Healing and the Mind or Diabetes Burnout

Healing and the Mind

Author: Bill D Moyers

Ancient medical science told us our minds and bodies are one. So did philosophers of old. Now, modern science and new research are helping us to understand these connections. In Healing and the Mind, Bill Moyers talks with physicians, scientists, therapists, and patients - people who are taking a new look at the meaning of sickness and health. In a series of fascinating and provocative interviews, he discusses their search for answers to perplexing questions: How do emotions translate into chemicals in our bodies? How do thoughts and feelings influence health? How can we collaborate with our bodies to encourage healing? Healing and the Mind travels from small private clinics to large public hospitals to examine how advances in mind/body medicine are being applied on a day-to-day level in the hurried and technology-driven world of modern medicine. From neonatal care to geriatrics, from day surgery to the treatment of chronic illness, medical professionals are finding that when they practice the "new medicine," their patients heal faster, leave the hospital sooner, and do better once they get home. Bill Moyers and David Grubin also travel to the People's Republic of China. There they explore the implications of that country's fusion of Western practices with traditional Chinese medicine, including acupuncture, massage, herbal potions, and the mysterious concept called chi. They take an intimate look at alternate therapy programs, including a Massachusetts medical center that combines Eastern meditation with Western therapy in the treatment of ailments as diverse as hypertension and chronic back pain. And they visit a California retreat where cancer patients help each other discover that healing can occur even when a cure is impossible. With the incisive style that has made Bill Moyers's skills as an interviewer legendary, and the dynamic interplay of text and art that has made his previous books international bestsellers, Healing and the Mind is a landmark work,

Publishers Weekly

In this intriguing companion volume to a PBS TV series, Moyers explores the roles of thoughts and emotions in illness and health through interviews with 16 doctors and scientists. He visits stress-reduction clinics and a cancer patients' support group, and he investigates the new field of psychoneuroimmunology, which emphasizes the importance of patients' attitudes to optimal immune-system functioning. He also travels to China to study acupuncture, therapeutic massage and chi gong , the manipulation of vital energy to ameliorate chronic neurologic and muscular diseases. Among those interviewed are University of California physician Dean Ornish, who has reversed heart disease in patients with treatments combining meditation, stress-reduction exercises, group therapy, walking and vegetarian diet; neurobiologist David Felten, discoverer of nerve fibers that link the nervous system to the immune system; and Thomas Delbanco of Harvard Medical School who seeks ways to transform the doctor-patient relationship so that patients are more actively involved. Color and black-and-white reproductions of art by Kathe Kollwitz, Rene Magritte, Norman Rockwell, Paul Klee and others interact suggestively with the text. (Feb.)

Booknews

This book by Bill Moyers is similar in format to his World of Ideas series. By assembling the transcripts of interviews with leaders in the field of healing, Moyers constructs a broad context to examine the question: How is healing related to the mind? Provocative and insightful. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Introduction
	Editor's Note
I	The Art of Healing
	The Healing Roles of Doctor and Patient	7
	The Healing Environment	25
	Healing and the Community	47
II	Healing from Within
	Self-Regulation and Conditioning	71
	Changing Life Habits	87
	Meditation	115
	Stress Reduction	145
	Therapeutic Support Groups	157
III	The Mind/Body Connection
	The Chemical Communicators	177
	Emotions and the Immune System	195
	The Brain and the Immune System	213
	Conditioned Responses	239
IV	The Mystery of Chi
	Medicine in a Mind/Body Culture	257
	Another Way of Seeing	305
V	Wounded Healers
	Healing	323
	Wholeness	343
	Index	365
	Picture Credits	370

Interesting textbook: New York Times Jewish Cookbook or Party Confidential

Diabetes Burnout: Preventing It, Surviving It, Finding Inner Peace

Author: William H Polonsky

Diabetes Burnout is an interactive book that addresses the emotional issues that contribute to poor glycemic control and provides guidance to overcoming the barriers to good self-care. Worksheets help readers assess their current state of motivation and establish a successful plan of action.

William H. Polonsky, Ph.D., C.D.E., is a clinical psychologist in private practice in San Diego. He has published and lectured widely on diabetes burnout and strategies for securing supportive environments for people with diabetes.

The Feel Good Diet or To Buy or Not to Buy Organic

The Feel-Good Diet

Author: Cheryle R Hart

The authors of The Insulin-Resistence Diet prove that dieting doesn’t have to mean misery any more!

According to the Mayo Clinic, two thirds of all dieters quit after three months. Why? Because most diets deplete the brain’s neurotransmitters, resulting in the low energy, moodiness, and cravings that sabotage weight-loss success. The authors call it yo-yo brain, a hormone imbalance that affects women most severely.

The Feel-Good Diet is a unique eating plan that actually restores the balance of these brain hormones and makes it possible for you to battle cravings and shed pounds—while renewing your energy and zest for life.

Table of Contents:

Preface     V
Introduction     ix
What Happens to Your Brain Hormones When You Diet
Dieting to Lose ... Serotonin?     3
The Brain's Messengers: Neurotransmitters     9
Neurotransmitters That Affect Appetite     13
Do You Have a Neurotransmitter Deficiency? Why It Happens     21
Hormones That Affect Neurotransmitters     29
Insulin Resistance and Serotonin     49
The Feel-Good Weight-Loss Program
Feeling Good with Food     69
The Different Kinds of Dietary Fats     113
Two Weeks of Feel-Good Plan I Meals     121
Using Supplements to Help Boost Neurotransmitters     143
Increasing Your Metabolism: How Exercise and Body pH Balance Can Help     151
Increasing Neurotransmitters and Metabolism Through Exercise and Activity     175
The Feel-Good Weight-Loss Program: Putting It All Together     187
Recipes     199
Studies     239
Neurotransmitter Supplement Lozenges-CraniYums     251
References     253
Index     265

Interesting book: A Tour of International Trade or Real Estate Finance

To Buy or Not to Buy Organic?

Author: Cindy Burk

Food journalist and former professional chef Cindy Burke writes in the introduction to this book: "Organic food can be so expensive and difficult to find that I always wondered if I was spending my money wisely. I decided to become informed, really informed, about the options — organic, conventional, local, sustainable — so that I could choose the healthiest, safest food available." To Buy or Not to Buy Organic is the result of Burke's investigations. It tells you how to choose the healthiest, safest, most earth-friendly food, as you make your way through the supermarket, your local farmer's market, or your natural foods store. Highlights include: Making sense of the choices presented by organic, local, sustainable, minimally treated, grass-fed and cage-free foods Reducing your exposure to pesticides Save money by knowing the foods you want to eat only if they're organic and the foods that are pesticide-free even when they are nonorganic Protecting your child's health from pesticides An at-a-glance shopper's guide to more than 100 foods

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A slim, handy guide to how our food is produced and how to choose what to buy.

Digestive Wellness or Milk Free Kitchen

Digestive Wellness

Author: Elizabeth Lipski

This is the third edition of the popular guide by noted nutritionist Elizabeth Lipski. 60% of us have suffered from a digestive ailment in the last three months. Here you will find advice on acid reflux, heartburn, gastritis, and more. You will learn how to implement a wellness program that promotes healthy digestion.

See also: Estimating how the Macroeconomy Works or The Making of Urban Europe 1000 1994

Milk-Free Kitchen: Living Well Without Dairy Products

Author: Beth Kidder

Here is the only all-purpose, appetizers-to-candy cookbook for the millions of Americans who must avoid having milk and milk products in their diets.

Publishers Weekly

For people afflicted with either dairy allergies or lactose intolerance, substitution has long been the buzzword in cooking. Here Kidder, a biological researcher, shows readers how to use fruit juices, soy milk and tofu in place of dairy products. The result: tasty and satisfying dips and main courses (although many home cooks may not take kindly to some of the soups, which employ canned condensed soups as bases). The biggest challenge is posed by dairy-free baked goods, and Kidder offers many nominations: dairy-free Sacher torte, carrot cake, chocolate mousse, pancakes, waffles, puddings and frostings. She also gives advice on ordering meals in restaurants and on plane trips, and provides a list of food products to avoid, from the most obvious--milk--to the much less so. It would have been helpful to include food breakdowns and calorie counts, as well as a discussion of how to get dietary calcium often lacking in people who follow dairy-free diets. Because some lactose-intolerant folks can tolerate cheeses made from goat's and sheep's milk, several recipes call for these ingredients. (Jan.)

Library Journal

This cookbook features recipes without milk, butter, and other dairy products for those who are either allergic or lactose-intolerant. The author includes simple, not particularly exciting recipes for all courses of a meal, but half the book is devoted to breads and desserts. As it is often most difficult to find (or make) dairy-free baked goods, these alone are worth the price. For all special collections.

We Carry Each Other or Ice Cream in the Cupboard

We Carry Each Other: Getting Through Life's Toughest Times

Author: Eric Langshur

A Course in Compassionate Caring

We Carry Each Other is the definitive resource on what to say and do when you or a loved one suffer illness or loss. What do you say to a friend with invasive cancer whose body is rejecting her second transplanted kidney? How do you answer when she says, "I'm really scared this time"? How do you comfort your next-door neighbor when she calls to say that her husband died in his sleep? And, what do you do if you are a fiercely independent single mom who is suddenly brought to her knees when she finds her teenage son is dying?

