The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie or Depression Helpbook

The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie

Author: Craig Pepin Donat

FINALLY, THE TRUTH ABOUT HEALTH AND FITNESS IS REVEALED

For years we've all been tricked into spending our hard-earned money on products that "guarantee" impossible results. For most of us, the struggle to lose weight, stay fit or just maintain the semblance of a healthy lifestyle is a constant battle. Unfortunately, there are people and industries that prey on our vulnerabilities. We are relentlessly enticed by advertising, seduced by marketing gimmicks, prescribed unnecessary drugs, served unhealthy food, sold useless products, misled by government agencies, and, well, left to fend for ourselves as our health deteriorates.

Shockingly, the very industries that promise to improve our health have actually deceived us and are sabotaging our efforts. Fit Advocate and former industry insider Craig Pepin-Donat walked away from a career as a top fitness industry executive to expose the big, fat health and fitness lie and he is here with a message. Stop getting ripped off by diets, gimmicks, fads, books, fitness gurus and billion dollar industries trying to con you out of your money.

The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie exposes the industries and companies that profit at the expense of your health and your pocketbook, but it doesn't stop there. It is chock full of insights, recommendations and resources to get you on the path to a healthy and fit lifestyle - permanently. Before you spend another penny on health and fitness products, you owe it to yourself to read The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie. It can literally save you thousands of dollars and countless hours of wasted time.

The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie will:
• Protect you from the scams,rip-offs and outright lies of unscrupulous companies
• Expose the dirty little secrets of the health care and pharmaceutical industries
• Reveal step-by-step how to create a healthy and fit lifestyle
• Show you how to lose weight safely and permanently
• Save you thousands of dollars on products that don't work
• Provide hundreds of valuable resources on your path to better living

What People Are Saying

Cindy Crawford
"Craig has helped an incredible number of people around the world get started on a path to living better. This book provides valuable information essential for anyone interested in improving their health."--(Cindy Crawford, Model)

Kitty Gurkin Rosati
"Craig's message of creating the health we desire is compelling and inspiring. His book is a testament to taking responsibility for your health and well-being."--(Kitty Gurkin Rosati, M.S., R.D., L.D.N., Nutrition Director, The Rice Diet Program, Bestselling author of The Rice Diet Solution, The Rice Diet Cookbook and Heal Your Heart)

Hyla Cass
"Craig Pepin-Donat busts myths and offers real solutions that can improve your health. If you want to lead a fit, healthy and happy life, read this book!"--(Hyla Cass M.D., Author of Natural Highs and 8 Weeks to Vibrant Health)

Rudolf Bertagnoli
"Mr. Pepin-Donat's book is a vital, honest and direct approach necessary to make informed choices to improve your health."--(Dr. Rudolf Bertagnoli, World-renowned surgeon and founder of First European Center for Spine Arthroplasty/Nonfusion Technologies)

Henry S. Lodge
"A compelling and eye-opening look at America's fitness and diet industries from a veteran insider."--(Henry S. Lodge, M.D., Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (Assistant, Professor of Clinical Medicine), Bestselling author of Younger Next Year and Younger Next Year for Women)

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Depression Helpbook

Author: Wayne Katon

Recognizing that all depression is different—from how severe it is and what the symptoms are to how long it lasts—this book explains what causes depression, how to recognize depression, and how to make decisions about treatment. Integrating pharmacologic and psychotherapeutic approaches, it emphasizes self-care strategies that help sufferers of depression develop confidence in their ability to manage depression on a daily basis and achieve balance in their mood and everyday life, reducing the chance of recurrence. Featuring real people's advice on managing depression using simple techniques, this new edition includes updated information on medications for depression and expanded chapters on exercise and relaxation techniques.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: How to Use This Book     1
A Better Understanding     5
What Is Depression?     7
Reversing the Downward Spiral of Depression     17
Making Your Own Decision About Treatment     23
Working with Your Doctor     31
What You Should Know About Antidepressants     41
What You Should Know About Psychotherapy     55
When Is Treatment Finished     67
What Family and Friends Should Know     73
Plain Talk About Suicide     81
Depression and Your Body     85
Depression and Chronic Medical Illness     93
Depression and Women's Health     105
Food, Alcohol, and Drugs     115
Everyday Insights     123
Relaxing     125
Exercising     131
Getting a Good Night's Sleep     135
Making Time for Enjoyment     143
Thinking More Constructively     151
The Other People in Your Life     159
Intimacy and Sex When You Are Depressed     165
Managing at Work When You Are Depressed     171
Taking Charge     177
Managing Depression Day by Day     179
Planning for Better Living     185
Maintaining Gains and Preventing Relapse     191
Living Your Plan     209
A Primer on Antidepressants     215
Resource Guide     225
Worksheets     231
Index     241

How to Think Like a Survivor or The Enlightened Diet

How to Think Like a Survivor: A Guide for Wilderness Emergencies

Author: Tom Watson

The secrets to survival are in preparation before you leave home. How to Think Like a Survivor reveals simple ways to overcome the unexpected in the outdoors.

Author Tom Watson helps you learn how to think through potential emergency situations and find solutions to avoid disaster in the wilderness.

Book review: Gut Instinct or Sculpting Her Body Perfect

The Enlightened Diet: 7 Weight-Loss Solutions That Nourish Body, Mind, and Soul

Author: Deborah Kesten

If you've ever counted calories or been a slave to the scale, it's time to change the way you think about dieting. The Enlightened Diet goes beyond restrictive regimens and quick-fix claims to prove that weightloss success is not just about what you put into your body-it's also about how, why, where, and with whom you eat. In this practical guide to whole person nutrition, health researchers Deborah Kesten and Larry Scherwitz profile seven newly discovered eating styles that lead to overeating and weight gain, along with proven strategies for reversing them. Using the Enlightened Diet program, you'll create a personalized plan for achieving and maintaining your optimal weight while savoring the pleasures of every meal.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments     vii
Introduction: Ancient Food Wisdom Meets Modern Nutritional Science     1
Whole Person Nutrition     7
Food Fretting     32
Task Snacking     52
Emotional Eating     71
Fast Foodism     98
Solo Dining     118
Unappetizing Atmosphere     134
Sensory Disregard     149
Enlightened Exercise     166
In Action     182
Endnotes     194
Index     208
About the Authors     214

Runners World Best or Dr Gavins Health Guide for African Americans

Runner's World Best: Competitive Running

Author: Adam Bean

When runners want expert advice, they turn to Runner's World, the magazine that helped bring running culture into the mainstream—and has continued to dispense cutting-edge wisdom as running's popularity has soared. Now, runners can have all that expert wisdom at their fingertips with the Runner's World Best series. Each book in this series focuses on a particular aspect of running—from getting started to cross-training. Together, these authoritative, affordable, fully illustrated volumes form a accessible library that belongs in every runner's home.

Runner's World Best: Competitive Running explains why competing in a race is beneficial for runners at every level, lays out basic training principles, and provides detailed training regimens for various types of races: 5K, 10K, half-marathon, and marathon. Runners learn what to eat and drink before, during, and after a race, as well as how strength and flexibility training can help their performance.

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Dr. Gavin's Health Guide for African Americans: How to Keep Yourself and Children Well

Author: James R Gavin

Dr. James Gavin covers wellness and the tools to achieve it. He discusses health topics of particular concern to the African American population: obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. His intergenerational, family-centered approach to health is the prescription for breaking the alarming cycle of lifestyle-caused diseases, which are now striking children, too. Key features:

• Focus on prevention of disease
• Tool kits for better health

Library Journal

Gavin (president, Morehouse Coll. Sch. of Medicine) provides a thorough and thoughtful examination of the ways in which African Americans can control and improve their health. Unlike comparable books, Gavin's title is not preachy or full of colloquialisms; instead, it provides straight talk peppered with encouragement. The text recalls Rovenia Brock's Dr. Ro's Ten Secrets to Livin' Healthy in that it advocates eating healthier and making small, incremental lifestyle changes while also addressing ailments specific to the African American community. However, Brock is a nutritionist, and she pays more attention to her specialty, even offering an eating plan and recipes. Meanwhile, Gavin delves more deeply into the details of various ailments (e.g., diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure) and offers specific tips, tools, and healthy habits to address them. He also stresses that children should develop good eating and lifestyle habits early. Finally, at the end of every chapter, Gavin provides a print and Internet resource list. Although targeted to African Americans, this book will assist anyone looking to improve his or her health. Recommended for African American and consumer health collections.-Nicole A. Cooke, Montclair State Univ. Lib., NJ Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Sex Life of Food or Hands on Healing

Sex Life of Food

Author: Bunny Crumpacker

Food and sex. Hunger and the psyche. These are the forces that shape our lives. 
Bunny Crumpacker has looked at food from every angle, and brings us delicious stories about what others have done and said about eating---and about making love. This is a book you can go back to again and again and keep finding more delights---including uncharacteristic comments from the famous and insightful chuckles from the author herself. 

