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BOOT CAMP ABS: Get Rock-Hard Abs
Author: Charla McMillianPublisher: Fair Winds PressISBN: 1-59233-125-4 CLICK HERE TO Purchase This Book From Amazon Is your gut flat or flabby? Are your love handles quickly morphing into spare tires? You need a little discipline in your life! Who better to dish out that discipline than a Marine?
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6-18-2005
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Beyond Chocolate
Authors: Sophie Boss and Audrey BossISBN: 0-7499-2708-9Publisher: PiatkusThe following review was contributed by: Andrea Wren: CLICK TO VIEW Andrea Wren's ReviewsI wouldn’t normally fill my fridge with the LARGEST box of expensive ‘tasting’ chocolates and three family-sized egg custard pies, nor chuck out the scales that I’ve clung onto dearly for most of my adult life, but I’ve just read Beyond Chocolate, and the time has come to alter my ways. By that, I mean the ways that have kept me...
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9-3-2006
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F.A.T. Balance Diet (10 Steps to Weigh Loss Freedom)
Click Here To Purchase F.A.T. Balance Diet (10 Steps to Weight Loss Freedom) Author: Kevin JonesISBN: 978-0-9768998-3-9 The title is catchy in the sense that it gets read as FAT Balance Diet and almost all the struggle of those who are trying to lose weight is with the fat in the body. The author has imaginatively created an acronym from that simple word. F.A.T. stands for Frequency, Amount and Type. And it is applied to Food and Exercise, the two key factors that affect our intake and...
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4-24-2008
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Healing Our Planet, Healing Our Selves
You Can Purchase From Amazon Healing Our Planet, Healing Our Selves By Clicking Here Editors: Dawson Church and Geralyn Gendreau ISBN: 0- 9720028 - 4 - 7 Our world is passing through very turbulent times. There is an increasingly pervasive sense that we are witnessing an unprecedented time in human history. The consensus seems to be that we will either sink or swim and that humanity's future depends on the choices we make now. Did we choose to be here at this crucial point in time? ...
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8-13-2007
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Overcoming Runaway Blood Sugar
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Overcoming Runaway Blood Sugar Author: Dennis PollockISBN: 0-7396-1721-7Dennis Pollock, author, evangelist, and the founder of Spirit of Grace Ministries, offers practical help for hypoglycemic, diabetics, people fighting fatigue and mood swings, the weight-conscious, and the general health-conscious reader in his recent book ‘Overcoming Runaway Blood Sugar’ (Harvest House Publishers, Oregon, 2006). Two qualities of Pollock’s publication distinguish its...
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4-2-2006
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Soul Medicine
You Can Purchase This Book From Amazon Authors: Norman Shealy , M.D., PH.D. and Dawson Church, PH.D.IBSN: 0 - 9710888 - 8 - 8 Could our failing medical system be nudging us towards Spirit as our source of true health? Have we been placing too much of our faith in the material while ignoring and forgetting our spiritual inheritance? Norman Shealy and Dawson Church explore numerous alternative healing methods in their book "Soul Medicine". They suggest that instead of resorting to...
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7-16-2007
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A Bite At A Time
Click Here To Purchase A Bite At A Time Author: Morris KatzoffISBN: 978-1-6048-1954-7 Morris Katzoff, author of A Bite at a Time understands that it
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6-18-2008
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A Hike for Mike: An Uplifting Adventure Across the Sierra Nevada for Depression Awareness
Author: Jeff AltISBN: 0-9679482-15Dreams Shared PublicationsThis enjoyable book covers the journey of authors Jeff and Beth Alt, as they traverse the John Muir Trail in the Sierra Nevadas, on behalf of a ‘depression awareness’ campaign. Ten months before their hike, Beth’s older brother Mike committed suicide. Mike, Beth’s favorite sibling, had been a young married man with
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1-21-2007
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A Husband, A Wife and an Illness: Living Life Beyond Chronic Illness
Click Here To Purchase A Husband, A Wife and an Illness: Living Life Beyond Chronic Illness Authors: Dr. William July and Jamey Lacy JulyISBN: 978-0-595-44726-8 Unfortunately a growing segment of our society is having to deal with the disabling effects of chronic illness. It is important that we try to understand why this is happening so that we can prevent or lessen the incidence of chronic disease. However, in the meantime we need to learn how to cope with the sometimes extreme...
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5-14-2008
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Aging Artfully
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Aging Artfully Author: Amy GormanISBN: 0978519205In Amy Gorman's Aging Artfully, Dr. Gene Cohen, who has conducted long-term research on creativity and the elderly, is quoted as stating "that seniors who participate in arts activities enjoy better health, visit doctors less frequently and use less medicine, to name a few of the benefits." If Gorman's interviews of twelve visual and performing women artists aged 85-105 is any indication, we...
