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AVAILABLE November 16, 2021
Attention all grown-ups! Kids have questions! Now they’ll have answers.
Kids of all ages have some important questions about how their bodies work—and why their parents and other adults have some strong ideas on what needs to get done every day in order to stay healthy. Children often hear:
“No more screen time!”
“Eat your vegetables!”
“You can’t have cookies for dinner!”
“You need to take your medicine!”
“Wash your hands! With soap!”
“It’s getting late! Get ready for bed!!”
In this book, Dr. Nina L. Shapiro embarks on an amazing journey through the body as it gets fed, protected, exercised, cleaned, energized, and rested. Each chapter provides kids with age-appropriate explanations and illustrations that address their very good questions about their bodies and health with solid (and fun!) science-based answers. By receiving an in-depth understanding of what it means to be healthy, strong, clean, rested, and energized, kids will soon be able to make smart decisions on their own.
The human body is incredible, and the science behind how our bodies work, how the world affects our bodies, and how our bodies affect the world around us is pretty cool, too.
Perfect for any kid who wants to know the what, why, and how behind staying healthy. Dr. Nina Shapiro is more than a beloved doctor, she’s become a leading voice in translating complicated medical information into accessible, actionable advice. Now she’s done it again, this time for kids! — Dr. Cara Natterson, |
This book empowers kids to learn about their bodies and take charge of their health . . . and will probably teach their parents a few things, too! — Ari Brown, MD |
In engaging and child-friendly language, Dr. Nina Shapiro describes how the human body works, how to take care of it, and why it’s essential to do so. This excellent book teaches elementary-aged children how their bodies work while giving parents a welcome primer that answers their questions. I wish I had this book on my shelf when my kids were growing up! — Susan Kaiser Greenland, |
The Ultimate Kids’ Guide to Being Super Healthy is an accessible health manual for kids of any age. . . . Dr. Shapiro offers detailed information in an easy-to-read guide while keeping the tone of this book supportive, flexible, and fun. All kids—and their parents, too!—can learn something from this book. — Charlotte H. Markey, PhD, Professor of Psychology, |
This guide is exactly what every kid asks, with answers every parent wants to know. From snacks to screens, sleep to shots, and everything in between, Dr. Nina Shapiro makes it super easy to be super healthy. She covers it all in this fun, fact-filled, easy-to-read and hard-to-argue-about guide that kids (and parents!) will enjoy. — Tanya Altmann, MD, FAAP, |
Using her warm, down-to-earth, and often humorous style, Dr. Nina Shapiro gives kids the real answers that parents often lack in responding to ‘Whyyyyyyy?’ when it comes to self-care. How I wish I had this book when I was raising my kids! It is invaluable and essential to every parent’s and child’s library for reference over and over again. — Betsy Brown Braun, child development and behavior specialist, |
HYPE: A Doctor’s Guide to Medical Myths, Exaggerated Claims and Bad Advice – How to Tell What’s Real and What’s Not
Hype: A Doctor’s Guide to Medical Myths, Exaggerated Claims and Bad Advice–How to Tell What’s Real and What’s Not by Nina Shapiro, M.D. with Kristin Loberg is an engaging and clear-eyed examination at the real science behind our most common beliefs and assumptions in the health sphere. There is a lot of misinformation thrown around these days. Headlines tell us to do this, not that—all in the name of living longer, better, thinner, younger. Dr. Shapiro’s jargon-free, balanced book distinguishes between the falsehoods and the evidence-backed truth. In her work at Harvard and UCLA, with more than twenty years of experience in both clinical and academic medicine, she helps patients make important health decisions every day. She’s bringing those lessons to life here with a blend of personal storytelling and science. Hype covers topics as diverse as exercise, nutrition, supplements, alternative medicine, vaccines, and the benefits and drawbacks of medical testing.
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Written with a surgeon’s incisiveness and clarity, Dr. Nina Shapiro “cuts” through the clutter of confusion when it comes to the best advice for your health. In an age of information overload, it has become increasingly challenging to find trusted voices, which is why Hype could not have come at a better time. As a top-doctor but also as a mom, wife and friend — Shapiro knows what matters most to her readers. She also knows how to skillfully blend knowledge with engaging and entertaining stories. Every home should have a copy of Hype.