It’s both a banquet and a late-night nosh. Taste it, devour it, and enjoy! 

 

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Hands-on Healing: A Practical Guide to Channeling Your Healing Energies

Author: Jack Angelo

An illustrated, step-by-step guide that makes it easy for anyone to awaken and develop one's own healing gift. 

The moment we injure ourselves, we instinctively reach out to touch the area in pain. When someone's hurt is internal rather than external, we still use touch, caressing a brow or stroking a back to offer comfort. This form of hands-on healing has existed as long as mankind. In Hands-on Healing, Jack Angelo helps us to utilize this power of touch which we all possess. Hands-on Healing allows the reader to both understand the body's energies and to practice healing exercises. It explains the nature of disease and discusses the role of the mind and emotions in healing. Chapters focus on such topics as healing touch, chakras, the wisdom of the body, visualization, and meditation. 

Illustrations and step-by-step instructions make it simple for anyone to awaken and develop their own healing gift - for self-healing or for healing others. 

This comprehensive book also includes information on how to set up a healing practice, making it an essential reference text for healers. 

Yoga Journal

Designed as both a workbook and a general theoretical primer for energy healing, Angelo's book presents more than 100 exercises intended to help students intuitively open to their innate healing power and direct it for the benefit of themselves and others.

Table of Contents:

Hands-on Healing
A Practical Guide to Channeling Your Healing Energies

The Exercise
Introduction
How to Use This Book
1. The Physical Body
2. Bodies of Light - The Subtle Bodies
3. Your Soul Journey
4. The Chakras
5. The Energies of the Chakras
6. The Wisdom of the Body and Causes of Ill Health
7. Change, The Mind and Emotions
8. First Steps in Self -Healing
9. Self-healing, Visualization and Meditation
10. Your Personal Programme
11. Your Healing Hands
12. The Healing Session
13. Healing - Taking It Further
14. Birth, Reincarnation and The Inner Child
15. Journey into Light
Useful Addresses
Further Reading
Glossary
Index

Jack Angelo runs a healing and counseling practice in Gwent, South Wales. He is also a national trainer for the National Federation of Spiritual Healers and conducts his own workshops internationally. He is the author of Spiritual Healing: Energy Medicine for Today.

Ready Made Democracy or Program Theory Driven Evaluation Science

Ready-Made Democracy: A History of Men's Dress in the American Republic 1760-1860

Author: Michael Zakim

Ready-Made Democracy explores the history of men's dress in America to consider how capitalism and democracy emerged at the center of American life during the century between the Revolution and the Civil War. Michael Zakim demonstrates how clothing initially attained a significant place in the American political imagination on the eve of Independence. At a time when household production was a popular expression of civic virtue, homespun clothing was widely regarded as a reflection of America's most cherished republican values: simplicity, industriousness, frugality, and independence.
By the early nineteenth century, homespun began to disappear from the American material landscape. Exhortations of industry and modesty, however, remained a common fixture of public life. In fact, they found expression in the form of the business suit. Here, Zakim traces the evolution of homespun clothing into its ostensible opposite—the woolen coats, vests, and pantaloons that were "ready-made" for sale and wear across the country. In doing so, he demonstrates how traditional notions of work and property actually helped give birth to the modern industrial order. For Zakim, the history of men's dress in America mirrored this transformation of the nation's social and material landscape: profit-seeking in newly expanded markets, organizing a waged labor system in the city, shopping at "single-prices," and standardizing a business persona.
In illuminating the critical links between politics, economics, and fashion in antebellum America, Ready-Made Democracy will prove essential to anyone interested in the history of the United States and in the creation of modern culture ingeneral.

Library Journal

Examining the American Colonial and early republican experience, Zakim (history, Tel Aviv Univ.) shows us how clothing can make history. During the early Industrial Revolution, England needed to foster its nascent textile business; it kept textile technology secret and regulated trade so as to import raw materials cheaply from its colonies and sell back to them the finished goods-bolts of finely made and costly fabrics. Colonial Americans chafed under this restrictive regime, for they had to sell cheap and buy dear-a recipe for penury, if not poverty. Hence, America resisted, and this resistance as well as others led to its War of Independence. The American Colonies at first sent emissaries to plead with Parliament for relief, but when none came, they sent spies to steal industrial secrets. Colonial governments and public media, moreover, made it a virtue to refuse English goods and rely on homemade products-in this instance homespun fabrics. Homespun dress came to mark the self-reliant American patriot. A rewriting of Zakim's doctoral dissertation at Columbia University, this book is not a casual read but scholarly, detailed, and thoroughly annotated. Recommended for academic libraries and public libraries with specialty collections in industrial or fashion history.-James F. DeRoche, Alexandria, VA Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Sartorial Politics	1
1	A Homespun Ideology	11
2	A Clothing Business	37
3	The Reinvention of Tailoring	69
4	Dressing for Work	96
5	Ready-Made Labor	127
6	The Seamstress	157
7	A Fashion Regime	185
	Conclusion	212
	Notes	221
	Index	289

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Program Theory-Driven Evaluation Science: Strategies and Applications

Author: Stewart I Donaldson

Program Theory-Driven Evaluation Science fills the gap between 21st century literature on evaluation and what is happening in practice. It features detailed examples of how evaluations actually unfold in practice to develop people, programs, and organizations. Commonly accepted strategies for practicing evaluation are outlined, followed by comprehensive accounts of how those strategies have played out in the face of the complexities and challenges of "real world" settings. In so doing, the book illustrates the authentic challenges of implementing an evaluation approach in practice.

Author Stewart Donaldson provides a state-of-the-art treatment of the practice of program theory-driven evaluation science. Each case follows a three-step model: developing program impact theory; formulating and prioritizing evaluation questions; and answering evaluation questions. Initial chapters discuss the emergence of program theory-driven evaluation science and specific strategies for carrying out each of the three steps. Succeeding chapters address recent applications and practical implications of evaluation science. The challenges and lessons learned from the cases are then reviewed.

This volume is of significant value to evaluation practitioners, professors and trainers of evaluation, evaluation researchers, and advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and serves as a text for courses in evaluation and applied research methods. It is also of great interest to those interested in the connections between work and health, career development, human service organizations, and organizational improvement and effectiveness.

Behavioral Treatment for Substance Abuse in Schizophrenia or Insight in Psychiatry

Behavioral Treatment for Substance Abuse in Schizophrenia (BTSAS)

Author: Alan S Bellack

The last few years have seen an increasing awareness among the mental health community to the unique situations of the person suffering simultaneously from mental health disorders and substance abuse addiction. Complementing this rise in attention has been a realization of the unique challenges faced by mental health professionals engaged in the treatment of these clients, and a startling acknowledgement of the gap in the existing literature on the topic. There is currently no available treatment manual that includes specific training on how to treat this difficult population, following guidelines and practical instructions based on treatment practices already employed by the authors. This treatment manual will fill an important gap in the literature by addressing the specific challenges faced by the clinician treating individuals with co-occurring schizophrenia and substance abuse disorders.

The unique strength of the proposed volume is its close adherence to a treatment plan proven successful byempirical research and now being made available for the practicing clinician. The book is designed as a manual for mental health professionals, and follows a program which incorporates various treatment components, from motivational interviewing, urinalysis contingency, and social skills training to education and coping skills, problem solving and relapse prevention, and finally termination. Guidelines are clearly established for these treatment modes, utilizing case examples and fictional situations to allow the reader to profit more directly from the lessons in the text. The book follows a treatment outline that will allow the clinician to pattern a series of therapy sessionsafter the suggested timeframe found within the text. Additionally, the format and flow of individual sessions is carefully considered and discussed, allowing the clinician a model from which to base a treatment plan.

