Review of Arthritis and Common Sense (Fireside Book) (Paperback)

This book saved my life! I highly reccomend it! 20 yrs ago when I was 30 I could barely walk. I was always in so much pain... every dang joint in my body! Now I am totally healthy at 50!!! The book does talk about exercise...not to do it unless your joints are oiled!! It would be like starting a car without oil...the moving parts would be damaged. Exercise when you're healed! Follow the guidelines in this book & your joints will be oiled! It worked for me! I just wonder where I would be today without my dad giving me this book 20 yrs ago.

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Medical Self-Help/Health
Arthritis and Common Sense, the best-selling one-million-copy classic on arthritis, is now available in paperback for the first time!
In these pages, the arthritis sufferer will find a simple dietary plan that may help to alleviate the pains and symptoms of this disease, without the use of drugs of any kind. The overwhelming success of Arthritis and Common Sense and the thousands of grateful letters that pour in to its author prove the effectiveness of his safe and sensible approach. Dale Alexander offers a list of menus, a day-by-day breakdown of meals, and a plan of good eating for an entire week. His simple, nontechnical explanations, large type for easy reading, plus helpful illustrations ensure that every reader will quickly and easily understand what Mr. Alexander believes to be the causes and effects of arthritis and learn how he proposes to obtain relief.
In the thirty years since it was first published, Arthritis and Common Sense has become the best-selling book on arthritis ever written. And it will continue to be read by arthritis sufferers everywhere, because readers tell us this commonsense method works.

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Review of Hawaii Diet (Hardcover)

I've experimented with Dr. Ornish's plan, Dr. Atkins' plan, and with vegetarianism; I am NOT running Ornish down, but I gotta admit I DO like tuna fish now and again (by the way, the tuna fish I buy is not only dirt-cheap but is actually totally devoid of fat; and even regular canned-in-water tuna is incredibly low in fat).So Ornish's plan is not something I could strictly adhere to.Dr. Atkins' Diet led me gain body fat and weight; I dropped that like a hot brick.Vegetarianism is cool but it got to be a hassle with my family.Then....I chanced upon THIS book (and in fact got this book from my brother for Christmas).
Dr. Shintani is sort of like Dr. Deepak Chopra:He combines the best of Western medicine with the best of the ancient medicine of his own culture (in Chopra's case, that's Ayurvedic medicine; in Shintani's, of course, it's the wisdom and medicines of ancient Hawaii, before we Westerners screwed things up for them).And he explains -- without bashing, or badmouthing, or distorting facts to make them fit what he wants -- how in fact his diet plan can work.
Simply put, we all know that if you don't eat too many calories you either will not gain weight or in fact you'll LOSE weight.Ah, but how do you do that without feeling deprived?Basically by eating whole, unprocessed, natural foods which not only are low in fat and high in nutrients, but are high in satiety value (you'd have to eat a whole heck of a lot of them to get anywhere NEAR 2000 calories, plus a serving of them would fill you up so you feel satisfied and won't feel like eating more anyway).He suggests things like poi, taro, whole grains, non-dairy and non-meat sources of protein and calcium, and very low-fat foods.BUT he allows for various exceptions:For instance, you can use egg whites or skim milk if you like, or eat tuna and other low-fat meats and fish.He includes a Hawaii/Pacific diet, a Hawaii/mainstream American diet, and a Hawaii/Meditteranean diet so that you DO have choices and variations.
I would have given this book 5 stars, but for one little thing:Some of the recipes call for things that quite frankly we don't see too much of here on the East Coast (my produce store, what with its wonderful choices of apples, pears, cabbage, tomatoes, etc., just refuses to stock breadfruit!phooey!).So, you might not find the recipe section extremely useful, although many of the recipes, such as his low-fat oatmeal, are easy to make and really good too.Other than for that one little qualm I've got, it's a great book.At the very least, check it out:You'll learn a lot from this guy.



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Review of Biology for the IB Diploma (Paperback)

Highly recommended study guide.Filled with clear details and pictures to help understand Biology.If your taking an IB Biology class, this guideis a must for all your tests.For me, this guide is nearly a replacement of my teachers confusing notes. Shipping was fast, and book is great, nothing more you can ask for.