— Sanjay Gupta, MD,
CNN Chief Medical Correspondent and New York Times bestselling author
In these times, the lines have blurred between real and fake news. Likewise, in healthcare, there are abundant false claims, fictions, and fabrications. In HYPE, Dr. Nina Shapiro, a medical truth–seeker and master explainer, takes us on a path of scrutiny and veracity.” — Eric Topol MD, |
In Hype, Nina Shapiro and Kristin Loberg guide us through the dense thicket of seductive medical advice offered by the media, celebrities, activists, and health hucksters. Unlike most skeptics, however, they aren’t simply naysayers, but instead willing to tell us what works and what doesn’t. Some of their advice, no doubt, will surprise you. — Paul A. Offit, MD, |
If you’re tired of reading competing, confusing headlines in the health sphere or wondering if the latest “clinically-proven” trend is worthy advice, then Hype is a must-read book. In this clear, concise, no-nonsense guide to understanding what’s truly good for you—and not—Dr. Nina Shapiro inoculates you with the data-driven truth. Filled with knowledge and engaging stories, this book reveals facts that will surprise you, all of which will empower you for total well-being. — David B. Agus, MD, |
Hype is an indispensable book packed with history, research, and personal anecdotes. It is the antidote to overwhelming internet searches, floods of health information, and endless tips from friends or family members who are not trained in health care. Nina Shapiro has become the expert at cutting through spin and guiding freaked out patients off the ledge. Since unsolicited advice isn’t going away, the best next step is to arm yourself with the information in this book. This should be mandatory reading.” — Cara Natterson, MD, |
In Hype, Nina Shapiro leads us carefully along the frontier between medical knowledge and uncertainty. She is one of the best doctors I know, and now her wisdom and bedside manner are available to everyone, at book length. if you want to remain sane while facing some of life’s greatest challenges — read this book. — Sam Harris, |
In Hype, by Nina Shapiro, M.D. ’91, with Kristin Loberg (St. Martin’s), a UCLA surgeon draws on her training and her interactions with anxious patients (“informed” by the Internet and media accounts) to sort out the medical wheat from the considerable chaff among competing claims, miracle cures, and just plain rotten advice. — Harvard Magazine |
Surgeon Shapiro (Take a Deep Breath) sets out to clear up medical misperceptions in this feisty, fact-filled diatribe (even the acknowledgment page complains that “hype abounds and needs to be bashed”). She tackles such questions as how to put risk into perspective (readers should worry more about eclairs than Ebola), how to understand the causation/correlation distinction, and how to make sense of medical jargon, with the overall aim of turning patients into savvy consumers and perceptive judges of information. Shapiro argues for accuracy on such topics as the efficacy of vaccinations (she comes down hard on the “antivaxx” movement) and shares research on the utility of vitamins (the main outcome of which, she claims, is “very expensive pee and poop”), drinking eight glasses of water per day (“follow the money” to the multibillion-dollar bottled-water industry), and juicing (skip the blender and just eat fruits and veggies). Her skeptical, no-nonsense approach and probing assessment of fact versus fiction make for lively reading that is likely to help readers make better health and medical choices.” — Publishers Weekly |
In this common-sense guide, UCLA surgeon Shapiro and coauthor Loberg answer such health questions as whether vaccines cause autism (no) and why gluten-free diets can lead to higher levels of arsenic in the body (rice flour naturally contains the chemical). Shapiro wants patients to do the right thing by getting inoculations (as she and her family have) to ward off diseases like HPV and chicken pox, but she also reassures parents that they can lighten up when it comes to panicking about a little sugar. Each chapter ends with a helpful “hype alert” box that summarizes key points, such as “More men die with prostate cancer than of prostate cancer” and “You are exposed to more aluminum and formaldehyde in nature through air, food and drink than what you’ll get in a vaccine.” Money-saving tips include passing on the bottled water, which costs 2,000 times as much as tap (chemicals in the plastic may leach into the beverage, too). Complete with an index, this is an extremely useful, easy-to-read handbook. — Booklist |
For anyone who wants to be extra proactive in their healthcare choices, this is a book to have. Even though it’s pretty no-nonsense, it’s got a breezy feel to it and sometimes, the authors have a little fun with readers, too. “Hype” is down-to-earth, informative, and your funnybone may even be tickled.
