Healthy Living Made Easy or Fat Daddy Fit Daddy

Healthy Living Made Easy: The Only Things You Need to Know about Diet, Exercise and Supplements

Author: Steven Steven Whiting

This book is the culmination of over 30 years in the health and supplement industry. The book was written to illustrate the simplicity of living a healthier lifestyle. Too many books are written on the subject of better health, diet, exercise, supplements, etc. that complicate the issues to the point that the public often finds it overwhelming to attempt to make the changes that seem to be necessary in their lives. This book will take the only three factors that really matter to one's health, namely diet, exercise and supplementation and show how each may be implemented in one's life without major impact, changes or expenses. The number one reason why people don't attempt to live a healthier lifestyle is that they feel it is too difficult or restrictive. This book will show just how few changes are necessary to dramatically improve one's health and the prospest of a longer lifespan.

Book review: Last Colonial Massacre or Afghanistans Endless War

Fat Daddy/Fit Daddy: A Man's Guide to Balancing Fitness and Family

Author: Lawrence Schwartz

Designed to help busy fathers balance fitness and family in an informative, useful, and lighthearted way.

Publishers Weekly

Schwartz (The Professional's Guide to Fitness) compiles all the best information from his syndicated column "Ask Fat Daddy" with the goal of countering the belief that "the male progression is an unchangeable one: boys become men, who become husbands, who become Fat Daddies." The strength of the book is that it frankly addresses the notion that work and parental responsibilities produce dads who "eat crap" at the same time that it recognizes the reality of those responsibilities by outlining a realistic eating plan, a simple exercise regime and a few tips on how to balance family and work. Schwartz's Fat Daddy "Reality Diet" is based on practicing portion control and exercising regularly. He offers a few simple rules to follow, such as eating four to six small meals a day to keep your metabolism going and never eating more on your plate than can fit in your outstretched hand. Using easy-to-read tables and engaging football metaphors, he outlines the range of foods that can give dad a "first down" or a "loss of down," such as grilled chicken vs. burgers. He gives an excellent summary of the pros and cons of almost every current diet plan and shows how his diet fits into each one. And his fitness program is as clear to follow as his diet plan, organizing basic aerobic and weight training moves into a "Fat Daddy Four Quarters Work Out" that will give even the most sedentary dad an easy-to-implement plan for a daily workout. (Jan.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

Schwartz, CEO and founder of an online customer service software company and author of the nationally syndicated column, "Ask Fat Daddy," presents an entertaining and sensible lifestyle and exercise program for the working family man. Using football analogies, he organizes the book into four "quarters": "Game Plan" explains how men often work long hours, not realizing that this could cost them their health and ability to provide for their families; "Change in Strategy" discusses the realities of family responsibilities; "Keys to the Game" explains the fundamentals of diet, fitness, and family and how to make this plan work with all three components; and "How the Game Is Won" helps plan the implementation of the game plan. Schwartz tells it like it is-that balancing food, fitness, and family should be every man's priority and can be accomplished with some planning and prioritizing. Recommended for public and human resource/employee assistance libraries.-Howard Fuller, Stanford Health Lib., Palo Alto, CA Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Broken Glass and All or Jane Brodys Nutrition Book

. . . Broken Glass and All: An Inspiring Journey of Hope and Healing

Author: Al D Squitieri

When modern medicine declared the author's autoimmune disease hopeless, the Great Physician proved otherwise. More then a book about miraculous healing, it reads like a novel as the author traces his life's journey from the hard streets of New York City and his wise guy days; the hilarious times of raising ten children, his school days at the old age of 45 with a two year term in Bible college; the lose of his health, livelihood and his 24 year old son in a car accident. All while doing battle with his incurable autoimmune disease Polymyositis, and taking on the American Health Care system. His perseverance and toughness helped him win battles most man would have yielded to. The book brings hope and encouragement to anyone fighting a hopeless illness, or a seemingly losing battle, though the author's infectious mind-set against bowing to, what he calls the Pawnbrokers of this world. A healing experience for the price of a movie.

Interesting book: CISA Prep Guide or 3 D Human Modeling and Animation 2nd Edition

Jane Brody's Nutrition Book: A Lifetime Guide to Good Eating for Better Health and Weight Control

Author: Jane E Brody

If you are like most people, you probably aren't sure what is and what is not good for you and your family to eat. Now, in her comprehensive, accessible, landmark bestseller, Jane Brody, the award-winning personal health columnist for The New York Times answers all your urgent questions about nutrition.