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The IB Biology study guide has been updated to meet the needs of students taking the IB Diploma Programme Biology from 2007. It is highly illustrated and concepts are precisely and clearly described. Higher level material is clearly indicated. All option material is covered. Students can use this book not only as a revision and practice guide for the exam but for learning and reinforcing concepts throughout the course.

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Review of Nutrition for Serious Athletes (Paperback)

Dr. Benardot's text, Nutrition for Serious Athletes, is essential for both coach and athlete. It lays out in clear and precise fashion what is required, with regard to nurtition, for athletic success. Crucial topics,for athletic success, that are comprehensively discussed include: propernutrition, hydration, supplements, meals for anaerobic and aerobicactivities, and timing of meals. What also adds to the immense value of thetext is the massive index of food sources of essential nutrients located atthe end of the book. If you want to achieve your best athletic results,i.e., to maximize and actualize your true athletic potential, then thistext is for you. It will not only show you how to fuel your body for theparticular athletic you are training for and competing in, but also helpyou to understand why you should be fueling your body in that particularmaner. All in all, this is an excellant text for the athlete, coach, oreven the individual who just wants to have a clear understanding of propernutrition.

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As a competitive athlete, you know that what you eat and drink can significantly affect performance. And when you compete at a high level, the types, amounts, and timing of foods, fluids, and supplements is especially critical. Nutrition for Serious Athletes combines the latest research and the training experiences of top athletes to provide detailed eating plans for strength, power, and endurance sports.
Author Dan Benardot helps you tailor your diet to the needs of your sport and time your meals for training and competition. As the national team nutritionist for USA Gymnastics, Benardot helped the 1996 Olympic women's gymnastic team to a gold medal. Currently the co-director of Laboratory for Elite Athlete Performance at Georgia State University, he has also worked with professional basketball and hockey teams as well as other individual sports professionals.
If you are dedicated to being the best athlete you can be, you owe it to yourself to bring this book to the training table. No matter what your sport, Nutrition for Serious Athletes will provide you with expert advice to maximize your training and improve your performance.

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Review of Healing Anxiety and Depression (Paperback)

Many books are one-sided arguments for the causes of depression and anxiety. According to these biased books, depressions stems from:
Past child abuse and other negative environment factors
Holding your body in a depressing way - bent down, frowning, etc.
Medical causes
Poor diet, lack of exercise
Isolation
Fill in the blank
But this book is different.
Healing Anxiety and Depression is a refreshing book, for it takes all of the above factors and mixes it into a complete approach to the causes and treatment of anxiety and depression.
Moreover, Daniel Amen, M.D. and his co-author, Lisa C. Routh, M.D. have pioneered the use of a brain imaging technology known as SPECT: Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography. This interesting brain scanning method is different than other methods because it allows one to see how certain parts of the brain interact to cause these debilitating conditions. Other
methods of brain imaging only give a surface view of the brain - which is of very little use for psychiatry.
The authors also touch upon how these areas of the brain cause insomnia, suicide and violence as well. They also point out the different causes of anxiety and depression between the genders. They convincingly describe gender differences from social, psychological, and biological perspectives.
In short: they give you the full picture on depression from every possible angle - literally. In between the pages, interspersed among case histories, personal stories, and scientific explanations, you will find actual pictures of the five areas of the brain they have focused on via SPECT technology:
1.)Basal Ganglia
2.)Deep Limbic System
3.)Anterior Cingulate Gyrus
4.)Temporal Lobes
5.)Prefrontal Cortex
Furthermore, the authors have taken these five areas of the brain, and through thousands of their own patients, compiled their findings on how these five areas interact to cause seven variations of depression and anxiety:
1.)Pure Anxiety
2.)Pure Depression
3.)Mixed Anxiety and Depression
4.)Overfocused Anxiety/Depression
5.)Cyclic Anxiety/Depression
6.)Angry Anxiety/Depression
7.)Unfocused Anxiety/Depression
There's only one drawback to this book: the technical terms can be a bit annoying. I constantly flipped back to beginning chapters to refresh my memory on what they were talking about. The medications and dosages - and their variations, are mind-boggling. Ask your doctor about them.
Despite this, the book is worth the extra memory and concentration required to comprehend it.
It's very empowering too: Dr. Amen is a strong advocate for natural supplements, exercise, and deep diaphragmatic breathing. He also gives the reader a simple, flexible, easy-to-follow diet that'll maximize your brain function. More wisely, however, he directs you towards a way of eating that's based not on a one-size-fits-all mentality, but a diet that is focused on your
particular type of anxiety and/or depression.
He also has his own version of cognitive therapy: ANTS (Automatic Negative Thoughts) and ANTeaters, developed by Amen as a child psychiatrist to help make the ideas a bit more concrete for children. Amen's short chapter on the power of thoughts can help you take more responsibility for your own
thinking.
Closing with "32 Strategies to Overcome Anxiety and Depression," along with a chart summarizing "diagnostic and treatment principles," this book will give you the real knowledge you need to manage your life on a whole new level.

