Free From Addiction or Protein Power

Free From Addiction

Author: Morteza Khaleghi

Addiction invades every region and demographic in the United States, affecting more than 23 million Americans and putting families though a heartbreaking cycle of recovery and relapse. Many people give up and never find the right treatment that will enable them to break free of their addiction forever.

Offering a radical new approach, clinical psychologist Dr. Morteza Khaleghi argues that the vast majority of drug and alcohol addiction is driven by an emotional trauma. A pioneer of the dual diagnosis recovery program, he treats the body for chemical dependency while simultaneously ministering to the emotional block that serves as a trigger for relapse. A regular advisor on the Dr. Phil show, Dr. Khaleghi has mapped out recovery plans for thousands of patients and their families.  Well-known facilities such as Hazelden, Sierra Tucson, and the Betty Ford Center refer their toughest cases to him, looking to his vast experience and high rate of success. In this groundbreaking book, he teaches you the methods that have made him the therapist that other therapists turn to for advice.

Families will learn how to

•           Recognize addictive behavior

•           Plan and stage effective interventions

•           Work on the family dynamics that enable addiction

Patients will learn to

•           Become self aware about addictive behavior

•           Identifythe emotional trauma that is at the heart of nearly every addiction

•           Detect early signs of relapse and take preemptive measures

Drawing on over 20 years of experience healing patients, Dr. Khaleghi’s insightful, nurturing and-- above all--breakthrough book is geared to anyone looking for help with dependency and to the spouses, parents, children, and friends who bear the brunt of this damaging disease. Free from Addiction will redefine addiction treatment and provide new hope to all those embarking on recovery.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments v Part I Addiction
1 Introduction 3
2 Redefining Addiction and Our Treatment 17
3 How Emotional Pain Can Lead to Addiction 37
4 Recognizing Addictive Behavior 49
5 The Hidden Roots of Addiction 69
6 The Role Environment Plays in Addiction 83
7 How the Brain Changes with Addiction 93 Part II Recovery
8 The Challenges of Treatment 103
9 Facing Yourself through Therapy 121
10 Relapse as Part of Recovery 137
11 How Families Experience Addiction, and How They Can Help 151
12 Staging the Intervention 165
13 The Risk of Waiting Too Long 179
14 Medication to Stop Dependence 195 Epilogue: Moving Forward 211 Notes 219 Index 225

Book review: Northern Italian Cooking or Fresh Food Fast

Protein Power

Author: Michael R Eades

Join the thousands who have experienced dramatic weight loss, lowered cholesterol, and improvement or reversal of the damages of heart disease, adult-onset diabetes, and other major diseases by following this medically proven program.

Protein Power will teach you how to use food as a tool for

Dramatic and permanent weight loss
Resetting your metabolism and boosting your energy levels
Lowering your "bad" cholesterol levels while elevating the "good"
Protecting yourself from "The Deadly Diseases of Civilization" (including high blood pressure and heart disease)

And best of all, Protein Power encourages you to

Eat the foods you love, including meats (even steaks, bacon, and burgers), cheeses, and eggs
Rethink the current wisdom on fat intake (science has shown that fat does not make you fat!)
Stop shocking your body with breads, pastas, and other fat-inducing carbohydrates

So prepare yourself for the most dramatic life-enhancing diet program available!

Publishers Weekly

The Eades, who share a weight-loss and family-medicine practice in Arkansas, have each written a popular medical book-his is Thin So Fast; hers, The Doctor's Complete Guide to Vitamins and Minerals. In their first shared volume, they turn popular weight-management beliefs-and the latest FDA food-guide pyramid-upside down. For years, overweight Americans have been counseled to turn away from meat and fat and embrace a high-carbohydrate diet. Joining a growing band of researchers that includes Barry Sears (The Zone), the Eades discuss the biochemical roles of hormones in the metabolic process to demonstrate why low-fat, high-carb programs don't always result in weight loss and present a convincing case for their high-protein, low-carb alternative. The key is preventing, through diet, overproduction of insulin, which itself "controls the storage of fat'' and is triggered by the ingestion of carbohydrates. Their eating plan-which is bolstered by lists of protein and carbohydrate counts for common foods, a collection of about 75 appealing recipes and discussion of the necessity of exercise-will lead, they aver, to the body's more efficent burning of fat, leading in turn to reduction in one's percentage of body fat. Cholesterol, vitamins, minerals and various risk factors are also discussed. Chapters end with fairly complete summaries that will be appreciated by readers who are not willing or able to work through the fairly extensive scientific data cited by the Eades in this iconoclastic program.