New York Times Book Review

Splendid, well-researched... packed with useful information about every conceivable aspect of nutrition.

My Mothers Breast or Tibetan Book of Healing

My Mother's Breast: Daughters Face Their Mothers' Cancer

Author: Laurie Tarkan

The book focuses on the unique psychological needs of women who must deal with the pain and devastation of their mothers' illness while repressing fears for their own health. Tarkan profiles a wide range of women who have witnessed the effects of breast cancer and relates how they dealt with the fear, anger, guilt, feelings of sexuality and grief. By sharing these stories of strength and courage, this book provides long-overdue support for the loved ones of breast cancer patients.

The book also includes information on preventive measures women can take, how they can determine their own risk levels and how they can deal with the anxiety of their own possible diagnosis. It also supplies strategies from leading psychologists and psychiatrists for coping and resources for people faced with the repercussions of the illness.

About the Author:

Laurie Tarkan is a journalist whose work has appeared regularly in national magazines, including McCall's, Health, Mademoiselle, Shape and Self. Her clearest memory of her childhood began the day her own mother died of cancer when Laurie was just 11. Laurie earned her B.A. at Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania and her M.A. from New York University's graduate school for journalism. A resident of New York City, she is the winner of the Rose Kushner Award for Writing Achievement in the Field of Breast Cancer.

Lisa Ferguson

When breast cancer strikes, attention invariably turns to the patient. It's easy to forget, thought, that people closest to the patient-parents, spouses, children, other relatives and care-givers - can also suffer greatly from the disease's effects. Laurie Tarkan, who, as a pre-teen, lost her mother to a rare liver disorder, first began to understand the toll breast cancer takes on daughters whose mothers who are stricken with it while researching an article for Self magazine. "I heard they were undergoing a lot of anxiety and stress and just having real difficulty with the situation," says Tarkan, the New York author of My Mother's Breast: Daughters Face Their Mothers' Cancer, which charts the courses of 10 women dealing with their mother's breast cancer. "I think because they're not actually patients themselves, they get overlooked," she says. -- ( Las Vegas Sun, 5/3/99 )

Carolyn Poirot

At 22, Sunshine London left her carefree life as a college student, model and surfer girl in Santa Barbara, Calif., and moved home to Las Vegas to take on the biggest responsibility of her life - nursing her mother, who had breast cancer, and caring for her five younger siblings...The story is one of more than a dozen told of daughters dealing with their mothers' cancer in an inspiring new book for the daughters of women with breast cancer.

For the 180,000 women found to have breast cancer each year, the news changes not only their own lives, but also the lives of the loved ones who support them, and often grieve for them, author Laurie Tarkan points out. Daughters, in particular, face the sobering reality of their mothers' disease and treatment as well as fear and anxiety over the possibility that they may face a similar future themselves. -- ( Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, 4/27/99 )

Bette-Lee Fox

Award-winning journalist Tarkan (Self, McCall's) tries here to help daughters of women diagnosed with breast cancer deal with the changes that come with their mother's illness or death, changes that can affect an already fragile mother/daughter relationship. Her book is split into two parts. Part 1 Features 16 women whose stories, divided into subject-related chapters, encompass the mother/daughter scenario...Part 2 discusses stratagems for daughters who fear their own illness and mortality and stresses the basics of early detection, getting all available information on treatments and therapies, and coping...A secondary purchase for psychotherapists, social workers, and counselors of women with breast cancer and their families and for larger public libraries and inclusive patient-health/psychology collections. -- ( Library Journal, 4/15/99 )

Helen Bond

Just because you have a family history of breast and ovarian cancer, that does not mean you will inherit on of the gene mutations that make women more susceptible to these diseases. Still, for many women, that news offers little consolation. In the new book, My Mother's Breast: Daughters Face Their Mothers' Cancer, magazine writer Laurie Tarkan looks at the unique psychological needs of daughters dealing with the pain of their mothers' breast cancer and their own health risks. -- ( Dallas Morning News, 4/19/99 )