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Dr. Daniel Amen-a pioneer in uncovering the connections between the brain and behavior-presents his revolutionary approach to treating anxiety and depressive disorders. Healing Anxiety and Depression reveals the major anxiety and depression centers of the brain, offers guidelines and diagnostic tools to determine the specific type of anxiety and depression, and provides a comprehensive program for treating each type. Based on new brain science-and featuring treatment plans that include medication, diet, supplements, exercise, and social and therapeutic support-this groundbreaking book will help readers conquer these potentially devastating disorders and change the way they think about anxiety and depression.

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Review of Wellness Prescriptions: Simple Steps to a Longer Healthier Life (Paperback)

Dr. Bell has written a short encycopedia of medical truths for an intelligent reader who has become disillusioned with dangerous fads, nostrums, and ineffective panaceas.It is not the physician who will can protect us from disease and disability - it is ourselves.21st century medicine has finally endorsed the belief that decisions in health care must be EVIDENCE BASED and not derived from personal anecdotes and uninformed fears.The author has clearly demonstrated that he has not only grasped current research in his field but also can convey it in a stimulating and an accurate way.

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Amid a barrage of confusing health advice, many Americans have lost sight of what really matters when it comes to health. Good health is not achieved by taking a magic mix of supplements, having total body scans, or having our blood tested "at the cellular level." Rather, what makes or breaks health are the simple lifestyle choices we make every day. This is the main theme of Wellness Prescriptions: Simple Steps to a Longer, Healthier Life, a medically sound and inspiring guide to good health.
Author Marvin Moe Bell, M.D., a 20-year practitioner and teacher of family medicine, emphasizes that lifestyle choices impact nearly every aspect of health. Wellness Prescriptions provides pearls of wisdom on diet, exercise, stress, alcohol, and tobacco. It also addresses the most common and serious problems afflicting Americans, including: heart disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, and obesity; lung, colon, breast, cervical, and prostate cancers; and arthritis, osteoporosis, and memory loss. Dr. Bell's recommendations are based on the latest medical evidence and enhanced by real patient stories. His personal, easy-to-understand advice empowers and motivates readers to take charge of their health.

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Review of Linking Nutrition to Mental Health: A Scientific Exploration (Paperback)

Linking Nutrition to Mental Health is an essential book for anyone working in the mental health field. It will be best understood by dietitians, but is written so that everyone can understand the science. I recommend the book to all those living with mental illness and their families, as well as the professionals. The topic of nutrition and mental health is covered so thoroughly that I now have a great resource always at my fingertips.

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To truly live well-to feel good, engagein productive activities, enjoy fulfillingrelationships with other people, and beable to adapt to change and cope withadversity-Americans must start addressingmental health with the same urgency asphysical health. With that in mind, registereddietitian Dr. Ruth Leyse-Wallace gathersbreakthrough scientific research from aroundthe world to demonstrate how powerfullynutrition can affect our mental well-beingas much as our physical well-being.
Dr. Leyse-Wallace reports on the latestand most compelling findings about theways in which diet, supplements, genetics,and health conditions can make a differencein mental health. She explores how theshort-term and long-term intake of vitamins,minerals, essential fatty acids, proteins,carbohydrates, medications, alcohol, andcaffeine can potentially influence mentalfunctioning, and she explains her emergingTheory of PsychoNutriologic Person.
Far greater than an evidentiary summary,Linking Nutrition to Mental Health givestailored recommendations to individuals,healthcare providers, and scientists forputting these groundbreaking researchdiscoveries into practice to achieve avastly improved quality of life.

