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Beyond the Blues: A Guide to Understanding and Treating Prenatal and Postpartum Depression
Beyond the Blues contains the most up-to-date information about risk factors, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mood disorders in pregnancy and postpartum. Straightforward yet compassionate, it is required reading for all who work with pregnant and postpartum women, as well as for those suffering before or after the baby is born.

Customer Review: Sufferer of postpartum Anxiety
I can honestly say that I have purchased about 15-20 books regarding PPD in the last year and this book has been the most informative, encouraging and beneficial to me, along with being easy to read. I highly recommend this book to anyone suffering from PPD, or a spouse/friend of someone suffering from this. When you are a sufferer, you find yourself agonizing over why you are feeling the way you do. Finally, someone has written a book that answers all the questions you are asking. This book will help you get through your day, this book will help you realize that this dark cloud will not stay forever, this book will help you get better.

Customer Review: Very practical to the point information that doesn’t create anxiety
Being a PPD survivor, I feel that out of all the books I read, this one was the best. It provided stories I could relate to, factual information about postpartum mood disorders, questions about medication and separate sections for family and healthcare providers.

It is presented in such a way, so that if one is feeling vulnerable it won’t create added anxiety.

I still reference this book for education purposes.

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The Burn Rate Diet: The New Mind-Body Treatment for Permanent Weight Control
Eliminate the Need for Dieting Forever

The Burn Rate Diet is a new “life diet” that uses all the foods you want to eat and makes restrictive fad diet methods obsolete. Based on fifteen years of research and the successful treatment of thousands of patients, The Burn Rate Diet is the first diet that takes into account your individual metabolic rate. It will show you a different way to understand your body and help you create a personalized eating plan for achieving and maintaining your ideal weight.

With The Burn Rate Diet plan you will:

• Learn how to measure your personal body burn rate, made simple by using the Web site.
• Learn to integrate all the foods you normally eat into the energy level that your lower body weight will require.
• Replace a lifetime habit of on-and-off dieting with an eating regimen you’ll never have to change.

By following the burn rate nutritional principles, you can achieve optimum appetite control and create personalized meat plans that match your personalized Burn Rate Diet guidelines. For once, your weight control can be as unique as you.

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Customer Review: Good Book on Priciples of Eating that Will Help With Weight
This book brings an interesting approach to eating and weight control based on two points. The first is that everybody has a built-in metabolic rate (or burn rate) that determines how a given level of calorie intake affects their weight. The second point is that dfferent foods “burn” at different rates, that is their intake will provide a sense of satisfaction and fullness for only so long (carbohydrates burn quickly and fats burn slowly). The trick to losing weight (assuming that is what most of us want to do) is to mix foods in our diet and spread our eating over the day so that we feel full and acknowledge what level of calories we need to take in (given our internal burn rate along with our level of exercise)to attain a certain weight level. This diet (really a way of eating) is a very individualized approach that begins with a burn rate test diet in which you a eat specified for 2 weeks and see how that affects your weight. This lets you see if you have a high or low burn rate. From here, you eat pretty much without a lot of strict rules but take account of how the foods you eat are burned by your body and affect your desire to eat. The right mix of foods and the timing of your eating (given the burn rate of the foods) will help you feel full while allowing you to lose weight. As you lose weight, you should then be able to match your eating to your burn rate (which changes with your weight) to get a balance between the calories you take in through eating and those you expend through your basic metabolism of sustaining your body and the calories you spend on your activities, including exercise. To me, the book seemed to present a credible theory of why people can eat very differently and still have the same weight (or eat the same and have different weights). The book has an good discussion of other diets (such as Atkins and the Zone diets) that links them to the framework of this book. My understanding is that this method of eating is fairly close to the zone diet, i.e., you eat foods over the course of the day with sense of how they affect your blood sugar and feeling of fullness.
Customer Review: Improve Your Weight Control by Matching Your Metabolism
The best part of this book is its confident support for the idea that being overweight is not a sign that you are mentally and psychologically deficient, as so many people would have overweight people believe. Being overweight usually means that you have a slow metabolism, something you were born with. This book is one of two valuable new books on creating a more individualized approach to eating for better health and weight control. The other book is “Live Right for Your Type.” I suggest that you read both of these books and apply their lessons together. If you are a woman, I suggest you also read “Outsmarting Female Fatigue” as a good complement to these two books. One of Dr. Van Schoyck’s best qualities is that he listens carefully to his patients when they describe their weight issues. While almost everyone has a stereotype of fat people as binge eaters with no self-control, he has found that “fewer than 20 percent of my patients actually overeat.” The culprit instead is a slow metabolism, the rate at which the body burns calories. His book offers you a chance to find out the extent to which your weight level is maintained by overeating, by not enough exercise, and by a slow metabolism. For most overweight people, the last will be the primary reason. The good news is that with the proper diet, you can actually increase your metabolism to its full potential (which still may not be that of the skinny person next to you) so that you can have a more enjoyable, healthy life. That may also mean that your ideal weight is not what the insurance companies and physicians use. It may be higher than that. But you will probably be healthier at that weight than at a lower one that is all but impossible for you to maintain. So this approach should help you avoid yo-yo weight loss and gain. Getting started is the tough part. You have to follow a test diet that will tell you what your metabolism is for two weeks. Since I just got the book, I have not yet done that. The diet is not too difficult. It is not designed to cause you to lose weight, and you can substitute a lot. The diet is what a “normal” person could eat and maintain weight. So, for some people, it will be an increase in eating. The book then tells you how to take the results (how much you gain or lose) and construct an on-going menu-planning system that fits your metabolism. You can also use the authors’ web site (for free) to do this, which is what I would recommend. That’s easier. The book has an excellent discussion of other diets and what is right and wrong with them that you will find valuable. It also is very strong on the idea of customizing how you eat to fit yourself. There is a wonderful discussion of how the body burns newly-ingested food, and stored food already in the body that helped me to understand how to adapt how I eat. Some people (I am one of them) can live off of burning stored fat for more hours than others. I always find that I feel best when I only eat once or twice a day. That’s because I am burning fat evenly the rest of the time. Other people feel fatigued when they are burning fat, and need frequent meals. My wife is a good example of that. So we each need to eat quite differently for our metabolisms to be optimized. It also happens that we have different blood types. I am an “O” and she is a “B.” From reading “Live Right for Your Type” I had learned that we need to eat a different mix of foods. She should strive for balance and more frequent eating while I should emphasize proteins, especially beef, a bit more. With the combined knowledge from these two books, I should be able to manage both my energy and my weight in much more healthful and easy ways. I look forward to the results! By the way, if you like to snack, that may be just the right thing for you to do. And this book has many good suggestions for how to make snacking improve your energy and metabolism. You will also get to eat foods that I have never seen on another diet. In fact, it’s not really a diet in the sense of a weight-loss diet. Rather it’s a way of eating that will maintain your weight at its natural level. I suggest that you also share this book with everyone else in your family. Since you will be eating a lot of meals together, that will make it easier for all of you to follow through on what makes sense for each of you. Otherwise, your new eating plans could simply cause disruptions in your relations with everyone else. I can still remember my Mother happily feeding us “O” people in the family her idea “A” meals. They didn’t work very well for us, but she sure loved them. May your life be filled with lots of health, happiness, peace, and prosperity as a result of the new understanding of your metabolism and how to eat that this book provides you!