Library Journal

Award-winning journalist Tarkan (Self, McCalls) tries here to help daughters of women diagnosed with breast cancer deal with the changes that come with their mothers illness or death, changes that can affect an already fragile mother/daughter relationship. Her book is split into two parts. Part 1 features 16 women whose stories, divided into subject-related chapters (e.g., Mothering Mom, Adolescent Angst, Depression and Fear), encompass the mother/daughter breast cancer scenario. Clinical commentary from professionals makes these accounts less compelling and less cathartic than many cancer narratives; readers will more readily identify with Gayle Feldmans You Dont Have To Be Your Mother (LJ 2/15/94). Part 2 discusses stratagems for daughters who fear their own illness and mortality and stresses the basics of early detection, getting all available information on treatments and therapies, and coping. This second section is informative, but whole books on the subject (e.g., Joseph Keons The Truth About Breast Cancer: A 7-Step Prevention Plan, LJ 10/15/98) are more so. A secondary purchase for psychotherapists, social workers, and counselors of women with breast cancer and their families and for larger public libraries and inclusive patient-health/psychology collections.Bette-Lee Fox, Library Journal

What People Are Saying

Randy Gross
[My Mother's Breast] is a well-written testament to the anxieties, emotions, and issues that these women experience. Also, the content regarding risk is thorough, clear, and accurate, which makes it a great resource for women at high risk for the development of breast cancer.

I have been working with this population of women for several years, and always struggled to find good information...Futhermore, how to address the emotional and psychosocial piece of their situation remains a challenge for clinicians, so we have decided to use your book as a reference for the patients in our Special Surveillance Breast Program here at Memorial [Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center]...to provide it to our participants who we feel will benefit, as it most definitely will be helpful to many women. I appreciate your contribution to these women through your writing.
— (Randy Gross MS, RN, CS, AOCN, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Special Surveillance Breast Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)

Look this: Roe v Wade or 1973 Nervous Breakdown

Tibetan Book of Healing

Author: Lopsang Rapgay

For the first time the principles and practical applications of Tibetan medical and Buddhist psychological guidelines have been used for centuries by spiritual masters and practitioners to apprach life in a healthy and balanced manner. The Tibetan approach to life has points in common with Ayurveda from India and Chinese medicine. Its goal of wellness is defined by the following:

• Freedom from serious psychological and physical disease.
• Adherence to a health plan based on your personality, your body type and needs, and your capacity to fulfill and meet those needs.
• An understanding of the changing and impermanent nature of life and, within that understanding, the awareness of a purpose in life.
• Acceptance of the stress and change found in relationships, the environment, the seasons and the aging process.
• A sense of moral responsibility and a willingness to learn and grow.
• A feeling of positive accomplishment, contentment and appreciation for being human.
  
  
  

Pilates con balon or Straighter Stronger Longer Leaner

Pilates con balon: El ejercicio mas popular del mundo usando un balon

Author: Colleen Craig

PILATES / EJERCICIO

Una entrenadora certificada en Pilates, Collen Craig nos ofrece una síntesis única y emocionante del Método Pilates de acondicionamiento del cuerpo y el ejercicio con el balón suizo, proporcionado una manera nueva de bajo impacto, para estar en forma.  Usando el balón de ejercicio, no hay necesidad de equipos caros o del tiempo en el estudio, que requiere el entrenamiento Pilates.

Desarrollado a principios del siglo vigésimo por Joseph Pilates, consumado boxeador y gimnasta, el Método Pilates--llamada por muchas revistas de estilos de vida y acondicionamiento, como el ejercicio más popular de la década--alinea el cuerpo, construye músculos largos y delgados, y desarrolla un centro abdominal fuerte.  El ejercicio con balón, usado por entrenadores olímpicos, bailarines, y atletas para aumentar el conocimiento del cuerpo y realzar la actuación, proporciona una base perfecta para realizar los movimientos Pilates, que son elegantes y constructores de fuerza.

A través de todo su programa, Craig integra la mente y el cuerpo, ofreciendo técnicas de respiración y relajación, que acompañan al trabajo con balón.  Las historias personales y las citas inspiradoras incluidas en el texto, ilustran cómo Pilates puede mejorar su estilo de vida.  Una agenda de actividades, a la mano, hace posible seguir los pasos a sus sesiones de ejercicios y revisar su progreso individual.  Y, lo más importante, instruciones detalladas paso a paso y más de 300 fotografías definen losprincipios Pilates y desafían a todos los niveles de habilidad.