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Review of Training Nutrition: The Diet and Nutrition Guide for Peak Performance (Paperback)

As is the case with most sports nutrition books, Training Nutrition provides a sound overview of how the body transforms food into energy which is then used to fuel the muscles, but this is not what makes this bookspecial.The book does a tremendous job of combining, in a practicalmanner, nutrition and training.Whether you're in the off season, in themidst of your training program, or it is race day, this book takes theguess work out of knowing what you should eat, how much you should eat andwhen you should eat it.

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The best guide available on the topic of training nutrition.Written by a sports nutritionist and an exercise physiologists who have worked with elite Olympic, professional, college and high school athletes.

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Review of The Sugar Control Bible and Cookbook (Paperback)

My doctor introduced me to this way of eating by having me try the two week plan.I had my reservations and all the reasons why I could not follow it.but I said I'd try it for two weeks--but no more.I began eating the Sugar Control Program three months ago and will never go back to my old way of eating.I have so much more energy now and I like the food.I'm never hungry and grocery shopping is so very easy:I shop on the outside paramenters of the grocery store.In otherwords, I eat all fresh food now.
I bought the book to learn more about why this works and found it to be very helpful in learning how the body handles nutrients and what the body needs to function properly.Ms Paltis also gives some background on TBM (Total BOdy modification) and using functional physiology in learning how the body works.This book is a great guide and reference if you want to learn improved ways of functioning.

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Complete nutrition guide to a pleasurable and satisfying program that revitalizes your health by getting you off the sugar/refined foods roller coaster.This prescription for health uses higher protein, low glycemic foods and healthy fats for greater energy, clearer thinking, balanced emotions, and a stronger immune system.How the popular high-carbohydrate/low-fat diets have been making you sick and what to do about it.

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Review of Amino Revolution (Paperback)

A very good manual on how to use amino acid supplements and their co-factors for achieving wellness and combating aging. All the important areas are covered, like dosage, combinations, the exact vitamins and minerals to take at the same time, as well as foods that contain aminos. The description of the metabolic pathways and how amino acids work are extremely interesting. Areas where amino acids can help are discussed under stress, anxiety, depression, immunity, cancer, heart disease, allergies, digestion, herpes, alcohol, smoking and looking and feeling young. Perhaps the book is a bit outdated, since there is no mention of the wonderful amino NAC (N-Acetyl-L-Cysteine) that protects the lungs and mucous membranes and is especially recommended for smokers. The lack of general index and an index to conditions treatable by aminos is a bit of a drawback as this book could be a handy reference work. But four stars overall for an interesting and illuminating text providing much needed information to those who want to take responsibility for their own health.



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Review of The No Diet, Diet! (Paperback)

Let me start by saying that I don't generally enjoy reading diet books, as they tend to complicate things. When diets become too complicated, too time consuming, or too restrictive, people are less likely to make it a lifelong process. However, this is not your average diet book; it is about a way of life. It shows the importance of the Mind-Body connection, when setting out to do anything in life, including dieting. It speaks of setting goals, which are reached by setting clear and positive intentions and following through with them. It also speaks of finding someone who will hold you accountable. By doing so, you can set the tone for all aspects of life. To me, this is the recipe for a "Yes, Yes diet".

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You Can Achieve Optimal Health, Body Shape, & Vitality!This is a breakthrough book which takes the confusion out of essential health information regarding the best diet choices. This book covers how you can determine your individual ideal long term diet to lose weight, increase your energy and improve your mood. Neil's clear writing style and personal experience helping clients comes through clearly in this important test. A must read for everyone interested in improving their health & body shape through proper diet. Dr. Daniel Kalish, author of Your Guide to Healthy Hormones. After reading this book you will understand: The reason why millions of people fail on "fad" diets year after year. The root causes of obesity and health problems in this country How to identify YOUR body's unique nutritional requirements How to make immediate changes in your body and your life How to make this year the best and healthiest year of your entire life!