Table of Contents:

Preface     ix
Part I
Introduction to Treating People with Dual Disorders     3
Scientific Background     13
Training Philosophy and General Strategies     25
Social Skills Training     37
Assessment Strategies     49
Part II
Motivational Interviewing in People with SPMI     65
Urinalysis Contingency and Goal Setting     83
Social Skills and Drug Refusal Skills Training     95
Education and Coping Skills Training     125
Relapse Prevention and Problem Solving     165
Graduation and Termination     223
Part III
Dealing with Common Problem Situations     235
Implementing BTSAS in Clinical Settings: Strategies and Potential Modifications     251
References     259
Index     265

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Insight in Psychiatry

Author: Ivana Markova

Despite considerable research examining insight in patients with psychoses, non-psychotic disorders and chronic organic brain syndromes, results are inconclusive and insight remains a source of some mystification. To what extent can patients understand disorders which affect their mental function? Does insight bear a prognostic value? Is impaired insight determined by the illness or are other factors of equal importance? Ivana S. Marková examines the problems involved in studying insight in patients with mental illness in order to provide a clearer understanding of the factors that determine its clinical manifestation.

A Surgical Temptation or The Body of Frankensteins Monster

A Surgical Temptation: The Demonization of the Foreskin and the Rise of Circumcision in Britain

Author: Robert Darby

In the eighteenth century, the Western world viewed circumcision as an embarrassing disfigurement peculiar to Jews. A century later, British doctors urged parents to circumcise their sons as a routine precaution against every imaginable sexual dysfunction, from syphilis and phimosis to masturbation and bed-wetting. Thirty years later the procedure again came under hostile scrutiny, culminating in its disappearance during the 1960s.

Why Britain adopted a practice it had traditionally abhorred and then abandoned it after only two generations is the subject of A Surgical Temptation. Robert Darby reveals that circumcision has always been related to the question of how to control male sexuality. This study explores the process by which the male genitals, and the foreskin especially, were pathologized, while offering glimpses into the lives of such figures as James Boswell, John Maynard Keynes, and W. H. Auden. Examining the development of knowledge about genital anatomy, concepts of health, sexual morality, the rise of the medical profession, and the nature of disease, Darby shows how these factors transformed attitudes toward the male body and its management and played a vital role in the emergence of modern medicine.

An erudite, lively, and sometimes combative investigation of a formative period in medical history, A Surgical Temptation will inform and engage any reader with an interest in the history of medicine, gender, sexuality, the practice of circumcision in the world today, and the ways in which culture fashions the human body.

Table of Contents:

1	Introduction : the willful organ meets fantasy surgery	3
2	The best of your property : what a boy once knew about sex	22
3	Pathologizing male sexuality : the masturbation phobia and the invention of spermatorrhea	44
4	The shadow of Parson Malthus : sexual morals from the Georgians to the Edwardians	73
5	The priests of the body : doctors and disease in an antisensual age	94
6	A source of serious mischief : William Acton and the case against the foreskin	118
7	A compromising and unpublishable mutilation : clitoridectomy and circumcision in the 1860s	142
8	One of the most grievous diseases of humanity : spermatorrhea in British medical practice	167
9	The besetting trial of our boys : finding a cure for masturbation	189
10	This unyielding tube of flesh : the rise and fall of congenital phimosis	215
11	Prevention is better than cure : sanitizing the modern body	236
12	The purity movement and the social evil : circumcision as a preventive of syphilis	260
13	The stigmata of a gentleman : circumcision and British society	285
14	Conclusion : the end of the culture of abstinence	311

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The Body of Frankenstein's Monster: Essays in Myth and Medicine

Author: Cecil Helman

Frankenstein. Werewolves. Dracula. These images aren't just imaginary creatures -- they're also powerful symbols of the body. The body can be thought of as a machine made up of parts like Frankenstein's monster, or as a creature ruled by animalistic urges, or as an entity that's vulnerable to infection from a diseased fiend. In "The Body of Frankenstein's Monster," Cecil Helman, M.D., expands our view of our bodies by exploring its cultural and artistic representations.

Publishers Weekly

These inquisitive essays are a strong antidote to modern medicine's tendency to treat the body as a machine. A physician, anthropologist and folklorist based in London, Helman undertakes poetic, cross-disciplinary forays for high-tech medicine's connections to myth, magic and metaphor. He relates the placebo effect to mesmerism, interprets the Frankenstein story as a harbinger of transplant surgery and reads an X-ray image as a white-branched Tree of Life. From medical models of premenstrual tension in which women are slaves of a cyclical moon, he moves on to consider moonstruck werewolves, Sasquatch, Yeti and women's long, flowing hair as a symbol of animality. Germ imagery in daily language (``an epidemic of muggings'') leads him to unravel a ``germistic way of thinking,'' which blames our misfortunes on external forces. A medically informed social critic, Helman sees the watch and the clock as central icons of a civilization in which ambitious ``type A personalities'' are rewarded for their ruthless behavior. (May)

Kirkus Reviews

Helman—professor of medicine (University College, London), family physician, and cultural historian—draws on his wide-ranging interests to offer a vivid, personable, and insightful exploration of physiology and fiction—of the interaction of the objective functioning of the human body and the subjective experience of it, as well as of the political analogues and social metaphors it inspires in both historic and contemporary terms. One version of the body, Frankenstein's monster, is, Helman says, an assemblage of otherwise alien parts existing in a balance of power, a "somatic democracy" disrupted occasionally by "aliens" such as transplants or "invaded" by germs (formerly demons), to which the poor, the weak, and the "morally inept" are particularly susceptible. This version of the body, the author explains, is more political than another version, "The Premenstrual Werewolf," which emphasizes the moral dimension of the body, destroyed by the release of repressed animal forces—contagious ones—expressed in a disease such as AIDS. At another extreme, in "The Medusa Machine," Helman depicts the body as a machine, an extension of TV and the computer, imperfectly projected in anthropomorphic robots. The last essay, "A Time of the Heart," traces the Type-A personality—aggressive, ambitious, impatient: the "Numerical Man" dominated by time, money, and statistics, acting out the values of the postindustrial society, a "moral marionette" whose success will cause his heart to fail. Helman's illustrations are especially apt and moving: an old man dies, the sitcom he was watching still reflected in his eyes, his dentures on the floor next to him, grinning backat the laughing figures. Or Helman reflects on the psychological damage to Isaac, the phobia he may have acquired against fathers, knives, rams, his post-traumatic syndrome. But the book is held together primarily by Helman's charm; it has the imperfect coherence of Frankenstein's monster, with which he is so fascinated. With its sweep, perception, originality, and felicitous use of language—an artistic and intellectual achievement.

Long Tomorrow or Vaccination

Long Tomorrow: How Advances in Evolutionary Biology Can Help Us Postpone Aging

Author: Michael R Ros

The conquest of aging is now within our grasp. It hasn't arrived yet, writes Michael R. Rose, but a scientific juggernaut has started rolling and is picking up speed. A long tomorrow is coming.
In The Long Tomorrow, Rose offers us a delightfully written account of the modern science of aging, spiced with intriguing stories of his own career and leavened with the author's engaging sense of humor and rare ability to make contemporary research understandable to nonscientists. The book ranges from Rose's first experiments while a graduate student--counting a million fruit fly eggs, which took 3,000 hours over the course of a year--to some of his key scientific discoveries. We see how some of his earliest experiments helped demonstrate that "the force of natural selection" was key to understanding the aging process--a major breakthrough. Rose describes how he created the well-known Methuselah Flies, fruit flies that live far longer than average. Equally important, Rose surveys the entire field, offering colorful portraits of many leading scientists and shedding light on research findings from around the world. We learn that rodents given fifteen to forty percent fewer calories live about that much longer, and that volunteers in Biosphere II, who lived on reduced caloric intake for two years, all had improved vital signs. Perhaps most interesting, we discover that aging hits a plateau and stops.
Popular accounts of Rose's work have appeared in The New Yorker, Time magazine, and Scientific American, but The Long Tomorrow is the first full account of this exciting new science written for the general reader.
"Among his peers, Rose is considered a brilliantly innovative scientist,who has almost single-handedly brought the evolutionary theory of aging from an abstract notion to one of the most exciting topics in science."--Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker