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11-13-2007
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AIDS Orphans Rising
Click Here To Purchase AIDS Orphans Rising Author: Sister Mary Elizabeth Lloyd ISBN: 978-1932690477
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6-4-2008
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Beating Lyme, The Disease, The Diagnosis, Controversy And Treatment For Lyme Disease
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Beating Lyme, The Disease, The Diagnosis, Controversy And Treatment For Lyme DiseaseAuthors: Constance Bean with Lesley Ann Fein, M.D.ISBN: 9780814409442 “If your disease is not cured in a few weeks, you may be told, mistakenly, that you have chronic fatigue syndrome, that your excruciating pain is due to fibromyalgia, to an unknown virus, new allergies, or other chronic conditions that we don’t yet know about.” Does this sound familiar? If you have Lyme...
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1-30-2008
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Boot Camp Abs
Author: Carla McMillianPublisher: Fair Winds Press, 2005ISBN: 1-59233-057-6 The following review was contributed by Rev. Marie Davies Former Marine Captain and fitness expert, Carla McMillian gives it to us straight; the only thing needed to have the flat abs is the will to exercise, determination and patience. Boot Camp Abs presents a refreshingly candid approach to fitness. Carla McMillian tells her readers exercise is the only way to tighten your stomach muscles and cutting calories is...
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5-23-2005
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Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating A Nation
Click Here To Purchase Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating A Nation Author: Charles BarberISBN: 978-0-375-42399-4 Charles Barber was educated at Harvard and Columbia and worked for ten years in New York City shelters for the homeless mentally ill. The title essay in his first book, Songs from the Black Chair, won a 2006 Pushcart Prize. His work has appeared in the The Washington Post, the New York Times and Scientific
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5-26-2008
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Confessions of a Crack Head (an anonymous memoir)
Click Here To Purchase Confessions of a Crack Head Author Zach SamuelsPublisher: WheatmarkISBN: 978-1-60494-091-6 Meet Zach Samuels - a recovering drug addict. Like many addicts, he has probably tried everything from dope to crack cocaine and all that falls in between. This is his story.Looking
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8-12-2008
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Diabetes: Sugar-Coated Crisis
Click Here To Purchase Diabetes: Sugar Coated Crisis Author: David Spero, RNISBN: 978-0-86571-567-7 Everyone has heard the word, probably knows someone with it, but do we really know why it’s epidemic? I know what diabetes is – a disease in which blood glucose levels are above normal – my two friends have it. But I did not know about the billions of dollars that are being made “causing” and “treating” this serious ma
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3-26-2008
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DIGESTIVE WELLNESS(Revised 3rd Edition)
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon DIGESTIVE WELLNESS(Revised 3rd Edition)Author: Elizabeth Lipski, Ph.D., CCNPublisher: McGraw-Hill ISBN: 0-07-144196-4
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4-25-2005
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Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America
Author Morgan SpurlockISBN: 0399152601The following review was contributed by: Paul Lappen & CLICK TO VIEW Paul Lappen's ReviewsFrom the person behind the documentary Supersize Me,this book looks at the fast food industry in America.He explores the ways in which fast food is marketed tochildren, the supersizing of the fast food menu andthe accompanying rise in conditions like obesity,heart disease and diabetes, even among children.The average school cafeteria has replaced its foodwith...
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7-30-2005
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Dr. Bach’s Flower Remedies:Tapping into the positive emotional qualities of the Chakras
Authors: Philip Salmon and Anna JeoffroyPublisher: Lotus Publishing, Chichester, UK and North Atlantic BooksISBN-10: 1-55643-640-8ISBN-13: 978-1556436406I requested and received this beautiful book from NAB’s publicist after seeing an excerpt on the net (a .pdf file) and the printed book is equally good or even better in its get up and print quality. This book combines the wisdom of Dr. Edward Bach whose 38 flower remedies have established an excellent reputation from many users since their...
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6-23-2007
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Dump Your Trainer (The only thing they’ll reduce is your wallet!)
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Dump Your Trainer (The only thing they’ll reduce is your wallet!)Authors: Ashley Marriott, Marc. L Paulsen M.D.Publisher: BookSurge PublishingISBN: 978-1-4196-8023-6 The title was one of the first things that caught my eye about this book. It made me laugh but I was so intrigued to why the authors thought it was better to dump the trainer and do it alone. I just had to read on.Personal trainers can be very expensive but they are handsome/pretty, young and...
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2-8-2008
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Exposed
Click Here To Purchase Exposed Author: Mark SchapiroISBN: 978-1-933392-15-8 “Mark Schapiro is editorial director of the Center for Investigative Reporting in San Francisco. He has written extensively on foreign affairs and his work has appeared in Harper’s, The Nation, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times M
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5-7-2008
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Fact and Fiction of Healthy Vision
Author: Clyde K. Kitchen, M.D.ISBN: 978-0-275-99345-9You Can Purchase This Book From Amazon We know we should protect our eyes with sunglasses and safety-goggles; get glasses when we can’t see well; and get plenty of rest. However, should we use eye-drops when our eyes are tired or red? Do we really know how our eyes work? Do we know all that can go wrong with our eyesight? Does our physician know about the eyes as well as he should? These questions and more are clearly answered. Dr. Kitchen...
