I Woke up One Day and I Was 40 or The HAPI Heart Diet

I Woke up One Day and I Was 40: A Man's Guide to Fitness and Health... Just 29 Days to Changing Your Life

Author: Tony Vercillo

I Woke Up One Day and I Was 40 really makes you take a look at your eating habits, your health, your fitness regime, and your overall attitude about life as you embark on mid-life. Speaking directly to men, this book is a personal narrative about one man who "woke up one day and was 40" and provides all the information and tips you need to be as healthy and fit as possible once you hit 40 and beyond. It also reminds us that 40 is not old!

You're just beginning to reach the point in life where you can be truly confident about who you are and where you stand in life measured against all those other men on the planet. It's a good thing. You've earned the right to be 40!

Research shows that eating right and exercising regularly is especially effective for those men 40 and beyond. I Woke Up One Day and I Was 40 is divided into 3 easy-to-read sections including:

• Checking In With Reality When You Hit 40
• Getting Started
• Exercises to Keep You Young

Written by Tony Vercillo, he not only "talks the talk", but "walks the walk" when it comes to personal health and fitness. I Woke up One Day and I was 40 is designed to help men who just turned 40 and beyond stay active and feel younger every day.

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The HAPI Heart Diet: A Common-Sense Approach to a Happy and Heart-Healthy Life

Author: Michael P Varveris

Heart disease and stroke continue to be leading causes of death and disability in the United States. Obesity and associated Type 2 diabetes are on the rise. While many doctors can guide you to appropriate medical treatment for these conditions, finding the right diet and exercise program presents a different challenge altogether.

Author and noted lipoprotein ('cholesterol') disorder specialist, Michael P. Varveris, MD ('Dr. V'), combines intelligence and wisdom from his training and experience in medical science with common-sense and intuition from his life-long interest in exercise and nutrition in The HAPI Heart Diet. A health-promoting lifestyle that includes daily physical activity and eating foods that the human body was actually designed to consume is described.

How to Die in the Outdoors or Food Drug Synergy and Safety

How to Die in the Outdoors: 100 Interesting Ways

Author: Buck Tilton

This book does not suggest you should quit reading it and enter the outdoors seeking death. If you keep reading, you will actually discover things you can do to avoid ending up in the obituary column via these 100 interesting ways...or maybe you want to leave behind a fascinating tale!

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Food-Drug Synergy and Safety

Author: Lilian U Thompson

Food synergy refers to the interaction of two or more components within a food, of two or more whole foods or of foods and drugs working together such that the potential health benefit is greater than the effect of the single component, food or drug.. Food-Drug Synergy and Safety addresses the topic of food and food-drug synergy among various groups of diseases and conditions. It discusses the healthful combinations of food components and food-drug combinations. Organized by disease groups for easy reference in a clinical setting, the chapters follow a consistent framework and address food synergy, food-drug synergy, and potential health benefits and safety aspects.

Walkers Literary Companion or In Your Own Time

Walker's Literary Companion

Author: Roger Gilbert

Preface

Going out for a long walk, the nineteenth-century novelist and essayist Robert Louis Stevenson would bring with him the classic English walking essay, William Hazlitt's "On Going a Journey" (1821), about which he claimed, passionately if dogmatically, it is "so good that there should be a tax levied on all who have not read it." Imagine being so taken with an essay on walking! But history, at least of a past two hundred years, reveals that walkers have loved to read about their passion; and-given the perennial market for magazine essays and fictions, poems, and novels either describing a walk or set on a walk-that non-walking readers also like to imagine life occurring on the path or pavement.

The three editors have in common a love of walking and love of the literature of walking. We are all university scholars who have written books on literature and walking, and through this last connection have come to know one another. The mutually infectious nature of the subject and our dedication to it led to the present volume. To this end we have walked the streets of Manhattan and around the Central Park Reservoir, huddled in a Chicago hotel room, and tramped the bluffs on the Northern California coast, culling from memory our favorite walking pieces from the great collective wellspring of human writing.

We have composed our anthology for both pedestrian and non-pedestrian readers. Is there a person alive, except for the physically disabled, who is not a walker? Everyone walks, but we address those who love walking, either on the ground or in the imagination. When about 100 years ago he compiled The Lore of the Wanderer: An Open-Air Anthology, a smallplain blue-covered book one could put in a back pocket, George Goodchild-in perhaps the first of a substantial cluster of such collections-caught the spirit of our end-of-this-century volume: a book (a companion) to be taken with you; or, if you cannot get out for a walk, you can read one at home.

