Consumer Guides

The Consumer’s Guide to Homeopathy...

A complete guide to homeopathic medicine details the principles of this powerful healing approach, explaining how to use trigger the body’s own self-healing abilities, discussing remedies, dosages, and a wide range of treatment options....

The Consumer Reports Guide to Childproofing & ...

Your home. Your yard. That great big world out there. Hazards waiting to seriously injure your child are everywhere. Each year, millions of children sustain an injury serious enough to require medical care. The majority of these accidents can be prevented. As a parent, you want to do everything in your power to arm yourself with the best and most complete safety information available. But finding and keeping track of all of...

Consumer Health: A Guide To Intelligent Decisions...

This new edition of the most comprehensive text available in the field continues to provide a vast amount of information to enable consumers to make wise choices regarding health products and services. It offers a panoramic view of the health marketplace, while explaining the scientific methods that are essential for validating claims about how products and services affect...

Consumer’s Guide to Purchasing a Water Ioniz...

Imagine having the ability to take normal tap water and turn it into an antioxidant with a negative ORP (oxidation reduction potential) (or charge), which retards the aging process. Put simply, a high ORP increases oxidation and therefore aging. The negative charge, or ORP, of Ionized Water literally retards the aging process by counteracting this high ORP. Ionized Water essentially renews us at a cellular level. This is as...

Understanding Research: A Consumer’s Guide...

Understanding Research: a Consumer’s Guide is the first text that places its focus squarely on the needs of the research consumer. This exciting new text helps develop in readers the skills, knowledge and strategies needed to read and interpret research reports and to evaluate the quality of such reports. Users rave about the easy to use and easy to understand format that makes this text perfect for...

Best Baby Products, 10th Edition (Consumer Reports...

With hundreds of baby products in the market today, protecting your baby should be your number one priority. Consumer Reports Best Baby Products is the perfect personal baby shopping consultant. Over the years, this invaluable guide has helped thousands of new parents navigate the multitude of complex and sophisticated baby products, pointing them to the best products, and steering them away from the less-than-the-best....

The Consumer’s Good Chemical Guide: A Jargon...

Intended as a non-technical reference guide, this book contains information for all those concerned about the impact of chemicals – both natural and synthetic – in their foodstuffs, their lives and the environment. It explains in accessible, non-technical language the science behind sugar and artificial sweeteners; cholesterol, animal fats and fibre; painkillers; plastics and PVC; and the risks associated with...

Ad Nauseam: A Survivor’s Guide to American C...

With the style and irreverence of Vice magazine and the critique of the corporatocracy that made Naomi Kleins No Logo a global hit, the cult magazine Stay Free!long considered the Adbusters of the United Statesis finally offering a compendium of new and previously published material on the impact of consumer culture on our lives. The book questions, in the broadest sense, what happens to human beings when their brains are...

The Buying Guide 2009 (Consumer Reports Buying Gui...

Heres the ideal resource for every consumer faced with questions like: Is this the right product for me? Will I get my moneys worth in this product? Which brand is the best for me? In todays marketplace, there are so many products that can be bought and so many ways to buy them. Consumers are often faced with too many choices when trying to decide on which products to purchase. The Consumer Reports Buying Guide 2009 is a...