When Someone You Love Needs Nursing Home, Assisted Living, or In-Home Care: The Complete Guide
When an aging family member needs some extra help and care, whether a parent, spouse, sibling, or friend, this is the book to get. It delivers bottom-line, no-nonsense, practical information for every stage of need, from the earliest signs of illness, through the nursing home, and beyond.

Written by two distinguished psychologists with specialties in eldercare counseling and research, this frank, friendly, time-tested guide is meticulously organized to provide answers, dispel myths, anticipate needs, and help you learn strategies for dealing with every aspect of in-home and facility care, including caring for the caregiver in the process. Also includes checklists, phone and Internet lists, budget worksheets, questionnaires, and a detailed index.
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Customer Review: A Valuable and Practical Guide
This handbook is a valuable resource for anyone faced with the daunting task of choosing care for an elderly family member. The vast majority of readers most likely have found themselves thrust into an emergency situation with a loved one who needs immediate care. Navigating the uncharted waters of eldercare options can quickly become overwhelming and stressful. This guide will help readers decide which kind of care is most appropriate with practical information about nursing homes, assisted living arrangements, and in-home care options. As an eldercare executive, I have seen a rapid increase in the number of people searching for care for their loved ones. This guide will help them dispel common myths about long-term care, find the answers to commonly asked questions and explore financial issues.

The Volumetrics Eating Plan: Techniques and Recipes for Feeling Full on Fewer Calories

From Dr. Barbara Rolls, one of America’s leading authorities on weight management, comes a much-anticipated lifestyle guide and cookbook that empowers and encourages her readers to quit “dieting” for good, to feel full on fewer calories, and to lose weight and keep it off while eating satisfying portions of delicious, nutritious foods.

The Volumetrics Eating Plan doesn’t eliminate food groups or overload you with rules. It’s a commonsense approach to eating based on Dr. Rolls’s hugely popular Volumetrics Weight-Control Plan and her respected research on satiety that shows you how to choose foods that control hunger while losing weight. Along with menu planners, charts, and sidebars on healthy food choices, the 125 recipes put her revolutionary research into real and tangible instructions for every meal. The full-color photographs make these delicious recipes irresistible.

With this important new guide to healthy eating and living, everyone can enjoy tasty and satisfying meals that will help them maintain their weight or lose those extra pounds while learning the pleasures of cooking the Volumetrics way.

Volumetrics, Dr. Rolls’s rigorously tested and proven system for weight management, incorporates sound research findings from around the world into a nutritious plan and shows you how to personalize it to suit your preferences and goals. It’s all about choices, and The Volumetrics Eating Plan helps you choose the right foods for every meal and every lifestyle, without giving up flavor or diversity in your diet. No more “forbidden foods” or monotonous meals — The Volumetrics Eating Plan will revolutionize the way you think about managing your weight and will guide you to a lifetime of healthy food choices.
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Customer Review: BOTTOM LINE!
The Volumetrics Eating Plan is not a short-term diet book, but provides recipes and ideas on how to eat for the long term. It gives readers a method to eat fewer calories by making what you eat less calorie dense. It does this by focusing on foods with high water and fiber content. Basically, the Volumetrics approach emphasizes foods with a low “energy density,” (calories) that are high in water content such as fruits, vegetables, and soups. The idea is that low-calorie, high-water, high-fiber foods generally make you feel full faster so you consume fewer calories overall. The author’s research shows that by emphasizing these high-water content, low-calorie dense foods, a person feels satisfied on many fewer calories per day. Professor Rolls divides foods into 4 categories based on whether a food has less, equal, or more calories per serving than its weight in grams. Category 1 foods should be emphasized and eaten first. Category 4 foods should be eaten in small quantities. Examples of the foods in each category are as follows: Category 1 - non-starchy fruits and veggies, nonfat milk, broth-based soups; Category 2 - starchy fruits and veggies, grains, cereal with low-fat milk, beans and legumes, low-fat meats, and mixed dishes such as chili; Category 3 - meats, cheeses, pizza, French fries, bread, cake, and ice cream; and finally Category 4- crackers, chips, chocolate candies, cookies, butter, nuts, and oils. The diet is balanced in terms of carbs, protein, and fat, and does not eliminate food groups. The Volumetrics eating plan also allows you to eat your favorite foods occasionally so that you don’t feel too deprived and go off the program. Included in the book are menu planners and 125 recipes with color photographs. The book also provides worksheets for tracking your food intake and weight. Examples of recipes include: Baked Berry French Toast, Vegetable Party Platter, Sesame Mushroom Kebobs, Corn and Tomato Chowder, Minestrone Soup, Almond Chicken Salad Sandwich, Buffalo Chicken Wraps, Charlie’s Greek Salad, Tangy Cole Slaw, Tabbouleh, Balsamic Dressing, Minted Broccoli, Ratatouille, Tofu Pad Thai, Nouveau Lamb Stew, Shrimp Creole, Chicken Parmesan, Risotto Primavera, The Aristotle Pizza, and Maple Cr?me Caramel. The content of the book includes: 1. Welcome to Volumetrics 2. Your Personal Weight Management Plan 3. Breakfast 4. Appetizers, Starters, and Snacks 5. Soups 6. Sandwiches and Wraps 7. Salads and Salad Dressings 8. Vegetables and Vegetarian Dishes 9. Meats 10. Fish and Shellfish 11. Poultry 12. Beans, Rice, and Grains 13. Pasta and Pizza 14. Desserts and Fruit 15. Your Personal Eating Plan Resources, References, Index, Conversion Chart Barbara Rolls is a professor and nutritionist who worked with the National Institutes of Health, and is well qualified to write this book. The menu is elaborate and time-consuming, yet this should be a good plan for slow and steady weight reduction if you have the time to put into planning, buying, and preparing the complex recipes and are able to follow the plan for life. It is based on the common sense that emphasizing low calorie dense, high-fiber, high-water content foods will slowly reduce your caloric intake and allow you to lose weight and keep it off. Please also check out THE 3:00 PM SECRET: Live Slim and Strong, Live Your Dreams
Customer Review: Diet cooking
Once you learn the principles of this type of cooking, you can adapt almost any recipe. It is such a healthy way of eating while still leaving you with a feeling of fullness and satisfaction.