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7-25-2007
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Fact or Fiction of Healthy Vision (Eye Care for Adults and Children)
Author: Clyde K. Kitchen, M.D. ISBN: 978-0-275-99345-0Publisher: Praeger Publishers Click Here To Purchase This Book From Amazon Clyde K. Kitchen has been in practice for over 36 years as a member of the Senior Active Staff of St. Jude Hospital, Department of Ophthalmology in F
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7-29-2007
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Fight Fatigue: Six Simple Steps to Maximize Your Energy
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Fight Fatigue: Six Simple Steps to Maximize Your EnergyAuthor: Dr. Mary Ann BaumanISBN: 1-5988618-7-5Whether it is work, family life or social time, there never seem to be enough hours in the day to satisfy everyone and also meet our personal needs. We are constantly being pulled in several directions at once, expending our energy until there seems to be nothing left over for ourselves.If you identify with this, you should pick up a copy of Dr. Mary Ann...
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3-30-2006
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Fish Oil: The Natural Anti-Inflammatory
Fish Oil: The Natural Anti-Inflammatory by Author: Joseph C. Maroon, M.D. and Jeffrey Bost, P.A.C. ISBN 978-1-59120-182-3 Fish Oil is an excellent monograph that deserves to be widely read, especially by health care and nutrition professionals. In six well-researched, cogent chapters, Maroon and Bost clearly lay out the current information about fish oil, and why it is so important. Maroon and Bost work together in neurosurgical practice and are both involved in neurosurgical research and...
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1-8-2007
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Forget The Cures : Find The Cause. Book 2: The Circle
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Forget The Cures : Find The Cause. Book 2: The Circle
Author: Rayna M. Gangi ISBN: 978 - 1 - 4327 - 1539 - 7 Modern allopathic medicine has become particularly famous for ignoring the real cause of illness and focusing only on the symptomatic treatments. This approach works wonderfully for creating corporate profits but is certainly not for the purpose of encouraging the health of a population. The medical industrial complex knows that prevention and...
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10-23-2007
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Forget The Cures Find The Cause – Book Two – The Circle
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Forget The Cures Find The Cause – Book Two – The Circle Author: Rayna M. GangiISBN 978-1-4327-1539-7 Everyone has something in common – we are all someone’s child. From birth, we subject our children to vaccines that are supposed to protect and defend us against mumps, tetanus, rubella, etc. However, Gangi writes that within hours of being vaccinated, some children “suffered convulsions, respiratory and cardiac arrest, and died.” Why do we do it? “Medical...
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10-19-2007
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Hidden Causes of Heart Attack and Stroke
Author: Christian WildePublisher: Abigon PressISBN: 0-9724959-0-8I received this book along with another book written by the same author and which attracted my attention and resulted in my making a review request. And I am so glad that the Publisher sent this book too, which I read first. The other book takes off where this book ends and is titled, "Miracle Stem Cell Heart Repair". But first things first. About this book.This book is a little dated in the sense that it was...
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2-17-2007
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High Performance Health
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon High Performance HealthAuthor: James M. Rippe, M.D.Publisher: Thomas NelsonISBN: 10-0849901820: 13: 9780849901829How do you define “good health?” Being disease free? Performing essential physical functions independently? Being physically fit or athletic?
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5-3-2007
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High Performance Health:10 Real Life Solutions to Redefine Your Health and Revolutionise Your Life
Author: James W.RippeHardcover: 256 pagesPublisher: W Publishing Group (May 29, 2007)ISBN-10: 0849901820ISBN-13: 978-0849901829The credentials of the author are very good. He is a board certified cardiologist; he is the author of several books including “Healthy Heart for Dummies” and is also the editor of “Irwin and Rippe’s Intensive Care Medicine” and “Lifestyle Medicine”. He is also the founder and director of Rippe Lifestyle Institute. This book is based on research on thousands of...
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6-23-2007
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Honey (A handbook for home, health & happiness)
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Honey (A handbook for home, health & happiness) Author: Clova McQueenISBN: 978184502158-0Publisher: Black & White PublishingClova McQueen has been a teacher for twenty years in England and Scotland. In the year 2003, Clova set up her own health food store. Having lived all her life in the countryside, a surprising fact is that even though her first book is about honey, she never kept a beehive herself. Although Clova prides herself on being a keen...
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10-15-2007
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Hot Plants - Nature's Proven Sex Boosters for Men and Women
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Hot Plants - Nature's Proven Sex Boosters for Men and WomenAuthor: Chris KilhamPublisher: St.Martin's Griffin ISBN: 0-312-31539-2Genre: Non-fiction, Health, HerbalismHot Plants is Chris Kilham's account of exploration ofplants, which help men and women lead better sex livesand thus enjoy better health. The author is a medicinehunter, author and educator and is the Explorer inResidence at the University of Massachusetts atAmherst, where he teaches...
