic lymphatic diseases such as lymphedema and lipedema and how best to treat them. The ketogenic diet advocated by Dr. Keith will give sufferers the best chance to minimize the pain and inconvenience of their disorders, and her clear explanation will help readers implement the diet with ease. The e-book can be ordered here.
Lymphatic Yoga®
By Edely Wallace
Edely Wallace, yoga master and lymphatic therapist, has been researching the lymphatic system for over 25 years. She is now releasing her findings of many years of intensive study to help people to restore and maintain health. To keep the lymphatic system flowing properly, Edely combines her vast knowledge of yoga with the most recent scientific discoveries about the lymphatic system, creating a new approach for anybody to reach health in a natural effective method – Lymphatic Yoga®. Available at Amazon.
The Lymphatic-Friendly Diet
By Kristin Osborn
Kristin Osborn spent years as a sickly child before becoming an overweight adult beset by health problems. Now a certified lymphoedema therapist, she overcame many of her problems by discovering the foods that work best with the lymphatic system, easing digestion, increasing waste removal, and building immunity. In this self-help book for others battling a lymphatic condition many who don’t even know it she shares the recipes that have helped her become healthier and happier. Available at Amazon, Angus and Robertson, Booktopia, Dymocks and Fishpond.
Lymphedema and Lipedema Nutrition Guide
By Chuck Ehrlich MS MBA, Emily Iker MD, Karen Herbst PhD MD, Linda Kahn CMT CLT, Dorothy Sears PhD, Mandy Kenyon MS RD CSSD, and Elizabeth McMahon PhD
Eat to starve lymphedema and lipedema by having foods that fight these conditions (and cancer) and avoiding foods that contribute to symptoms or related conditions. Learn how food choices affect both conditions and how better nutrition can improve symptoms (including pain) and delay changes associated with progression to more advanced stages. Intended for anyone with, or at risk for, lymphedema or lipedema, caregivers, lymphedema therapists, and other health care providers. Available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Target.
Massage Therapist’s Guide to Lipedema
By Kathleen Lisson CMT CLT
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The Personalized Diet
By Eran Segal PhD and Eran Elinav MD PhD
There are certain things we take as universal truths when it comes to dieting and health: kale is good; ice cream is bad. Until now. When Drs. Segal and Elinav published their groundbreaking research on personalized nutrition, it created a media frenzy. They had proved that individuals react differently to the same foods-a food that might be healthy for one person is unhealthy for another. In one stroke, they made all universal diet programs obsolete. The Personalized Diet helps readers understand the fascinating science behind their work, gives them the tools to create an individualized diet and lifestyle plan (based on their reactions to favorite foods) and puts them on the path to losing weight, feeling good, and preventing disease by eating in the way that’s right for them. Available at Abe Books, Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
Selected Heritable Disorders of Connective Tissue and Disability
By National Academies Press
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Self-Love Journal
By April Sluder MSW LSW
Self-love is a state of knowing our own unique worth and value in this world. As women, we have a lot of demands and expectations placed upon us, both by society and by ourselves. Many of us lose ourselves in those expectations and judge ourselves accordingly. As a result, we forget how amazing we actually are. This 90-day journal provides you with the opportunity to work on building self-acceptance and self-love through a very specific process that includes a daily affirmation and journaling what you are loving about yourself. Available at Amazon.
Swans in Disguise
By Anna-Theresa Bauer MD
When Anna-Theresa Bauer MD was only fifteen years old, pads of fat appeared for no reason in her thighs and hips. And this wasn’t just weight gain from puberty. No matter what she ate, how little she ate, or how much she exercised, the fat just kept on growing. As an adult, Dr. Bauer set herself the task of finally figuring out why she couldn’t stop the fat. What she discovered would set her free – and now she wants to share that freedom with you. It was never her fault. She had a disease called lipedema, and like millions of other women worldwide, she had no idea such a condition even existed. If you’re a woman who just can’t stop gaining weight in your lower body, no matter what you do, you may in fact have lipedema. And with Dr. Bauer’s help, you can overcome the disease you never knew you had. Available at Amazon.
Swollen, Bloated and Puffy
By Kathleen Lisson CMT CLT
Are you frustrated with swelling or puffiness in your face or body? Maybe you had surgery or an injury and want to reduce swelling, or lived with lymphedema for years and are looking for some new tips on reducing edema? Manual Lymphatic Drainage expert Kathleen Lisson explores tricks from proven to crazy to reduce swelling and boost the lymphatic system. In this book, you’ll learn how to reduce swelling in your body and face, balance your immune system and reduce stress, improve sleep, and use meditation to calm your mind. Available at Abe Books, Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Walmart.
What Doesn’t Kill You
By Tessa Miller
Tessa Miller was an ambitious twenty-something writer in New York City when, on a random fall day, her stomach began to seize up. At first, she toughed it out through searing pain, taking sick days from work, unable to leave the bathroom or her bed. But when it became undeniable that something was seriously wrong, Miller gave in to family pressure and went to the hospital, beginning a year’s long nightmare of procedures, misdiagnoses, and life-threatening infections. Once she was finally correctly diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, Miller faced another battle: accepting that she will never get better. Today, an astonishing three in five adults in the United States suffer from a chronic disease – a percentage expected to rise post-Covid. Whether the illness is arthritis, asthma, Crohn’s, diabetes, endometriosis, multiple sclerosis, ulcerative colitis, or any other incurable illness, and whether the sufferer is a colleague, a loved one, or you, these diseases have an impact on just about every one of us. Yet there remains an air of shame and isolation about the topic of chronic sickness. Millions must endure these disorders not only physically but also emotionally, balancing the stress of relationships and work amid the ever-present threat of health complications. Miller segues seamlessly from her dramatic personal experiences into a frank look at the cultural realities (medical, occupational, social) inherent in receiving a lifetime diagnosis. She offers hard-earned wisdom, solidarity, and an ultimately surprising promise of joy for those trying to make sense of it all. Available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and IndieBound.
What To Say When You Talk To Your Self
By Shad Helmstetter PhD
We talk to ourselves all of the time, usually without realizing it. And most of what we tell ourselves is negative, counterproductive, and damaging, preventing us from enjoying a fulfilled and successful life. But with Shad Helmsetter’s Five Levels of Self-Talk – Negative Acceptance, Recognition and Need to Change, Decision to Change, The Better You, and Universal Affirmation – you can take back control of your life via this accessible yet profound technique. Now filled with new and updated information perfect for the twenty-first century psyche, you can learn how to talk to your self in new ways and jump-start a dramatic improvement in all areas of your life. So stop telling yourself you can’t and turn no into a resounding yes! Available at Amazon.
Why We Eat Too Much
By Andrew Jenkinson
Over the last two decades leading London bariatric surgeon Andrew Jenkinson has interviewed thousands of ‘failed dieters’ and noticed that their experience of weight control differs from conventional medical wisdom. Why can’t dieters maintain weight loss? Why do so many think their weight problems are inherited or that they have sluggish metabolisms compared to others? In this book, Dr. Jenkinson combines case studies from his practice with the emerging new science of appetite (and metabolism) to explain why many of our preconceptions of weight control are floored and why mainstream dietary advice is failing us, drawing on evolutionary medicine, anthropology, the development of tasty Western food, and the advent of government nutritional advice to uncover the true reasons for our escalating obesity crisis. Whether you are a failed dieter, a confused doctor, or just a fascinated observer, this book offers a unique, uncompromising, and practical guide to understanding and controlling human weight regulation. Available at Amazon.