Suficientemente intenso para conquistar a atletas, pero tan suave para calmar el dolor crónico y ayudar a sanar lesiones, Pilates con Balón construye, de una manera innovadora, cuerpos fuertes y flexibles y mentes saludables.

Collen Craig es una entrenadora certificada en Pilates y una escritora.  Vive en Toronto y enseña sus métodos en talleres alrededor del mundo.

Colleen Craig, author of the bestselling Pilates on the Ball and Abs on the Ball, is a Certified Stott Pilates trainer and writer. She lives in Toronto and teaches workshops throughout the world.

Criticas

In this 2001 exercise guide, certified Pilates instructor Craig merges two highly acclaimed fitness techniques, the Pilates Method and the Swiss exercise ball. Blending illustrations with easy-to-follow instructions and real-life testimonies, Craig teaches readers about breathing, posture, abdominal exercises, stretching, and more. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Table of Contents:

Pilates con balón

Prefacio  
Introducción    
      ¿Cielo o infierno? Nuestra relación con la actividad física
            La historia de Ingrid    
            El movimiento y usted
            ¿Quién obtiene el beneficio?
            Movimiento con significado: el entrenamiento inteligente
            Conexión cuerpo/mente    
1.    Una formidable sociedad  
      Pilates y el ejercicio con balón            
            Regresando a casa
            ¿Qué es Pilates - fisioterapia o acondicionamiento corporal? 
            Los principios básicos de Pilates   
            ¿Por qué Pilates basado en el trabajo con balón?    
            El poder único del balón 
            Otros usos del balón
            Antes de empezar
            El balón adecuado para usted
            Este es su camino    
2.    La respiración y los respiros  
            La historia de Joseph Pilates   
            Respiración posterior 
            Patrones de respiración como terapia 
            Los ejercicios de respiración
                  Observaciones de respiración • Respiración posterior • Respiración lateral
                  Respiros - refugio de disposición
                  Respiro uno • Respiro dos • Respiro tres
3.      Ejercicios de postura   
            La historia de Elsie
            Tipos de posturas
             ¿Cuál es la postura ideal?    
            Al revés: los músculos de postura   
            Los ejercicios de postura
Sentarse • Rebotar •Estiramiento de espina hacia delante • La sierra • Espalda redonda • CuerposEsfera - cambio lateral sentado • Giro de espina • Sirena
4.    Los ejercicios abdominales
            La historia de Edwin
            La "Vida" y el dolor de espalda baja    
            La central de fuerza y el dolor de espalda baja 
            Centrarselos     
            Ejercicios abdominales
Ombligo-a-espina • Pequeños rizos abdominales • Rizos abdominales completos • CuerposEsfera-rizos abdominales superiores • La cascada • El giro en alto • Círculos con las piernas • Rodando como una pelota • Estiramiento sencillo de piernas • Estiramiento doble de piernas • Oblicuos • Voltereta
5.    Las extensiones
            Un domingo normal: mi historia  
            Estar balanceado, estar sano
            Extensión contra flexión   
            Los ejercicios de extensión    
El cisne • El clavado del cisne • La concha con el balón • Más extensiones • El saltamontes
6.      Pilates con balón - trabajo de brazos y pies 
            La historia de Jenny
            La debilidad física es una responsabilidad 
            De adentro a afuera: beneficios para hombres y mujeres 
            Resistencia = Entrenamiento de huesos
            Precisión y ritmo
            El trabajo de brazos    
Abrazar un árbol • Abrir los hombros y giros de bíceps • Saludo • El remo • Mariposas y más • Trabajo de brazos    
            El trabajo de pies
Pies paralelos • Pequeño cambio • Dedo en media punta  • CuerposEsfera: Salto de rana • Bajar y levantar • Cuclillas amplias
7.      Restauración y reconstrucción  
            La historia de Susan
            Los músculos sí recuerdan 
            Reducción del dolor
            El Papel de los abdominales en el cuidado de la espalda
            Problemas de hombros y cuello    
            El balón como un socio terapéutico
            Los ejercicios de reconstrucción  
Giros de cadera • Giros de cadera con balance • Puentes de hombro • Elevación de caderas •Doblar y estirar • De lado • Balance de balón • Lagartijas • La pica
8.    El más simple de los placeres: el estiramiento     
            La historia de Jeff
            Los beneficios del estiramiento    
            Los pormenores de los estiramientos seguros 
            Los ejercicios de estiramiento    
Estiramiento de rana • Estiramiento de los hamstrings • Estiramiento de cadera   • Estiramiento de cuello • La concha  • Estiramientos laterales • Estiramientos de psoas • Estiramiento de hombros• El arco • Posición en cuclillas
9.    El manejo del estrés y los ejercicios cardiovasculares 
            La historia de Roseanne  
            El estrés     
            Una visita a una clínica de relajación y otros liberadores de estrés 
            Los ejercicios cardiovasculares
Rebotar más • Rebotar con brazos • Golpecitos de pies • Puntapiés • Moverse alrededor del balón
            Desestresarse con el balón: relajación
                  Posturas 1, 2 y 3
10.      Pilates con balón para siempre    
            Viajes contra arribos: la historia de Lucy
            Honre su propio ritmo
            Acéptese a usted mismo como es el día de hoy 
            Tres sesiones de ejercicios
            Sesión de ejercicio 1: balón restaurativo    
            Sesión de ejercicio 2: balón básico    
            Sesión de ejercicio 3: balón intermedio
Fuentes   
Balón y video: Información de pedidos
Reconocimientos 
Agenda de ejercicios 