"Engaging and illuminating.... Rose is successful both in capturing the imagination of young people with little exposure to formal science and in convincing advanced researchers in other fields that understanding evolutionary biology is important to their science and to their careers. This is a significant achievement."--American Scientist
"Well-written and entertaining.... Rose's innovative studies of the past 25 years have revealed much about the influence of natural selection on aging and have opened up several intriguing possibilities for extending human lives. Here he relates how many of his most significant discoveries were made, interlacing lucid explanations of their significance with interesting accounts of how his own sometimes difficult life experiences influenced his research, and frankly discusses his failures and successes."--Library Journal
"In this hugely enjoyable book, Rose provides a thorough but never too technical survey of one of the most instructive strands of the biology of aging--manipulating the rate of aging by accelerating evolution. If his attempt to extend his studies to mice had succeeded, we might be much closer now to extending human lifespan."--Aubrey de Grey
"Michael Rose is more qualified than anyone currently working in the field of aging to write about the evolutionary development of aging in biological organisms, and he presents us here with a clear, easy-to-digest overview of the field. We meet the leaders and the busy-bee scientists; the believers and the nay-sayers. His final summary of the possibilities for postponing human aging is one of the most accurate and believable to appear in recent years. But most of all, Rose gives us a sense of what it is like to be a living, working scientist. Far and away one of the best-rounded, deeply satisfying accounts of a scientist and his work I have read. Warts and all!" --William R. Clark, University of California, Los Angeles, and author of Sex and the Origins of Death and A Means to an End
"Michael Rose has developed novel and important views on the future of human longevity that draw from his pioneering laboratory experiments and his deep understanding of evolutionary biology. Rose's leads his readers on a fascinating journey from fly cages to the Biosphere, and beckons to the future which may not be so far ahead." --Caleb E. Finch, ARCO/ Keischnick Professor of Gerontology and Biological Science, Andrus Gerontology Center, University of Southern California, and author of Chance, Development and Aging
"Rose is not only an original scientist--he was among the first to demonstrate the extraordinary plasticity of aging in fruit flies after just a dozen generations of selective breeding--he is also a superb writer, and this book can be understood by anyone who ever took high school biology. But even those of us who are professional scientists will enjoy reading this book because of the global perspective he provides on the whole field of gerontology. By carefully reviewing his decades-long career with all the blind alleys that are commonplace for anyone who pioneers a new field, Rose gives us this perspective." --L. Stephen Coles, M.D., Ph.D., Co-Founder, Los Angeles Gerontology Research Group, and Stem-Cell Researcher at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine

Publishers Weekly

Rose, an authority on gerontology, uses evolutionary biology to frame the problem of aging, contrasting the drive to reproduce in youth with the ability to survive into old age. In short, according to his research, the Victorians were right: sex is death. The evolutionary pressure of reproducing at an early age seems to have the side effect of causing early aging. Rose's explanation of his theory is so clear, it seems ridiculous that anyone could have conceived of another explanation. But whether this theory will ever be used to slow down human aging is unclear. Rose relates the progress of aging research in an autobiographical format. So, interspersed with experiments on long-lived fruit flies, there are almost voyeuristic glimpses into Rose's own life: the suicide of his brother, the murder of his brother-in-law, the tragic end of his first marriage. The result is a book that flops between the evocative stories of one man's life in science and the somewhat drier explanation of that science. Nevertheless, Rose gives a balanced evaluation of the study of aging and sheds a little more light on one of biology's greatest mysteries. Agent, Faith Hamlin. (Sept.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

As a graduate student, Rose (evolutionary biology, Univ. of California, Irvine) was reluctantly steered into research on the evolution of aging. After some early difficulties, he successfully bred "Methuselah" fruit flies with exceptionally long life spans and became hooked. Rose's innovative studies of the past 25 years have revealed much about the influence of natural selection on aging and have opened up several intriguing possibilities for extending human lives. Here he relates how many of his most significant discoveries were made, interlacing lucid explanations of their significance with interesting accounts of how his own sometimes difficult life experiences influenced his research, and frankly discusses his failures and successes. Rose believes that we are on the verge of being able to extend the human life span significantly, not through a process of breeding superpeople but by using our improved knowledge of evolutionary genetics to develop new biotechnologies that may be able to cure or at least postpone many late-life ailments. Although intended for lay readers, this well-written and entertaining book should also appeal to scholars; recommended for both academic and public libraries.-Marit S. Taylor, Auraria Lib., Denver Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Table of Contents:

1	The sphinx and the rabbi	1
2	Maynard Smith's shirts	5
3	Cell gang	13
4	The force	24
5	Goon show Einstein	28
6	Tiny methuselahs	39
7	The postman rings again	46
8	Cheshire cat cost	53
9	Birds and bees	63
10	Deadly serendipity	70
11	One can't be too rich or too thin	78
12	Many-headed monster	91
13	Woody Allen and superman	99
14	Not even oppenheimer	110
15	The long tomorrow	126
16	Travels with the boatman	135

Book review: Furniture City Feasts Restored or Straub Brewery Pennsylvania

Vaccination: Everything You Should Know About Your Child's Jabs And More

Author: Joanna Karpasea Jones

Joanna founded Vaccination Awareness Network UK in March 1997, at the age of 19, when she was the first time mother of a one year old unvaccinated toddler. She had researched the issue of vaccination for her own child and decided to share this information with others. To date, she has now been reading medical journals and papers for 10 years. She has also written a book about breast feeding, after nursing her youngest child for 3 years, and she has written a novel.

After setting up the VAN UK vaccination helpline, she trained in person-centred counselling to enable her to assist parents, and she has also gained certificates in Reiki Healing 1 and 2, from the Yolande Bosman School of Alternative Therapy.

In 2005 she qualified with an A grade in Anatomy and Physiology and Neuro-Psychological Immunology (the study of psychosomatic medicine and the immune system).

In this book Joanna explores:
The vaccine schedules
What they contain
How effective they are
Possible side-effects
Who shouldn't receive vaccines
Moral and ethical issues
Homeopathic Alternatives

Reconnecting with Nature or The Ultimate Storm Survival Handbook

Reconnecting with Nature: Finding Wellness through Restoring Your Bond with the Earth

Author: Michael J Cohen

Michael Cohen's Reconnecting With Nature is about finding wellness through restoring our bond with the Earth. Most of us have been conditioned to ignore nearly fifty sensitivities that connect us to the natural world. This separation stress contributes to many of our environmental and personal problems. Through the chapters and activities of Reconnecting With Nature, Dr. Cohen suggests ways to use nature's wisdom to re-awaken dormant sensitivities, rebuild our spiritual connection with the Earth and enhance our personal well-being. Reconnecting With Nature is highly rewarding reading for anyone with an interest in nature and how nature can inspire us and heal us, trapped as we most often are, in the spiritual desert of an urban wilderness with its steel canyons, glass walls, asphalt roads, concrete sidewalks, every present noise, invasive crowds, and the multiple pollutions of mind and body.

Table of Contents:

Introduction     12
Why Think Like Nature?
Experience the Best Teacher-Nature     18
The Thinking Revolution     20
Nature's Maverick Genius     24
Thinking As If Nature Mattered     30
Reconnecting With Natural Senses
How Nature Works: The Intelligence of Natural Senses     38
The Powers of Natural Senses     54
Replenishing Earth and its People: The RWN Factor     66
Reconnecting With Nature     70
People and Nature as Community     76
Elements of Applied Ecopsychology
Educating and Counseling With Nature: The Greening of Psychotherapy     92
The Green/Orange to Green/Green Formula     102
Disconnection and the Tropicmakers     114
The Psychology of Nature Negatives     126
The Natural History of Personality     138
Reconnecting With Nature in Action
Outcomes     152
The RWN Activist Speaks His Peace     166
Self, Meet Yourself     180
A Chapter of Your Life     188
Appendices
Transitioning to Nature-Centered Thinking     192
A Case History of RWN     198
An Ecology of Spirit     212
Well Mind, Well Earth     224
Updates     226
References and Bibliography     236
About the Author     239
Environmental Impact Statement     240

New interesting textbook: An Introduction to Database Systems or Electronic Resumes and Online Networking

The Ultimate Storm Survival Handbook

Author: Warren Faidley

This is the information you need to prepare to survive any major storm. The Ultimate Storm Survival Handbook covers all forms of severe weather, including snowstorms, tornados, ice storms, hurricanes, firestorms, and more. In addition to practical advice on preparing your home, avoiding dangers, and creating action plans, it also features special chapters on pet care, post-storm dangers, children, and phobias.

Whats Normal or Healing from within with CHI Nei Tsang

What's Normal?: An Anthology: Narratives of Mental and Emotional Disorders

Author: Carol C Donley

What's Normal?, examines the issues of "abnormalities" in mental health, intelligence, and sexual behavior.

The first section of What's Normal? Presents a wide-ranging collection of essays and articles written by renowned clinicians who address clinical, ethical, and social issues related to mental illness and disorders. The second section uses fiction, poetry, and drama to portray mental and behavioral abnormalities, sometimes from "inside" the perspective of the deviant and sometimes from the experiences of family, friends, and other engaged observers. Excerpts that examine the treatment of mental health, intelligence, and sexual conduct are cited form such literary works as Equus, Of Mice and Men, Like Water for Chocolate, and Sula.

