Health Books

If you have ever wondered where meat actually comes from...

If you loved Wilbur in Charlotte's Web, and hope that all farmed animals are treated humanely...

If you care about things like climate change, water pollution, avian flu, and health...

If any of these "if"s strike you, read the book. What you will find is a story of a man who cared enough to rescue a sheep left for dead, and from there, became one of the front runners of a movement. No extreme, shock-oriented schemes here. This is a genuine account of a one who has seen the inside of the meat, dairy, and egg industries. As one of the chapters in the book says, it's not Wilbur's farm anymore.

What you will also find is the story of what happens when you build a place where a tiny fraction of these animals can go to fulfill their inherent desire to live. It is nothing short of inspiring.

You must read this book if you love animals and for those who don't I wish you would read it because you would change your mind. This book shows so much compassion and love and what we can do to change the cruel treatment of animals and it gives a history of how factory farming began and ended up the way it is today.

Just read this brilliant book to be opened in heart and mind to the plight of farm animals.

Gene Baur's book should be read because if you are a meat, milk, egg eater you really should know how animals are raised in modern American and how this can effect your health, local water supply and the air you breathe.

Now....I have six hens who are my girls as I call them. Yes, I eat their eggs which are laid in clean nests with fresh straw. They have full run of a half acre of land. But... no commercially raised fowl that I know of is raised in a true, free range manner.

And as a tax payer I think a person should also know the waste of tax dollars that go to support commercial meat, milk, egg operations. I am not commenting on the whole issue of meat or non meat eating, since I wanted to concentrate of giving a review that touches on issues that so many consumers fail to think about.

And that's why I loved this book!

Farm Santuary lifts the dark veil covering our animal food industry. It is time to stop pretending that food comes in plastic and paper containers from the grocery store. Animal abuse and pain are an unacceptable link in our food chain. This book offers reality and good storytelling to bring awareness that our animal farming practices are not acceptable to Americans.

This book provides an insightful look into food, nutrition and health from a more holistic perspective. A modern expanded approach to the age old theory "you are what you eat". A must have for health conscious individuals.

This was one of the most informative books I have ever read! Easy to read and understand. It makes total sense and is easy to follow the advice given. Worth every penny and MORE! Thank You Corinne!

Feed Your Need is an excellent book for anyone who wishes to improve their health, and offers particularly useful information for diabetics. Some of the information seems to be the opposite of what we are told by many mainstream "experts". However, I was able to lower my blood sugar levels significantly by following some of the suggestions in this book. Although I still need to take an oral medication to control my diabetes( changes take time to implement and old habits die hard!) this book has made a big difference in my life.

A book well-worth reading! "Feed your Need" is a very readable book which opened my eyes to how food choices affect the physical body. Applying just a few of the suggestions has made me feel more energetic and healthy. For anyone wanting to understand WHY you should eat or not eat certain foods this book is invaluable.

Recently I am trying to be health concious and thank god I found this book by accident-actually I was looking for the food cure related books..I started to read the book and could not stop before I finished. Unlike the other sources in the market, this book explains what to do with your life/health in a easy to read way and understandable. It changes the way you look at the life and you will start to be observant about your life without realising. you should read and see the changes in your life. I strongly recommend you to give it a chance if you have any doubts. you will be thankful!!!!

I LOVE this book and the personal stories from Brant Secunda's and Mark Allen's lives. Here is a blueprint for holistic living, for finding balance in body and soul. It provides many practical exercises for remembering every day our connection to all of creation and guidance to reach our goals (fitness and worldly). It teaches us to live "in balance" ... oh, how the world needs this information! And, as a person who spends way too many hours in front of a computer, it is a guide to living a healthy life and incorporating physical fitness that is not overwhelming. Using these elements, even couch potatotes can transform!

Fit Soul, Fit Body: 9 Keys to a Healthier, Happier You

This book is an amazing book that will show you how to combine a fit body with a fit soul in order to get the most out of your life!

This book is truly a guide to holistic living. The words of Brant Secunda and Mark Allen teach us how to tune into our inner wisdom, both physically and spiritually, and how to live in balance within ourselves and in relationship to the Earth Mother and all of life.

