About the Authors

Sylvia Goldfarb, PhD, is a writer specializing in medical topics. She has co-authored two books with Dr. Edward M. Wagner, How To Stay Out Of The Doctor's Office and Your Body's Most Powerful Healers, both published by Instant Improvement, Inc. Her most recent book, Allergy Relief: Choosing the Most Current Natural Therapies, is published by Avery, an imprint of Penguin Putnam, Inc. Sylvia has written articles for a number of magazines, including Focus, Natural Body and Fitness, Today's OR Nurse, and Veggie Times. A graduate of Skidmore College, she belongs to the Author's Guild and serves as a faculty member and judge of the Philadelphia Writer's Conference. Her website is www.doctorsylvia.com.

Roberta W. Waddell, a graduate of Westover School and Smith College, has had more than sixteen years experience working in the alternative health field, both freelance and as the editor at a direct mail publishing house. Her more than thirty years of personal experience with chronic pain led her down many avenues of treatment, alternative and mainstream, and led her to embrace the concept of this book when it was presented to her.

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