There are, however, important differences between Goodchild's collection and ours. By "Open-Air" he meant the air of the country-side far from the polluting enclosures of the city. By insisting upon walking as a rural pleasure, Goodchild bl

Library Journal

This deftly chosen collection of essays, stories, and poems is a delightful ramble through literary history. Walking has provided a creative surge to a wide variety of writers, and Gilbert (English, Cornell; Walks in the World), Jeffrey Robinson (English, Univ. of Colorado; The Walk), and Anne Wallace (English, Univ. of Southern Mississippi; Walking, Literature, and English Culture) present a broad sampling of some of the best writing it has inspired. They have been careful to represent not only a variety of literary forms but also a broad spectrum of writers (including Plato, the Transcendentalists, today's environmental writers such as Wendell Berry, and more). Surely not exhaustive, this volume does provide the reader with an absorbing starting point. It closes with a helpful "More Literary Companionship for Walkers," which will lead readers to additional authors and titles. Missing, however, is any biographical information on the authors included, which would have proved useful to some readers. Recommended for public libraries.--Karen E.S. Lempert, Facing History and Ourselves, Brookline, MA Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

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In Your Own Time: A Guide for Patients and Their Carers Facing Terminal Illness at Home

Author: Elizabeth Le

Anyone suffering from a terminal illness faces huge challenges, not only emotionally and physically, but also in the range of practical decisions they need to make. 'In your own time' guides the patient through the choices that exist in the current system of medical care, helping them decide on the kind of care they want, and where they receive it- in the hospice or the home. It includes chapters on coming to terms with their situation, the help available to them at home, how to choose between a hospice and home, and advice on coping with the inevitable feelings and emotions of both patient and carer. Written by a GP with extensive experience in this area, the book is unique in presenting both a compassionate and practical guide for anyone affected by serious illness, one that will empower them with the information they need to maintain the highest possible quality of life in their final days.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Becky Stepp, BBA, MEd, BS, M, LMSW (Seton Medical Center)
Description: This is a guide for both patients who are facing a final illness and the people who care for them. This book provides the reader with alternatives to care, treatment approaches, and support services in their remaining days.
Purpose: The author states two main purposes: to give patients who are facing a final illness at home information about what help and support is available and ways of accessing it. These are very noble objectives. Although the presentation includes valuable information, the discussion seems slightly narrow as much of the specific information regarding British services is not applicable to a global reading population.
Audience: The book is written by a credible general practitioner with extensive experience in palliative care in Britain. All healthcare and palliative care professionals as well as physicians, clergy, social workers, nurses, and patient and families could benefit from this informative and practical guide.
Features: This book covers the topic of facing a final illness beginning with the initial discussion with the physician and the various emotions and dynamics this presents. With case studies taken from the author's practice experience, the author creatively illustrates the various facets of the decision of home with hospice vs. hospital, along with a guide to common symptoms experienced in terminal illness treatment, and what to expect in the final days of illness prior to death. As this author's experience is limited to British practice, the book's references to home care practices and funding resources more appropriately apply to that country. This book could benefit from less use of sexist language.
Assessment: Patients and families as well as healthcare professionals and clergy could benefit from the discussion of end of life care offered by this author.

Rating

2 Stars from Doody

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction
Ch. 1	Facing Bad News	1
	Approaching death	3
	Getting bad news	6
	Treatment	11
	Getting practical help	20
	Thinking ahead	25
Ch. 2	At Home	29
	Community medical care	30
	Specialists involved in care at home	51
	What can go wrong	61
Ch. 3	Hospital, Hospice or Home?	67
	Hospital care	68
	The hospice and palliative care services	94
Ch. 4	Patients and Carers	107
	Patients' feelings	108
	Preoccupying problems	118
	Shared concerns of patient and carer	133
	Carers' concerns	142
Ch. 5	Common Symptoms and Their Treatment	157
	Talking about your symptoms	157
	Anxiety	160
	Sleeplessness	163
	Depression	166
	Constipation	167
	Bed sores	171
	Mouth care	174
	Pain	175
	Nausea and vomiting	185
	Loss of appetite	188
	Difficulty breathing	190
	Loss of bladder control	194
	Loss of bowel control	197
	Confusion	198
	Cannabis	203

Psychotropic Drugs and Women or Finding the Energy to Heal

Psychotropic Drugs and Women: Fast Facts

Author: Victoria C Hendrick

Addressing the specific treatment needs of women, this new volume in our popular "Fast Facts" series is a practical clinical guide for dispensing physicians and mental health professionals who need to know the important risks and medication reactions unique to the female physiology. Readers will find information on all the key drug classes and prescription guidelines for the treatment of psychiatric disorders across the lifespan of women, from reproduction through menopause and beyond.

Author Biography: Victoria Hendrick and Michael Gitlin live in Los Angeles.