Excellent read. Finally, a book that, in user friendly terms, allowed me to break the no pain, no gain, workout ethic instilled in me as a young boy playing competetive sports. Thank you Mark Allen. Brant Secunda's simple exercises for relieving stress and reconnecting with our surroundings have been greatly appreciated and easily shared with my patients. Read this book, and more importantly, read this book with your kids.

I appreciate the focus on physical health and fitness, in practical and achievable exercises. As a non-athelete, I was leary of advice from a professional. However, the lessons are well researched and grounded for all of us.
The spiritual health that Brant Secunda and Mark Allen is telling us about is an invitation to live fully, with concrete examples of how we can get healthy and stay healthy.
I found it very helpful and will come back to it again and again.
Aleana Waite

This is a very useful book for setting up a swimming program on your own. It has lots of workouts for all levels of swimmers. I am training myself for an upcoming open water ocean swim (the book has two chapters just on open water training)I photocopied several pages with great work outs and put them in a plastic bag so I can have them pool side while working out. It is the next best thing to a coach. Don't bother with any other swimming books. Many other books are written for people who have been coached in swimming and know all the "jargon", this one explains what is necessary and keeps it simple.

The Fit Swimmer in my initial review appears to be an excellent guide to someone willling and able to follow the advice, training programs and tips given in the book. For someone like myself, a super senior (past 75), I appreciate the advice and tips but I am not training for competition but just fitness purposes. I may adapt one of the training programs offered but for now I'll continue my swimming a mile ( freestyle, backstroke and breaststroke mixture) three times a week until I finish the book.

This book is just about everything you will need if you are looking for swimming workouts. It takes you right from the very basics to advanced workouts. It also helps you correct swimming positions. I've already decreased my free style lap time just by making little adjustments. Simply Great!

Like many triathletes I had a bit of swimming in my background when I started racing, but certainly not enough to be competitive. I occasionally swam with organized groups but my consultant travel schedule made sure that was infrequent. I got a copy of The Fit Swimmer, read it cover to cover and made up about a dozen workouts from the suggested routines. The section on open water racing was particularly valuable. While training diligence was definitely part of it, this book was the #1 resource for me in competitively placing in events ranging from local races to National and Ironman distances. Ms. Brems meets 2 imperatives: she explains things simply and she gives you the tools you need to progress from a relative novice to a competitive swimmer. Like a craftsman and apprentice, she leaves it up to the reader to figure out how to best use the extensive toolset in the book. I found that creating about a dozen workouts on 3x5 cards from her suggested routines and rotating them did the trick (store them in a ziploc bag for use poolside). You can experiment with different routines to test how your body responds. I now coach people on an occasional basis, and strongly encourage each of them to read the book before we start.

This book has really helped me improve and vary my workouts and make the masters swim class I teach more interesting.

I listened to this book on my ipod while walking. I found it to be so insightful and future thinking. Dr. Hyman says the way most view medicine will drastically change for the better very soon as the results of many new studies reach the mainstream of the medical world. Contrary to my own beliefs he advocates eating some meat but says it should be free of hormones and other bad elements. I think we could do our planet a world of good if we stopped eating meat all together as we have to grow the plants to feed them and we should just eat the plants to begin with since that is where all nutrition starts.

I consider myself to be fairly well informed on health and dietary topics but I did learn many new things from Dr. Hyman. I appreciated his sharing his own experience with mercury poisioning and stress. I am in the process of reading his other book, Ultrametabolism and have recommended his books to friends and family.

Run, don't walk to get this set of CDs. I actually borrowed from the libary--regardless of how you obtain them, if you are at all interested in your health, these Cds are priceless. Dr. Hyman makes sense--and he backs up all of his facts with studies from either the New England Journal of Medicine or the JAMA. I love this guy! I tried listening to the cds by Kevin Trudeau, and while he has some of the same info he comes across as being a fanatic/conspiracy theorist (just my opinion).
Borrow or buy this set--you won't be disappointed with the amount of quality of info. I'm buying sets for my brother and mother.