Ask Your Body: Relieve Your Food Allergies Instantly and Naturally With Muscle Testing
Dr. Elizabeth Spicer has given us an amazing and valuable tool for healthy living. People who read this book end up with a power over their lives that is a true gift. She has helped to rediscover an esoteric technique and given it common sense accuracy. Her explanations and instructions are easy and clear enough for anyone to understand and follow- and the book is fun to read! A must read for anyone with food allergies, any parent of an allergic child, anyone sensitive to medication, or anyone who just wants to help others.
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Customer Review: It’s a simple technique, inexpensive book & worth trying
Sometimes it seems as though solutions for the most complex problems turn out to be relatively simple ones that we are able to correct and control. We all have our compatibilities and incompatibilities with foods, vitamins, supplements and so forth. We often find ourselves questioning as to whether or not a particular product is beneficial for our bodies or whether we are simply wasting our money. This book is written by a brilliant woman in a language that the average reader will be able to comprehend. The photographs that display the techniques are quite helpful. I certainly plan to employ these techniques in order to find specific foods or other products that are compatible with my children and their unique body chemistries.

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The Diabetes Problem Solver : Quick Answers to Your Questions about Treatment and Self-Care

People with diabetes can turn to this dictionary-style reference for solutions to the most common problems. Readers can use The Diabetes Problem Solver to look up problems under the key word and follow a flow chart of questions to find practical advice and solutions to most any diabetes self-care problem.

Customer Review: Just as I hoped
New, book in perfect condition. Gave as a gift to a diabetic relative. Was very much appreciated, quick arrival, dandy deal.

Customer Review: The Diabetes Prolem Solver (Am. Diabetes Assn.)
My husband was recently diagnosed with Diabetes. This is a very complex disease with a lot of variables. My desire was to understand why this disease occurs, and to become as knowledgeable as possible so that I may be able help to my husband to deal with it in the best possible manner. This book was exceedingly helpful, not only with the information that it provided, but in a language that I was able to easily understand. Cudos to Dr. Nancy Touchette!

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The Sugar Addict’s Total Recovery Program
Kathleen DesMaisons started a diet revolution with her runaway bestseller, Potatoes Not Prozac, a startling new health and nutrition program for people who are sugar sensitive. The response was phenomenal: 170,000 copies sold and more than 5 million hits on her Web site over the past two years. Now, in this new book, The Sugar Addict’s Total Recovery Program, which is based on a careful balance of protein and carbohydrates, Dr. DesMaisons provides detailed, workable, meal-by-meal instructions on how to implement her breakthrough food plan and make it a part of your daily life.

Sugar-sensitive individuals require not only a different diet but a different approach to diet–and that’s exactly what Dr. DesMaisons offers here. Writing with the deep understanding and personal experience that comes from being both a clinician and a recovering sugar addict herself, and informed with all the latest scientific research on what makes a person sugar sensitive, Dr. DesMaisons explains exactly how you can free your mind and body from the tyranny of sugar and shake off the exhaustion, mental fogginess, and mood swings that sugar dependence causes. Revealing the various ways sugar addiction affects both men and women, and the unique methods for healing it, Dr. DesMaisons encourages you to custom-tailor her simple program to fit your lifestyle, and includes information on:

- How to fully integrate a “slow-carbs not low-carbs” strategy into your diet
- How to shop efficiently and economically for staples, treats, and emergency foods
- Why regular protein is essential and how to get it with every meal
- What to eat when a sugar craving strikes
- How to get the nutrition you need on the run–even at fast-food restaurants
- How to find an exercise program you’ll enjoy
- 10 breakfasts you can prepare in a flash
- Menus and recipes for every lifestyle and taste

Practical, hands-on, and reader friendly, The Sugar Addict’s Total Recovery Program gives you the guidance you need for every phase of healing your sugar sensitivity, from chaos to stability to lasting recovery. By finding and sticking with the protein/carbohydrate balance that’s right for you, not only will you look and feel better, but you’ll actually resolve the problems that have made you lose control of your eating. This book will transform your life by helping you eat right–starting today!
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Customer Review: Excellent companion to Potatoes Not Prozac
Whenever we embark on a trip to a faraway land, it is always useful to hear what worked and did not work from others who have already been there and done that. The Sugar Addicts Total Recovery Program is packed full of what works and what does not work on the journey to radiant recovery from sugar and/or alcohol addiction. Both Dr DesMaison and many other people from all around the world share their practical insights. I have found the down to earth wisdom in this book invaluable on my journey to feeling great about myself and my life. Thanks to Dr DesMaison and all the other people who made this book a reality.
Customer Review: finally– the answer
I have binged since I was […] and have always been ‘different’ around food. My friends would describe me as emotional or overly sensitive. I saw myself in the pages of this book. I have been working the Radiant Recovery program since October of last year, and I feel like a new person. It’s a journey and a process, but I will never go back to being hungry, miserable, and seeking my sugar fix all day!

Weight Control Hypnosis Program [ Double CD Set ] (Positive Changes Hypnosis)

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Action Plan for Arthritis (Action Plan for Health Series)
Take control of your arthritis! Reduce symptoms and keep joints mobile with Action Plan for Arthritis. This guide will help you determine the type and extent of exercise you need to counteract the pain, limitations, and expense associated with the disease.

Developed in cooperation with the American College of Sports Medicine, Action Plan for Arthritis is a complete and effective guide. It explains and shows you how to build strength, flexibility, and endurance while protecting painful joints with low-impact workout options, including water exercise, tai chi, and yoga. It also presents the pros and cons of supplement use so that you can make informed decisions about the “cures” advertised for arthritis.

Action Plan for Arthritis combines the scientific and medical knowledge on how exercise can effectively diminish the impact of what can be a debilitating disease. Put this plan to use not just to survive but also to thrive, and you will feel better than you ever thought possible!

