Fight Fat After Forty
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by Pamela Peeke (Author)
Amen to Dr. Peeke from StressWoman - One Busy Executive, May 22, 2000
Reviewer: A customer from Chevy Chase, Maryland
Fight Fat After 40 was written for me! It combines practical tips and scientific information that finally explains why I'm am so hungry all the time. Dr. Peeke sheds new light on the ravenous hungers [both for food and acknowledgement]that confront the overstressed woman. The book puts stress, fat, menopause and caretaking into a new construct that allows the reader to make some sense of why it is difficult to manage weight loss when you haven't figured out how to make yourself come first on your own to do list. Women are famous for taking care of everyone around them and stopping that "care" when it comes to ourselves. This book shows how busy women like me have whittled away the weight, learned how to take care of themselves and taken the focus off the numbers on a scale. It was so refreshing to read that a better number to pay attention to was not the number on a scale, but he numbers on the inside of your clothes! I'm much more interested in what size I wear..not some number on a scale. Dr. Peeke refers to this as your "clothesometer."
The book provides some practical tips on how to de-stress in a time starved world and how to fit in exercise when you think there isn't another free minute in a crowded day, full of responsibilities.
The down to earth tips, and the scientific explanations create a doorway out of the maze of stress and conditions of overweight. If you are looking to understand the underpinnings of weight and stress issues, I highly recommend this book.
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The New Nutrition: Medicine for the Millennium
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by Michael Colgan (Author)
You are most definitely what you eat - a must read!, December 14, 1996
Reviewer: A customer
Dr. Colgan does a great job explaining in layman's terms the importance of nutritional supplements as a survival mechanism to combat the absence of an adequate diet. He points out the lack of critical vitamins and minerals in the food we eat due to soil depletion, pollution, and the use of chemical fertilizers. He is not bashful about indicting the National Institute of Health and American Cancer Society for duping the American public about their level of nutrition and health. The American Cancer Society's trading the word cure rate to survival rate has fooled most of us. Naturally with all the sophisticated technology at our disposal, we are detecting the presence of cancer sooner - so it follows that people are "surviving" longer. There's no talk about the cure rate at all. Dr. Colgan, while sometimes brash, is refreshingly candid about how we can all take better care of ourselves through the use of nutritional supplements added to our diets that are woefully lacking the substances required for optimal health
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Sports Nutrition Guide: Minerals, Vitamins & Antioxidants for Athletes
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by Michael Colgan (Author)
Colgan does it again!, July 19, 2003
Reviewer: Dr. Miranda Jorgenson from Kentucky - The Blue Grass State
Colgan has done it again with this excellent book on optimal nutrition. Whether you are an athlete or not, this book is full of practical and useful information on how to optimize your nutritional profile. Keying in on an exponentially growing field of health and wellness nutrition and neutraceuticals, Colgan gives it to you straight. No holds barred.
You will enjoy this book!
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How to Get Kids to Eat Great
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by Christine Wood (Author)
This book is fantastic!, March 25, 2003
Reviewer: A customer from Redmond, WA
The book is a terrific guide and reference source for nutrition and creating healthy eating habits. It spans a child's needs from birth to adolescence. The sections on Environmental Bad Guys and the Antioxidant Good Guys are very informative yet not overbearing with scientific terms. It is so important to create healthy lifestyle for children and this book does it by teaching you the parent the fundamentals.
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The Maker's Diet: The 40-Day Health Experience That Will Change Your Life Forever
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by Charles F. Stanley (Foreword), Jordan S. Rubin (Author)
Description:
Fivefold Network Recommended Book: Having heard Jordan's story on TV from nearly dying as a young man with severe sickness; to complete restored health was amazing. The Makers Diet provides practical insights into a healthy balanced diet and lifestyle choices. Jordan shares insights he learned from his own journey to health with God directing his path. If you desire to live with optimal health, a great book to start with.
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What Your Doctor May Not Tell You about Menopause: The Breakthrough Book on Natural Progesterone
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by John R. Lee (Author), Virginia Hopkins (Author
This book gave me hope again, April 16, 2004
Reviewer: Lori Faris
Dr. Lee's book has saved the quality of my life since 1998. I was given birth control pills, Provera, diuretics to stop the swelling from Provera and the Pill. I thought I was going crazy.
Then I found Dr. Lee's book and found a doctor to prescribe the natural progesterone and my symptoms went away. No more tears, bloating, swelling, sore breasts, angry episodes, night sweats, binges, hot flashes, or hopelessness.
Dr. Lee's book helped me to understand that my body would not tolerate the pharmaceutical companies' progesterone that was patented to replace the natural progesterone. It is a money issue and so many women suffer from using man-made progesterone that is in the Pill and Provera. Use Dr. Lee's recommendations on Natural Progesterone.
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Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom
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by Christiane MP Northrup (Author)
Wonderful, April 5, 2004
Reviewer: miscellamy from Cheswick, PA United States
This book will teach you to think of your health and your whole self in a new way. Revolutionary!