The stories in We Carry Each Other are born organically through the CarePages community -- one of the world's largest social networking sites, with over 3 million members, where lifestyle and health needs meet community and emotional support. These stories of everyday heroes are sure to inspire a social movement in compassionate caring toward those struggling with illness, loss, and life's difficulties, much like Random Acts of Kindness launched worldwide attention to simple acts of goodness.

We Carry Each Other is a guide to finding the courage inside ourselves to open our hearts and spirits, and reach out with caring and compassion when a spouse, child, parent, friend, neighbor, or colleague needs us most.

This is a support group in book form, with invaluable resources and tips.

Barbara M. Bibel - Library Journal

How do you help someone who is sick? What do you say to a friend who has lost a parent? Finding ways to assist the sick, the bereaved, and those caring for the ill or disabled can be difficult. Sharon Langshur and Eric Langshur, a pediatrician and a health-care services provider, respectively, had a son born with congenital heart disease. To keep family and friends informed about his condition, they created a "care page" web site and found that the messages received in response provided much-needed support. That homegrown endeavor gave rise to the million-plus-member CarePages.com for patients, families, and health-care providers. This book presents stories of people who have used the service, which furnishes examples of providing care and support in a variety of contexts. There are also lists of tips for helping both patients and caregivers. Calling, emailing, bringing food, and having family meetings to plan care are among the actions suggested. This information is readily available in other sources, but the firsthand accounts offer a unique human dimension that will make readers realize they are not alone. Recommended for public and consumer health collections.

Interesting book: Test Driven Development or The Robotics Primer

Ice Cream in the Cupboard: A True Story of Early Onset Alzheimer's

Author: Pat Moffett

It started with strange behavior a hostile outburst here, a peculiar lapse of memory there. Then it became violent. The beautiful, vivacious Carmen Moffett was behaving in ways her husband Pat could not understand. Their marriage had been a long love affair. Together, they raised five beautiful children in Great Neck, New York, and were looking forward to planning their retirement together. Then came the outbursts, both verbal and physical, and the forgetting. Confused and increasingly nervous, Pat consulted doctors, but no one could find anything physically wrong with Carmen. Worse yet, she could not remember doing the things that rattled Pat. Finally, several years later, incidents at Carmen's work forced her to another doctor, Gisele Wolf-Klein, who diagnosed the devastating illness. As she slipped away, Carmen reached out for Pat. He was the one she could remember, even if she did not always know exactly who he was. With remarkable grace and an incredibly strong will, Carmen accepted that she was fading, that she would disappear. But through all of it, she managed to reserve three words for Pat. These three words exemplify the theme of their lives together, to this day.

The New York Times Book Review -

A touching story of a husband s undying love. Pat Moffett offers hope and comfort to patients, caregivers and anyone who must deal with Alzheimer's disease in this agonizing tale, which is a testament to the endurance of the human heart.

Midwest Book Review

A poignant testimony about the harsh realities of a pervasive disease, and the indescribable strength of love.

What People Are Saying

Ice Cream in the Cupboard takes the reader on the tumultuous journey of one family's struggle with early onset Alzheimer's disease. Mr. Moffett's soul-bearing account is painfully honest and gives the reader a very personal perspective of this insidious illness and its overwhelming impact on all in its path.—Barbara Vogel, Long Island Alzheimer's Foundation

The Hot Zone or Depression for Dummies

The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story

Author: Richard Preston

A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this exotic "hot" virus. The Hot Zone tells this dramatic story, giving a hair-raising account of the appearance of rare and lethal viruses and their "crashes" into the human race. Shocking, frightening, and impossible to ignore, The Hot Zone proves that truth really is scarier than fiction.

Publishers Weekly

Far more infectious than AIDS, filoviruses (thread viruses) are relentless killer machines that consume a human body in days, causing a gruesome death. Symptoms include liquefying flesh, spurts of blood, black vomit and brain sludge. Outbreaks of the Ebola filovirus devasted Sudan and Zaire in 1976. And in 1989 Philippine monkeys in a Reston, Va., research lab, found to be infected with Ebola, were the target of a U.S. Army-led biohazard task force that decontaminated the lab, exterminating hundreds of monkeys to prevent the possible airborne spread of the disease to humans. In a horrifying and riveting report, portions of which appeared in the New Yorker , Preston ( American Steel ) exposes a real-life nightmare potentially as lethal as the fictive runaway germs in Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain. Preston plausibly argues that the emergence of AIDS, Ebola and other highly adaptable rain-forest viruses is a consequence of ecological ruin of the tropics. A movie based on this book, directed by Ridley Scott ( Alien ), will star Robert Redford. Author tour. (Sept.)

Library Journal

Expanded from Preston's 1992 New Yorker article, this account of a lethal virus run amok is Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain come true. In the fall of 1989, imported monkeys at a Reston, Virginia, facility began dying of a mysterious illness. Was it simian hemorrhagic fever (fatal to monkeys but harmless to humans) or was it Ebola, an extremely deadly tropical virus that had devasted villages in Zaire and the Sudan in 1976? Writing in a breathless novelistic style, Preston (American Steel, LJ 4/15/91) follows a military SWAT team as they don biohazard space suits to enter the "hot zone" and contain the alien virus. While this is thrilling reading (there are plenty of gruesome descriptions of Ebola's effects on human victims), one does wonder how much Preston sensationalized events for the sake of a good story. He also only sketchily discusses the possiblity that the destruction of the rainforests are releasing unknown viruses into the human population. Still, with a forthcoming movie starring Robert Redford and Jodie Foster, there will be demand. Buy multiple copies. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 6/1/94]-Wilda Williams, "Library Journal"

School Library Journal

YA-Warning-not for faint hearts or weak stomachs! In 1989, an obscure filovirus travels from the African rain forest to a lab near Washington, D.C., where the monkeys quickly sicken and die. Preston traces the history of the Warburg and Ebola filoviruses in minute, horrific detail that is as fascinating to read as it is alarming to contemplate-these filoviruses have the capability to mutate and possibly cross species. There are extraneous descriptions of scenery and of the characters' lives, but these passages serve to relieve the mounting tension and terror as the virus spreads and the CDC, the Army, and a private firm work out a containment plan to prevent a mass epidemic. YAs interested in science or fans of Stephen King or Michael Crichton will find this a fast-paced medical chiller right to the last disturbing page.-Judy Sokoll, Fairfax County Public Library, VA

Booknews

Look for a pot-boilin', splatter flick from this fictionalized medical horror story. On the filovirus out of Africa & the Philippines and its ghastly symptoms in man & monkey. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

Part 1	The Shadow of Mount Elgon	1
Part 2	The Monkey House	155
Part 3	Smashdown	283
Part 4	Kitum Cave	373
	Main Characters	412
	Glossary	414
	Credits	419

See also: Reagan or Leviathan

Depression for Dummies

Author: Laura L Smith PhD

"What do you have to be depressed about?" Bet you've heard that one before. Or how about, "You're depressed? Just get over it!" Easier said than done, right? Or here's a favorite, "They have a pill for that now, you know."

Unfortunately, such naïve armchair psychology rarely works for someone suffering from the very real plight of depression. All it does is seek to trivialize depression and characterize depressed people as "whiners" who have nothing better to do than to "complain about their lives." But the truth is, depression is a very real problem. In fact, the World Health Organization estimates that, on any given day, 121 million people worldwide suffer from depression. And depression rates continue to increase – for example, kids exhibit depression at nearly ten times the rate of previous generations. Theories abound as to why depression rates are increasing, but regardless of the cause, this scourge continues to rob its victims of happiness, joy, and the capacity to give and receive love.

So why Depression For Dummies, when there's already a glut of self-help books on the market peddling so-called cures and remedies for depression? Because this book satisfies the need for a straight-talking, no-nonsense resource on depression. The only agenda of Depression For Dummies is to present you with the facts on depression and explain the options for dealing with it. Rest assured, this is no infomercial in a yellow and black cover.

Here's just a sampling of what you'll find in Depression For Dummies:

• Demystifying the types of depression

• Discovering what goes onin the body of a depressed person

• Detecting and diagnosing depression

• Seeking help through therapy and medication

• Modifying depressed behavior and solving life's headaches

• Dealing with depression resulting from grief and relationship issues

• Cutting through the hype of alternative treatments for depression

• Moving beyond depression: Avoiding relapses and pursuing a happy life

• Top Ten lists on getting rid of a your bad mood and helping your kids and other family members out of depression

So, whatever your level of depression – whether you suffer from occasional bouts or you find yourself seriously debilitated by depression – Depression For Dummies can give you the insight and tools you need to once again find enjoyment and happiness in life. All it takes is one step.

New York City Ballet Workout Book or Breast Cancer

New York City Ballet Workout Book

Author: Peter Martins

New York City Ballet Workout is a revolutionary fitness program that will help you begin to develop lean abs, firm buttocks, a contoured waist, sculpted legs, slim thighs, strong arms, perfect posture, flexbility you never thought possible--and grace and poice of a dancer. More than three hundred stunning step-by-step and other photographs throughout make this the most beautiful and easy-to-use exercise book ever created.This elegant book is unlike any exercise book ever published. Graced with more than 300 instructional exercise photographs and extraordinary duotone portraits of New York City Ballet dancers, The New York City Ballet Workout explores the company's philosophy of balancing art, life, and fitness.