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The pH Miracle Video: Balance Your Diet, Reclaim Your Health
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The People’s Pharmacy Guide to Home and Herbal Remedies
*44% of adults take prescription medication.*1 in 5 also take herbal supplements.*15 million of these people are at risk for an adverse reaction.Are you one of them?Included in this powerful new book:*An A-Zhandbook of common symptoms and ailments*Time-tested, Graedon-approved home and herbal remedies*An overview of the most popular herbs in the US, Europe, and Australia.*Over fifty monographs that detail the active ingredients, common uses, proper dosages, special precautions, adverse effects, and possible herb and drug interactions for each herb.*Resource listings of herbal web pages and products
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Customer Review: Helpful everyday information
I found this book to be full of knowledge on almost every subject reguarding minor health questions and the discussions of various opinions and remedies are very useful.
Customer Review: Easy Christmas gift
I loved the book even gave one as a Christmas gift, That person is still raving about it! It was very easy, no parking space to fine, low prices, delivered right to my home nice will do it again

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Mothers and Their Adult Daughters: Mixed Emotions, Enduring Bonds
The mother-daughter tie takes on unique characteristics as daughters enter midlife and mothers enter old age. Incorporating vivid descriptions by mothers and daughters about their relationships, author Karen L. Fingerman addresses both the rewards and the difficulties these women experience in maintaining their relationships into old age.

Based on interviews with forty-eight mothers over the age of seventy and their adult daughters, Dr. Fingerman begins with an overview of this relationship, which, she points out, can be distinguished from other social ties by the strength of the mother-daughter bond. She then discusses the positive features of this bond and various theories about its social and psychological nature. This discussion is followed by an examination of problems encountered between mothers and daughters. This last section looks at reactions of mothers and daughters to tensions, conflicts, communication problems, and other difficulties.

This excellent study will be of interest to every mother and daughter and to those who study this very special relationship that lasts a lifetime.

Customer Review: Disappointing
I purchased this book months and months ago and have never completed it. I found it not to be what I had expected; it is very boring and provides little, if any, suggestions for better mother/daughter relationships.

Customer Review: A Touching and Perceptive Look at Mother-Daughter Relationships
Karen Fingerman has chose to examine the quality of the mother-daughter tie during “an under-researched period of the life span — when daughters are grown and have entered midlife, but their mothers remain healthy.”

Fingerman’s book is much more of an academic read than a popular book, but it’s likely to appeal to some of the readers who have helped to put other mother-daughter books (most notably Nancy Friday’s book My Mother, My Self) on the bestseller lists. Her book includes chapters on the joys and challenges of the mother-daughter relationship, dealing with conflict, and recognizing the ways in which the mother-daughter relationship evolves over time.

Fingerman is at her most compelling when she dares to write about the unspeakable — how mothers and daughters manage to deal with the fact of the mother’s mortality. In describing her most recent visit with her mother, one of the 48 daughters interviewed in the book describes about how increasingly bittersweet the mother-daughter relationship becomes as the mother grows older and the daughter is forced to face the ticking of a very different type of biological clock: “I felt very happy to be with her. But I kind of came away feeling also kind of sad. The last couple of years, my sisters and I have talked about [the fact] that we all sort of feel this way when we’re with her. It’s bittersweet because she’s not well, and she’s almost 80. So you know you’re not going to have a whole lot of [time].”

Fingerman doesn’t shy away from tough topics, nor does she try to turn her portrait of the mother-daughter relationship into an extended play version of a Hallmark greeting card. The result is a book that will ring true for any adult woman who is lucky enough to have a mother who is still in good health, and who wants to find out more about the fascinating mother-daughter bond.

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Nourishing Traditions - Cookbook That Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition & The Diet Dictocrats, Revised Second Edition

The Palm Beach Doctor’s Diet Prescription
Obesity is reaching epidemic proportions. Even though diet books are numerous, Americans are getting fatter. Food restrictions eventually produce more cravings and explain why diets do not work. To treat the weight one has to treat the mind! By answering the questionnaires in the book, the reader can individualize his or her program to permanent weight loss. Hunger is divided into two categories whether it is in the head or in the stomach. Different therapies are given accordingly. Low metabolism and water retention are treated naturally as well. Cravings are abolished using safe neurotransmitter precursors. One diet does not fit all and only weight loss that is maintained can be considered successful!
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Zone Food Blocks: The Quick and Easy, Mix-and-Match Counter for Staying in the Zone

Over two million people worldwide are already experiencing the health and performance benefits of the Zone diet. Based on the hormonal consequences of food rather than caloric content, the Zone treats food like a powerful drug. Properly administered, this drug allows you to maintain peak mental alertness throughout the day, increase your energy, and reduce the likelihood of chronic disease栬l while losing body fat.

Now, in this essential new Zone reference guide, Barry Sears, provides you with the Zone resources and Food Block information you need to make every meal you eat a Zone meal, including:

• How to use and adjust Zone Food to fit your own biochemistry

• Zone Food Blocks for every ingredient, including vegetarian and nondairy sources of protein

• Zone Food Blocks for fast food and prepackaged supermarket meals

• Rules for modifying prepared foods to make them Zone–perfect

• The Ten Zone Commandments for staying in the Zone

  Think better, perform better, look better, and live better榥t into the Zone.

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Customer Review: I Could Not Do This Diet Successfully With Out This Book…
This book is my “go to” for information for the zone diet. I can figure out how to eat anything and still stay in the zone. I would highly reccommend it.
Customer Review: ZONE FOOD BLOCKS
Good information. Many fresh fruits and vegetables are not listed. Mostly canned, frozen, and processed foods are listed. The organization within the main categories is difficult to navigate. Rather than listing “fruits” within the Carbohydrate category and putting all fruits under that heading, they are listed alphabetically within the category and mixed in with everyting else.

Optimal Health: How to Get It, How to Keep It
This extraordinary book integrates classical homeopathy, constitutional homeopathy, acute homeopathy, acupuncture, acupressure Oriental medicine, Chinese herbal medicine, Western herbal medicine, and nutritional counseling into a practical, easy to use reference tool. OPTIMAL HEALTH demystifies these sciences and provides the reader with a clear path to understanding the available options that exist as an alternative, or a complement to traditional medicine.

This comprehensive book offers an understanding of the origins of disease, not just the treatments. OPTIMAL HEALTH provides analytical tools that allow the reader to gain an understanding of his or her eating habits and behavior and their effect on the overall health. By understanding the obstacles to total health, readers can choose to improve their nutrition, add supplements, meditate, receive massage or acupuncture or select a combination of modalities that will create total wellness.

Dr. Martin’s approach offers readers the tools that will enable them to make informed choices, ask pertinent questions and become proactive in their relationship with their health care providers. He acknowledges the importance of the mind, body, spirit connection in supporting total wellness and suggests that we are not merely victims of disease. Often, we are unconscious perpetrators of the illnesses that plague us. Whether it be poor nutrition, stress, exposure to harmful environmental pollutants or self-sabotaging behavior, we have control over many of the conditions that eventually manifest as disease.