New interesting book: Every Bite Is Divine or Doing It All Isnt Everything

Straighter, Stronger, Longer, Leaner: A Head-to-Toe Strengthening, Stretching, and Pain-Relieving Program

Author: Renee Daniels

Stop aches and pains with this effective new therapeutic exercise plan.

Who doesn't suffer from chronic aches and pains in the neck, back, shoulders, knees, or elsewhere? In Straighter, Stronger, Leaner, Longer, medical exercise specialist and personal trainer Renée Daniels presents her fullbody strengthening and alignment program for rehabilitating injuries and strengthening and toning bodies. She explains why proper alignment is the key to a strong, healthy body, and how our daily habits, from sitting at a desk at work to carrying a baby on one hip all day to spending long hours sitting behind the wheel of a car, can contribute to muscle weaknesses and misalignments,leading to aches and pains.

Straighter, Stronger, Leaner, Longer will help readers find relief by showing them how to assess their own posture and movements, which may be causing pain, and by providing them with a personalized exercise program to treat problem areas.

Author Biography: Renee Daniels is a former Alvin Ailey dancer. After being felled by a back injury, she earned certification as a medical exercise specialist and personal trainer, and ultimately healed her injury with her own therapeutic exercise program. In addition to conducting her private practice, she has taught her strengthening system for the last ten years at exercise studios throughout New York, including New York Sports Club, Crunch, and Equinox Fitness Centers.

Janice Billingsley is a medical writer for HealthDay.com. She has also written articles for ivillage.com, USAToday.com, ABCNews.com, the Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press, Times-Picayune, Ladies' Home Journal, Redbook, Mademoiselle, Family Circle, and Golf Magazine.

Carved in Sand or Beating Depression

Carved in Sand: When Attention Fails and Memory Fades in Midlife

Author: Cathryn Jakobson Ramin

Acclaimed journalist Cathryn Jakobson Ramin takes readers on a lively journey to explain what happens to memory and attention in middle age.

Anyone older than forty knows that forgetfulness can be unnerving, frustrating, and sometimes terrifying. With compassion and humor, Jakobson Ramin sets out to discover what midlife forgetfulness is all about—from the perspectives of physiology, psychology, and sociology. Relentless in her search for answers to questions about her own unreliable memory, she explores the factors that determine how well—or poorly—one's brain will age. She consults experts in the fields of sleep, stress, traumatic brain injury, hormones, genetics, and dementia, as well as specialists in nutrition, cognitive psychology, and the burgeoning field of drug-based cognitive enhancement. The landscape of the midlife brain is not what you might think, and to understand its strengths and weaknesses turns out to be the best way to cope.

A groundbreaking work that represents the best of narrative nonfiction, this is a timely, highly readable, and much-needed book for anyone whose memory is not what it used to be.