By combining elements of New York City Ballet's balletic regimen with practical strength-building exercises, The New York City Ballet Workout can help people achieve a strong, graceful, and flexible body--one that displays the impeccable poise that is the trademark of New York City Ballet dancers.

Many exercises of The New York City Ballet Workout were once confined to the world's elite rehearsal studios. Now, as refined by Peter Martins and his company, these exercises have been designed as a comprehensive, holistic approach to the body that can be used by anyone from the out-of-shape to the serious athlete, to attain a lean, hard, beautiful body. From flexibility to endurance, this is a complete exercise program for men and women.

See also: Reagan or Leviathan

Breast Cancer: The Complete Guide

Author: Yashar Hirshaut

Written by two renowned authorities who specialize in the treatment of breast cancer, a surgeon and an oncologist, this lucid step-by-step guide has established itself as the indispensable book women need to make informed decisions about the care that is right for them.

Breast cancer will strike one out of every eight women in the United States. Because there have been many important changes in the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer in the last few years, this fully revised Third Edition contains information on the latest developments in the field, including:

• new diagnostic procedures
• changes in the treatment of in situ cancer
• improved surgical techniques
• gene testing
• sequencing radiation and chemotherapy
• HER-2Neu (Herceptin)
• tamoxifen for prevention
• bone marrow and stem cell transplants
• and more

Bette-Lee Fox - Library Journal

Called "the best of a recent flurry of books on breast cancer" in our starred review (LJ8/92), this title, by a medical oncologist and a surgical oncologist, respectively, gets its fifth revision to update treatments, statistics, and resources in order to help patients manage their disease better. With a foreword by Jane Brody, this is still highly recommended.

Library Journal

Recent breast cancer statistics are frightening: It is the most common cancer in women, striking one out of every nine in the United States today. This new guide, written by an oncologist and a surgeon, gives comprehensive, up-to-date, and highly detailed information on everything from the first suspicion, through diagnosis and treatments, to follow-up care and recurrence. This step-by-step method serves to demystify the process of treating breast cancer, while the advice from women who have ``been there'' helps bring the message home. From selecting the best doctor to describing procedures and treatments, the authors answer all possible questions in a calm, rational manner. Of particular value is the recommendation that patients have a ``personal advocate'' during appointments and procedures. This book is the best of a recent flurry of books on breast cancer (e.g., Paul Keuhn's Breast Care Options for the 1990's , LJ 8/91; Renee Royak-Schaler and Beryl Lieff Benderly's Challenging the Breast Cancer Legacy , LJ 4/1/92). Highly recommended. Librarians should note that this October will be National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.--Ed.-- Janet M. Coggan, Univ. of Florida Libs., Gainesville

Booknews

A popular book on prevention, detection, treatment, recovery and cure, detailing the therapy options and combinations. Gives resources available to women in the US and Canada. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

New York Times - John Langone

In this updated edition of a highly regarded resource, the authors — a medical oncologist and a surgical oncologist — provide both the support and every scrap of the information that a woman needs to get the right treatment from the right doctor.The format is carefully organized and readable, covering all the details of diagnosis, treatment options, follow-up, recurrence and the social and emotional aspects of the disease. One especially valuable section demystifies the complicated system of cancer classification, standards that unfortunately vary from country to country, region to region and even from medical center to medical center. The explanations offered are easily understandable, covering essentials like the size of tumors, where they are attached, how doctors arrive at cancer's stages and how one can be assured that a lump is not cancer but a benign tumor or cyst, as 90 percent of such growths turn out to be.

Baby Om or Gift of Our Compulsions

Baby Om: Yoga for Mothers and Babies

Author: Laura Staton

A dynamic yoga program for new mothers and their babies

How does a new mother get back her shape without giving up precious time with her baby? In Baby Om, authors Laura Staton and Sarah Perron -- both dancers, yoga instructors, and moms themselves -- answer the new mother's need for a calming and rigorous way to align and strengthen her body while having fun with her baby. Based on their popular New York classes of the same name, Baby Om takes mothers through a yoga practice they can do with their infants -- anytime and anywhere. The techniques help new mothers enjoy the spiritual and physical benefits of yoga, allowing them to nurture themselves as well as their babies. This easy-to-use book includes:

--Baby Om basics -- the practical information you need to get started
--baby engagement -- how to play with and stimulate your baby during yoga
--four step-by-step Baby Om classes -- each concentrating on a unique stage in your child's development

The beautiful illustrations and photographs in Baby Om capture the intimate sharing between mother and child, and create a visual model for how to achieve the poses at home. Safe, effective, and easy to learn, Baby Om brings mother and baby together, ensuring the health and happiness of both.

New interesting textbook: The Hershey Pennsylvania Cookbook or Flavors of Kentucky

Gift of Our Compulsions: A Revolutionary Approach to Self-Acceptance and Healing

Author: Mary OMalley

Everyone is compulsive to some degree. People may worry too much, work too hard, or overindulge in food or alcohol or drug use. Once a compulsion is admitted, the usual option is to try to control the behavior. But this effort typically ends with the problem returning, or a new one taking its place. In this book based on three decades of research and teaching, Mary O'Malley has crafted a new approach, with simple exercises and techniques and an inspiring tone. People are compulsive for a reason, she says, and by observing the things they are compulsive about and engaging those compulsions, readers can begin to understand them and change their actions around them. The book's exercises help readers in the engagement process by teaching them to ask the right questions and shows why lasting healing comes from being curious rather than controlling, and self-acceptance comes through forgiveness, not shame.

The Food Allergy Cure or How to Live 365 Days a Year

The Food Allergy Cure: A New Solution to Food Cravings, Obesity, Depression, Headaches, Arthritis, and Fatigue

Author: Ellen W Cutler

Food allergies are one of the most common chronic medical conditions. Dr. Ellen Cutler, a chiropractor and naturopath, has spent ten years studying enzyme therapy and nutrition and their relationship to allergies, asthma, immune disorders, and chronic diseases. Using methods derived from many disciplines -- including chiropractic, Eastern medicine, immunology, environmental medicine, genetics, and Western physiology and physics -- Dr. Cutler has found a way to combat allergies at their root: the immune response. Her system of techniques, called BioSET, combines muscle testing, detoxification, enzyme and diet therapy, and chiropractic manipulation to desensitize people permanently to every kind of allergy, not only those caused by foods.

To understand how Dr. Cutler's techniques work, it's helpful to think of the body as an electromagnetic organism in which energy flows along invisible pathways called meridians, or channels. Essentially, an allergic response is caused when these pathways are blocked by the immune response to an allergen. Dr. Cutler's techniques actually unblock these pathways, thus stopping the body's violent immune response. The Food Allergy Cure teaches you how to test yourself to determine the allergies you have and gives you simple techniques you can perform on yourself or your children to begin to lead an allergy-free life. In addition, there are helpful lists of foods and enzymes to correct digestive disorders such as lactose intolerance, chronic heartburn, irritable bowel syndrome, and constipation. Dr. Cutler also recommends foods that support the immune system's functioning and work to alleviate such disorders as hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, fibromyalgia, colitis, herpes, and candida. This blending of Eastern and Western medicine is so easy to implement and will be hailed as a new paradigm of twenty-first-century medicine.

Publishers Weekly

Having personally treated allergy sufferers and counseled on appearances on QVC, Extra! and Lifetime, Dr. Ellen Cutler argues that although one-third of all Americans suffer from food allergies now a chronic, even epidemic, condition there is a cure. Cutler's answer: the BioSET system of identifying and eliminating food allergies by combining affordable, easy and efficient practices, including chiropractic, nutrition and detoxification, all of which she explains clearly and thoroughly in The Food Allergy Cure: A New Solution to Food Cravings, Obesity, Depression, Headaches, Arthritis, and Fatigue. Agent, Bonnie Solow. ( Mar.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

BioSET (Bioenergetic Sensitivity and Enzyme Therapy) is a combined approach to diagnosing and treating food allergies. Cutler, a chiropractor currently pursuing an M.D. and author of two books on alternative medicine (e.g., Winning the War Against Asthma and Allergies), developed this technique from principles based on acupuncture/ acupressure, chiropractics, homeopathy, kinesiology, and enzyme therapy. She introduces the reader to the mechanisms of food allergies and to her BioSET technique, which emphasizes the removal of blockages in electromagnetic pathways brought about by the allergic reaction. Although her reported treatment results are impressive, she presents very little substantial data or scientific background. Statements of fact are not backed up with references, and the brief bibliography includes no research articles. Cutler refers only in passing to NAET (Nambudripad Allergy Elimination Technique), upon which BioSET is heavily based. NAET, a more documented technique, was developed by Devi Nambudripad and explained in her book Say Goodbye to Illness (Delta, 1999). Not recommended. Andy Wickens, King Cty. Syst. Lib., Seattle Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments	xiii
	Introduction	xix
1.	The Food Allergy Cure: An Introduction	1
2.	Symptoms of Food Allergies	22
3.	Underlying Components of Food Allergies	44
4.	Common Ailments and Their Origins in Foods: Asthma, Headaches and Migraines, Chronic Fatigue, Arthritis, Hyperactivity and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Ear Infections, and Eczema and Hives	77
5.	Hidden Disorders and Their Origins in Foods: Depression, Digestion Problems, Overweight and Food Cravings, Infertility, Premenstrual Syndrome, and Problems of Menopause	111
6.	Food Allergy Testing	139
7.	Muscle Testing	159
8.	BioSET Food Allergy Home Treatment Procedure	169
9.	Detoxification	181
10.	Enzyme Therapy	210
11.	Recipes and Diet Plans	238
	Conclusion	282
Appendix 1.	Resources for Enzymes, Detoxification, and Drainage	284
Appendix 2.	Common Allergenic Foods	289
Appendix 3.	Tables of Common Ailments and Food Allergies, Vitamins, and Hormones	299
	Bibliography	316
	Index	317