OPTIMAL HEALTH is about making the conscious choices that will empower us to achieve mental, emotional and physical fitness. This book is destined to become a profound reference tool that educates, illuminates and inspires life-transforming behaviors.
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Customer Review: optimal Health: How to get it, How to Keep it
This book’s approach on how to obtain your best overall health utilizes mind, body and spirit to incorporate a total approach to wellness. Instead of simply treating a disease, Dr. Martin urges us to examine the origins of the problem, the underlying total health and life situation of each individual. The emphasis is on “constitutional homeopathy” and not a one-shot Western medicine approach of treating the symptom at the expense of the entire being. Once a course of treatment is determined, it may not necessarily be an “instant cure-all,” but it will be another step and effort toward total well-being. The author combines his back-ground in Oriental and holistic medicine with classical and acute homeopathy, acupuncture, acupressure, Oriental and Western herbal medicine and nutrition. There are user-friendly acupuncture and acupressure charts, as well as an in-depth section on Yin and Yang and the role of awareness, meditation and stress reduction. Outside stresses, such as pollution, poor nutrition and self-sabotaging behavior are also discussed, along with suggestions on how to approach a positive cure. There are specific tools offered so that the individual can ask the right questions and make the right choices when it comes to medical care. Optimal Health is about empowerment and control of one’s well-being. The book includes a wide variety of specific ailments along with recommendations for cures and treatments, as well as an explanation of how we can control our illness and wellness. This book is a great reference tool as well as a comprehensive collection of various disciplines, combined in a manner that works for the overall enhancement of health. —-Sonia von Matt Stoddard for the Whole Life Times, August 2000.
Customer Review: Optimal Health: How to Get It, How to Keep It
Dr. Randy Martin combines Oriental medicine, homeopathy, and nutrition in this user friendly guide to holistic health. Optimal Health is your birthright, he proclaims. Instead of cutting out or covering up symptoms, we can learn to use symptoms as our guides to better health. The book includes quizzes, so you can learn if you are a Yin or a Yang type, or which of the Five Elements (fire, metal, earth, water, or wood) is predominant in your body/mind dynamic. These quizzes are fun to do and help you understand a lot of Eastern medicine quickly. Even thought the book is easy to read, there is so much information you probably will not read it from cover to cover. It deserves a place on your bookshelf where you can turn to it often. If you have ever wanted to integrate the various natural approaches to health, Dr. Martin has done it for you here. He makes it clear that the right diet for you depends on many factors, mostly unique to you and your genetic predisposition. The book helps you learn these factors or points you to the specialists who can tell you. Finally, Dr. Martin takes us through several dis-eases and tells us what we might do using a variety of methods: homeopathy, acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, nutrition, and supplements. Hold this book in your hands, open to any page and you will believe in your ability to control your own health. —– Marylyn Rands, Auroran Magazine, July-August 2000, pg. 59.

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Planet Health: An Interdisciplinary Curriculum for Teaching Middle School Nutrition and Physical Activity
An evidence-based approach to health education

The second edition of Planet Health: An Interdisciplinary Curriculum for Teaching Middle School Nutrition and Physical Activity offers an innovative approach to teaching health education. You can use this proven, evidence-based curriculum to teach students about nutrition and physical activity while helping them build skills and competencies in language arts, math, science, social studies, and physical education. The curriculum is designed for use by teachers in the major subjects as well as in physical education and health.

This new edition includes revised nutrition and physical activity information, ensuring that you’re equipped with the most up-to-date science. The book also includes an all-new CD-ROM with plenty of reproducible worksheets, parent information and newsletters, school health resources, and other teacher resource materials. Like the popular first edition, Planet Health provides

• 35 complete, ready-to-use lesson plans and 31 microunits that promote healthy nutrition and activity;
• materials and instructions to implement Power Down, a two-week campaign to reduce television and other media viewing time, which you can launch in the classroom or school-wide; and
• FitCheck, a self-assessment tool to help students track and improve their activity levels.

In addition, the book includes access to a Web site which features a teacher training PowerPoint presentation, a Planet Heath FAQ, and more. Planet Health, Second Edition, encourages students to think holistically about how health behaviors are interrelated, and it offers a constructivist approach to teaching and learning. With this approach, you can build on your students’ knowledge and experiences to create an active, inquiry-based, student-centered learning environment–one in which students learn best as they construct meaning for themselves.

Developed by educators and scientists at the Harvard School of Public Health, Planet Health, Second Edition, is aligned with the Massachusetts Department of Education Curriculum Frameworks (learning standards) for health, language arts, math, science and technology, and history and social science, and it meets the standards in many other states. Every Planet Health lesson incorporates a range of language arts learning standards and engages students through discussion ideas for small or large groups in which they cooperatively learn and solve health-related issues. Active discussions are used to encourage higher-level thinking and cognition, and peer-group work fosters social development.

This new edition of Planet Health is the perfect antidote to kids’ inactivity, poor food choices, and high levels of screen-viewing time. Acquiring good habits regarding nutrition and physical activity in adolescence often carries over into adulthood. Help your students develop good habits now with Planet Health, Second Edition, and they’ll have a better chance of growing into healthy adults.

A resource for middle school language arts, math, science, social studies, health and physical education teachers; health and physical education directors, supervisors, chairs and administrators; and university faculty who teach physical education or health.

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Invisible Illnesses
THIS BOOK IS WRITTEN FOR THE MILLIONS OF “INVISIBLE ILLNESS” VICTIMS, who are viewed with suspicion, hostility and anger in a world and consciousness that demands scientific evidence and double-blind studies before acknowledging the condition is “Real.” This book will provide some of that much needed scientific evidence to facilitate validation of these syndromes. It’s important to keep in mind that science does not make or invent principles; they merely discover them.

The information in this book will assist the reader in the discovery of the causes of their distress, while also providing non-drug solutions to restore health and regain quality of life, Naturally.
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Customer Review: A good resource, but should not be your only resource
Gilbere wrote a kind of “one size fits all” book for people with MCS, fibromyalgia, and other psychosomatic/chemical and difficult-to-define diseases. I would agree that a fresh approach is necessary, particularly with the way Western medicene treats people with psychosomatic illnesses. I would encourage anyone to read the book and utilize the suggestions in the book as appropriate, with several caveats. First, the book reads like an advertisement for the different products that Gilbere has used or recommends for people with MCS. By all means, if they help you, buy them, but I would carefully consider what may or may not help you before you spend a lot of money. Second, the book is somewhat poorly written and dances around the issue of what really will cure specific diseases. Your specific problem may be solved by just one of her recommendations, or none of them, but her shotgun approach involves a great deal of time, effort, and possibly discomfort for the patient and much of the products and procedures can be debated as to whether they are helpful - or proven. Last, the book does cover the emotional elements of psychosomatic/chemical illnesses but is perhaps underemphasized. WAY underemphasized. I would recommend the book, as I mentioned in the title, but I wouldn’t use it as your only resource. Also, good judgement must be used - the book can do more harm than good if you are averse to chemical smells or food additives and so on - reading about the different negative effects of chemicals and what is making our air, food, and enviornment toxic can lead to greater fear of adverse effects and a more restricted lifestyle. econ
Customer Review: NOTHING NEW
A friend informed me of this book, but I was very disappointed. It was the same old info that I have previously read in other health books.