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8-5-2005
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How to Survive Your Diet and Conquer Your food Issues Forever
Author: Linda MoranISBN: 0-9749396-0-9Publisher: Betterway PressWhat I most loved about Linda Moran’s book – which aims to help those afflicted by the ills of dieting to become normal eaters – is that she doesn’t emphasise exercise as the route to shedding pounds. What a relief! As she claims in the book, she spent one year immobile and still lost weight – the point is that if we’re truly in tune to eating only what our body needs, which is what this book is about, it will adjust our...
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11-11-2006
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Hypoglycemia The Other Sugar Disease
Author: Anita Flegg (Foreword by Dr.Ron Rosedale, MD)ISBN: 0968034748 The following review was contributed by: S.V. SWAMY: CLICK TO VIEW S.V. Swamy's ReviewsHaving read "Overcoming Runaway Blood Sugar" by Dennis Pollock, I was wonderingwhether I should take up yet one more book on blood sugar problems, especiallyhypocglycemia (Dennis's book is also dealing with the same problem) , but then Itook it up to see the difference in treatment of the same subject by a...
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6-18-2006
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If Only I Had A Brain Injury
Author: Laura Bruno, M.A.ISBN: 978-1-4363-2246-1I actually was only going to read this book to prepare myself for the radio interview with this author (May 29, 2008 on In Sort Order at www.highway2health.net). Instead, I found myself glued to the pages of valuable information from a patient’s view. By reading this book, those who know or take care of a person with a TBI will be better able to understand what the victim is going through – a better handle on things makes for a better...
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3-29-2008
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Keep Your God Waiting
Author: Michael Coleman ISBN: 1412073928:Publisher: Trafford Publishing The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews
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5-29-2006
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Laughing Sickness A Medical Mystery
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Laughing Sickness A Medical MysteryAuthor: Anne Black GrayPublisher: Bridgeway BooksISBN: 978-1-933538-93-8The author grew up in semi-rural West Virginia, studied physics at Carnegie Mellon and then migrated to Southern California for a career in Aerospace Engineering. After retiring, she too up her second career (novel writing) at the same time that she was learning of the plight of victims of rare, hard-to-diagnose diseases. The needs of these patients...
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2-8-2008
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Lupus - Alternative Therapies That Work
Author: Sharon MoorePublisher: Healing Arts Press a division of InnerPublishers: Traditions InternationalISBN: 0-89281-889-1The following review was contributed by: S.V. SWAMY: CLICK TO VIEW S.V. Swamy's ReviewsThis book is written by Sharon Moore, who sufferedfrom SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythomatus or simply calledLupus) and who was told that it is an autoimmunedisorder and she may not recover from it. She didrecover from it by studying alternative approaches tohealth, which she describes well...
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11-4-2005
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Miracle Stem Cell Heart Repair
Author: Christian WildePublisher: Abigon PressISBN: 1-59975-054-6This book, published in October 2006 is the companion book for the author's earlier book, "Hidden Causes of Heart Attack and Stroke" published in 2002. In case you have not read that book, I strongly recommend that you read that book and that too read that book first before taking up this one. I assure you that both are easy on the eyes (they use a bigger type face and are printed on off-white paper to avoid...
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2-17-2007
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Multiple Sclerosis: A Guide for the Newly Diagnosed (Third Edition)
You Can Purchase This Book From Amazon Authors: Nancy J. Holland, EdD, RN, MSCN; T. Jock Murray, MD; and Stephen C. Reingold, PhD:ISBN: 13-978-1-932603-27-9 Try as I might, I could not think of any basic question about multiple scleros
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7-13-2007
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Natural Alternatives to Vioxx, CelebrexNatural Alternatives to Vioxx, Celebrex
Author: Carol SimontacchiPublisher: Square One Publishers 2005ISBN: 0-7570-0278-1The following review was contributed by: Katherine J. Turcotte & Click Here to View Katherine J. Tucotte`s Reviews:When Vioxx, a highly prescribed anti-inflammatory Cox-2 inhibitor was pulled off the market in 2004 due to safety reasons, a terrible frenzy started. Doctors became hesitant to prescribe one of the two remaining Cox 2 inhibitors, and patients became desperate for pain relief. Many had relied...
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4-18-2005
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Never Regret the Pain : Loving and Losing a Bipolar Spouse
Author: Sel Erder YackleyIBSN: 0-9769193-5-4 "Never Regret The Pain" is an unforgettable account of what it is like to love and live with a victim of bipolar illness. This book is not a depressing read, as one may tend to assume from the title. The author, Sel Erder, shares with us her inevitable frustrations, sorrow and loneliness, along with her joys and triumphs..... but most importantly, she gives us hope. Sel's book dispels the stereotype that those who suffer with bipolar...
