Certified Anatomy and Physiology Course eBooks
- Updated 4/2/08

An eBook is an electronic book, a piece of software that transforms the ordinary text and images into an electronic file that can be readily accessed. An eBook is a product that feels and reads like an ordinary book. The pages flutter as they turn. Unlike an ordinary book, it can never be misplaced, it is always just a click away. You can now review the first few pages of all 16 of our eBooks at no cost to you. Pick the eBooks that interest you the most, download them to your computer, and review them. If you like them and want to purchase the complete eBook, you can order them online, by phone, or by fax and we will e-mail you the registration key to "unlock" the rest of the eBook. Download free samples of the eBooks of your choice Free samples of the JLS eBooks are available for your review. The purpose of the free download is to allow you to view the contents of the eBooks of your choice. This will allow you to download the entire book, but only the first 5 pages will be viewable. If you would like to purchase the entire eBook after you have reviewed the free sample, a “registration key” will be emailed to you once payment has been received. The registration key will “unlock” the rest of the eBook. To Download free samples of the eBooks: Create a new folder in the “My Documents” folder on your computer entitled “My eBooks”. Click on Course Overview and Introduction to Nutrition eBook for a sample ebook. Save the eBook in the “My eBooks” subfolder. Double-Click the eBook icon to open the eBook. Repeat steps 1-4 for each eBook you would like to review. As with all our courses, you can receive certification once you have completed all 16 eBook sessions. The course is on your own time so there are no deadlines that you need to meet. There is homework with each eBook as well as a final exam that you will receive separately IF you choose to receive certification from us. If you just wish to study herbs and the way the body functions then you can pick and choose whichever eBook interests you and purchase those. To Purchase the eBooks: After ordering online below, by telephone, or by fax you will receive a “registration key”. This key will be e-mailed to you and will contain your name. This is a unique registration key which will work only with the eBook that has been purchased. If you purchase multiple eBooks, you will receive multiple registration keys (one for each eBook purchased). Once you receive the registration key, it will need to be saved in the “My eBooks” subfolder where you saved the free sample of the eBook. Double click the registration key. You will receive a message asking you if you want to “Install in Registry”. Click “YES”. The process is very simple. Double-Click the eBook that you purchased and the remainder of the eBook will be accessible. NOTE: If you do not have a computer the eBooks can be mailed to you on a CD-ROM. Be sure to request this option. To Contact us to Order in 1 of 3 ways: Register online below. Register by telephone at 1-800-704-9800 or 530-878-1119, M-F, 9-5 PST. Register by fax at 530-878-1119 Product Name Price Order View Course Overview and Introduction to Nutrition Sample eBook The science of nutrition is the study of the nutrients in food and the body’s handing of these nutrients. You are made entirely of what you have eaten. Your skin, which has reliably covered you from the time you were born, is not the same skin that covered you seven years ago, it is made entirely of new cells. The fat beneath your skin is not the same fat that was there a year ago. Your oldest red blood cell is only 120 days old, and the entire lining of your digestive tract is renewed every three days. To maintain your “self”, you must continually replenish the energy you burn and replace the cells you lose. This course is designed to teach you about proper nutrition and the role it plays in your health and the health of others. This book introduces you to: Course Overview Course Definition Introduction to Nutrition Natural Foods 10.00 The Carbohydrates: Sugar, Starch, and Fiber eBook This book examines and describes the role of sugars, starches, and fibers in the body. The health and functioning of every cell in your body depend on blood glucose to a greater or lesser extent. Practically all your energy comes from the food you eat, about half from carbohydrate and half from protein and fat. In fact, one of the principal roles of carbohydrate in the diet is to supply energy in the form of blood glucose. Starch is the most significant contributor of glucose to people’s diets, but any of the sugars can supply it, too. 20.00 The Lipids: Fats and Oils eBook This book examines and describes the role of fats and oils in the body. Most people are conditioned to believe that slim is beautiful. The less fat you carry on your frame, the lovelier (sexier, healthier) you are thought to be. On the other hand, your body fat does things for you that would be hard to do without. If you carry neither too much nor too little body fat, you will enjoy the benefits provided by your body’s stores of this very important nutrient. The fats – more properly called the lipids – are actually a family of compounds that include both fats and oils. Both fats and oils occur in your body, and both help to keep it healthy. Natural oils in the skin provide a radiant complex-ion; in the scalp they help nourish the hair and make it glossy. The layer of fat beneath the skin, being a poor conductor of heat, insulates the body from extremes of temperature. A pad of hard fat beneath each kidney protects it from being jarred and damaged, even during a motorcycle ride on a bumpy road. The soft fat in the breast of a woman protects her mammary glands from heat and cold and cushions them against shock. The fat that lies embedded in the muscle tissue shares with muscle glycogen the task of providing energy when the muscles are active. 