The Literature and Medicine Series is extended to encourage those working or living with others outside the norms to be more inclusive and understanding. What's Normal? is an insightful and valuable addition to this series.

Book review: Mariners Menu or North Carolinas Historic Restaurants and Their Recipes

Healing from Within, with Chi Nei Tsang

Author: Gilles Marin

Chi Nei Tsang is a Taoist visceral manipulation body-work and massage which emphasizes moving chi energy to the abdominal organs. Developed by Taoist Master Mantak Chia as part of his Healing Tao System, it works on internal dysfunctions and energy blocks using the breathing exercises of chi-kung, therapeutic manipulations, and meditation. Students learn how to recycle negative energy, recognize personal patterns of tension, and use simple manipulations to restore vitality to parts of the body.

Living Longer Depression Free or The Autism Book

Living Longer Depression Free: A Family Guide to Recognizing, Treating, and Preventing Depression in Later Life

Author: Mark D Miller

Depression affects people of all ages, but is both more common and more serious for those over sixty. As many as half of all nursing home residents have depression, as do up to 40 percent of those who visit primary care clinics. Late-life depression is a disease with unique risk factors. Health problems, physical limitations, the loss of loved ones, and fears about financial issues all contribute to an increased incidence of depression, which, despite its prevalence, is not a normal part of the aging process. It can intensify existing medical conditions such as chronic pain and is far more likely to lead to suicide than does depression in younger people. There is good news, however: 80 percent of older people who receive treatment for depression make a complete recovery and enjoy fulfilling lives.

In Living Longer Depression Free, Mark D. Miller, M.D., and Charles F. Reynolds III, M.D., draw on their considerable experience in geriatric psychiatry to help elderly persons, their families, and their physicians accurately diagnose and treat late-life depression. This comprehensive, up-to-date guide begins with a discussion of the different types of depression, their causes, and symptoms. The authors then describe how doctors evaluate depression; present the treatment options available to patients today, including psychotherapy, medication, and alternative treatments; and offer strategies for achieving long-term mental health. Each chapter opens with a list of frequently asked questions and uses case studies to personalize the information provided, and the book closes with a useful list of resources for further information, including hotlines and websites.

Compassionateand accessible, Living Longer Depression Free is an invaluable guide for older people and their families striving to overcome this debilitating disease and prevent its recurrence.

Library Journal

Both geriatric psychiatrists at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Miller and Reynolds here share their 20-plus years' experience of working with older people suffering from depression. As the authors remind readers, the incidence of depression significantly rises with age, and suicide, highly associated with depression, is five times more common in later life. This important, thorough work covers the various forms of and medical reasons for depression and how it's related to Alzheimer's and other diseases; reviews how to evaluate and treat depression, including medication and psychotherapy; and presents numerous strategies for staying free of depression for the long term. The helpful appendix contains hotline numbers of organizations that focus on depression and URLs related to depression and late-life issues. Though several works for health professionals contain similar information, this is the first book to address lay readers. Strongly recommended.-Dale Farris, Groves, TX Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Booknews

Miller and Reynolds (both: psychiatry, U. of Pittsburgh) offer non-professionals a framework within which to understand depression in later life. Though the incidence of depression among seniors is high and growing, they say it is highly treatable, with full recovery in over 80% of elders who receive adequate treatment. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Preface
I	Understanding Late-Life Depression
1	Recognizing Depression	3
2	The Many Forms of Depression	19
3	Medical Reasons for Depression in Later Life	34
4	Psychological and Social Reasons for Depression in Later Life	53
II	Evaluating and Treating Depression
5	Getting Help for Depression: Where to Go, What to Expect	67
6	Talking Therapy for Late-Life Depression	82
7	What Modern Medicine Can Offer for Late-Life Depression	97
8	Complementary or Alternative Treatments Used for Mental Health	116
III	Staying Free of Depression for the Long Term
9	Strategies for Living Depression Free for the Long Term	135
10	Future Research	154
	Appendix	159
	References	167
	Index	179

Look this: The Acid Alkaline Diet for Optimum Health or Cracking the Cancer Code

The Autism Book: Answers to Your Most Pressing Questions

Author: S Jhoanna Robledo

Answers to more than one hundred of the most frequently asked questions about autism, a disease that affects an estimated one in 250 children.

At the age of two, Dawn Ham-Kucharski's son, Alex, was diagnosed with autism, and she was given little hope that he would ever express himself verbally or interact meaningfully with others. But, now at the age of six, Alex is an uplifting autism success story, due to his mother's tireless efforts to seek out an appropriate treatment program, educational plan, and socialization strategy.

In The Autism Book, health and parenting journalist S. Jhoanna Robledo and Ham-Kucharski, an impassioned advocate for educational opportunity for autistic children, use their hard-won knowledge and experience to objectively and compassionately answer the most urgent questions of parents and educators of autistic children. The authors offer comprehensive information on diagnoses, causes, manifestations, treatment options, managing emotions, family relationships, parenting and lifestyle issues, education, and common worries.

Author Biography: S. Jhoanna Robledo is a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism and is a freelance writer specializing in parenting and health. Her work has appeared in Newsweek, New York magazine, Self, Real Simple, and American Baby.

Dawn Ham-Kucharski is on the board of directors of the Michigan Autism Partnership and serves as the outreach coordinator for the PLAY Project. She and her family have recently been featured in Family Circle, the Detroit Free Press, The Detroit News, and The Ann Arbor News.

Extreme Parenting or Focusing the Whole Brain

Extreme Parenting: Parenting Your Child with a Chronic Illness

Author: Sharon Dempsey

Extreme Parenting is a personal guide written to help parents of a child with a long-term illness, whether it be asthma, cancer, cystic fibrosis, or another chronic condition.

Parents of children with chronic illnesses experience 'extreme parenting', which challenges them to find their strengths and to push themselves physically and emotionally to get the best out of life for their children and themselves. This book provides practical advice on issues such as how to cope with hospitals and treatment, communicating with health professionals, advocating for children, as well as tips for family life and self-care. Each chapter concludes with accessible advice and action points.

Extreme Parenting is essential reading not just for parents looking after children with chronic illnesses, but also for health and other related professionals, offering insights into the challenges that these parents face on a day-to-day basis.

New interesting book: Love and Sex with Robots or Digital Infrared Photography

Focusing the Whole Brain: Transforming Your Life with Hemispheric Synchronization

Author: Ronald Russell

Imagine a technique that would allow you to conduct your own explorations into consciousness. Imagine that this technique is safe, inexpensive, easy to use, and endlessly versatile. Imagine Hemi-Sync.

Invented by sound engineer Robert A. Monroe more than 30 years ago, Hemi-Sync uses audio technology to synchronize the functioning of the two hemispheres of the brain. For more than three decades, people have been finding more and more creative uses for it. So many uses, in fact, that it's time for an overview of various practical applications.

• assisting personal growth and development
• in medicine
• in psychiatry and psychotherapy
• with autistic children
• in nursing homes
• in sleep training
• in education
• and many more fields

Hemi-Sync appeals to professionals in many disciplines. Today trainers and workshop presenters in some twenty countries and individuals from fifty countries have traveled to attend courses employing Hemi-Sync at The Monroe Institute in Virginia. Countless more use Hemi-Sync CDs and tapes for specific purposes.

