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.
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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:
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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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