Healthy and Delicious: 400 Professional Recipes
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Understanding Sickle Cell Disease (Understanding Health and Sickness Series)
Customer Review: Helpful
I did not understand much about the disease until I read this book. This was an excellent source.

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The Real Vitamin and Mineral Book: Using Supplements for Optimum Health,
An excellent source for information on all of the vitamins, minerals and supplements you need to strengthen your immune system, fight illness, slow aging and maximize your health. Each chapter discusses a particular vitamin, mineral and tells you exactly what that nutrient can and cannot do for you.
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Customer Review: Very helpful
I am extremely pleased with all this book has to offer. It’s very informative and has research to back it up. A very good buy.
Customer Review: Not what I thought it was going to be
It was very hard to read I’m not a Doctor and I guess I thought it was going to just tell me what I should be taking, but if I follow all of this info i would be on so many vitamins i wouldn’t have to eat Breakfast I would just eat a hand full of vitamins. I do look up info and it does give me some answers I can put into use I just wished they would have written it for someone who is not up on her vitamins and minerals

A Thinking Person’s Step by Step Guide to Weight Loss & Exercise Program
This book presents a groundbreaking approach to keeping up with weight loss and exercise plans. The method described - and shown to work based on empirical results - is radically different from traditional methods that single-mindedly emphasize personal motivation. Instead of promoting the establishment of overly ambitious goals, the selection of diet or workout “buddies,” and the pairing of idealized outcomes with guilt trips as an ultimately destructive carrot - stick combination, the book sets out effectively to demolish these common and frequently toxic approaches. In a calmly reasoned, analytical way, the authors identify decisive elements in each person’s environment and show how seemingly small changes in our surroundings and habits lead to lasting results.

Among the many innovative angles presented in the book are recordkeeping tools that bring out patterns hidden in our lifestyles and help us distinguish between real improvement and insignificant blips. After walking the reader through the steps of their unique strategy, the authors offer a full case study that brings the facts and figures to life. The book closes with a discussion on the pitfalls of the self-improvement movement when taken to unhealthy extremes and reiterates the sensible approach that defines its entire content.
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Customer Review: New Approach Helpful !
I really enjoyed reading this book and found it refreshingly helpful. It provided an approach to dieting and exercise that I had not thought about before. I liked that a “system approach” was examined to meet the challenge of changing one’s lifestyle as well as an emphasis on team work for succcess. I took the suggestion of tracking my progress and that proved to be informative as well. This is so much better than individual motivation and guilt that are used in most diet and exercise books!

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Tinnitus: Treatment and Relief
Customer Review: Uneven writing mars the usefulness of the information…
Being a tinnitus sufferer to a small degree, I picked up a copy of Tinnitus Treatment And Relief by Jack A. Vernon at the library the other day. This is one of those books you could either think is absolutely great or something that you shouldn’t read unless you have a medical degree.

On the good side, this book doesn’t attempt to push a single treatment option or tout some specialized treatment routine of the author. It’s a series of chapters written by doctors and researchers that cover a range of techniques that have been studied and found to have varying levels of effectiveness. Since little is known about tinnitus and there are no fool-proof or totally effective treatments, it may well be that what works for one person only serves to exaggerate the problem for someone else. Also, tinnitus is highly subjective in the level of discomfort to the patient. As measurement of the extent of the problem can be difficult, placebo treatments often offer some level of relief just because the patient expects it to help. If you’re a sufferer looking to find out about a range of treatment options, this book will help.

What I didn’t like about the book is that the content varies greatly in its readability. Some of the chapters are written with the patient in mind, and it’s easy to understand what the doctor is trying to convey. Other chapters are nothing more than research papers targeted at other researchers, complete with technical statistical analysis and research jargon. Although each chapter ends with a “question and answer” section from a patient perspective, far too much of the writing will be heavy going for the average reader.

I think the best I can do is give this an average rating with the caveat that your results may vary. Depending what you’re looking for, this may be an important read to deal with your condition or it may offer even more frustration of a condition you don’t understand…

Customer Review: Excellent overview of tinnitus and available treatments
The feature of this book that makes it so helpful is the unbiased overview of the various available treatments. You may wince to hear your favorite home remedy analyzed in strictly scientific terms, but the knowledge can be as refreshing as a splash of cold water on your face. The variety of topics covered–medication, depression, masking, habituation, ginkgo, etc.–indicates that Dr. Vernon wanted this book to be a comprehensive guide to treatment, not just promote one clinic’s speciality over another. As a tinnitus sufferer myself, this book was a indispensable tool in trying to understand what I was up against. I particularly liked the presentation of data–treating the reader like a fellow researcher able to form his/her own conclusions.

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Dietetics: Practice and Future Trends
This book takes a look at the futuristic view of the food and nutrition professional and the many areas of opportunity open to practitioners. Emerging areas of practice that require specific knowledge and skills along with a broad understanding of community health needs is a theme throughout the book.
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Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease
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Customer Review: Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease
This is a good book for everyone concern about healthy life
Customer Review: Comment about Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease
This new edition offers a variety of essential knowledge for human nutrition.This book provides an up-to-date, comprehensive and detailed account of the nutrition in monitoring human health.I adopt as a textbook for classroom and reference use.

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Whole Food Nutrition, the Missing Link in Vitamin Therapy: The Difference Between Nutrients Within Foods Vs Isolated Vitamins & How They Affect Your Health
Dr. Vic Shayne’s book is a must-read for anyone who takes vitamins. “There is nothing ‘natural’ about a vitamin once it has been removed from its original food ‘complex.’” Whole food supplements contain vitamins, but vitamins NEVER contain the myriad ingredients found in natural, whole foods. People seeking natural healthcare demand to know the truth.

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Understanding AIDS
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Practical Psychology for Diabetes Clinicians: How to Deal With the Key Behavioral Issues Faced by Patients and Health-Care Teams (Practical Approaches in Diabetes Care)
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Customer Review: Treating the behavioral aspects of diabetes
This book consists of chapters written by a variety of authors. They address common emotional, family and behavioral problems that one might encounter when treating inviduals with diabetes. There sections relevant to the very young as well as the elderly. I liked the sections on dealing with hypoglycemia. They did a good job of addressing how fear of hypoglycemia can influence behavior. Most of the psychological principles are still quite relevant and valuable. Some of the specific suggestions for diet and insulin management are out of date, because of the introduction of ultra-rapid insulin and because of the increase in the use of the insulin pump. I would enjoy seeing an updated version. Dr. Cox could then incorporate driving data into his sections on hypoglycemia.