Focusing the Whole Brain provides a readable introduction to a whole new world of abilities greater than you ever thought possible.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword	ix
	The Way of Hemi-Sync	xi
	Introduction	xiii
	Personal Growth and Development	1
	Mind, Body, Spirit, and Hemi-Sync	3
	A Place for Me to Grow	9
	It Changes You...	13
	A New Perspective	20
	A Catalyst for Profound Personal Growth	22
	Challenging Autism with Hemi-Sync	26
	Hemi-Sync behind Bars	31
	Young Children	33
	Guidelines for Using Metamusic to Support Learning in Young Children	35
	Metamusic and the Child with Feeding Problems	43
	Hemi-Sync and Autistic Children	52
	Hemi-Sync As an Adjunct to Pediatric Physical Therapy	61
	Education and Learning	67
	Using Binaural Beats to Enhance Attention	69
	Facing the Learning Challenge	75
	Hemi-Sync in an Educational Program	84
	Hemi-Sync and the Self-Reflective Lover	89
	Medical	99
	Hemi-Sync in Medicine to Promote Patient Well-Being	101
	Support for Surgery	110
	Hemi-Sync and Reiki	116
	Preparing to Use Binaural Beat Sounds with Deaf Clients	122
	The Mind: Psychiatry and Psychotherapy	125
	Hemi-Sync in My Medical Psychiatric Practice	127
	Enhanced Intuitive Psychotherapy	134
	Hemi-Sync: A Healing of the Self	142
	Hemi-Sync and the Inner Therapist	148
	Use of Hemi-Sync to Reduce Levels of Depression for Alcohol-Dependent Patients	153
	Journey into Symbolism	158
	Sleep	163
	Hemi-Sync Intervention for Insomnia and Immune Dysfunction Syndromes	165
	Insomnia and Hemi-Sync	173
	Lucid Dreaming	180
	Nursing Homes	183
	Bridging the Communication Gap: Hemi-Sync in Nursing Homes	185
	Hemi-Sync As a Complementary Treatment with Long-Term Residents	193
	Work and Business	201
	Business Seminars and Hemi-Sync	203
	Team Development Strategies: Looking at the Frontier	208
	Waking ... Knowing	213
	Beyond the United States	219
	Hemi-Sync in Cyprus	221
	Hemi-Sync in Poland	228
	Hemi-Sync in Slovakia	232
	With a Scottish Accent	240
	Hemi-Sync in a Mexican Thunderstorm	244
	Animals	249
	Metamusic to Enhance Physical and Emotional Comfort in Animals	251
	Scientific and Technical	261
	Research on the Effects of Binaural Beats	263
	Consciousness, Hemi-Sync, and the Brain	273
	Pilot Exploration of CNS Electrophysiology of Hemi-Sync and Related Altered States of Consciousness	281
	Bob Monroe and TMI's Impact on Consciousness Literature	286
	Gallimaufry	293
	Healing by Retrieving the Shadow: The Work of Richard Werling	295
	The Magical Mix	299
	The Intersection of Synchronicity and a Thoughtball	303
	In-Home Training Series, Monroe Products, and Residential Courses	309
	Useful Books	315
	About the Editor	317

Metaphysical Book of Gems and Crystals or Yoga on the Ball

Metaphysical Book of Gems and Crystals

Author: Florence Megemont

NEW AGE / CRYSTALS

“Florence Mégemont’s explorations of the spiritual and therapeutic applications of over seventy different minerals and gemstones are vivid and lively, and they convey a strong sense of the stones as ‘beings’ rather than objects. This book gives strong emphasis to the therapeutic capacities of stones, and this is appropriate because the stones’ agenda is to facilitate human evolution into wholeness and spiritual realization.”
--Robert Simmons, author of The Book of Stones and Moldavite: Starborn Stone of Transformation

Gemstones have been used for both therapeutic and spiritual purposes since the earliest days, in all traditions. Used properly, they can contribute to and accelerate healing through the practice of lithotherapy, which uses gems and minerals to restore enzymatic functions, and they can energize spiritual development. Alternative medicines such as homeopathy have given prominence to the therapeutic character of certain minerals, but the use of gemstones in expanding awareness or establishing a holistic, energetic connection with the stone itself has scarcely been brought forward. In this reclaiming of ancient wisdom, Florence Mégemont explores the many potent and beneficial dimensions of the mineral world.

Over seventy precious and semiprecious stones are inventoried as to their principal deposits, therapeutic applications, and zodiac correspondences. Readers will discover which minerals can relieve specific physical and emotional disorders and which gemstones are indispensable to their spiritual health. The author also explains how to apply the stones to thechakras. Additionally, Mégemont shows how the stones can act preventively, energizing both our health and spiritual resources to a state of balance and attunement.

FLORENCE MÉGEMONT has been practicing lithotherapy since 1995, and she gives lectures and workshops throughout Europe. She is the author in French of two other books on the power of gems and minerals. She lives in southern France.

Go to: English Seigniorial Agriculture 1250 1450 or Youve Got It Made

Yoga on the Ball

Author: Carol Mitchell

YOGA / BODYWORK

“Carol Mitchell has done a superb job of weaving ancient tradition with modern innovation. A must-read for all yoga enthusiasts!”
Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D., author of Meditation As Medicine

“Yoga on the Ball combines the ancient wisdom of yoga with modern techniques to create a unique approach to building strength and flexibility. A fun, simple, and healthy way to fitness.”
Judith Hanson Lasater, PH.D., P.T., author of Relax and Renew: Restful Yoga for Stressful Times

“I recommend this book to anyone looking for a new way to practice yoga.”
Richard Usatine, M.D., author of Yoga Rx

“At last! A new program that merges the ancient art of yoga with the modern science of exercise physiology. In an easy-to-use format Yoga on the Ball provides it all--training for flexibility, strength, and endurance of body, mind, and spirit.”
Sam Dworkis, author of Recovery Yoga

“A clear, comprehensive, and user-friendly book that facilitates a deeper understanding of yoga and its benefits while traveling an unconventional path. The yoga practices are equally accessible to beginners and skilled practitioners, providing useable knowledge for every reader. Highly recommended.”
Leigh Crews, national spokesperson for the American Council on Exercise

Medical exercise specialist Carol Mitchell offers an innovative new workout that combines the science of yoga with the technology of the exercise ball. Executing yoga postures while usingthe exercise ball is true “meditation in motion.” It allows you to engage several muscle groups simultaneously while challenging your balance and spatial awareness in order to create a total-body workout. With only a slight roll of the ball, the deep yoga stretches can be altered to target different areas of the muscles, allowing each yoga posture to be as beneficial as possible.

Yoga on the Ball presents 67 postures--from introductory to advanced poses--detailed in step-by-step instructions and accompanied by more than 225 photographs. You can customize your practice, choosing between sculpting your muscles with toning and strengthening poses or relaxing your body and mind with stretching and breathing exercises. The author also offers three progressive yoga workouts for all levels of ability.

CAROL MITCHELL is a certified medical exercise specialist and international fitness trainer whose work has been featured in the Canadian Medical Journal. She is the educational director for the International Society of Yoga Education and teaches seminars on mind-body fitness to corporations, yoga and fitness practitioners, coaches, and health practitioners worldwide. She lives in Ontario.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
   Yoga: Tradition and Innovation

1. Yoga and the Ball--A Dynamic Duet

2. The Body and the Breath
Breath Check • Diaphragmatic Breathing • Modified Child Pose (Mudhasana) • Prana Power • Prayer Breath

3. Finding Postural Ease with Yoga Ball Asanas
Postural Setup: Ideal Alignment • Tummy Compressions • Half Plank with Uddiyana Bhanda • Abdominal Squeeze (Akunchan Prasarana) • Meditative Yogi

4. That All-Important Warm-Up Sun Salutation (Surya Namaskar)

5. Yoga Asanas-Striking the Balance Between Strength and Flexibility
Standing Forward Fold (Uttanasana) • Seated Forward Fold • Cobra (Bhujangasana) • Down Dog (Adhomukha Svanasana) • Reverse, or Inclined, Plank (Purvottanasana) • Camel Pose (Ustrasana) • Forward Fold with Spinal Twist (Prasarita Padottanasana 1) • Yoga Chair Pose (Uktatasana) • Bow Pose (Dhanurasana) • Crow Pose (Kakasana) • Modified Locust Pose (Salabhasana) • Side Plank or Arm Balance (Vashishthasana)• Boat Pose (Paripurna Navasana) • Bridge Pose (Sethu Bhandasana) • Warrior 1 (Virabhadrasana 1) • Warrior 2 (Virabhadrasana 2) • Extended Side Angle (Parshvakonasana) • Warrior 1 with Prayer Twist

6. Body Balance, Mind Balance
Knee Lift • Tree Pose (Vrikshasana) • Eagle Pose (Garudasana) • Side Plank (Vashishthasana) • Half Moon (Ardha Chandrasana) • Hand to Big Toe Posture (Utthita hasta Padangusthasana) • King Dancer(Natarajasana) • Candle Pose (Vaparita Karani Mudra) • Warrior 3 (Virabhadrasana 3)

7. The Advanced Postures
Supine Straight Leg Spinal Twist • Yoga Chair Pose with Squat • Balancing Yogi • Yoga Plank with Arm Work • Yoga Plank with Push-Ups • Advanced Prayer Roll Out • Advanced Bridge with Roll Out • Advanced Bridge with Roll Out and Leg Raise • Side-LyingPlank • Side-Lying Plank with Twist • Advanced Down Dog • Yoga Plank Hover • Rolling Tabletop

