The Diabetes Lifestyle Book: Facing Your Fears & Making Changes for a Long & Healthy Life
The Diabetes Lifestyle Book: Facing Your Fears & Making Changes for a Long & Healthy Life
This revolutionary book focuses on a two-pronged approach to diabetes management. First, it provides in-depth education about diabetes, focusing on the difficulties inherent in the self-management of the disease. This includes information about diet, exercise, medication compliance, blood glucose testing, insulin administration, as well as potential complications and how to avoid them. The book also addresses the enormous emotional and psychological component of diabetes.
Customer Review: Simply stated, every newly diagnosed diabetic should read and would substantially benefit from “The Diabetes Lifestyle Book”
Simply stated, every newly diagnosed diabetic should read and would substantially benefit from “The Diabetes Lifestyle Book” which is the collaborative work of clinical psychologist Jennifer A. Gregg (Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, San Jose State University, San Jose, California), Glenn M. Callaghan (Professor of Psychology, San Jose State University), and Steven C. Hayes (University of Nevada Foundation Professor of Psychology, University of Nevada, Reno). The life-style changes that a diabetes diagnosis compels is often daunting and very difficult to sustain until and unless the diabetics are able to face their fears, voice their concerns, and maintain the changes in their diets, activity levels, and medical services required for a long and healthy life. The psychology, the motivation, the mental management techniques that must go along with changes in diet, medication schedules, and exercise programs are fundamental and precisely the ‘how to’ information and inspiration provided by “The Diabetes Lifestyle Book”. No personal diabetes reading list or community library Health & Medicine reference collection should be without a copy of “The Diabetes Lifestyle Book”.
Customer Review: Must read for those with diabetes
This book has the potential to be a life changer for people with diabetes.
It teaches Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) principles to help people with diabetes come to grips with all the emotions involved with living with diabetes. There’s also a lot of good information about the condition itself.
I highly recommend this book. I was already familiar with ACT before I read it, but the author does a fine job of teaching some basic ACT concepts. If you’re a diabetic, please buy this book! Thank you.
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The Heroin User’s Handbook 
Price: $19.95
Customer Review: Brilliantly refutes our society’s demonization AND exaggeration of heroin
Francis Moraes, Ph.D is a hero in this miserable era of anti-heroin propaganda and the desecration of the American populace’s right to put what they want in their bodies. This book offers a huge slice of reality about heroin. It is probably the ONLY source of media (counting websites, films, lyrics, etc.) that does so (beyond the author’s now-defunct website). Here are a few of the many points that Dr. Moraes elucidates for the 99.99999% of the ignorant populace, smashing the hegemonic norms reified by countless forms of propaganda: 1. There ARE functional junkies. Just because John Q. Drone only hears about the ‘evil heroin-crazed murderers’ on the news (bwahahaha…crazed how? Snoring too loud?) doesn’t mean that there aren’t many professionals with their lives under control who enjoy heroin the way many Americans enjoy cigarettes. The only difference is that heroin can’t give you cancer…but can land you in a lot of legal trouble. 2. There ARE casual heroin users, just as there are casual drinkers. Heroin is an addictive drug, but so is alcohol. You don’t see our society stating that anyone who has a beer after work is a ’substance abuser’ do you? 3. The demonization of heroin is a discursive occurrence; not the pinnacle of society’s search for Good and Bad chemicals. During the 1900s, upper-class ladies had heroin habits, during Prohibition, alcohol was illegal. While the powers that be would like its pawns to believe that heroin has always been considered Evil and alcohol always society’s Drug of Choice, this is not so…nor should it ever be. 4. Heroin is NOT the smack in the head that the world believes it is. To paraphrase the book, pot users, for instance, are most disappointed with heroin’s effects, for the gentle sense of well-being and evaporation of all intense negative emotions caused by heroin is a far cry from the sensory alterations and downright wacky feelings caused by the smelly weed. In other words, a heroin user is a happier, calmer, and perhaps drowsier version of a sober individual; a pot user is a laughing idiot who may be incapable of performing certain tasks that require heavy abstract thinking and higher brain function. In addition, heroin–unlike alcohol and cocaine–makes people less violent and argumentative than they are while sober: “A society of heroin addicts may not be a more productive one, but it would be a less violent one.” 5. The author also gets it right when it comes to the downside of heroin addiction! The majority of books exaggerate the effects of heroin (”a full body orgasm–don’t even try it once, it’s so good!”) but also downplay the miseries of withdrawal (”It’s just like a mild flu”). This book is the only one I have ever read that is ACCURATE on how horrible withdrawal can be, from the severe depression to the constant vomiting to the relentless insomnia, boredom, shivering, sweating, body aches, etc. This book is incredible at showing not only how heroin is unfairly demonized, but also how the withdrawal from heroin has been unfairly downplayed. 6. Finally, the author accurately represents the political truths: “Victorian England has the homosexuals, Hitler had the Jews, and modern America has the drug users.” Or, in the last few years of marijuana acceptance, I would say that heroin users have become even more targeted. When reading the chapters on law (en)forcement and the court-enforced churchgoing that is Narcotics Anonymous (because ‘your higher power can be the doorknob’ this isn’t a violation of church and state, huh?), I kept feeling that I was talking to a friend who understood and agreed with me about the politics regarding drug use. I have never felt like this before except while talking to my partner. I am so glad that I am not alone, and that someone has written a book that has pretty much echoed my own (accurate) views on this drug. Now if only the website could be revived…or that more intellectuals who have experiences with and accurate views of opiates could get out of the closet and try to change this very messed-up ‘zero tolerance’ society. Functional junkies, intelligent heroin users, former opiate aficianados and even undermedicated pain patients all need society’s attitudes to change.
Customer Review: The perfect guide for the functioning heroin addict
Far too often disinformation couched in florid rhetoric intended to advance a moral preference couched as a universal ethic pollutes solid medical advice. Francis Moreas “Heroin: A Users Handbook” defeats myths and details real medical and chemical information and advice, often with a near clinical narrative tone. The straightforward tone is what is most welcome: neither alarmist, flinching from reality, nor governmentese, Moreas offers the Strait Dope in an informed journalistic style that never descends to a Gonzo-Hippie or Libertarian screed. This is exactly the kind of book you want for answers. On the legal side….while Moreas offers an excellent overview with welcome detail, my assessment is to remain more cautious in assuming this work covers all on the intersection of heroin use and the legal and regulatory system where the reader is located. While the Federal schedule of narcotics is well-known and easily reviewed, each state in the U.S.A. has sovereignty and distinctions in how they classify and treat various chemicals. The international legal dimensions of heroin use are far too complex for this slender volume.
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.
List Price: $12.95
Amazon Price: $12.95
Used Price: $0.01
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
