Review of Generation XL: Raising Healthy, Intelligent Kids in a High-Tech, Junk-Food World (Hardcover)

A must read for every parent.It is wonderfully written, easy to read, full of common sense advise.I strongly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in feeding their children healthy foods and in helping them develop healthy eating habits.

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Childhood is a pivotal time for good nutrition. Organs and blood streams nurtured with junk food cannot build a foundation for good health and longevity as an adult. Drs. Joseph Mercola and Ben Lerner believe profound inactivity, addiction to electronic media, and diets of super-sized fast food and sugar-laden beverages have created a national emergency. Generation XL is a clarion call and a detailed guide to giving your child a vibrant, successful future and a healthy, wholesome, invigorating youth.


As children riddled with pain, illness, learning disorders, and even depression begin to show up everywhere, rather than looking at brain development, nutrition, and lack of movement as the culprits, concerned parents are turning to more and more medications. Think about that. Is that how we were designed? To make medication a way of life and to be drugged early on a consistent basis?


What does the future hold for us when kids are overweight, out of shape, and taking medications for the effects? What kind of children are we creating?


This is not a diet book-far, far from it. Dropping another diet book into the same culture will do nothing but take up more room on your shelf. Generation XL shows you how kids were created to eat, breathe, sleep, run, and live. At the same time, Drs. Mercola and Lerner help you change your family culture and recognize where the culture around you isn't working so you can avoid it or help to change it.


Since prevention is always easier (and wiser) than cure, incorporating the lifestyle changes suggested in Generation XL gives your child a realistic way to reach and maintain a healthy weight; dramatically reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and other health risks; and build a strong body and positive mental attitude, maximizing his or her IQ and giving the best chance for success.



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Review of This Is Your Brain on Joy: A Revolutionary Program for Balancing Mood, Restoring Brain Health, and Nurturing Spiritual Growth (Hardcover)

What does grey matter have to do with peace and joy?

A lot more than most of us realize.

Many of my clients who are deeply religious are both stunned and relieved when they find out that their behavior or mood issues may be physical rather than spiritual problems. So it is with great joy that I want to recommend a new book by dear friend and longtime colleague, Dr. Earl Henslin.Though the book will encourage people of any faith, it is written from a distinctly compassionate Christian viewpoint and may be especially helpful to the dazed and confused sitting in our church pews!

Be ready to have a few of your long-held assumptions challenged, and discover some "ah-ha" insights that will deepen your understanding and widen your compassion. In this breakthrough book, Dr. Earl Henslin reveals how the study of brain imaging turned his practice of psychotherapy upside down - with remarkably positive results.He shares answers to puzzling questions such as:

Why isn't my faith in God enough to erase my blue moods?
Why haven't I been able to conquer my anger? Pray away my fear and worry?Why can't I find freedom from secret obsessions and addictions?

Using my Amen Brain System Checklist and the 5 Basic Mood Areas in the brain,Dr. Henslin reveals what happens to our minds when any of those areas are out of balance.And the fun part?He applies the latest brain research to our everyday lives in an entertaining, enjoyable and informative way.(You don't have to be a neurosurgeon to love this book.)

This Is Your Brain on Joyoffers a wide variety of practical,researched-based ways to nourish and balance your brain, including

*Up-to-date nutritional information
*Exercise as powerful as anti-depressants
*Corrective thinking techniques
*Supplements and/or medical recommendations
*Music, beauty, nature,aromatherapy
*Uplifting movies and books
*Scriptures and prayers to help soothe and nourishspecific areas of the brain
*The healing power of community and charity
...... and more!

Finally, Dr. Henslin,an avid and lifelong student of scripture,includes a mini-study of Paul's letter to the Philippians where the aging apostle unveils his "secrets" to lasting joy.

Read this book and you'll know how exactly how to nourish your mind, balance your brain and help others do the same.After all, the capacity for joy is a terrible thing to waste.


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A break-through guide to help people experience lasting joy by restoring brain health.


What does the latest research in brain science and brain imaging say about our ability (or inability) to experience joy and happiness? Is our lack of joy a sin problem or a brain problem? In this life-altering book, Dr. Earl Henslin reveals that to enjoy our lives to the fullest, to become more loving, more Christ-like, we need to become more capable of healing and nourishing our brains. Many problems, long thought of as spiritual in nature--anger, depression, mood swings, anxiety, addictions--are often the result of a sick brain that cannot comprehend a good and loving God. This Is Your Brain on Joy shares exciting new findings in neuroscience that are spiritually sound, showing us how to care for our brains so we not only more effectively use them to glorify God but also experience His love.



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Review of The Low-Fat Lifestyle (Paperback)

"The Low-Fat Lifestyle" by Any Nappa will get you ready for the Summer with her guide to "Optimum Health for Body, Soul, and Spirit".
If you want a guide to better living, this would be a great place to start! My husband and I are currently trying this new `lifestyle' and we feel better about what we eat already, after three weeks.
While I have yet to read the entire book, my husband, who originally purchased the book, has read it through, finding it full of good nutritional information and recipes.
We've used several of the recipes for dinner and snacks, which are our biggest trouble spots for food. Lunch can also be hard to plan for during the day. With numerous "too-convenient" fast food options, it is frequently a challenge to find low-fat and nutritional lunch on the run.
The Low-Fat Lifestyle will give some great ideas on how to remedy these situations and encourage consistent determination to eat healthy.
The overall message of this book is that you need to focus on changing your lifestyle to include healthy active and eating habits, as opposed to trying a new `diet', which most of us have tried.
I highly recommend this book!

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Never before has there been a greater need for healthful living. Yet most men and women are more familiar with failed diets and debilitating stress than with well-nourished bodies, clear minds, and peaceful hearts. We know that we need to cut the "fat" from our lives-physically, mentally, and spiritually. But where do we begin? How are we to know what's necessary, what's "fat," and how to make wise choices between the two?

While there are numerous books dieting and healthful eating on the market, few address the tremendous importance of balancing physical, mental, and spiritual health-and none more effectively and comprehensively than The Low-Fat Lifestyle. Through thirteen empowering chapters packed with information, encouragement, tips, and insights, Amy Nappa helps readers honestly assess their lives in these three vital areas and shows how they can make practical changes that will drastically improve their health: body, soul, and spirit.

Offering far more than the temporary "quick fixes" for which most diet books are known, The Low-Fat Lifestyle presents a long-term solution to the problems of unhealthy eating, consumerism, and other sources of clutter in Christians' lives, freeing readers at last to live the joy-filled existence for which they were created

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