8. Relaxation and Restoration
Modified Fish (Matsyasana) • Yoga Side Stretch • Standing Cat (Bidalasana) • Lion Pose (Simhasana) • Neck Stretch • Spinal Twist (Maricyasana) • Kneeling Cat (Bidalasana) • Thread the Needle • Pigeon Pose (Raja Kapotasana) • Reclined Hamstring Stretch (Supta Padangusthasana) • Cobbler Pose (Baddha Konasana) • Reclining Spinal Twist • Rocking Child Pose • Rocking Child Pose with Neck Massage • Hip Lift • Modified Corpse Pose (Shavasana)

9. Putting It All Together

Appendix
   Major Muscles and Their Functions

Resources

Ball and Video Ordering Information

Acknowledgments

Alcoholism The Facts or Heartburn Reflux For Dummies

Alcoholism - The Facts

Author: Donald W Goodwin

Alcoholism: The Facts deals with all aspects of the world's number one drug problem. Primarily a book for all those who have alcohol problems and for those who share their lives, it is written in a clear and lively style, and deals with all the social, psychological, and medical aspects of alcohol problems - of which alcoholism is the best-known example. In the decade since the first edition of this book was published there has been an enormous amount of scientific research into what causes some people to suffer from alcohol problems and the best treatments to offer them. Professor Goodwin explains straightforwardly and with minimal technical jargon what the results of this research mean, and how to go about getting help with alcohol problems for yourself, a relative, or friend.

Cindy L. Gilbert

This author presents readers a concise, readable volume covering basic information about this widespread illness. In 17 rather brief chapters, he is able to provide an interesting and even amusing update on alcoholism. "The author's effort here is toward bringing the reader up to date on the newest developments in the study and treatment of alcoholism. "He intends his work for a wide audience. Indeed this is a highly accessible book, largely due to the absence of technical language and the direct writing style. It is easy to imagine either a layperson or a clinician utilizing this book to find basic information about alcoholism. "The author offers his book in four sections: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Understanding Alcoholism, and Treating Alcoholism. Each section contains 4-5 chapters on issues such as the history of alcohol, symptomology of alcoholism, hereditary influences in alcoholism, and Alcoholics Anonymous. The author devotes a chapter to women and alcohol, and while it is brief, he acknowledges the discrepancy between research done on men and that done on women, which is a refreshing change. Furthermore, he debunks some myths about alcohol as well. For example, he reports a series of commonly held beliefs about female alcoholics including that they are known to have been submissive as children and rebellious as adults. He states that if every submissive child who became a rebellious adult drank too much the oceans could not contain enough alcohol to meet the demand. His review of the symptoms of alcoholism is especially concrete. It is written in such as a way as to make it easy for the reader to grasp the state of mind of the alcoholic, as well as the progression ofsymptoms. Unfortunately, while the author makes reference to numerous studies, he does not provide citations for them. Follow-up research would be difficult if one wanted to pursue a study mentioned here. "This book is a succinct summary of what is known about alcoholism at this time. Inevitably, in a book so small, some information has almost certainly been left out. However, the readability and clarity of this volume balance any informational oversights it may contain. This is the third edition of this book, and in light of the fact that the second edition was published in 1995, a third edition was almost certainly due at this time.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Cindy L. Gilbert, MSW, LSW (Rush University Medical Center)
Description: This author presents readers a concise, readable volume covering basic information about this widespread illness. In 17 rather brief chapters, he is able to provide an interesting and even amusing update on alcoholism.
Purpose: The author's effort here is toward bringing the reader up to date on the newest developments in the study and treatment of alcoholism.
Audience: He intends his work for a wide audience. Indeed this is a highly accessible book, largely due to the absence of technical language and the direct writing style. It is easy to imagine either a layperson or a clinician utilizing this book to find basic information about alcoholism.
Features: The author offers his book in four sections: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Understanding Alcoholism, and Treating Alcoholism. Each section contains 4-5 chapters on issues such as the history of alcohol, symptomology of alcoholism, hereditary influences in alcoholism, and Alcoholics Anonymous. The author devotes a chapter to women and alcohol, and while it is brief, he acknowledges the discrepancy between research done on men and that done on women, which is a refreshing change. Furthermore, he debunks some myths about alcohol as well. For example, he reports a series of commonly held beliefs about female alcoholics including that they are known to have been submissive as children and rebellious as adults. He states that if every submissive child who became a rebellious adult drank too much "the oceans could not contain enough alcohol to meet the demand." His review of the symptoms of alcoholism is especially concrete. It is written in such as a way as to make it easy for the reader to grasp the state of mind of the alcoholic, as well as the progression of symptoms. Unfortunately, while the author makes reference to numerous studies, he does not provide citations for them. Follow-up research would be difficult if one wanted to pursue a study mentioned here.
Assessment: This book is a succinct summary of what is known about alcoholism at this time. Inevitably, in a book so small, some information has almost certainly been left out. However, the readability and clarity of this volume balance any informational oversights it may contain. This is the third edition of this book, and in light of the fact that the second edition was published in 1995, a third edition was almost certainly due at this time.

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

Books about: The Great Awakening or The Age of Abundance

Heartburn & Reflux For Dummies (Dummies Series)

Author: Carol Ann Rinzler

If you or someone you love suffers from heartburn, you know that it can be very disruptive to your daily life. Most heartburn sufferers say it stops them from enjoying food. Others say it keeps them from getting a good night’s sleep, it makes it hard to concentrate at work, and it interferes with family activities. Sound familiar? Don’t worry. Heartburn is a pain, but it can be helped.

Heartburn & Reflux For Dummies is the plain-English guide to relief for you if you’ve been recently diagnosed with heartburn or reflux, if you suspect you may suffer from it, or if you’re concerned about your loved ones. This comprehensive book shows you how to recognize symptoms, get an accurate diagnosis, and work with a physician to receive the most effective treatment available. You’ll see how to:

• Get your symptoms under control

• Find the right physician

• Reduce stress and fine-tune your diet

• Avoid medicines that trigger upset

• Decide if surgery is right for you

This friendly guide explains what the various forms of reflux are, as all too often reflux is either self-treated or mistreated and followed by serious complications. There’s detailed information on building a comfortable lifestyle by reducing stress, improving your diet, controlling portions, and timing your meals to minimize heartburn and reflux. Plus, this sensitive guide even covers heartburn in infants, children, and the elderly. You’ll also discover:

• How to heal the esophagus of inflammation or injury, as well as manage or preventcomplications

• The latest information on prescription medications and side effects

• Healthy habits to adopt to reduce your pain triggers

• Helpful home remedies and alternative medicine

• The special risks and remedies for heartburn during pregnancy

• The side effects and complications associated with surgery

Complete with a catalog of heartburn medicines and a list of reliable Web sites for people with digestive disorders, Heartburn & Reflux For Dummies is your one-stop guide to stopping the hurt, starting to heal, and enjoying food again!