Evaluating HIV/Aids Treatment Programs: Innovative Methods and Findings
Evaluating HIV/AIDS Treatment Programs offers new strategies for providing care for substance abusers with HIV/AIDS. This volume offers specific, proven programs designed to help underserved populations–including women, Latinos, Haitians, adolescents, and rural people–overcome linguistic, cultural, racial, and economic barriers to obtaining health care. It also offers specialized medical care models that work within the context of a continuum of services in a medical clinic.
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Healthy Habits: Total Conditioning for a Healthy Body and Mind
Customer Review: Good Book
I find this book to be helpful. It touches on alot that we go through in our lives. Sometimes we forget that we can change and this book is a good tool to help. I found this book helps me to see more of who I am and it also gives me motivation to change some of the unhealthy habits I picked up during my life. Enjoy!

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The Health Benefits of Ribose: The All-natural Energy Booster
This clear, concise new book by Professor Emeritus Paul Addis discusses the importance of ribose, a naturally occurring sugar produced in the body from glucose. This slowly produced sugar is the structural backbone of ATP (adenosine triphosphate), the energy molecule that powers all the body’s cells, and is a pivotally important part of DNA, the body’s information library known as the genetic code. Ribose has received increased attention recently because research has shown that, although it is essential for literally thousands of functions in all the cells and tissues, it is in short supply in the body. The sudden interest in ribose is also fueled by the constant stress many people now live with. Stress depletes the body’s stores of ribose, and they can’t be naturally replaced fast enough to maintain optimal health. The author says that restoring adequate levels of ribose to the body through supplementation is extremely beneficial in treating or preventing disorders such as chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, congestive heart failure, and ischemic heart disease. With brain metabolism and neurological disorders, people who have Alzheimer’s disease or Parkinson’s disease have shown demonstrablly low levels of ATP. Supplementing with ribose has raised these lowered levels, and accoding to one theory, has even boosted the energy of brain tissue. Ribose also acts to control appetite and weight gain, and helps the body maintain a normal blood-sugar level, making it useful in treating diabetes. Another major benefit is how well it protects muscles from fatigue and soreness when they have been pushed to the limit in exercise. Ribose is a true rejuvenator that enhances health and wellness, and one small daily dose will give you more energy, help you think more clearly, and make you feel less pressured than you ever dreamed possible.
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Gary Null’s Mind Power: Rejuvenate Your Brain and Memory Naturally
Gary Null has guided and inspired entire generations of Americans to adopt healthier living habits, proving that being older doesn’t mean you have to look, feel, or accept the “inevitable” toll of years. In this revolutionary book, Null shows how to keep your brain fit and functional as you age.

With a wellness plan rooted in extensive research, scientific data, and hundreds of studies, Gary Null has developed a strategy that not only protects your brain, but helps to counter the common mental effects of aging, including anxiety, depression, memory loss, and insomnia, as well as more serious conditions such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Whether you’re a baby boomer or a senior citizen, Null shows you steps you can take to stay mentally sharp.
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Customer Review: One healthy reader
Gary Null’s Gary Null’s Mind Power: Rejuvenate Your Brain and Memory Naturally is a fine resource on brain chemestry and overall health. It covers supplements and conditions and offers natural solutions to mind/health related issues including depression, fatigue, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease to headaches. The final chapters on Psychoneuroimmunology and Mind Power Meals wrap up Mind Power with many healthful, motivational tools and ideas.
Customer Review: excellent
Mind Power is a book that everybody ought to read. As usual Gary Null is straightforward and down to earth. Prevention of diseases is the best way to stay healthy

A Teen’s Guide to Going Vegetarian
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Customer Review: Good introduction for those new to vegetarianism
I first read this in junior high, when I tried being a vegetarian the first time. I loved it and I learned a lot from it. When I returned to vegetarianism as a young adult, I read it again. Although I’m not a teenager anymore, I feel the book is still a handy guide for making the difficult transition to being a vegetarian a lot easier. When people question the food you eat or don’t eat and challenge your beliefs on the subject, it can be hard — this book offers advice for what to do and say in all sort of situations, educates you on nutrition, and gives you basic ideas for meals. “A Teen’s Guide to Going Vegetarian” doesn’t assume you have a lot of money, time, or resources for food shopping and meal preparation (as teenagers and adults alike usually don’t), so it’s great for anyone who needs to be frugal or doesn’t have a lot of time to search for unusual ingredients. But it does introduce you to foods you might not of heard of or tried before, which is important.
Customer Review: This is a must-have for teen vegetarians
I have been a vegetarian for almost two years but I had never really read any books about it. Before I buy something, I always read the reviews, and this book had such good reviews. It is so helpful and fun to read. It has a lot of information such as what they really do to animals at slaughterhouses. It is really sad and it made me become a vegan, but it is necessary that aspiring vegetarians/vegans are aware of it. In every chapter, it has things that you can do to help. It also gives the titles of other books that you can read to find out more. I would definetely reccomend this book to anyone who wants to be a vegetarian or who already is one.

Gary Null’s Power Foods: The 15 Best Foods for Your Health
Gary Null has guided and inspired entire generations of Americans to adopt healthier living habits. Now, in this revolutionary book, Null outlines a master plan for anyone searching for a healthier, more natural way of looking at food.

Null’s comprehensive eating plan is built on a foundation of his 15 “Power Foods.” He explains in detail the unique nutritional powers and attributes each food holds, and offers hundreds of delicious recipes that incorporate as many “Power Foods” as possible-with separate chapters for breakfast, lunch, dinner, desserts, appetizers, beverages, and more.
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Customer Review: Power Foods by Dr. Gary Null PhD
This is a perfect book for health enthusiasts everywhere. It contains power foods , as well as sample recipes which implement the preparation of the meals in the preferred mode. A strength of the presentation is that it is easy to read and emulate the health food preparations depicted. Sample power foods are: o almonds o oranges o blueberries o onion and garlic o ginger o legumes o carrots o whole wheat o pepper o Shiitake mushrooms o tomato o leafy greens o soy The book sets forth many easy-to-read food preparations for a large constituency of readers; namely, heads of households, dieters, nutritionists, physicians, athletes and food enthusiasts everywhere. Sample food preparations are Lima Bean Seaweed Salad and Healthy Hijiki. Each preparation is depicted with a picture and thorough description. Soy is rich in protein. Oranges and blueberries have powerful antioxidant properties. Ginger is a classic anti-inflammatory herb. Additional information on the medicinal benefits which complement health care planning may be obtained from listening to the Gary Null radio show. The book is an excellent acquisition for the price charged.
Customer Review: Excellent way to eat
This book has wonderful recipes that are not only nutritious but quite tasty. There is a cream of Berry Soup that looks really delicious. He also includes a section on 15 power foods which are loaded with antioxidants, which he describes. This is a great book for anyone who wants to know how to prepare raw food and vegan specialities. Patrick Leonardi