Book about: Diabetes Cookbook or Night Light

How to Live 365 Days a Year

Author: John A Schindler

One of the great self-help books of all time, How to Live 365 Days a Year has sold more than 1 million copies and has been translated into 13 languages. Author John A. Schindler, M.D. introduced the powerful concept of EII, or "emotionally induced illness," long before most physicians were aware of the connection between emotions and physical health. Our new edition of this 195556 New York Times bestseller, a classic of the genre, has updated health and nutrition information by a leading health and fitness expert. Dr. Schindler's original research explains how prolonged unhappiness sets off negative responses in the nervous and endocrine systems, producing symptoms of disease, and offers techniques for coping with EII. His landmark advice on positive lifestyle, exercise, and nutrition speaks volumes to today's self-aware readers. Topics include achieving emotional satisfaction, attaining sexual maturity, dealing with stress in the workplace, and meeting the challenge of the aging years.John A. Schindler, M.D. co-founded the distinguished Monroe Clinic in 1939, where he advanced his revolutionary theories on psychosomatic medicine. His 1949 radio broadcast, titled "How to Live a Hundred Years Happily," was so well received that transcripts of the show were printed and sold by the thousands. This led him to write the highly influential bestseller How to Live 365 Days a Year. Dr. Schindler died in 1957.

Publishers Weekly

"Emotional stress produces physical illness" is the sturdy, and somewhat rusty, hook from which all of Schindler's observations on how to live a better life dangle. Originally published in the pre-biotech era of the mid-1950s, the book introduced readers to the idea that an elevated stress level, related to everything from financial insecurity to the fear of dying, can manifest itself in the nervous and endocrine systems, resulting in symptoms that mimic diseases-a syndrome that Schindler dubbed EII (emotionally induced illness). It is from this familiar, though certainly relevant, concept that Schindler tethers a surplus of one-liner philosophies for achieving happiness: "Get up on the right side of the bed," "Allow yourself the delightful feeling of being happy" and "Avoid running your misfortune through your mind like a repeating phonograph record." The introduction to this new edition, by health care journalist Holtz, cautions that "Schindler's message-that right thoughts bring health and wrong thoughts bring disease''-can be dangerous if carried too far. This warning is essential as one peruses the cheerful, overly simplistic advice (including the prohibition of sex outside marriage) that ultimately-like a phonograph record-has limited relevance to today's world. (Sept.) Copyright 2003 Cahners Business Information.

Good Housekeeping Illustrated Book of Pregnancy and Baby Care or Bob Greenes Total Body Makeover

Good Housekeeping Illustrated Book of Pregnancy and Baby Care: Revised and Updated

Author: Good Housekeeping

Mothers-to-be and new moms will be glad to know that the bestselling Good Housekeeping Illustrated Book of Pregnancy and Baby Care is finally in paperback, updated to include topical advice and information about amniocentesis, car safety for infants and toddlers, growth charts, and the recommended schedule for immunizations. Eight hundred instructive and appealing color photographs fill the pages of the most complete parenting guide ever published. Part One tells a pregnant woman how to take the best care of herself so her baby will get a great start in life. The second section provides commonsense solutions to parenting problems and concerns. And, finally, there’s a straightforward hands-on guide to childhood illnesses and first aid. An extensive index makes it easy to find exactly what you need in a flash.

Table of Contents:

1	Pregnancy and Birth	8
	Thinking About Pregnancy	10
	A Pregnancy Calendar	12
	Prenatal Care	32
	Common Complaints	40
	Keeping Fit and Relaxed	43
	Eating for a Healthy Baby	50
	Practical Preparations	54
	Labor and Birth	56
	Your New Baby	68
	Getting Back to Normal	71
2	Baby Care	74
	The First Weeks of Life	76
	Handling Your Baby	82
	Feeding Your Baby	87
	Breast-Feeding Your Baby	90
	Bottle-Feeding Your Baby	98
	Introducting Solid Food	108
	Crying and Your Baby	117
	Sleep and Your Baby	120
	Clothes and Dressing	128
	Bathing and Washing Your Baby	134
	Diapers and Diaper Changing	146
	Giving Up Diapers	154
	Taking Your Baby Out	156
	Growing and Learning	158
	Becoming a Person	168
3	Health Care	172
	The First Three Months	174
	Diagnosis Guide	180
	First Signs of Illness	182
	Going Into the Hospital	185
	The Child With a Fever	186
	All About Medicines	189
	Caring for a Sick Child	192
	Colds and Flu	194
	Having Your Child Immunized	196
	Infectious Illnesses	197
	Eye Problems	202
	Ear Problems	204
	Mouth Infections	206
	Throat Infections	207
	Coughs and Chest Infections	208
	Stomach Pain	212
	Constipation, Vomiting, and Diarrhea	213
	Bladder, Kidney, and Genital Problems	216
	Skin Problems	218
	Fainting, Dizziness, and Convulsions	225
	Your Child's Safety	226
	First Aid	229
	Growth Charts	246
	Index	250
	Acknowledgments	256

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Bob Greene's Total Body Makeover: An Accelerated Program of Exercise and Nutrition for Maximum Results in Minimum Time

Author: Bob Green

From Bob Greene, bestselling author of Get With the Program!, comes a comprehensive, innovative twelve-week plan for transforming your body inside and out. With Bob Greene's Total Body Makeover, you'll achieve maximum results in a minimum amount of time!

Knowing that great health and fitness begin with the right state of mind, Greene addresses the important emotional issues behind poor exercise and eating patterns and provides the motivational tools needed to achieve your fitness goals, as well as develop practical and beneficial habits for lasting results. You'll be inspired and moved by reading the compelling true-life success stories of real people who have taken the challenge and who have changed their bodies -- and lives -- in ways they never dreamed possible! Whether you're struggling to lose that last ten pounds or searching for a radical weight-loss solution, the twelve-week makeover challenge is the answer to your fitness goals.

After committing to the program, you'll find illustrated step-by-step workout guides for all fitness levels, combining progressive cardiovascular and intensive strength training exercises designed to revitalize your metabolism and get noticeable results fast. Each of the accelerated workouts has been created to energize and invigorate your body and mind while you have fun and trim down in the process! In addition, Greene takes a fresh approach to the question of diets by providing key nutritional guidelines that work in conjunction with any healthy eating plan, and he explains many of the popular diets on the market today to help you choose the one that's right for you.

Finally, there is helpful advice on making the transitionback to your everyday life: how to avoid regaining the weight you've lost, and how to maintain healthy exercise and eating habits for life. While many books leave you wondering what to do next, Bob Greene's Total Body Makeover offers enthusiastic and informative hands-on advice and tips beyond eating and exercise, and teaches you how to make your own happiness and well-being the foundation of an active and healthy life.

Library Journal

Trainer Greene helped Oprah stop her yo-yo cycle of dieting and finally keep off the weight she had lost. Here he presents a 12-week accelerated version of his best-selling Get with the Program! exercise plan, which can easily be used with such currently popular diets as Atkins, South Beach, and The Zone. Greene's focus is on motivation-a good thing given the advanced nature of the workouts. He does clearly explain what exercisers should be feeling if they are doing the routines correctly. Although this fitness program is pretty tough, especially for beginners, the book will probably be in demand. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Special Diets for Special People or The Endometriosis Natural Treatment Program

Special Diets for Special People: Understanding and Implementing a Gluten-Free and Casein-Free Diet to Aid in the Treatment of Autism and Related Developmental Disorders

Author: Lisa S Lewis

Combine one part research with two parts practical information, add a dash of humor, and season with years of experience. Within the pages of this book, Lisa Lewis explains, in an easy and readable manner, an intriguing intervention strategy for helping children and adults with autism. Drawing upon her family's success with removing gluten and casein from her son's diet, she answers the questions parents and professionals might have about choosing a dietary intervention. She provides over 150 good-tasting recipes to get you started. Learn how to prepare everything from spaghetti and meatballs to cookies and cakes. But even more importantly, learn how these recipes can significantly improve your family's quality of life.

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The Endometriosis Natural Treatment Program: A Complete Self-Help Plan for Improving Your Health and Well-Being

Author: Valerie Ann Worwood

Endometriosis is a common medical condition in which the tissue lining the uterus is found outside of the uterus. Painful menstruation and infertility are two of the numerous symptoms, and it can take up to eight years to diagnose. This groundbreaking book offers practical, easy-to-implement ways to alleviate symptoms and improve overall health and well-being. It explores the environmental toxins, cosmetics, dietary habits, and other lifestyle issues that may be partially to blame for the condition. The authors outline a program for eliminating certain foods, changing habits, and using supplements and essential oils to begin healing the condition, incorporating aromatherapy, diet, sitz baths, and other methods. They suggest slow yet steady lifestyle changes that focus on whole, unprocessed foods, detoxification, self-massage, essential oils, stress reduction, herbal remedies, and supplements to address nutritional needs. The books also includes checklists and self-tests to help women implement the plan for treatment.