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4-5-2007
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No More Meltdowns
Click Here To Purchase No More Meltdowns Author: Jed Baker, Ph.D.ISBN: 978-1-932565-62-1 “Having earned his MA and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Albany, Dr. Jed Baker is a
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6-14-2008
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Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
Author: Weston A. Price, D.D.S.ISBN: 0 - 87983 - 816 - 7Click Here To Purchase This Book From Amazon Nutrition and Physical DegenerationAuthor: Weston A. Price, D.D.S.ISBN: 0 - 87983 - 816 - 7 The foods we choose to eat and the manner in which we prepare them directly determines our health and the health of our children and grandchildren. Nowadays, dietary advice shifts with the wind. Fad diets and even advice from our supposed experts in the field of nutrition, is often based on...
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7-29-2007
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OPEN ICE
Author: Pat HughesISBN 0-385-74675-XThe following review was contributed by: Lily Azerad-Goldman: CLICK TO VIEW Lily Azerad-Goldman's ReviewsOpen Ice is a brilliant insight into the psyche of an injured 16-year-old hockey star that grabs your attention until the very last word.Master storyteller Pat Hughes has chosen violence in hockey and its consequences, as his principal theme. According to Hughes, “it was kind of what Mark Twain said about the weather: ‘everybody talks about it, but...
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12-24-2005
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Ordinary Miracles
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Ordinary Miracles Author: S. David Nathanson, M.D.ISBN: 978-0-275-99469-3This work is about the “ordinary” – ordinary in that now many men and women are surviving breast cancer. It’s also about miracles – courage, trust, persistence, faith, fortitude, and hope. We know that survivors are making it through their breast cancer ordeals with the advances in technology and research. Early detection, radiation, surgery, and chemotherapy – along with a caring...
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9-10-2007
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Overcoming Runaway Blood Sugar
Author: Dennis Pollock Publisher: ISBN: 0-7369-1721-7 The following review was contributed by: S.V. SWAMY: CLICK TO VIEW S.V. Swamy's ReviewsOvercoming Runaway Blood Sugar is a good self-help book written by a layman forlaymen. The author is a Christian Preacher and found the right keys to open thesecrets of good health when he was struggling with wildly swinging blood sugarlevels. Diet, exercise and weight management - these are the three keys foreffective management of blood sugar levels...
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3-28-2006
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Positive Energy
Author: Judith OrloffISBN: 1-4000-8216-1The following review was contributed by: Ernest Dempsey, pen name of Karim Khan: To read more of Karim's Reviews CLICK HEREVeteran psychiatrist Dr. Judith Orloff ventures to spotlight practical Energy Psychiatry, her expertise, a blend of traditional medicine and subtle energies of body and mind in her latest book Positive Energy (Three Rivers Press, New York, 2005). Grounded mainly in the deep-rooted mystical traditions, Energy Psychiatry is a...
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4-2-2006
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Post Mortem – Solving History’s Great Medical Mysteries
Author: Philip A. Mackowiak, M.D.ISBN: 978-1930513891You Can Purchase This Book From Amazon There are twelve cases described in Post Mortem. However, how the book came about is just as interesting. Dr. Mackowiak is professor and vice chairman of the Department of Medicine of the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Chief of the Medical Care Clinical Center of the VA Maryland Health Care System. For the past fourteen years, Dr. Mackowiak has presented a series of...
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7-24-2007
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Proceedings of the 6th Rocky Mountain Region Disaster Mental Health Conference
Click Here To Purchase Proceedings of the 6th Rocky Mountain Region Disaster Mental Health Conference Author: George W. DohertyISBN: 978-1932690569 George W. Doherty, an LPC in Wyoming and the president of the Rocky Mountain Region Disaster Mental Health Institute, has put together the
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3-31-2008
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Reiki Energy Medicine Bringing Healing Touch into Home, Hospital and Hospice
Authors: Libby Barnett and Maggie Chambers with SusanDavidsonPublisher: Healing Arts Press (A Division of InnerTraditions International)ISBN: 0-89281-633-3The following review was contributed by: S.V. SWAMY & CLICK TO VIEW S.V. Swamy's ReviewsReiki is a form of Energy Medicine. The Japanesecompound word Reiki means Universal Energy and isequivalent to the Chi of Chinese and the Prana ofIndians. In this book, "Reiki Energy Medicine BringingHealing Touch into Home, Hospital and...
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9-6-2005
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Selling Sickness: How the Worlds Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies are Turning Us All into Patients
Author: Roy Moynihan and Alan CasselsISBN: 156025856XSelling Sickness starts off with the now famous quote where the CEO of pharmaceutical giant Merck lamented that his company was limited to selling its products to only sick people and that his dream was to make drugs he could sell to everyone, including the healthy. This book shows how much has changed in the thirty years since that statement was made. Chillingly Selling Sickness paints a picture of Merck's fantasy coming true. Roy...
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4-4-2007
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Still Alice
Click Here To Purchase Still Alice Author: Lisa GenovaISBN: 978-0-595-44009-2 It sounds like Lyme disease, this Alzheimer’s. It starts out simply…almost sneaks up on you. First, you can’t concentrate here and there. Then, words, words you have used every single day of your life, seem to have dropped out of your vocabulary
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5-7-2008
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Still Alice
Click Here To Purchase Still Alice Author: Lisa GenovaISBN-10: 0595440096: ISBN-13: 978-0595440092Publisher: iUniverse Still Alice tells the touching tale of a middle-aged woman who is struck with Alzheimer’s.