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Pregnancy Fitness: Mind Body Spirit
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by Fitness Magazine (Author), Ginny Graves (Author)
A Book OB Doctors NEED!!, June 26, 2004
Reviewer: mariposa013 from Cos Cob, CT United States
I have used this book throughout my third pregnancy and the exercises and tips it has for all the pregnancy aches were absolutely wonderful! My doctor was little or no help answering simple questions about how to take care of my body and how to feel better physically. This book took care of all my normal pregnancy fitness questions. A MUST-even if you are not a fitness-type person!
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The New Power Program: Protocols for Maximum Strength
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by Michael Colgan (Author)
Superb Means For Increasing Muscle Performance Outcome, February 1, 2001
Reviewer: Dr. Bill Misner, Ph.D. from Spokane, WA USA
Dr. Michael Colgan Ph.D. has captured by an easy-to-understand word format[with illustrations] communicating the explicit details of how to employ a training route for remarkable performance outcome results. Whether an athlete is seeking a larger, well-defined muscle mass or simply stronger torque output, Colgan has authored the most modern training sequences shown to produce results. The "New Power Program" explains periodic peaking protocols including both eccentric and concentric stress principles, without application, the athlete will not achieve past sub-maximal levels. This book is a 10-STAR "MUST" for the serious athlete.
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Body for Life: 12 Weeks to Mental and Physical Strength
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by Bill Phillips (Author)
Bill Phillips fitness insights are powerful and balanced to help any person achieve a healthy body. Body for Life is about health for life. The book is an easy read and filled with real life stories of ordinary people who wanted to regain their health and understand how to permanently lose weight and keep it off. I personally have gone through the program and it produced results. My present fitness and nutritionally regiment is a hybrid taken from this book. We at Fivefold Network highly recommend this book if you need a mentor program to regain your health. Bill Westmacott, President - Fivefold Network
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Woman's Guide to Running: Beginner to Elite
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by Annemarie Jutel (Author)
Editorial Reviews
From the Publisher
Fitness is constantly in the spotlight, but a busy career, children, or a shortage of money can rule out fitness trends for many of us. Running is different-no membership fees, no travel, little equipment, and maximum rewards for a minimal investment of time. This book offers sensible, expert advice for women runners of all levels, including: designing your own training program; choosing apparel; nutrition; injuries and their prevention; and special considerations, including pregnancy and menopause. Whether you are a true beginner, a recreational runner, or a competitive racer, this book has everything you need to start, continue, and excel-and to reap the rewards of health, fitness, and well-being. Annemarie Jutel, a registered nurse, is one of New Zealand's top-ten runners and a pioneer in women's distance running.
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Running: Start to finish
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by John Stanton (Author)
Description: It works, 'nough said, February 1, 2005
Reviewer: Sonya L. Haskell from Canada
I've gone to a person who would hyperperventilate on a one lap run, to a comfortable 10 k runner in less then 6 months. I it ALL to this book. Not only did his workout plan keep me interested, and more imporatantly EASY while I progressed, but it taught me how to do it right, without a single injury. If I got meet the author, I would kiss him. Great book for bigger runners, I've recommended it to all my friends, who are currenlty doing their first 5 k race this weekend.
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What Your Doctor Doesn't Know about Nutritional Medicine May Be Killing You
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by Md, Ray Strand (Author)
Outstanding health book for the 21st Century, October 24, 2003
Reviewer: A customer
Dr Ray Strand's book is one of the first I've read that explains the underlying reason so many people in the world are suffering from chronic degenerative diseases -- oxidative stress. He clearly shows how the right diet and the right vitamin, mineral and antioxidant supplements plus essential fatty acids can help bring folks suffering from serious diseases back to health. I've been on the program he recommends for several months and have almost completely recovered from long-standing chronic fatigue syndrome/fibromyalgia. His informative web site, bionutrition.org. has an excellent article on oxidative stress. Thank you, Dr. Strand.
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Death by Prescription: The Shocking Truth Behind an Overmedicated Nation
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by Ray, M.D. Strand (Author)
A Balanced Examination of Drug Use, November 12, 2003
Reviewer: Barbara N Kuehner from Captain Cook, HI United States
This is an important book for anyone who takes prescription drugs, nonprescription drugs or herbals. The first part examines the relationship between drug companies and the FDA, which has changed significantly since the early 1990's. Much of the funding for new drug review now comes from the drug manufacturers. The approval process is faster and testing time shorter. The author details how the public increasingly plays a role in "testing" in the form of "post-marketing surveillance" and that the adverse drug reactions encountered are under reported. Marketing includes massive distribution of "free sample" to physicians, many of whom may not be familiar with precautions -- and hence do not alert patients to warning signs and symptoms. Also, advertising of prescription medications has increased greatly in the last few years, which has greatly increased drug use and pressure on physicians to prescribe medications.
Other sections of the books discuss similar concerns with nonprescription medications (many of which recently required prescriptions) and with herbal medications.
The book is "spiced" with case histories that are real page turners. The author has done a real service to the public by describing the scope of the adverse drug reaction problem (#3 killer), and by describing several of the reasons why this has become such an overwhelming concern.
This review is written from the perspective of someone who has been in nursing for over 20 years and who has seen lots of people on lots of medications. The author, a physician, is not suggesting that people stop taking medications that may be important to their health. But he provides guidelines and tools to help individuals evaluate what they need, including the use of a pharmacist and internet resources.
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