10.00 Protein: Amino Acids eBook This book examines and describes the role of amino acids in the body. Everybody knows that protein is important. It is advertised on every cereal box; it is said to “build strong bodies,” and to provide “super go power.” In fact, as you will see, protein has been so overemphasized that many people eat more than enough, sometimes at the expense of other nutrients that are equally important. An understanding of the quantity and quality of protein needed in the diet will help put it in its proper place as only one – although a very important one – of the nutrients needed in correct proportions to achieve a balanced diet. 15.00 Digestion, Absorption, and Transport eBook This book examines and describes the role of digestion, absorption, and transport in the body. One of the beauties of the digestive tract is that it is selective. Materials that are nutritive for the body are broken down into particles that can be assimilated into the bloodstream. Those that are not are left undigested and pass out the other end of the digestive tract. In a sense, the human body is doughnut-shaped, and the digestive tract is the hole through the doughnut. You can drop beads through the hole indefinitely, and they will never enter the body of the doughnut. 15.00 Metabolism: Feasting, Fasting, and Energy Balance eBook This book examines and describes the role of metabolism, feasting, fasting, and energy balance in the body. When you eat too much you get fat; when you eat too little you get thin. Everybody knows these simple facts, but nobody knows exactly how to account for them. The mission of this session is to shed some light on what we do know and to provide answers to some of the questions people often ask about diets. What makes a person gain weight? Are carbohydrate-rich foods more fattening than other foods? What’s the best fuel for an athlete? What’s the best way to lose weight? Is fasting dangerous? Are low-carbohydrate diets dangerous? The answers to these and many other questions lie in an understanding of metabolism. 10.00 Overweight and Underweight eBook This book examines and describes the effects of overweight and underweight on the body. Obesity is a major malnutrition problem. It is one of the most important and least understood areas in the science of nutrition. Everyone knows roughly what it is. If you are too fat, you are overweight; if much too fat, you are obese. But why and how obesity occurs and what can be done about it are matters for much speculation, debate, and frustration. For the obese person who has earnestly tried every known means of losing weight only to fail, frustration can turn to despair. Less well recognized is the problem of underweight, which can be equally mysterious. A “skinny” person finds it hard to gain a pound as a fat person does to lose one. 10.00 The Water-Soluble Vitamins: B Vitamins and Vitamin C eBook The B vitamins and vitamin C are entitled to individual attention, but the whole array of them is presented here first to show you the “forest” in which they are the trees. They come together in foods, they work together in the body, and there is much to be learned from viewing them as a group. First of all, together with vitamin C, the B vitamins form a natural group of nutrients known as the water-soluble vitamins. They are present in the watery compartment of foods, and they distribute into the water-filled compartments of the body. They can easily be excreted in the urine if their blood concentration rises too high – in contrast to the fat-soluble vitamins, which tend to be hidden away in storage places. As a consequence, the water-soluble vitamins are less likely to reach toxic levels (a plus), but are also more easily depleted (a minus), than the fat-soluble vitamins. 10.00 The Fat-Soluble Vitamins: A, D, E, and K eBook Has it ever occurred to you how remarkable it is that you can see things? As an infant you were enchanted with the power this gave you. You closed your eyes and the world disappeared. You opened them and made everything come back again. Later you forgot the wonder of this, but the fact remains that your ability to see brings everything into being for you, more so than any of your other senses. Light reaching your eyes puts you in touch with things outside your body, from your friend sitting near you to stars in other galaxies. Has it ever occurred to you how extraordinary it is that a child grows? From a mere nothing, a speck so tiny that it is invisible to the naked eye, each person develops into a full-size human being with arms and legs, teeth and fingernails, a beating heart and tingling nerves. Years go into the making of an adult human being, with each day bringing changes so gradual they seem undetectable. Only if you are absent during a part of this process do you notice it on your return and remark to a child, “My, how you’ve grown!” And when did you last think about your breathing? In, out, in, out, day and night, year after year, you take in the oxygen you need and release it disposing of the used-up carbons whose energy moves you and keeps you alive. The nutrients discussed in this session – vitamins A, D, E, and K – are vital for these and other processes that you make often take for granted. 10.00 Water and the Major Minerals eBook This book describes and examines the role of water and the major minerals in the body. Water and dissolved minerals provide the medium in which nearly all of the body’s reactions take place, participate in many of these reactions, and supply the means for transporting vital materials to cells and waste products away from them. Every cell in the body is bathed in a fluid of the exact composition that is best for it. Each of these fluids is constantly undergoing loss and replacement of its constituent parts as cells withdraw nutrients and oxygen from them and excrete carbon dioxide and other waste materials into them. Yet the composition of the body fluids in each compartment remains remarkably constant at all times. Every important constituent of body fluids is similarly regulated. The interstitial fluid, for example, always has a high concentration of sodium and chloride ions and lower concentrations of about eight other major ions. The intracellular fluid always has high potassium and phosphate concentrations and lower concentrations of other ions. These special fluids regulate the functioning of cells; the cells in turn regulate the composition and amount of the fluids. The entire system of cells and fluids remains in a delicate but firmly maintained state of dynamic equilibrium. 