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5-25-2008
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Stolen Tomorrows
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Stolen Tomorrows Author: Steven LevenkronISBN: 978-0-393-06086-7 If there were a true medical bible, Steven Levenkron’s name would be listed as an authority on treating patients who suffer from sexual abuse. Since there is no such work, “Stolen Tomorrows” is where we need to turn in understanding the many faces and ramifications of this ever-increasing problem in the world. The events that Levenkron reveals in “Stolen Moments are real. The 17 cases allow...
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10-20-2007
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Strategies
Click Here To Purchase Strategies Author: Tami BradyISBN: 1-932690-48-4
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5-7-2008
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Supercharging Quantum Touch - Advanced Techniques
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Supercharging Quantum Touch - Advanced TechniquesAuthor: Alain HerriottISBN: 978-1-55643-654-3Publisher: North Atlantic BooksQuantum Touch has become quite popular in the recent years and I was somewhat familiar with the topic but did not really know much about it. So, when an opportunity came to review the book, I was very much interested. The preface by Richard Gordon puts the whole book in the right perspective. The ability to sense the energy in one's...
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2-8-2008
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SURVIVAL OF THE SICKEST
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon SURVIVAL OF THE SICKEST Authors: Sharon Moalem & Jonathan Prince ISBN: 978-0060889654 Sharon Moalem’s Survival of the Sickest does for medicine what Jared Diamond did for history a few years ago, re-envisioning the field on a broad scale, and putting this vision into language everyday people can understand (I imagine much of the credit for that last part goes to co-author Jonathan Prince.) The book focuses on the question of why, after millions of...
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3-19-2007
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Survival of The Sickest
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Survival of The Sickest Author: Dr. Sharon MoalemISBN: 978-0-06-088965-4 I didn’t know you could actually rust as a human being. However, the opening chapter of this compelling work opened my eyes to see things differently. Moalem tells about a runner who has decided to train for “the Marathon des Sables – a 150-mile race across the Sahara Desert.” As he was training, he suddenly felt tired, his joints hurt, and his heart seemed to skip beats. He wasn’t sure...
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10-20-2007
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The ABC'S of Lighthearted Living...My Rx
Click Here To Purchase ABC's of Lighthearted Living Author: Margaret Mears, M.D.ISBN: 978-1-4327-2480-1 Dr. Margaret Mears is a trained Internal Medicine Physician, who had been accepted into a Canadian medical school in 1971- an era when medical schools in Canada were mandated to accept a certain percentage of female applicants. While attending medical school, she learned, along with her fellow classmates, that over seventy percent of patients’ illnesses were not physical in nature. Mears,...
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9-27-2008
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The Acid-Alkaline Diet for Optimum Health:Restore your Health by Creating Balance in Your Diet
Author: Christopher Vasey, N.D. (Original in French)Translated into English by Jon GrahamISBN: 089281099-8 (Soft cover)The following review was contributed by: S.V. SWAMY: CLICK TO VIEW S.V. Swamy's Reviews"The Acid-Alkaline Diet for Optimum Health" was originally published in Frenchand this present edition is translated into english by Jon Graham, who rightlypreferred to give credit to the original author. This book is my firstfull-length introduction to this subject, though I...
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11-13-2005
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The Alcohol Blackout:Walking, Talking, Unconscious... and Lethal
Authors: Donal F.Sweeney, M.D. with Robert A. ListonPublisher: Mnemosyne Press, Santa Barbara ISBN: 0-9747943-0-9 The following review was contributed by: S.V. SWAMY: CLICK TO VIEW S.V. Swamy's ReviewsWhat happens when one consumes alcohol? Several things can happen. A sense ofeuphoria, a high, then loss of coordination, blackout, passout etc. All otherstages except blackout are well understood and are well documented. Commonpeople also are aware of almost all these stages but when it comes...
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11-17-2005
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The Energy Healing Experiments : Science Reveals Our Natural Power To Heal
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon The Energy Healing Experiments : Science Reveals Our Natural Power To Heal Authors: Gary E. Schwartz, PH.D with William L. SimonISBN - 13: 978 - 0 - 7432 - 9237 - 5 Many today are greatly concerned about the allopathic medical system, it's monopoly and the control it seems to have over us. Despite what appears to be advanced medical care, the population is more disease ridden than ever before. A growing number of citizens feel it is time to take back...