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Review of ACSM Fitness Book - 3rd (Paperback)

If you want to get in shape, but have no idea how to do so and are too embarrassed to go to a gym, then this book is for you.
The book begins by having the reader take a self-assessment test wich is composed of a1-mile walk/run, push-ups, and toe touch.Don't feel bad if you can't doany of the above, the book covers that situation.From there, in auser-friendly, color-coded format, the book helps you design a program thatfits your needs.
I bought the book thinking it would help me design aweight-training program for myself.It isn't that advanced.All of theresistance training it contains can be performed sith just your body weightand some common household items (such as water bottles).
For a completenovice, this is where to begin.If, like me, you're a little moreadvanced, but want help in setting up a weight-lifting program, then Irecommend Weight Training Steps to Success by Baechle and Groves.

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Start where you are-then go wherever your goals take you! The fitness experts from the American College of Sports Medicine have put together a comprehensive plan for developing a personal fitness program and sticking with it.
ACSM Fitness Book includes a simple and scientifically proven fitness test to determine your starting point and monitor your ongoing progress. The book includes step-by-step instructions; sample programs; and insights on nutrition, weight control, motivation, and overcoming setbacks.
Whether your objective is to improve cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength, flexibility, or overall body condition, the ACSM Fitness Book is the one book you need for the tools-and the motivation-to put your personal program on track.

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Review of Dr. Jensen's Guide to Body Chemistry & Nutrition (Paperback)

This book is not a step by step guide to balancing your diet.It focuseson giving background information on all of the nutrients that a personneeds, as well as detailed information on deficiencies and excesses of manybody-building elements.It goes into great detail and gives lists of foodsthat are high in important nutrients.Brief in length, but still a great reference and general knowledge book.

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Explains the importance of 21 key elements for the human body (from carbon, hydrogen, and nitrogen to potassium, magnesium, and copper) and provides information on recommended daily intake. Shows how to include these foods in a daily diet for optimum assimilation. For consumers. Previous edition date not cited. Softcover.

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Review of Shopper's Guide to Healthy Living (Paperback)

This book does such a great job of tackling the seemingly overwhelming task of cleaning up what we take into our bodies by offering phases of what to eliminate from our diet as well as the rest of our lives. The author also gives a great deal of information on why we shouldn't ingest certain things, but at the same time seems pretty laid back and even gives a FANTASTIC chocolate chip cookie recipe that my family devours in one afternoon. And by the way, this recipe isn't healthy which is why I love this book. This author understands that we all need an occasional naughty sweet fix. Thumbs up to this one! I would like to get a hold of the author's cookbook!

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Shopper's Guide to Healthy Living by Kathy Loidolt is the highly readable, one-stop shopping and lifestyle guide for people who want to improve their family's health and vitality but don't know how.The author starts with simple changes readers can make in their eating habits and introduces five phases of wholesome directives to leading a healthy, full life.Each phase builds on the previous to assist the reader in eating healthy and living the good life. Ultimately moving into natural household and personal hygiene products, readers are provided simple explanations of everything from flax oil to why increasing omega-3 levels and reducing free radicals is imperative to one's health. Leaving no stone unearthed, this guide covers every aspect of what it takes to simplify the healthy way to live.

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Review of Measured Success! A Diet and Exercise Strategy Based on Counting Calories (Paperback)

Having listened to the weight loss hype and fads that the media puts out, having tried some of it and failed, weight loss seemed hopeless....until I read this book and Ed Coates' other book called "Diet & Exercise:Uncomplicated!"I have been putting his simple method of calorie counting into practice and have been losing about a pound a week or so - So far, 8 pounds gone!I am so grateful to Ed Coates for his easy - no-nonsense- approach to weight loss and for giving me the motivation to just DO IT! If you really set your goals and count your calories and stick to it - you will have success just as he says in the book!It's really very simple to do.

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Diet and exercise are no secret for weight loss. But how much, how little, how often... how do you know? Measured Success! provides the answers, the strategy and the results!