Textured Tresses or The Complete Book of Isometrics

Textured Tresses: The Ultimate Guide to Maintaining and Styling Natural Hair

Author: Diane DaCosta

Twist it! Braid it! Loc it! Enjoy the freedom and beauty of naturally textured hair.

Textured hair styles like Locs, Braids, Twists, Cornrows, and Knots are all the rage, adorning the heads of celebrities, athletes, and everyday folk now more than ever before. Yet, the actual caring, styling, and maintenance of textured hair still remains a mystery to many.

Now, Diane Da Costa, celebrity stylist and master designer of natural hair, unravels the tresses of textured hair, providing readers with information on the proper care of natural hair as well as a step-by-step guide on achieving various exciting styles.

Textured Tresses will help you:

• Identify and celebrate the texture you were born with (whether it's wavy, curly, very curly, or tightly coiled)
• Keep your hair healthy and strong by using hair products and tools correctly and managing stress effectively
• Select the right stylist and salon to suit your hair care needs
• Transition from chemically relaxed hair to natural hair safely
• Experiment with color, weaves, and chemicals
• Achieve the styles you admire on your favorite movie stars and recording artists

Packed throughout with photos, illustrations, and special celebrity sections, Textured Tresses is a must-have whether you already twist, coil, loc, or want to learn how to begin.

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The Complete Book of Isometrics: The Anywhere, Anytime Fitness Book

Author: Erin ODriscoll

Don't have time to exercise? Don't belong to a gym? It doesn't matter.

Now you can get a complete workout, anytime, anywhere, with the secrets of isometrics. Millions of people can't seem to find the time to exercise. Now they can with The Complete Book of Isometrics. Fitness expert Erin O'Driscoll has compiled the best isometric exercises that can be done in the office, at home watching TV, flying in an airplane, or even driving a car–no equipment required.

Rather than using expensive machines or lugging around a set of dumbbells, you use common objects and your own body's resistance to work out the muscles. Isometric exercises are especially helpful to people recovering from injuries that limit range of motion. A special chapter shows how even people with disabilities can use isometrics to build muscle tone and strength.

Using the secret of resistance, isometrics are the basis for yoga, Pilates, and all the core stabilization techniques that are so popular today. Now, learn the original, simple, and effective way to a complete workout without moving a muscle!

Strong Women Stay Young Revised Edition or Prescription for Herbal Healing

Strong Women Stay Young, Revised Edition

Author: Miriam Nelson

Turn back the clock in just two at-home sessions per week!

This scientifically proven strength-training program:

• Replaces fat with muscle
  
• Reverses bone loss
  
• Improves energy and balance

Revised—new streamlined program!

The scientifically proven strength-training program that turns back the clock for women aged 35 and up—from the famed research labs of Tufts University

Miriam E. Nelson's research created worldwide news when the results were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. After a year of strength training twice a week, women's bodies were 15 to 20 years more youthful. They had less fat and more muscle; bone loss was prevented or reversed; their strength and energy increased dramatically; and they showed surprising gains in balance and flexibility. No other program—whether diet, medication, or aerobic exercise—has ever achieved comparable results.

Strong Women Stay Young shows how any woman can achieve the same benefits at home, in a program tailored to her individual needs. A bestseller in its first edition, it has now been revised to be even easier to use. It features eight streamlined exercises with fully illustrated instructions; new supplemental moves for the back, abs, and more; a complete program to do at the gym; plus an all-new chapter for men. Significant improvements are seen after just four weeks.

Filled with inspiring quotes from women aged 35 to 92 who transformed their lives with this program, Strong Women Stay Young provides the information and motivation to make a real difference in women's lifelong health.



Now revised, this new edition will include:

A streamlined program for new readers
New state-of-the-art scientific information
New options and more than a dozen supplemental exercises for expanding and individualizing the program
Some information for men interested in this dynamic program

All the original reader-friendly aspects remain. STRONG WOMEN STAY YOUNG is fully illustrated, and the step-by-step instructions are accessible and clear. Inspiring stories of women of all ages who transformed their lives with strength training are sprinkled throughout. Strong women do stay young—and reverse bone loss, increase energy, improve
balance and flexibility—and this is the book to tell them how. —>

Table of Contents:

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi

I: What Strength Training Will Do for You Yes, You Can Turn Back the Clock! 3
Empowering Your Muscles 21
Boning Up on Your Skeleton 42
Keeping Your Balance 67

II: Getting in Gear Preparing for Positive Change 81
Equipped for Action 94

III: The Strong Women Stay Young Program Strength-Training Basics for Safe Workouts 107
Eight Exercises That Will Make You Strong 119
Creating an Individualized Program 146
Staying on Track 158

IV: A Lifetime of Fitness More Strengthening Exercises 175
Doing the Program at a Gym 207
Men Need Strength Training Too! 240
Questions & Answers 245
Afterword 263
Index 265

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Prescription for Herbal Healing: An Easy-to-Use A-Z Reference to Hundreds of Common Disorders and Their Herbal Remedies

Author: Phyllis A Balch

"As more and more people discover the powerful healing properties of herbs, what's needed is a comprehensive guide to ensure safe and effective use of herbal preparations. Written by natural healing expert Phyllis Balch, Prescription for Herbal Healing is the definitive source for choosing the most effective herbal therapies." "Those who depend on Prescription for Nutritional Healing as an indispensable guide to holistic health remedies will immediately recognize the convenient A-to-Z format of this volume. Prescription for Herbal Healing provides the most current, comprehensive, and authoritative facts in an easy-to-read style." Here are just some of the features of this important book: information on more than 200 herbs and herbal combination formulas, ranging from well-known herbs such as ginseng and St. John's wort to less familiar remedies such as khella and prickly ash; complete coverage of Chinese and ayurvedic herbs; discussion of more than 150 common disorders from acne to yeast infection, and the herbal therapies that can be used in treating them; and meticulously researched findings culled from the latest studies on individual herbs.

Patient Heal Thyself or Reflexology Card Deck

Patient, Heal Thyself: A Remarkable Health Program Combining Ancient Wisdom with Groundbreaking Clinical Research

Author: Jordan S Rubin

The story of Jordan Rubin's recovery from incurable illness is one of the most dramatic natural healing stories ever told. In Patient Heal Thyself Jordan, a doctor of naturopathic medicine and founder of Garden of Life, the fastest-growing nutritional company in America, teaches readers how to take control of their own health and unlock the body's phenomenal healing potential.

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Reflexology Card Deck

Author: Bounty

50 easy-to-follow treatments to combat everyday ailments including:

• Headaches and body aches
• Digestive disorders
• Insomnia
• Hypertension

Gentle treatment tips to suit everyone, including children and the elderly.

Best Choices from the Peoples Pharmacy or Living the GI Diet

Best Choices from the People's Pharmacy

Author: Joe Graedon

From the trusted authors of the "People’s Pharmacy" syndicated newspaper column comes an essential reference that empowers readers to make intelligent, informed choices from among the array of treatment options—home remedies, herbal and nutritional supplements, and prescription and over-the-counter drugs—available today

We can read the newspaper for candid restaurant or movie reviews or consult Consumer Reports for an impartial analysis of the best buys on toasters or automobiles. But where can we find objective evaluations of popular treatments for conditions like arthritis, high cholesterol, and migraines?

Joe and Teresa Graedon, the best-selling authors of The People’s Pharmacy, will fill the void with a comprehensive new reference that presents all the information readers need to become savvy health-care consumers. The book offers:

• best-choice treatments for 50 medical conditions—from allergies, asthma, and heartburn to high blood pressure and osteoporosis

• a remedy ratings guide to compare the effectiveness and affordability of various treatment options

• compelling new information on the potential dangers of generic drugs

Featuring a list of the authors’ must-have remedies and organized alphabetically by condition for fast, easy access, this trustworthy, practical guide should find a sizable and grateful audience.

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Living the G.I. Diet

Author: Rick Gallop

The easiest diet going is now even easier--and tastier. Off to an explosive start, The G.I. Diet quickly landed on New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists, and required five quick printings (for a total of 190,000 copies) to keep pace with demand after national publicity discovered the "Canadian miracle diet" (Woman's World). Now, continuing to build on the nutritional wisdom of the glycemic index, Rick Gallop follows up with the essential companion--a cookbook and strategy guide for living the G.I. Diet.

Organized around the simple, intuitive principle of green-, yellow-, and red-light foods--if you can follow a traffic light, you can follow this diet--Living the G.I. Diet gets right into the kitchen with 135 dishes that are as easy to prepare as they are unrecognizable as diet food. Grilled Pesto Salmon with Asparagus. Beef and Eggplant Chili. Garlic Shrimp Pasta. Thai Chicken Curry. Pork Tenderloin with Grainy Mustard and Chive Crust. Cinnamon French Toast. Florentine Frittata. And desserts: Baked Chocolate Mousse, Basmati Rice Pudding, Pecan Brownies--that's right, brownies.

In addition, the book spells out how to lose weight (Phase I) and maintain weight loss (Phase II); how to make G.I. eating a family affair; navigating holidays, restaurants, vacation eating; and exploring the psychological and emotional aspects of food and food cravings--everything you need to stay on this proven track.