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11-15-2007
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The Fast Food Craze – Wreaking Havoc on Our Bodies and Our Animals
Author: Tina VolpeISBN: 0-0761343-0-6 The following review was contributed by: Helen Kaut: To read more of Helen Kaut’s Reviews Click HERENot only since Eric Schlosser’s book “Fast Food Nation” and Morgan Spurlock’s entertaining documentary “Super S
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7-11-2005
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The Foundations of Shiatsu
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon The Foundations of ShiatsuAuthor: Chris JarmeyPublisher: Lotus Publishing, North Atlantic BooksISBN: 978-1-55643-639-0I have only heard of the word Shiatsu but had no idea of what was involved. However, as a healer, I was certainly interested in knowing a little about the technique and I was thus happy when this book came to me for a review.What is Shiatsu? Shiatsu is a Japanese bodywork therapy - a natural healing discipline from the same ancient oriental...
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2-8-2008
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The Genie in Your Genes
Click Here To Purchase The Genie in Your Genes Author: Dawson ChurchISBN: 978-1-60070-022-4To counter the invasive nature of allopathic therapeutic techniques, currently forming the bulk of mainstream treatment, alternate healing experts are knuckling down on scientific research that validates non-invasive, simpler, safer, and less expensive treatment methods. Part of the groundbreaking work in this direction c
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7-20-2008
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The GenoType Diet
Click Here To Purchase The GenoType DietAuthor: Dr. Peter J. D'AdamoISBN-13: 978-0767925242Publishers: Broadway Books Since William Sheldon’s seminal work on somatotyping, a number of scientific endeavors have been made t
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9-14-2008
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The Gold Coast Cure: The Five-Week Health & Body Makeover
Authors: Andrew Larson, M.D. and Ivy Ingram Larson ISBN: 0-7573-0235-1The following review was contributed by: Kathryn Atwood: Click Here To View More Of Kathryn's ReviewsBecause The Gold Coast Cure claims to create a “health and body makeover” in five short weeks, a quick scan at the title may give the impression that the book is just another faddish weight loss book. Not so. Definitely not so. Although it claims to have the power to slim the strict follower of the plan, much of the books...
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10-28-2005
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The Human Antenna
Click Here To Purchase The Human AntennaAuthor: Dr. Robbin KellyISBN: 978-1-60415-014-8 Acupuncture and other methods of alternate healing have been in use for centuries and have repeatedly been criticized by hard-shelled scientists and medical professionals as devoid of any solid scientific base. But Dr. Robin Kelly’s recent book The Human Antenna (Elite Books, California, 2007) brings up a whole new face of human existence in the light of some really fascinating research studies. Mainstream...
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6-22-2008
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The Journey to a pain relief - A hands on guide to breakthroughs in pain treatment
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon The Journey to a pain relief - A hands on guide to breakthroughs in pain treatmentAuthor: Phyllis BergerPublisher: Hunter House PublishersISBN: 978-0-89793-469-5The book is both a complete handbook of pain-management options and a detailed introduction to specific cutting-edge techniques. The physiology of pain, the effects of fear, stress and worry, and the importance of the right attitudes that help you in tapping the body's ability to heal. Physiotherapy,...
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2-8-2008
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The Lyme Disease Survival Guide
Click Here To Purchase The Lyme Disease Survival Guide Author: Connie StrasheimISBN: 978-0-976-379744 Lyme disease is nothing to sneeze at, but few have any answers as to how they will survive it. Strasheim has survived and has been gr
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8-31-2008
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The Memory Advantage
Author: Thomas H. Crook, Ph.D.ISBN 978-1-59079-109-7 The book promised to "improve your memory, mood, and confidence throughout life." To say the least, I was skeptical. I have read so many "improve" books that I figured this would be one more of the same. I was wrong!First off, I learned about "memory." There is short-term, long-term, and remote memory. There are certain areas of the brain involved with memory. Then -- I learned about memory under a microscope....
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1-27-2007
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The Miami Mediterranean Diet
Author: Michael D. Ozner, M.D.ISBN: 0-9765084-0-0The following review was contributed by: Sue Vogan: To read more of Sue's reviews Click Here
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3-27-2006
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The Oldways Table: Essays and Recipes from the Culinary Think Tank
Author: K. Dun Gifford and Sara Baer-Sinnot ISBN: 978-1-58008-490-1Oldways has existed for over a decade and a half, pulling together the latest information about nutrition and teaching people how to incorporate that information into healthy eating patterns. This book, The Oldways Table, brings scientific, dietary, nutritional and culinary expertise to bear on the questions we ask today about how we should eat.If you are tired of conflicting information about nutrition, this is the book for...
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3-6-2007
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The Pen and Paper Diet: Expanded Metric Edition
Click Here To Purchase The Pen and Paper Diet Author: Michael DowISBN-10: 1435719131 ISBN-13: 978-1435719132This actually came to me as a set of two books but the majority of
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8-15-2008
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The Sinatra Solution - Metabolic Cardiology
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon The Sinatra Solution - Metabolic CardiologyAuthor: Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D, F.A.C.C.Publisher; Basic Health Publications Inc.ISBN: 978-1-59120-158-8This book is a really welcome addition to the growing field of metabolic cardiology (the role of food nutritional supplements to improve heart health - not a dictionary definition). The author Stephen T. Sinatra is a Board Certified Cardiologist, a certified bioenergetic psychotheraist and a certified nutrition...