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	1
	About This Book	1
	Conventions Used in This Book	2
	What You're Not to Read	2
	Foolish Assumptions	3
	How This Book Is Organized	3
	Icons Used in This Book	5
	Where to Go from Here	6
Part I	Naming Your Pain	7
Chapter 1	Picturing Heartburn and Reflux	9
	Meeting Your Heartburn	9
	Saying hello to your fellow sufferers	10
	Quantifying your discomfort	11
	Pinning the Tail on the Heartburn Donkey	11
	Defining terms and conditions	12
Looking for Help in All the Right Places	13
	Editing the menu	14
	Looking at your lifestyle	14
	Remedying the situation	15
	Managing your meds	15
	Seeing the surgeon	15
Chapter 2	Tracking Your Digestive Tract	17
	Defining Digestion	18
	Seeing and smelling	20
	Tasting and chewing	21
	Swallowing	21
	Mixing and mashing	22
	Extracting the good stuff	22
	Creating compost	24
	Testing the Protectors	24
	Examining the LES	25
	Closing the door: Reviewing the life and times of the LES	26
	Operating out-of-bounds	27
	Suffering with a good muscle gone bad	28
Chapter 3	Cataloging the Symptoms and Hazards of Heartburn, Reflux, and GERD	31
	Tracking the Symptoms	32
	Monitoring your mouth	32
	Exploring your respiratory tract	33
	Examining the esophagus	34
	Checking your personal list of symptoms	36
	Calculating Long-Term Consequences	37
	Irritating the environment	37
	Swallowing hard	38
	Changing cells: Barrett's esophagus risk	38
	Facing the facts about esophageal cancer	39
Chapter 4	Rating Your Reflux Risk	41
	Picturing People with Heartburn	41
	Defining the terms	42
	Classifying reflux risk factors	42
	Factoring in the Family	43
	Rendering a Gender Bias	45
	Expecting trouble	45
	Linking estrogen to heartburn	45
	Mentioning Medical Risks	46
	Asthma and other respiratory problems	46
	Diabetes	46
	Hiatal hernia	47
	Scleroderma	48
	Zollinger-Ellison syndrome	48
	Weighing Weight's Weight on Reflux	48
	Counting extra pounds	49
	Linking weight and reflux	50
	Consulting contradicting evidence	51
	Pinpointing Problem Eaters	51
	Fatalistic foodies	51
	Fast Eddies	52
	Big eaters	52
	Anytime eaters	52
	Adding Up Your Own Reflux Risk	52
Part II	Eating Your Way to Relief	55
Chapter 5	Meeting Your Nutrition Needs	57
	Measuring Nutrition	57
	Beginning with the Big Guys	59
	Pumping protein	59
	Facing the fat facts	60
	Counting on carbohydrates	61
	Investigating Vitamins	62
	Fat-soluble vitamins	63
	Water-soluble vitamins	64
	Mining the Minerals	66
	Meeting the majors	68
	Tracking the traces	69
	Brushing up on the bit players	70
	Supplementing the Info	71
	Crunching the numbers	72
	Setting limits	78
Chapter 6	Fine-Tuning Your Diet	81
	Enjoying Food	81
	Explaining How Food and Drink Can Cause Heartburn	82
	Weakening the LES	83
	Making more acid	84
	Irritating your esophagus	85
	Naming the Guilty Parties	85
	Deciphering the rules of the road	85
	Shaking up the spice rack	89
	Identifying your personal troublemakers	90
	Making Meals Safer	94
	Setting a soothing schedule	94
	Slowing down the action	95
	Modifying foods and recipes	95
	Choosing the Safest Cooking Technique	96
	Looking at low-fat cooking methods	97
	Identifying added-fat cooking methods	98
Chapter 7	Reviewing Home Remedies, Alternative Approaches, and Herbal Healers	99
	Grading Granny's Goodies	99
	Neutralizing the burn	100
	Masticating relief	101
	Soothing with a mother's touch	103
	Looking for Alternatives	103
	Defining conventional medicine	103
	Taking a holistic approach	104
	Evaluating Herbal Medicine	105
	Viewing herbals and the law	106
	Looking for expert advice	107
	Classifying stomach-friendly herbals	110
	Shopping smart	112
	Linking Other Alternative Approaches to Heartburn/Reflux	114
Part III	Treating Your Middle	115
Chapter 8	Finding the Right Doctor	117
	Deciding When to See the Doctor	117
	Sorting Through the Heartburn Specialists	118
	Choosing a Doctor	119
	Basic credentials	120
	Professional associations	121
	State medical societies	122
	State health departments	124
	Going to the Doctor with Your History in Hand	125
Chapter 9	Examining Your Esophagus and Testing Your Tummy	127
	Picking Potential Patients	127
	Assessing Your Acidity	128
	Bernstein test (acid perfusion test)	129
	Ambulatory 24-hour pH monitoring	130
	Measuring Your Muscle Strength	131
	Preparing for this test	132
	Taking this test	132
	Evaluating the results	132
	Studying Your Stomach	133
	Preparing for this test	133
	Taking this test	133
	Evaluating the results	133
	Evaluating Your Esophagus	134
	Barium swallow	134
	Upper GI series	135
	Upper endoscopy	136
Chapter 10	Prescribing Relief	139
	Noting the Cost of Heartburn Help	139
	Aiming for Neutrality with Antacids	140
	Describing how antacids help	141
	Naming the antacid ingredients in antacid products	142
	Reviewing other ingredients in antacid products	144
	Blocking the Burn	147
	Separating prescription and OTC H2 blockers	148
	Counting drawbacks	150
	Slowing the Pump	153
	Defining PPIs	154
	Comparing PPIs	154
	Listing potential problems	156
	Interesting Interacting	158
Chapter 11	Avoiding Problem Pills	163
	Pinpointing Potential Problems	163
	Naming Medicines That Loosen the LES	164
	Antiasthma drugs	165
	Anticholinergics	165
	Antidepressants	165
	Antihypertensives	166
	Anti-Parkinson medication	167
	Female hormones	167
	Narcotics	168
	Nitrates	169
	Sedatives and tranquilizers	169
	Targeting Traffic Stoppers	169
	Listing Irritating Drugs and Supplements	170
	Analgesics	171
	Antibiotics	171
	Bone builders	172
	Other esophagus irritators	172
	Nutritional supplements	172
	Naming Medical Conditions That May Make Meds Stick	173
	Minimizing the Heartburn Effects of Essential Medicines	174
	Read the label	174
	Don't chew the pills	174
	Don't take your pill lying down	174
	Don't forget the water	175
	Eat a little	176
Chapter 12	Exploring Surgical Options	177
	Nominating Candidates for Heartburn Surgery	178
	Meeting medication malcontents	178
	Assessing esophagus damage	179
	Considering other factors	180
	Taking the surgery option off the table	181
	Setting a Surgical Schedule	181
	Selecting a surgeon	182
	Prepping for surgery	182
	Cutting and Pasting: Fundoplication	183
	Opening moves	185
	Working the inside track	186
	Meeting the Morning After	187
	Returning to the real world	188
	Eating again	188
	Reaching Home Base	189
	Swallowing hard	189
	Reprising reflux	190
	Floating on bloat	190
	Balancing Risks and Benefits	190
	Peering into the Reflux Crystal Ball	191
Seeing future No. 1192
Seeing future No. 2192
Seeing future No. 3192
Part IV	Creating a Comfortable Lifestyle	193
Chapter 13	Building a Better Body	195
	Answering Question Numero Uno: Who's Overweight?	195
	Calculating your BMI	196
	Figuring out where your figures fit	199
	Choosing a Healthful Weight Control Program	200
	Counting calories	200
	Carbing down the pounds	202
	Using protein to fight fat	204
	Examining all those other weight-loss diets	207
	Making a sensible weight-control choice	208
	Working Off Your Reflux	209
	Eating smart for a comfortable workout	211
	Adapting your exercise to your heartburn	212
	Recognizing when exercise may not bother your reflux	214
	Setting sensible exercise standards	214
Chapter 14	Healing Heartburn with Healthy Habits	217
	Snuffing Out Heartburn	217
	Linking tobacco to heartburn	218
	Leaving a losing habit	220
	Writing a word to the willing	222
	Toasting the Pain-Free Life	224
	Explaining why alcohol raises your risk of reflux	224
	Defining a drink	225
	Getting a Good Night's Sleep	226
	Picking a comfy position	227
	Altering your eating habits	229
	Medicating nocturnal reflux	230
Chapter 15	Stressing Stress Relief	233
	Stressing the Importance of Stress	233
	Activating Your Adrenals	234
	Considering the cortex	234
	Looking into the medulla	235
	Getting ready for "fight or flight"	235
	Linking Stress to Heartburn	237
	Hitting your GI tract with hormones	238
	Bodies behaving badly	238
	Unlocking Your Stomach from Your Stress	239
	Examining antireflux anti-stress therapy	239
	Reading the AHRQ report	240
	Finding a solution	241
Chapter 16	Fashioning (and Furnishing) a Comfortable Life	245
	Burning Your Bra and Loosening Your Belt	245
	Looking Good, Feeling Fine	247
	Running down perfume's effects	248
	Questioning the accuracy of cosmetic label terms	248
	Finding the facts on ingredients and label terms	249
	Reducing reactions to cosmetics	250
	Finding Furniture That Fights Heartburn	251
	Picking a proper chair	251
	Making your bed for a good night's sleep	252
Part V	Meeting the Special Cases	255
Chapter 17	Handling the Heartburn of Pregnancy	257
	Are All Pregnant Women at Risk for Reflux?	257
	Altering your insides	258
	Raging hormones	260
	Avoiding Unnecessary Tests	261
	Determining Safe Remedies	262
	Reviewing the ABCs of drugs for pregnant women	262
	Rating reflux drugs	264
	Filling in the (prescription) blanks	266
	Becoming a research person	267
	Examining home remedies	267
	De-Linking Your Lifestyle from Your Reflux	267