Table of Contents:

	Abbreviations
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	General considerations in the psychopharmacological treatment of women	3
2	Gender differences in psychopharmacology	21
3	Depressive disorders	31
4	Bipolar disorder	71
5	Anxiety disorders and insomnia	107
6	Schizophrenia	131
7	Premenstrual dysphoric disorder	157
8	Eating disorders	167
9	Female reproductive hormones and the central nervous system	177
App. 1	Drug identification by generic name	187
App. 2	Drug identification by brand name	191
	Bibliography	195
	Index	219

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Finding the Energy to Heal: How EMDR, Hypnosis, TFT, Imagery, and Body-Focused Therapy Can Help Restore Mindbody Health

Author: Maggie Phillips

This ground-breaking book applies the principles of energy psychology and medicine to mindbody healing. The focus of Eastern healing is on correcting imbalance of disharmony so that qi, the life force energy that generates harmonious transformation in the body, can flow freely again. Using vivid examples, this book explores the possibility that psychological methods can be used in a similar way to address subtle energies in mindbody systems and thereby restore health.

The author has presented highly acclaimed seminars on Ericksonian and clinical hypnosis, imagery, and ego-state therapy. Here she adds EMDR, thought field therapy (TFT), and body-focused therapy to the tools that can open inner pathways to healing that have been frozen by stress, past trauma, and developmental issues. Throughout the book she emphasizes the principles of gathering and building on strengths that each client already owns, using tools that provoke energetic flow to dissolve barriers to health, and selecting strategies that utilize the powerful effects of positive expectancy.

In the first four sections, vivid, intriguing stories illustrate how EMDR, hypnosis, imagery, TFT, and body-focused therapy can be used to solve the mysteries of health crises triggered by general stresses and anxiety, posttraumatic stress, and the challenges of organic conditions such as cancer, head injury, arthritis, and cardiac disease. The final section presents three creative models for combining and integrating energy therapies to increase healing possibilities for individuals with complex health situations that do not respond to any one approach.

Finding the Energy to Heal is an especially useful guide for professionals interested in cutting-edge methodology as well as for readers seeking solutions to perplexing health challenges.

Booknews

Phillips (a psychologist in private practice) applies the principles of energy psychology and medicine to mind-body healing. She offers examples to explore the possibility that psychological methods can be used in connection to Eastern healing to address subtle energies in mind-body systems and therapy. She discusses Ericksonian and clinical hypnosis, imagery, ego-state therapy, EMDR, field therapy, and body- focussed therapy as they apply to the treatment of stress, trauma, and developmental conflicts. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

What People Are Saying

Ernest Rossi
The external mysteries of life and creativity in health and illness together with the most modern methods of exploring them are well illustrated in this admirable volume by Maggie Phillips." ---- Ernest Rossi, author of The Psychobiology of Gene Expression (forthcoming from W.W. Norton)

Fred P. Gallo
"Maggie Phillips is a highly accomplished psychologist and psychotherapist. In Finding the Energy to Heal, she expertly integrates the best of traditional practice with energetic approaches to emotional and physical healing. She also offers us useful strategies for when to choose and how to combine hypnosis, EMDR, ego-state therapy, somatic therapies, imagery, and TFT. An evolved perspective on energy psychology, this book is required reading for all therapists who take their craft seriously." ----Fred P. Gallo, Ph.D. Author of Energy Diagnostic and Treatment Methods

"In the last decade there has been a flurry of new power and energy therapies. Maggie Phillips leads the reader through this confusing maze with a rare combination of openness and critical analysis. Healer of body and soul, she also examines the tradition of body-oriented approaches in a way that redefines the therapeutic landscape. Clear case presentations and conceptual understandings will reward those who have little knowledge of energetic healing as well as those who are highly experienced. Readers at any level will benefit from her approach." ---- Peter A. Levine, Ph.D. Author of Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma

Joan Borysenko
"Healing therapies are in a time of unprecedented change as the frontiers of neuroscience, energy medicine, and consciousness expand. Finding the Energy to Heal is a brilliant clinical guide to the best new therapeutic techniques that enable us to change, to grow, and to take advantage of the full potential of our bodies and minds. No therapist, or person interested in healing, can afford to be without this practical, compassionate and stunningly useful guide." ----Joan Borysenko, Ph.D Author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind

The Magical Ritual Use of Perfumes or Awakening Natures Healing Intelligence

The Magical & Ritual Use of Perfumes

Author: Richard Alan Miller

Because of their power to elicit specific responses in the body and psyche, perfumes have, through the ages, occupied an important part in ritual. The Magical and Ritual Use of Perfumes shows how scents can become the very “essence of magic,” providing direct access to the emotional centers of the brain and memory.

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Awakening Nature's Healing Intelligence: Expanding Ayurveda Through the Maharishi Vedic Approach to Health

Author: Hari M Sharma

This book gives readers an unprecedented insight into the common focus all natural health approaches--the body's inner intelligence.