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Review of The Bible Diet (Paperback)

Dr. Mays has done an excellent job in staying Biblically based in this book.It was a great decision that he decided to write this to beleivers rather than dilute the material to achieve a wider audience, as other Bible-based diet books seem to do.This is equally or more-so a book about achieving a better relationship with Christ as it is about becoming physically healthier - in fact it explains how the two are inseparable - how we treat our bodies (which are God's Temple) reflects how we treat God.He proves everything from scripture, both old and new Testaments - and doesn't fall into taking things out of context to make a point.It actually is apparent that he reached his conclusions from making in depth study of what actually was being said, and if that meant changing his own preconcieved ideas, then so be it.Along the way he debunks the myth that the new Testament no longer requires us to follow God's dietary biblical laws. Personally, I believe that Christs sacrifice did not do away with the Law at all, only it made the need for continual sacrifice unneccesary ("Think not that I have come to destroy the Law and the Prophets, for I have come to magnify them").As a result I also keep God's Holy days as written in the Old Testament, and do not follow the "Holidays" that man has propped up in their place-Easter and Christmas. I realize this may be different than Dr. Mays personal beliefs, but if he continues his studies in the same manner as he has done for this book, he will reach the same inevitable conclusions.
I believe that this is a well written, and often inspired book that is profitable to all Christians. This book is also packed with sound, scientific nutritional advice and explanations.I will be changing the way I eat into an act of worship.

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The Bible Diet is a spiritual and nutritional guide to healthy living and disease prevention based on God''s Holy Word. Dr. Mays believes that although recorded in the Bible thousands of years ago, it is still relevant to us today, and if followed religiously could prevent many of the diseases we are facing today. Furthermore, Dr. Mays believes it is a spiritual act of worship to be obedient to all God''s laws and statues including those pertaining to our physical well being.

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Review of The Bible Diet (Paperback)

Dr. Mays has done an excellent job in staying Biblically based in this book.It was a great decision that he decided to write this to beleivers rather than dilute the material to achieve a wider audience, as other Bible-based diet books seem to do.This is equally or more-so a book about achieving a better relationship with Christ as it is about becoming physically healthier - in fact it explains how the two are inseparable - how we treat our bodies (which are God's Temple) reflects how we treat God.He proves everything from scripture, both old and new Testaments - and doesn't fall into taking things out of context to make a point.It actually is apparent that he reached his conclusions from making in depth study of what actually was being said, and if that meant changing his own preconcieved ideas, then so be it.Along the way he debunks the myth that the new Testament no longer requires us to follow God's dietary biblical laws. Personally, I believe that Christs sacrifice did not do away with the Law at all, only it made the need for continual sacrifice unneccesary ("Think not that I have come to destroy the Law and the Prophets, for I have come to magnify them").As a result I also keep God's Holy days as written in the Old Testament, and do not follow the "Holidays" that man has propped up in their place-Easter and Christmas. I realize this may be different than Dr. Mays personal beliefs, but if he continues his studies in the same manner as he has done for this book, he will reach the same inevitable conclusions.
I believe that this is a well written, and often inspired book that is profitable to all Christians. This book is also packed with sound, scientific nutritional advice and explanations.I will be changing the way I eat into an act of worship.

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The Bible Diet is a spiritual and nutritional guide to healthy living and disease prevention based on God''s Holy Word. Dr. Mays believes that although recorded in the Bible thousands of years ago, it is still relevant to us today, and if followed religiously could prevent many of the diseases we are facing today. Furthermore, Dr. Mays believes it is a spiritual act of worship to be obedient to all God''s laws and statues including those pertaining to our physical well being.

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Review of Change One Diet and Fitness: Updated and Expanded (Hardcover)

I initially bought "Change One for Diabetes" and thought it was such an excellent book that I decided to have a look at this version for my daughter who is non-diabetic.These books are such a novel approach and one that leads to lasting change.The premise is in the title - Change One thing at a time and don't move onto any other changes until you have managed to make that change a new habit.These books are full of straightforward, easy to accomplish ideas that just strike you as eminently "doable."Don't be put off by the fact that they are issued by the Reader's Digest Group - I had those same "Reader's Digest???" thoughts at first, too.This is one of the best non-diet diet books I've seen.And it works, too!