Publishers Weekly

Memory loss and other cognitive problems are increasingly the bugaboo of aging baby boomers, as well as many of their elders. In her first book, veteran journalist Ramin turns herself into a guinea pig as she seeks ways to restore her own failing memory and growing inability to concentrate. Looking at a wide variety of genetic, biochemical and environmental factors that slow the connections among the brain's 100 billion neurons, especially in the hippocampus, Ramin undertakes 10 interventions, methods of achieving her cognitive enhancement. She logs the ups and downs of medications such as Adderall and Provigil; she looks at dietary supplements and biofeedback. She ends with discussions with experts, such as Nobelist Eric Kandel, about what keeps some people mentally young into old age; the key seems to be having the "mental reserves" gained from challenging one's mind with new kinds of learning—such as learning a new language or studying art—that use different parts of the brain; the right diet and exercise also help. Overall, the variety of perspectives and the wealth of scientific information Ramin provides, as well as her warm personal style, will reward readers and may well help them stay mentally sharp. (Apr. 1)

Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information

Table of Contents:

Preface: Most Precious Possession     xi
Your Unreliable Brain: Midlife Forgetfulness Is Embarrassing and Frustrating, but What Does It Mean for the Future?     1
Glitches, Gaps and Gaffes: The Memory-Hungry Crowd Speaks Candidly About Screwing Up     11
Frontal-Lobe Overload: "Too Much Information" Is Just One of the Reasons You Feel Like You're Drowning     23
Blocking, Blanking and Begging for Mercy: Why Words and Thoughts Flee Without Warning     36
Into the Doughnut Hole: What a Brain Scan Can (and Cannot) Tell You About What's Going on Upstairs     45
Swallow This: The Feeding of a Midlife Brain: Essential Fatty Acids, Vitamins, Supplements and Plenty of Glucose     58
Mental Aerobics: From Tedious to Addictive: Options for Exercising Your Neurons     72
Bathing in Battery Acid: Elevated Cortisol Associated with Chronic Stress Is No Friend to Your Hippocampus     85
Yearning for Estrogen: Rejecting Hormone Therapy Could Leave Your Neurons in the Lurch     98
The Vulnerable Brain: The Repercussions of Concussions You Never Knew You Had     109
Cosmetic Neurology: The Potential for Pharmaceutical Cognitive Enhancement Is Vast and Possibly Irresistible     123
Meditation and Neurofeedback: Going in for a Tune-up: Why Tinkering with Brain Waves Can Improve Attention     139
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: Sacrifice Your Slumber andYou'll Perform as Well as if You've Had a Few Stiff Drinks     151
Recreational Drugs, Alcohol and Other Neurotoxins: The Cognitive Consequences of What You Smoke, Drink, Eat and Breathe     165
What Your Doctor Forgot to Tell You: Prescription Drugs and "Safe" Over-the-Counter Meds May Account for Your Fogginess     177
The Last Place You Look: Thyroid Low? Blood Pressure High? A Host of Common Midlife Disorders Pack a Cognitive Wallop     189
Staring into the Eye of the Tiger: Deep in the Grip of Alzheimer's Disease at the Age of Sixty, Joanna Graciously Invites Us into Her World     204
Do You Really Want to Know?: As Opportunities for Early Assessment and Intervention Become Available, Will You Embrace Them?     217
Emerging Triumphant: How to Stockpile Neurons: The Habits of the Cognitively Well-Endowed     228
Conclusion     253
Acknowledgments     259
Resources     267
Notes     269
Selected Bibliography     297
Index     301

Go to: Philanthrocapitalism or Toyota Culture

Beating Depression: The Journey to Hope

Author: Maga Jackson Trich

Offers new hope to the more than 17 million Americans who suffer from depression

Written by nationally recognized experts in the field, Beating Depression arms sufferers and their families with the knowledge and tools they need to recognize depression and make informed choices about its treatment and management. The authors explore the latest findings on the causes of depression and the treatments currently available, including medications and psychotherapeutic approaches. Readers get checklists, quizzes, and other powerful self-assessment tools to help determine if they are actually suffering from depression and to what clinical degree. And they get expert guidance on how to find help and work with physicians and mental health professionals to develop a treatment plan and to cope with problems that can arise during treatment.

Maga E. Jackson-Triche, M.D., M.P.H., is on the faculty of the UCLA School of Medicine. She is also a member of the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute's Health Services Research Center. Dr. Jackson-Triche and her coauthors participated in a landmark depression treatment study funded by the prestigious RAND Institute.

Kenneth B. Wells, M.D., M.P.H., is a professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the UCLA School of Medicine, director of the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute's Health Services Research Center, and a senior scientist at RAND.

Katherine Minnium is a research manager and public relations director for the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute's Health Services Research Center.