Peace Love and Healing or Peoples Pharmacy

Peace, Love and Healing: Bodymind Communication and the Path to Self-Healing : An Exploration

Author: Bernie S Siegel

Originally published nearly ten years ago, Peace, Love & Healing offered the revolutionary message that we have an innate ability to heal ourselves. Now proven by numerous scientific studies, the connection between our minds and our bodies has been increasingly accepted as fact throughout the mainstream medical community. In a new introduction, Dr. Bernie Siegel highligths current research on the relationships among consciousness, psychosocial factors, attitude and immune function.

"Love and peace of mind do protect us," Siegel writes. "They allow us to overcome the problems that life hands us. They teach us to survive...to live now...to have the courage to confront each day."

Norman Cousins

The American people are beginning to think in new ways about health and illness....Bernie Siegel is helping to define and open up these new frontiers. In this sense he is in the best medical tradition.

Larry LeShan

Bernie Siegel [is] a doctor who loves. In this age of massive, impersonal medical technology, his advocacy of human caring is a necessity.

Norman Vincent Pearle

I was enthralled with this book. Once into it, I could not stop reading until I had finished...It is a truly great book...[that] combines sound thought with captivating humor.

What People Are Saying

Norman Cousins
"The American people are beginning to think in new ways about health and illness....Bernie Siegel is helping to define and open up these new frontiers. In this sense he is in the best medical tradition."

Norman Vincent Pearle
"I was enthralled with this book. Once into it, I could not stop reading until I had finished...It is a truly great book...[that] combines sound thought with captivating humor."

Larry LeShan
"Bernie Siegel [is] a doctor who loves. In this age of massive, impersonal medical technology, his advocacy of human caring is a necessity."

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People's Pharmacy

Author: Joe Graedon

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Table of Contents:

	Prologue
1	Introduction	3
2	You're On Your Own: What You Need to Know About the Drug Approval Process	19
3	Protecting Yourself	41
4	Snake Oil or Self-Care?	59
5	OTC Do's and Don'ts	77
6	Sexy Trade Secrets and Home Remedies	115
7	Drug Interactions: When 1 + 1 May Equal 3	155
8	Preventing Heart Attacks: With and Without Drugs	171
9	Allergy: From a Medical Quagmire to a Quiet Revolution	204
10	Contraception: New Options	218
11	Drugs and Kids: Pregnancy to Puberty	235
12	Saving Money on Medicines	256
13	Home Alone or Hiking in the Himalayas: What to Do When the Doctor Won't Come	289
	People's Pharmacy Guide to Popular Prescription Drugs	321
	Index	427
	About the Authors	475
	Afterword	478

The Healthy Back Exercise Book or The Rosedale Diet

The Healthy Back Exercise Book: Achieving & Maintaining a Healthy Back

Author: Deborah Fielding

Back pain is one of the most common health problems in the western world, exacerbated by our increasingly sedentary lifestyle. The back is designed for - and thrives on - movement and becomes stronger, healthier, and more flexible with proper use and exercise.

The Healthy Back Exercise Book looks at the different causes of back pain and explains how the various structures of the spine - joints, muscles, and ligaments - work in harmony. It explores the value of exercise, how to assess the condition of your back, and what immediate action to take if you experience back pain.

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The Rosedale Diet

Author: Ron Rosedal

Finally—the ultimate diet for fast, safe weight loss, lifelong health, and longer life, based on more than twenty years of research and the latest findings on appetite and weight. Metabolic specialist Ron Rosedale, M.D., has designed the Rosedale Diet to regulate the powerful hormone leptin, which controls appetite and weight loss by telling the brain when to eat, how much to eat—and when to stop. New research shows that leptin may be one of the body's most important hunger control mechanisms. Control leptin, and you control your weight.

Most people's leptin levels are out of control, causing them to overeat and to store fat rather than burn it. The only way to flip the "hunger switch" back to normal is through a diet high in healthy fats and low in carbohydrates, saturated fat, and trans-fatty acids often found in processed food—plus just 15 minutes of daily exercise.

Dr. Rosedale's 21-day diet plan is simple: Just select from the many foods on his "A" list, including "healthy-fat" foods such as avocados, nuts, olives, lobster, crab, shrimp, goat cheese, Cornish game hen, venison, and more. Then gradually add foods from the "B" list, such as steak, lamb chops, fruits, beans, and so on. A 28-day menu plan and more than 100 recipes, such as Dilled Salmon and Fresh Asparagus, Gingery Chicken Soup, Lasagna, Black Bean Wrap, Raspberry Mousse Cake, and French Silk Pie, make eating the Rosedale way deliciously easy.

Weight loss is just the beginning. The Rosedale Diet will make you feel satisfied, reduce cravings, and put you in control of your "sweet tooth." It can even help eliminate or reduce heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, andother conditions associated with "natural" aging, as many of Dr. Rosedale's patients can attest. You'll find inspiring stories from them—and the power to control your weight and improve your health—in this groundbreaking book.

Publishers Weekly

As more Americans become obese and are diagnosed with diabetes in record numbers, they continue to seek out new sources of healthy living advice and dieting tips. Those frustrated with South Beach, Atkins and the Zone may find a friend in the Rosedale Diet. Its founder, a nutrition and metabolism expert with a practice in Denver, has developed a diet plan that teaches people how to control leptin, the key hormone that regulates appetite and, say Rosedale and coauthor Colman, your ability to lose weight. They present their plan in two parts, first explaining the concept, and then providing advice for putting it into action. The Rosedale Diet encourages consumption of high-fat foods (good fats, of course-and they're to be eaten unaccompanied by sugar-forming foods), and doesn't insist that people count calories. Rosedale recommends supplements, too, asking readers to take 2,000 milligrams of glutamine before going to bed at night, and suggesting pregnenolone and phosphatidylserine for some. Even if readers aren't ready to plunge full-force into the Rosedale Diet, they'll benefit from such recipes as Dilled Salmon with Fresh Asparagus; Lobster Tails and Seaweed Salad; and Grilled Beef Fillet with Bell Pepper and Mashed Rutabagas. Agent, Richard Curtis. (Sept.) Forecast: A 50-city radio tour and national media campaign may result in healthy sales. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

The Cardio Free Diet or Spiritual Midwifery

The Cardio-Free Diet

Author: Jim Karas

Are you constantly pounding away on the treadmill but never losing a pound? Does every step on the StairMaster become more and more painful? Are you tired of endless workouts that only make you want to eat more?

Cardiovascular workouts do burn a few calories, but far fewer than you think. And the more cardio you do, the hungrier you feel. Not only does cardio fail to help you lose weight, but it kills -- it kills your time, your energy, your joints, and your motivation. You burn a few measly calories but then eat twice as many afterward. The result? Weight gain -- and lots of it.

The Cardio-Free Diet is a revolutionary four-phase program that emphasizes strength training to boost your metabolism; build lean, sexy muscles; and achieve all the same heart-healthy benefits of cardio. With just twenty minutes a day, three days a week, you can look and feel noticeably leaner, stronger, and younger than ever before.

Weight loss expert Jim Karas has shaped the bodies of Diane Sawyer, Paula Zahn, Hugh Jackman, and even Oprah's best pal, Gayle King. With easy-to-follow instructions, Jim shows you how to exercise the right way in order to see incredible results. You won't just lose weight -- you'll sculpt a whole new physique.

Watch the pounds disappear as you prepare delicious dishes such as apple balsamic chicken, Dijon turkey, feta vegetable omelets, and grilled tomato tuna. You can even enjoy a daily glass of wine! With detailed shopping lists, a variety of daily menus, and helpful tips on how to maintain your diet when eating out or ordering in, you'll never have to worry about what to eat.

The Cardio-Free Diet offers maximum results in minimal time -- so break free from the mindless, ineffective cycle of cardio and get the body you've always wanted!

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Spiritual Midwifery

Author: Ina May Gaskin

A classic book on home birth since 1977, this new edition contains updated information on the safety of natural childbirth, new birthing stories, and the most recent statistics on births managed by The Farm Midwives. In this day and age, a book that celebrates natural childbirth and returns birth to the family is more important than ever.

Get the Sugar out or A Drinking Life

Get the Sugar Out: 501 Simple Ways to Cut the Sugar Out of Any Diet

Author: Ann Louise Gittleman

In this new edition of the bestselling Get the Sugar Out, nationally renowned nutritionist and well-known author Ann Louise Gittleman explains that sugar not only contributes to weight gain but also to mood swings, weakened immunity, diabetes, some cancers, and cardiovascular disease. Here she offers 501 simple, resourceful, and practical tips for cutting sugar from your diet, giving you the knowledge and inspiration you need to live a healthier life. A few of Gittleman’s basic ways to cut sugar include:

• Eat more meals at home, so you can oversee the ingredients and avoid hidden sugars
• If you have a sweet tooth, try tricking it by chewing on a cinnamon stick
• Be a food detective; don’t trust “sugar free” or “fat free” labels
• Cut down on salt not only to be healthier but because it helps cut out sugar cravings
• Don’t exchange sugar for artificial sweeteners; as you’ll find out here, many are harmful

With type II diabetes at an all-time high, cutting sugar from your diet is imperative. Get the Sugar Out is your solution for treatment and prevention: a unique, practical guide to a healthy and happy low-sugar lifestyle.