— Terri Schlichenmeyer
Marco News
Take a Deep Breath
Take a Deep Breath is a comprehensive, accessible, and indispensable guide for parents, caregivers, teachers, pediatricians, and other healthcare providers on the subject of children’s breathing issues. The book provides a thorough review of breathing issues, differentiating the normal and abnormal for all ages, and at all levels of breathing passages. Take a Deep Breath explains all of the puzzling and oftentimes distressing breathing patterns our children have throughout development. From the uppermost part of the breathing apparatus, the nose, to the lowermost part, the lungs, this book explains which problems are truly worrisome, and which are actually normal stages in a child’s growth. Take a Deep Breath will enable the reader to do just that, take a deep breath, and get a better, clearer understanding about what’s going on when your children breathe in and out. While pediatricians and other healthcare providers have expertise in all aspects of childhood illness, this book sheds new light on the latest research in pediatric breathing issues, sleep issues, and airway safety. Consisting of age-based sections, with location-based and problem-based chapters for each age group, each chapter also provides a ‘to-do’ list, offering successful preventions and treatments that can easily be done at home. About 80 to 90 per cent of children, at one time or another, have breathing problems. Take a Deep Breath will be a welcome, indispensable tool in all households with children. Day care providers, grandparents, babysitters and nannies, and parents’ clubs will all benefit from this book immensely.
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Take a Deep Breath is a breath of fresh air for every parent and doctor who cares about children. Dr. Nina Shapiro cuts through what we need to know and reassuringly tells us what we don’t need to worry about. A must read for every parent and grandparent. — Nancy Snyderman, MD, |
Take a Deep Breath is the ultimate go-to guide for breathing issues in childhood. Written in a clear, easy-to-read Q and A style, and divided by common issues in each age group, Dr Nina Shapiro teaches parents what they need to know, when to worry and when to relax about common health issues, choking prevention and asthma, and what to do when your toddler sticks a toy up his nose! — Ari Brown, MD |
A must read for any parent or caregiver who has ever questioned or considered a child’s breathing. — Tanya Remer Altmann, MD, |
Take a Deep Breath will undoubtedly set your mind at ease, and help everyone breathe a little easier. — Scott Cohen, MD, |
The perfect handbook of breathing, written by an impeccable surgeon who is, first and foremost, a mom. — Cara Natterson, MD, |
Handbook of Pediatric Otolaryngology: A Practical Guide for Evaluation and Management of Pediatric Ear, Nose, and Throat Disorders
The Handbook of Pediatric Otolaryngology will provide the most up-to-date information on the clinical management of children with otolaryngologic disorders. It is ideal for medical students, house officers, and practicing physicians. Systems-based sections include information which is applicable in the clinic, operating room, and hospital settings. Chapters are written by experts in the fields of pediatric otolaryngology, anesthesiology, surgery, and audiology. It is an invaluable guide, in that it covers the basics of the specialty, while also including more advanced issues such as EXIT procedures, medico-legal controversies, and evidence-based medicine in pediatric otolaryngology. While it is a subspecialty text, it is written in a manner that is accessible to those at all levels of medical training.
50 Studies Every Pediatrician Should Know
50 Studies Every Pediatrician Should Know presents key studies that have shaped the current clinical practice of pediatrics. Selected using a rigorous methodology, the studies cover topics including: allergy immunology, behavioral, cardiology, dermatology, endocrinology, ENT, general pediatrics, hematology, infectious disease, neonatology, nephrology, neurology, oncology, ophthalmology, orthopedics, and pulmonary. For each study, a concise summary is presented with an emphasis on the results and limitations of the study, and its implications for practice. An illustrative clinical case concludes each review, followed by brief information on other relevant studies. This is one of the only books of its kind to present a collection of the most influential clinical trials in pediatrics that are detailed enough to be used on rounds, but still easily digestible.
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