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Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: A Survival Guide
People who suffer from multiple chemical sensitivity (or MCS) develop severe allergic reactions to their environments. Solvents, pesticides, fresh paint, new carpets, perfumes, and air fresheners are just a few of the substances that can trigger an MCS attack. The condition is often hard to diagnose, and frustrated patients are frequently shuttled from doctor to doctor. This survival guide is based on the latest MCS research-and on the data that the author accumulated over five years researching the impact of MCS on its victims. She reviews what is known about MCS and its symptoms and provides step-by-step advice for coping with the condition, including taking steps to make your home safe, getting professional help, and mobilizing the support of family and friends.

Customer Review: Excellent Book!
This is an excellent book. I highly recommend it. It is great for people who are new to the MCS/Chemical Sensitivity world. It also takes you allot further. There are so many things in this book that others do not cover. There is also a nice resource listing of where to buy special products just for the Chemically Sensitive individual, I found that very useful as well. I would say if your new to MCS then this is the book for you. It is the most comprehensive, straight forward easy to read version. I would start here and then move on to others by Bonnye L. Matthews Or William Rea.

Customer Review: One of the best books on MCS
My wife suffers from MCS. As such, I have read most of the books available concerning MCS. Most books are from a medical professional covering a particular medical theory or treatment plan for MCS. What makes this book different is that it really explains the impact of MCS on people’s lives. It dispells the myths surrounding the various treatments. The book is based upon surveys and interviews with hundreds of MCS patients. As such, the advice is based upon their experiences. When discussing treatments, statistics are provided on how many people were helped, how many harmed, how many uncertain.

This books is great for those new to MCS, those who have been around a long time, those who are patients, those who know someone with MCS.

I would recommend this book be added to anyone’s library. This is not the only excellent book on MCS … it is now simply the first book I recommend that people read.

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Action Plan for Arthritis (Action Plan for Health Series)
Take control of your arthritis! Reduce symptoms and keep joints mobile with Action Plan for Arthritis. This guide will help you determine the type and extent of exercise you need to counteract the pain, limitations, and expense associated with the disease.

Developed in cooperation with the American College of Sports Medicine, Action Plan for Arthritis is a complete and effective guide. It explains and shows you how to build strength, flexibility, and endurance while protecting painful joints with low-impact workout options, including water exercise, tai chi, and yoga. It also presents the pros and cons of supplement use so that you can make informed decisions about the “cures” advertised for arthritis.

Action Plan for Arthritis combines the scientific and medical knowledge on how exercise can effectively diminish the impact of what can be a debilitating disease. Put this plan to use not just to survive but also to thrive, and you will feel better than you ever thought possible!
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Menopause and the Mind: The Complete Guide to Coping with Memory Loss, Foggy Thinking, Verbal Confusion, and Other Cognitive Effects of Perimenopause and Menopause

Menopause and the Mind gives every woman the survival kit she needs to manage the thinking and memory symptoms — long overlooked by the medical establishment — that accompany the onset of perimenopause and menopause. As early as their late thirties, many women begin to experience a range of startling changes in the way they speak, remember, drink, and navigate. Sometimes, these changes begin with occasional “slips of the tongue.” Other times, a former champion speller realizes that she’s isn’t so sure how to spell “potato” or “forty,” or an organization maven loses track of her appointments. Some women find they can’t remember the name of their oldest friend, or how to turn on the computer. Others put the shampoo bottle in the refrigerator instead of the shower caddy, or forget where they are going en route to the supermarket they’ve shopped at for years. These symptoms occur with greater frequency as women enter their forties, fifties, and beyond, but often they are chalked up to stress or age. However, repeated lapses in memory and recurrences of foggy thinking can be terrifying, causing some women to wonder, “What’s happening to me? Could this be early Alzheimer’s Disease?”

Neuropsychologist Claire Warga provides the first scientific explanation for this common “hormonal misconnection” syndrome. Drawing upon recent brain and clinical research, she shows that forgetfulness, malapropisms, and lost concentration are not manifestations of dementia or senility; instead, they result from the depletion of estrogen in the brain cells of women as they enter perimenopause and menopause. Armed with this knowledge, Warga offers women a breakthrough plan for regaining control and confidence in their minds.

Warga explains in clear, simple language the cutting-edge science that underlies the “hormonal misconnection” syndrome. Research shows that a decrease in estrogen — which begins with the onset of perimenopause at about age 35 — produces detectable changes in the parts of the brain having to do with memory and attention, and can affect multiple neurotransmitter systems. There is also evidence that estrogen loss impacts verbal memory and learning. Yet remarkably, the medical establishment has failed tot use this research to help the millions of perimenopausal and menopausal women who suffer from speech, memory, attention, or cognitive/behavioral symptoms. Most doctors know a good deal about the physical and emotional symptoms of menopause, but little about how it affects the brain. Claire Warga fills this vacuum and provides every woman with the information she needs to take care of herself on her own and in consultation with her doctor.

Menopause and the Mind includes a wide range of real-life stories — such as the menopausal woman who was misdiagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic — that illustrate how different women have coped with their “hormonal misconnection” symptoms. Warga explains the full range of thinking, speech, short- and long-term memory, behavior, spatial, and time sense symptoms in extensive detail, complete with an array of examples. Most important are a self-screening test and symptom chart that every woman can use to understand the extent of her symptoms and accurately assess her condition, with or without her ob/gyn. Women can also make practical use of Warga’s detailed guide to treatment options, which include estrogen therapy, dietary and behavioral changes, and techniques for improving memory.

Women today live longer and are more active than ever before. Menopause and the Mind ensures that every woman can live without embarrassment or fear that she is “losing it” as she grows older. With Claire Warga’s roadmap of the relationship between estrogen and the brain, women can develop the practical coping tools they need to lead happy and productive lives.
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Customer Review: a must read
This book was excellent in helping me understand what was happening to me. It did not do a very good job of covering treatment options. I read Menopause for Dummies which didn’t cover my symptoms as well as this book did, but did an excellent job of covering the treatment options.
Customer Review: Poorly Written
Dr. Warga may or may not have something to say about menopause and the mind, but for the life of me, I can’t decipher her writing. I am amazed that Simon and Schuster let this book see the light of day without more editing. I’ve never read so many long, tortured, and confusing sentences. Good writing does matter.

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