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A Drinking Life: A Memoir

Author: Pete Hamill

Rugged prose and a rare attention to telling detail have long distinguished Pete Hamill's unique brand of journalism and his universally well received fiction. Twenty years after his last drink, he examines the years he spent as a full-time member of the drinking culture. The result is A Drinking Life, a stirring and exhilarating memoir float is his most personal writing to date. The eldest son of Irish immigrants, Hamill learned from his Brooklyn upbringing during the Depression and World War II that drinking was an essential part of being a man; he only had to accompany his father up the street to the warm, amber-colored world of Gallagher's bar to see that drinking was what men did. It played a crucial role in mourning the death of relatives or the loss of a job, in celebrations of all kinds, even in religion. In the navy and the world of newspapers, he learned that bonds of friendship, romance, and professional camaraderie were sealed with drink. It was later that he discovered that drink had the power to destroy those very bonds and corrode any writer's most valuable tools: clarity, consciousness, memory. It was almost too late when he left drinking behind forever. Neither sentimental nor self-righteous, this is a seasoned writer's vivid portrait of the first four decades of his life and the slow, steady way that alcohol became an essential part of that life. Along the way, he summons the mood of a time and a place gone forever, with the bittersweet fondness of a lifetime New Yorker. It is his best work yet.

Vincent Patrick

Pete Hamill's 30 years of writing come to fruition in "A Drinking Life." It is constructed seamlessly, with the pacing and eye for telling detail learned as a novelist and the hard, spare prose of a fine journalist. -- New York Times

Publishers Weekly

Hamill's autobiography entails his long odyssey to sobriety. This is not a jeremiad condemning drink, however, but a thoughtful, funny, street-smart reflection on its consequences. To understand Hamill ( Loving Women ), one must know his immigrant parents: Anne, gentle and fair; Billy, one-legged and alcoholic. The first offspring of this union--Republicans in Belfast, Democrats in Brooklyn--Hamill has a special gift for relating the events of his childhood. He recreates a time extinct, a Brooklyn of trolley cars, Dodgers, pails of beer and pals like No Toes Nocera. He recalls such adventures as the Dodgers' 1941 pennant and viewing the liner Normandie lying on its side in the Hudson River. We partake in the glory of V-J day and learn what life in Hamill's neighborhood was centered on: ``Part of being a man was to drink.'' Puberty hits him and booze helps him to overcome his sexual shyness. But Hamill's childhood ended early. After dropping out of high school he lived on his own, working at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and drinking with his workmates. Wanting more, he studied art, soon meeting a nude model named Laura who was a lot different from the neighborhood girls, those ``noble defenders of the holy hymen.'' And escape was always on Hamill's mind. First it was the Navy, then Mexico, but it was always the same--drinking nights which today he can't remember. There were fist-fights and jail time in Mexico and he learned that ``drinking could be a huge fuck you to Authority.'' Back home with a job at the New York Post , he mastered his trade at the Page One bar every morning, drinking with other reporters. Much time was spent in saloons away from his wife and two daughters and he remembers the taunts of his childhood, ``Your old man's an Irish drunk!'' Then one New Year's Eve 20 years ago he noticed all the drunkenness and had his last vodka. When asked why, he said, ``I have no talent for it.'' It may be the only talent Hamill lacks. Author tour. (Jan.)

Library Journal

The author of seven novels (e.g, Loving Women , LJ 4/1/89), Hamill has put in over 30 years as a reporter, primarily at the New York Post , where he was recently named, fired, and then rehired as editor-in-chief. Here he ranges from his Depression-era childhood to his years on the beat and as a recovering alcoholic. When the time comes, he'll be on the Today show to plug his book.

500 Low Carb Recipes or Complete Organic Pregnancy

500 Low-Carb Recipes: 500 Recipes, from Snacks to Dessert, That the Whole Family Will Love

Author: Dana Carpender

Low-fat or low-carb? A recent New York Times Magazine (July 7, 2002) cover story answered this question and said that Dr. Atkins was right all along, "its not fat that makes us fat but carbohydrates."Though the government has spent hundreds of millions of dollars in research trying to prove that fat is the cause of obesity, there has been a subtle shift in the scientific consensus over the past five years supporting what the low-carb diet doctors have been saying all along: if we eat less carbohydrates, we will lose weight and live longer.

One of the toughest challenges of any diet is having enough variety and choices to keep the dieter from losing interest. The most common reason that people abandon their diet is boredom but 500 LOW CARB RECIPES: 500 Recipes, From Snacks to Dessert, That the Whole Family Will Love by Dana Carpender has more than enough recipes to keep even the most finicky dieter on track.

With recipes for everything including hors d'oeuvres, snacks, breads, muffins, side dishes, entrees, cookies, cakes and much more, this is an endless supply for creating meals for the whole family night after night. Whether everyone in the family is on a diet or not, these recipes are proven winners with adults and kids alike.

Also included:

• Many one-dish meals for single people--main dish salads, skillet suppers that include meat and vegetables, and hearty soups that are a full meal in a bowl.
• Ideas for breaking out of old ways of looking at food with suggestions that save time and money and change what is considered a normal meal for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
• Information about where to find low-carbohydrate specialtyproducts and descriptions of low-carb specialty foods found in grocery stores everywhere.
• An entire chapter that lists and describes low-carb substitute ingredients such as fats and oils, flour substitutes, liquids, seasonings and sweeteners.

Dieters will be pleased to know that they can eat foods like guacamole, omelets, pizza, steak, ham and dessert without giving up great taste and still lose weight. There are enough recipes to create the perfect menu for any holiday of the year--including Thanksgiving. Each of the 500 recipes includes a carbohydrate count to help calculate the total carb intake of each menu.

There are more recipes for main dishes and side dishes than most low-carb dieters will ever be able to eat--everything from down-home cooking to ethnic fare; from quick-and-easy weeknight meals to knock-their-socks off party food. 500 LOW CARB RECIPES is the last cookbook any dieter will ever need to buy and certain to be used until the binding is worn out!

Interesting textbook: Harmonious Environment or The Runners Diet

Complete Organic Pregnancy

Author: Deirdre Dolan

While being pregnant is thrilling, the responsibility of a growing baby can provoke anxiety about what is and isn't safe. In The Complete Organic Pregnancy, Deirdre Dolan and Alexandra Zissu address how you can minimize your exposure to the invisible toxins that surround us—in everything from food, cleaning products, and cosmetics to furniture, rugs, air, and water. Step by step, they tell you where dangerous chemicals are lurking, why it's so important to avoid them when pregnant, and what you can do before, during, and after your pregnancy to protect your child.

In this exhaustively researched book, the authors (calmly) talk parents-to-be through everything from the safest laundry detergent to which crib mattresses contain toxic flame retardants. You'll find out how to choose the right face cream, plastic water bottles, household cleaners, types of fish, and much more—all with an eye toward keeping you and your baby safe and healthy.

The Complete Organic Pregnancy also features a collection of personal diaries from well-known writers and organophiles, including Barbara Kingsolver and Marion Nestle, as well as recipes from organic chefs. Required reading for anyone heading into this exciting stage of life, The Complete Organic Pregnancy is your chance to make a difference for your children, even before they're born.

Reconnection or Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease

Reconnection: Heal Others, Heal Yourself

Author: Eric Pearl

Why are prominent doctors and medical researchers all over the world interested in the extraordinary healings reported by the patients of Dr. Eric Pearl? What does it mean when these patients report the sudden disappearance of afflictions such as cancer, AIDS, and cerebral palsy? And what does it mean when people who interact with Dr. Pearl report a sudden ability to access this healing energy not just for themselves, but for others, too? What is this phenomenon?

Well, you might have to reconsider everything you've read up until now about conventional healing. The Anew@ frequencies of healing described by Dr. Pearl transcend Atechnique@ entirely and bring you to levels beyond those previously accessible to anyone, anywhere. This book takes you on Eric Pearl=s journey from the discovery of his ability to heal, to his well-deserved reputation as the instrument through which this process is being introduced to the world. But most important, The Reconnection reveals methods you can use to personally master these new healing energies.

Interesting book: Stealth Germs in Your Body or Whole Foods Allergy Cookbook

Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease: The Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven, Nutrition-Based Cure

Author: Caldwell B Esselstyn

Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease challenges conventional cardiology by posing a compelling, revolutionary idea-that we can, in fact, abolish the heart disease epidemic in this country by changing our diets. Drawing on the groundbreaking results of his twenty-year nutritional study, Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., a former surgeon, researcher, and clinician at the Cleveland Clinic, convincingly argues that a plant-based, oil-free diet can not only prevent and stop the progression of heart disease, but also reverse its effects.

Furthermore, it can eliminate the need for expensive and invasive surgical interventions, such as bypass and stents, no matter how far the disease has progressed. Dr. Esselstyn began his research with a group of patients who joined his study after traditional medical procedures to treat their advanced heart disease had failed. Within months of following a plant-based, oil-free diet, their angina symptoms eased, their cholesterol levels dropped significantly, and they experienced a marked improvement in blood flow to the heart. Twenty years later, the majority of Dr. Esselstyn's patients continue to follow his program and remain heart-attack proof.

Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease explains the science behind these dramatic results, and offers readers the same simple, nutrition-based plan that has changed the lives of his patients forever. In addition, Dr. Esselstyn provides more than 150 delicious recipes that he and his wife, Ann Crile Esselstyn, have enjoyed for years and used with their patients. Clearly written and backed by irrefutable scientific evidence, startling photos of angiograms, and inspiring personal stories, Prevent andReverse Heart Disease will empower readers to take charge of their heart health. It is a powerful call for a paradigm shift in heart-disease therapy.

What People Are Saying

Dean Ornish
Pioneering research demonstrating that the progression of even sever coronary heart disease can often be reversed by making changes in diet and lifestyle. (Dean Ornish, M.D., founder, president, and director of Preventive Medicine Research Institute and author of Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease)

Mehmet Oz
A hard-nosed scientist shows us his secrets for successfully cleaning the rusting arteries of so many patients. (Mehmet Oz, M.D, coauthor of You: The Owner's Manual and You: On a Diet)

Michael Roizen
Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, Jr., is certainly the father (and the mother) of the now proven hypothesis that you can reverse severe arterial disease... even if you only want to try this plan five days a week, this book is a must purchase. (Michael Roizen, M.D., coauthor of YOU: The Owner's Manual and You: On a Diet)

T. Colin Campbell
One of the most outstanding projects in health research of the past century. It's relevant, it's caring, it's innovative, it's extremely well executed and it's very, very useful. (T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D., author of The China Study)

Table of Contents:

Foreword   T. Colin Campbell     viii
Introduction     x
The Heart of the Matter
Eating to Live     3
"Someday We'll Have to Get Smarter"     13
Seeking the Cure     19
A Primer on Heart Disease     29
Moderation Kills     35
Living, Breathing Proof     46
Why Didn't Anyone Tell Me?     57
Simple Steps     67
Frequently Asked Questions     76
Why Can't I Have "Heart Healthy" Oils?     82
Kindred Spirits     87
Brave New World     94
You Are in Control     101
The Joy of Eating
Simple Strategies     113
Advice from Ann Crile Esselstyn     119
Breaking the Fast     127
Feasting on Salads     138
Sauces, Dips, Dressings, and Gravies     157
Vegetables, Plain and Fancy     173
Soups, Thick and Delicious     186
Sandwiches for All Occasions     207
The Main Course     219
Wonderful, Easy Desserts     265
Acknowledgments     287
Notes     289
Safe Food     292
Resources     294
Publications on Heart Disease by the Author     300
Index     301

Caring for Your Baby and Young Child or A Million Little Pieces

Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5

Author: Steven P Shelov

The organization that represents the nation’s finest pediatricians and the most advanced research and practice in the field of child health answers all your medical and parenting questions. Here is sound, reassuring advice on child rearing that covers everything from preparing for childbirth to toilet training to nurturing your child’s self-esteem. Here, too, is an indispensable guide to recognizing and solving common childhood health problems, plus detailed instructions for coping with emergency medical situations.

Comprehensive, accurate, and doctor-approved, Caring for Your Baby and Young Child provides the very latest state-of-the-art information, including:

• Basic care from infancy through age five
• Guidelines and milestones for physical, emotional,
social, and cognitive growth
• A complete health encyclopedia covering injuries, illnesses,
congenital diseases, and other disabilities
• Guidelines for prenatal and newborn care with sections
on maternal nutrition, exercise, and screening tests during pregnancy
• An in-depth guide to breastfeeding, including its benefits,
techniques, and challenges
• A complete guide for immunizations and updated information
on vaccine safety
• A guide for choosing child care programs and car safety seats
• Ways to reduce your child’s exposure to environmental hazards,
such as tobacco smoke
• New sections on grandparents, stay-at-home dads,
computers and the Internet, and much more

Caring for Your Baby and Young Child is an essential child care resource for all parents who want toprovide the very best for their children—and the one guide pediatricians routinely recommend and parents can safely trust.

A Million Little Pieces

Author: James Frey

“The most lacerating tale of drug addiction since William S. Burroughs’ Junky.” —The Boston Globe

“Again and again, the book delivers recollections that leave the reader winded and unsteady. James Frey’s staggering recovery memoir could well be seen as the final word on the topic.”—San Francisco Chronicle

“A brutal, beautifully written memoir.”—The Denver Post

“Gripping . . . A great story . . . You can’t help but cheer his victory.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review

Entertainment Weekly

[A] thoroughly engrossing memoir...

The San Francisco Chronicle

[I]t gives away nothing to say that he finds himself whole at the end of A Million Little Pieces. How that came to be would be a first-rate tale of suspense, if it weren't drawn so hideously from an actual life.—James Sullivan

Publishers Weekly

For as long as he can remember, Frey has had within him something that he calls "the Fury," a bottomless source of anger and rage that he has kept at bay since he was 10 by obliterating his consciousness with alcohol and drugs. When this memoir begins, the author is 23 and is wanted in three states. He has a raw hole in his cheek big enough to stick a finger through, he's missing four teeth, he's covered with spit blood and vomit, and without ID or any idea where the airplane he finds himself on is heading. It turns out his parents have sent him to a drug rehab center in Minnesota. From the start, Frey refuses to surrender his problem to a 12-step program or to victimize himself by calling his addictions a disease. He demands to be held fully accountable for the person he is and the person he may become. If Frey is a victim, he comes to realize, it's due to nothing but his own bad decisions. Wyman's reading of Frey's terse, raw prose is ideal. His unforgettable performance of Frey's anesthesia-free dental visit will be recalled by listeners with every future dentist appointment. His lump-in-the-throat contained intensity, wherein he neither sobs nor howls with rage but appears a breath away from both, gives listeners a palpable glimpse of the power of addiction and the struggle for recovery. Simultaneous release with the Doubleday hardcover (Forecasts, Mar. 10). (May) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

Frey wakes up on an airplane with four broken teeth, a broken nose, a massive cut on his cheek, and unsure where he is or where he's going. Where he ends up is a residential treatment center based in Minnesota. This is the story of his experiences in that center as an addict and alcoholic. Listeners will meet the residents, including some who helped Frey continue his treatment and his work toward sobriety. The author's tale is brutal and honest, providing a realistic view of the life of an addict, something not for the faint of heart. It's full of profanity and graphic depictions of violence and drug use. In fact, Frey's description of the repair of his teeth without painkillers or anesthesia may keep people from ever going to the dentist again. That said, this presentation, read by Oliver Wyman, is an important addition for all library collections. Organizations that provide support for substance abusers, counseling centers, and prison libraries also should consider purchase.-Danna Bell-Russel, Library of Congress Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

School Library Journal

Adult/High School-Frey's high school and college years are a blur of alcohol and drugs, culminating in a full-fledged crack addiction at age 23. As the book begins, his fed-up friends have convinced an airline to let him on the plane and shipped him off to his parents, who promptly put him in Hazelden, the rehabilitation clinic with the greatest success rate, 20 percent. Frey doesn't shy away from the gory details of addiction and recovery; all of the bodily fluids make major appearances here. What really separates this title from other rehab memoirs, apart from the author's young age, is his literary prowess. He doesn't rely on traditional indentation, punctuation, or capitalization, which adds to the nearly poetic, impressionistic detail of parts of the story. Readers cannot help but feel his sickness, pain, and anger, which is evident through his language. Ken Kesey's One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (Viking, 1962) seems an apt comparison for this work-Frey maintains his principles and does not respect authority at all if it doesn't follow his beliefs. And fellow addicts are as much, if not more, help to him than the clinicians who are trying to preach the 12 steps, which he does not intend to follow in his path to sobriety. This book is highly recommended for teens interested in the darker side of human existence.-Jamie Watson, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews

Frey's lacerating, intimate debut chronicles his recovery from multiple addictions with adrenal rage and sprawling prose. After ten years of alcoholism and three years of crack addiction, the 23-year-old author awakens from a blackout aboard a Chicago-bound airplane, "covered with a colorful mixture of spit, snot, urine, vomit and blood." While intoxicated, he learns, he had fallen from a fire escape and damaged his teeth and face. His family persuades him to enter a Minnesota clinic, described as "the oldest Residential Drug and Alcohol Facility in the World." Frey's enormous alcohol habit, combined with his use of "Cocaine . . . Pills, acid, mushrooms, meth, PCP and glue," make this a very rough ride, with the DTs quickly setting in: "The bugs crawl onto my skin and they start biting me and I try to kill them." Frey captures with often discomforting acuity the daily grind and painful reacquaintance with human sensation that occur in long-term detox; for example, he must undergo reconstructive dental surgery without anesthetic, an ordeal rendered in excruciating detail. Very gradually, he confronts the "demons" that compelled him towards epic chemical abuse, although it takes him longer to recognize his own culpability in self-destructive acts. He effectively portrays the volatile yet loyal relationships of people in recovery as he forms bonds with a damaged young woman, an addicted mobster, and an alcoholic judge. Although he rejects the familiar 12-step program of AA, he finds strength in the principles of Taoism and (somewhat to his surprise) in the unflinching support of family, friends, and therapists, who help him avoid a relapse. Our acerbic narrator conveys urgency and youthfulspirit with an angry, clinical tone and some initially off-putting prose tics--irregular paragraph breaks, unpunctuated dialogue, scattered capitalization, few commas--that ultimately create striking accruals of verisimilitude and plausible human portraits. Startling, at times pretentious in its self-regard, but ultimately breathtaking: 'The Lost Weekend' for the under-25 set.