10.00 The Trace Minerals eBook This book describes and examines the role of trace minerals in the body. If you could remove all of the trace minerals from your body, you would have only a bit of dust, hardly enough to fill a teaspoon. You would also die instantly. Although present in tiny quantities, each of the trace minerals performs some vital role for which no substitute will do. A deficiency of any of them may be fatal, and an excess of many is equally deadly. Remarkably, the way you eat and the way your body handles these minerals enables you to maintain a supply that is just sufficient for health and below the toxic level. 10.00 Nutrition Status, Food Choices, and Diet Planning eBook All the nutrients have been presented and discussed, the food sources of each are known, and the human needs for them have been described. Now, how do you go about determining whether individuals or groups are receiving the nutrients they need? And if they are not, what food choices do they need to change? Then, how do you set about improving the diet while honoring their food preferences? This eBook addresses these questions. 15.00 Food Additives eBook Food is a fantastically complex mixture of chemicals, probably numbering in the hundreds of thousands. If you are curious to know what substances are in the foods you eat and what they do, you can’t help wondering about additives. Reading labels is all very well, but it takes you only so far. The most a label tells you about additives is what they do to the foods they are in – but what do they do to you? This question may especially concern you if you have heard some of the stories that implicate additives in the causation of cancer, birth defects, and other frightening conditions. This eBook addresses those issues. 15.00 Alternative Therapies eBook This eBook describes and examines the following: Acid vs. alkaline Chelation: oral vs. intravenous Colon therapies: colonics, colemas, enemas, and colon cleanses Fasting Fat in the diet Food combining Herbs and Surgery - The Combination Could be Dangerous Herbs that should not be used with Medications High cholesterol and high triglycerides Kidney flushes Kneipp baths/ocean therapy Light treatment Liver and gallbladder flushes Low fat diet/weight loss diet Quick Reference-Conditions/Herbs Removing Clients from Medications Slant boards Sugar and sugar substitutes Useful Web Sites 20.00 Parasites, Candida Albicans, and Hiatal Hernias eBook This book examines and describes how Parasites, Candida Albicans, and Hiatal Hernias affect the body. Parasites eat off our tissues then release their toxic waste back into our systems. While most of us are familiar with some of these common culprits - ringworm, tapeworm, mites, and heartworm - few of us want to accept the possibility that our own bodies often host over a dozen different parasites that feed and live off our internal organs. While parasites are most prevalent in areas with hot, humid climates, they are finding their way into a large number of American homes. Although they usually live in the gastrointestinal tracts of their hosts, they can travel to the joints and tissues causing aches and pain. Keeping your body healthy and clean decreases their chance of survival. Candida Albicans is a yeast growth present in all of us and is normally controlled by bacteria in the intestines. But when something destroys helpful bacteria, the yeast begins to invade and colonize the body tissues. These yeast colonies release powerful chemicals into the bloodstream, causing such varying symptoms as lethargy, chronic diarrhea, yeast vaginitis, bladder infections, muscle and joint pain, menstrual problems, constipation and severe depression. The medical term for this yeast overgrowth is candidiasis (can di di' a sis). Hiatal Hernia has been called the "great mimic" because it mimics many disorders. A person with this problem can get such severe pains in their chest that they think they are having a heart attack. They may think they have an over acid stomach because they will regurgitate stomach acid after they eat, or their stomach may hurt so badly they will think they have an ulcer. This is just a sampling of the symptoms that may occur from this disorder. 10.00 Water Purification, The Ideal Diet, and Home Health Tests eBook For over five decades, the American Dental Association has continuously endorsed the fluoridation of community water supplies and the use of fluoride-containing products as safe and effective measures for preventing tooth decay. Fluorides and Fluoridation contains resources that provide important facts and answer a myriad of questions. New information and resources will be added to this area, as they become available. In this eBook, you will find the latest information about fluoride and fluoridation. The Ideal Diet states: To insure that you are getting a proper balance of nutrients, you must eat a wide variety of wholesome, fresh foods along with your nutritional program – Eat at home to stay well! Included in this eBook are tests you can have your clients take themselves at home or you can help them with when they see you for consultations. Begin practicing these tests on yourself to be sure you know how to use them. Find out where you stand with your health and begin working towards better health. Once you feel comfortable with the tests yourself, have your friends and family take them and see how they do. Then move on to clients and help them with their daily health regime. 10.00 Click here to go back to the main products page. Click here to go back to the main Joyful Living Services' web page.