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Three years since the trade release of ChangeOne, approximately 60 million people around the world have read and used this most sensible of weight-loss plans! Now Reader's Digest has revised and expanded this ''proven to work'' diet and fitness program. Its balanced, no-fad, everyday approach is what scientists today confirm is the best weight-loss system there is. And its users tell us over and over again that they are losing weight--and keeping it off!

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Review of Natural Medicine 101: How to Win the Medical Information War and Take Control of Your Health (Paperback)

We are overwhelmed by daily headlines about new dangerous of pharmaceuticals drugs. Jeffrey Dach, MD, has taken on the challenge of sorting through the confusion, with bold, blunt, useful advice, like "Protect Your Family from Bad Drugs". With sound advice on alternative therapies, and concrete case histories from his own practice, like Low Dose Naltrexone as an apparent cure for Crohn's Disease. Reading a knowledgeable MD's opinion on natural medicine therapies will make us all better consumers, help us save money by avoiding ineffective treatments, and enable us to protect our own health. A timely and extensive medical guide book.

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Natural Medicine 101 covers broad topics from bio-identical hormones, the low thyroid condition, heart disease prevention, vitamin deficiency, to disease mongering by the drug companies; from living healthfully in a toxic world, to how to bust stress. If you want to live well and happy, and avoid the pitfalls of our medical system, read this book. There is a medical information war going on in the media, and this book will show you how to win it. This book of essays documents a personal journey into natural medicine which will inspire you and enlighten you. Written in a concise writing style of a renaissance artist-physician, Jeffrey Dach MD, this book is the opening prelude to a 21st century medical renaissance.

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Review of The Automatic Diet (Hardcover)

"Muscle mass is the body's most ancient furnace." ~Charles Stuart Platkin

Charles Stuart Platkin's "Breaking the Pattern" helped me to analyze my self-sabotaging behaviors and again in The Automatic Diet, he presents strategies for overcoming negative patterns in eating.

The Automatic Diet presents ideas for promoting overall health, controlling weight and enhancing your self-esteem. Charles Stuart Platkin unveils misconceptions about weight control and shows you how to have long-term success.

The Diet Detective takes you through your eating behaviors and you can decide if you want to include behavior modification strategies to your everyday diet. Through self-analysis you start to break negative patterns and destructive eating tendencies. He explains how most diets deliver temporary results and most people gain the weight back. How is this diet different?

This is not a diet where you have to give up chocolate (Who could give up Leonidas Belgium chocolates?) or your favorite foods. What the author seeks to encourage is a healthier lifestyle. Since most diets don't bring the results we are looking for, Charles Stuart Platkin advises a lifestyle change. In most cases, he doesn't take away foods like popcorn and carrots; he shows you the best choice. There are a few lists of "items you ought to think about throwing out." These include the usual suspects - sugar, soda, ice cream. I was a little shocked to learn about the calories in the Starbucks Classic Coffee Cake.

I still think in moderation, you can handle a little ice cream, although I must say I feel terrible if I eat too much sugar in a day and it can produce the feeling of chronic fatigue for 24 hours. The author recommends good protein sources, a good variety of vegetables and healthy starch choices.

I am happy to see that another author is talking about the muscle mass issue, because this could help many dieters over the initial hurdles of initial weight gain when you start to exercise. The author also explains why a drastic reduction in calories triggers the body's famine-survival mechanism. This of course slows down your metabolism.

There are also ideas about "excuse busters" and self-talk is definitely your friend or enemy. My most recent self-talk to increase my exercise includes telling myself how good I'm going to feel after I exercise and eat my fruits and vegetables. Being proactive and buying clothes that are too small also seems to be good motivation. I also threw out any clothes that are too big for me, so I simply will have nothing to wear if I don't exercise.

Another idea is not buying anything that you know you should not be eating and buying lots of things you know you should be eating. Then, when you are home and hungry, you make better choices. Doing Yoga also seems to help because it generally puts you in a much calmer state of mind and you feel more in control of your choices.

If you are heading towards 40, then you may also want to read The Metabolic Plan to learn about amazing supplements and how you can stop the aging process, increase muscle mass and feel younger each year.

~The Rebecca Review




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