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2-8-2008
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THE SLOW DOWN DIET: Eating for Pleasure, Energy, & Weight Loss
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon THE SLOW DOWN DIET: Eating for Pleasure, Energy, & Weight Loss Author: Marc DavidPublisher: Healing Arts Press ISBN: 1-59477-060-3 Listen to talk radio for a few hours and the newest diet claim will become clear: Stress causes fat. The latest buzz in the diet biz is that stress releases certain hormones that cause the body to hang onto fat and store it right in the biggest problem area – the gut. Is there any truth to this claim?
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8-15-2005
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The Stop and Go Fast Food Nutritional Guide
Author: Steven G. Aldana, Ph.D.ISBN: 10 0-9758828-4-8In creating “The Stop and Go Fast Food Nutritional Guide,” Steven Aldana has sought to fill an important informational gap in the fat-laden “western” diet (so called because of its prevalence among western industrialized nations). Although packaged foods are required to exhibit nutritional information, restaurants are not.Enter Aldana’s book. “Stop and Go” lists the nutritional content (i.e., calories, fat, cholesterol, sodium and fiber)...
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4-15-2007
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The Top 10 Lyme Disease Treatments
Author: Bryan RosnerISBN: 978-0-9763797-1-3You Can Purchase This Book From Amazon Rosner is a survivor of Lyme disease – “the most devastating health issue I’ve ever experienced” – Kay, 2007. Bryan’s story is not unlike other patients’ stories about their Lyme disease experience. However, this survivor wrote this book and it is the only one I have seen that is broken down into manageable chapters, sections, and subsections for the layperson and medical professional. The book does not cover...
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7-23-2007
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The Top Ten Lyme Disease Treatments
You Can Purchase This Book From AmazonAuthor: Bryan RosnerISBN: 10: 0 - 9763797 - 01 - 6 Chronic Lyme patients are unique. Usually it is not just the Lyme spirochete they are left to deal with but those who are chronically ill often harbor several, if not many pathogens. This creates a situation where symptoms can affect every part of the body and there is no way to be sure which pathogen is causing what symptom. With the many allopathic and natural treatments we are bombarded with,...
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7-12-2007
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The Warrior Diet: Switch on Your Biological Powerhouse For High Energy, Explosive Strength and a Leaner, Harder Body.
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon The Warrior Diet: Switch on Your Biological Powerhouse For High Energy, Explosive Strength and a Leaner, Harder Body. Author: Ori Hofmekler (Forewords by Harvey Diamond and Udo Erasmus) ISBN: 978-1-58394-200-0Publisher: Blue Snake Books A glance at the back of this book and you are promised you will learn that this “warrior diet” can help to increase your strength, speed and resilience to fatigue. You will also learn the ideal food combinations that can...
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2-6-2008
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Total Body Lift
Author: Dennis, MD. HurwitzPublisher: Mdpublish (May 21, 2005) ISBN: 0974899712 The following review has been contributed by: Jennifer Murray Jennifer Murray. Click HERE to view more of Jennifer's ReviewsIt seems like almost eve
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7-15-2005
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Wellness at Warp Speed: Your Health, Your Destiny, Your Choice
Click Here To Purchase Wellness at Warp Speed: Your Health, Your Destiny, Your Choice Author: Noah McKay ISBN-10: 1601091087 ISBN-13: 978-1601091086 When you are sick who is the most important person to cure what ails you? Wouldn’t it be you
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7-22-2008
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What You Must Know About Statin Drugs& Their Natural Alternatives
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon What You Must Know About Statin Drugs& Their Natural AlternativesAuthor: Jay S. Cohen, MDPublisher: Square One Publishers 2005ISBN: 0-7570-0257-9 If you or someone you know has elevated cholesterol, chances are your doctor will prescribe a statin medication such as Zocor or Lipitor. As patients we trust our doctors and are compliant, oft times asking few questions. We fear the effects of high cholesterol; a heart attack or...
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4-19-2005
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Your Healing Diet: A Quick Guide to Reversing Psoriasis and Chronic Diseases with Healing Foods
Author: Deirdre EarlsISBN: 1419617079 The following review was contributed by: Ernest Dempsey, pen name of Karim Khan: To read more of Karim's Reviews CLICK HERE The impetus for writing a book against psoriasis came from Deirdre Earls’ own long and painful encounter with the skin condition. The dietitian from Texas chose a more natural way of tackling her problem by healing with diet instead of chemotherapy. Her book Your Healing Diet (BookSurge Publishing, South Carolina, 2006) gives...
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4-30-2006
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Your Personal Life
Author: Dr. Greg TefftISBN: 0-9729866-2-6The following review was contributed by: Sue Vogan: To read more of Sue's reviews Click Here"Something is drastically wrong with the way we think about health." Dr. Tefft, one of the country's leading health experts, "maintains that it is long past time to rethink health, healing, and longevity and begin approaching good health on a personal, individual and specific basis."Who should know better than a board certified Naturopathic...
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7-23-2006
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