This book is a must read , especially all physicians--- His treat the cause and not the symptoms makes so much sense

Dr. Hyman's Five Forces of Wellness is full of new information as well as reinforcing things we already knew. The presentation never is boring and my husband and I will listen to these tapes again for reinforcement of the ideas. We feel Dr. Hyman has given us the information we need to make the rest of our years healthier and therefore happier. My husband is 80 and I'm 72 and with this easy to follow health plan we hope to be around for quite some time.

Bought this book along with Food Seductions by the same author. Some repeat but both very good books. Hope for restoring your health without pills, just a good healthy tasty diet will improve your life greatly. This books helped encourage and motivate me.

I gave a copy to my brother, bought one for a friend, I'm reading it myself for the second time, and I just bought 3 more to share.

I just finished reading Dr. Barnard's book and I'm reading it a second time! I found his book informative and explained in easy to understand terms. I think he makes a very good case for reasons not to continue eating a meat-based diet as the effects of a high fat animal diet lead to many of the popular illnesses and diseases we read about today (e.g., diabetes, stroke, heart attack, etc.)

I was not a vegan or vegetarian before reading this book and I know that some reviewers may think there is too much of a vegan agenda, but I would disagree. Plant based diets are a healthy and economical way to live your life. It can be particularly useful if you're trying to lose weight as well as if you are genetically predisposed to certain illnesses by incorporating the new four food groups into your life and possibly preventing or eliminating potential illnesses altogether.

This is an excellent book. It traces out the nutritional roots of many significant diseases. My wife found it in the library while looking for something else, and now we're on our way to becoming vegetarian.

At times it's a little slow reading and occasionally seems a bit repetitious. However, his work is very well documented and there are extensive footnotes to research done in this area.

For an even more significant piece of the puzzle with regard to the roots of disease check out Henry Wright's "A More Excellent Way". He deals with the spiritual roots of disease, which affect us even more pervasively than the nutritional roots. A wholistic view on life demands that we address each dimension.

I have purchased over a dozen copies of this book for my family and friends, and finally browsed the reviews today and was shocked to see any negative feedback. So for those considering the book, remember the negative reviews were written by meat-lovers that in no way plan to give it up.

I've read at least twenty or so nutrition books and this is my favorite of them all. It's simple to read, easy to understand, and very complete. It encourages a vegeterian diet for the sole purpose of having a healthy life, rather than giving all the statisitics on animal cruelty.

It deconstructs all the myths (i.e. people need tons of protein, and vegetarians do not get enough iron) and gives tons of yummy recipes in addition to informing you of all the nutritional benefits of a plant-based diet.

It reinforces the fact that doctors do not fix you until you are broken. My brother is in med school and I asked him how many nutrition classes he was required to take..... the answer was none. Why not learn how to prevent diseases rather than fix them afterwards? Why eat a meat-based diet, take your cholesterol pill and destroy your liver, when you can avoid eating cholesterol at all? Why eat excessive simple carbohydrates and sugars and rely on an insulin shot every day?

I've bought copies for nearly every member in my family over the past three years, but sadly they don't bother reading it until they are required to take insulin, or they find a lump in their breast, or they find their cholesterol is off the charts. I believe you have a duty to your loved ones to keep your body healthy so you can be here for them as long as possible, and this book can show you how. For more info, look into pcrm.org

Also, my sincerest thank you to Dr. Barnard for caring enough to spend time to teach interested people the proper way to eat.

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This is a great book! It is well written, easy to read and very understandable.

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I bought this in family medicine residency and still use it, though not as much. Very helpful for those less common fractures or especially helpful when you want to call the orthopedist but don't want to sound like an idiot on the phone. It assumes a primary care person can handle fractures a little more complicated than I (or my local ortho-pod) would want me to handle, but overall, the advice is very helpful. I especially like the way it breaks down length of time for each treatment, when to re-xray, etc.

I previously used earlier edition of the book. Not much of a difference. Orthopedics have their own way of dealing with fractures. This book is entirely intended for primary care providers. An excellent reference I can keep in my office. I think Essentials of MS offers more compare to this book. It features an easy to read box of what one ought to do. Highly recommended.

A great resource book to have on fractures. I am using it frequently in practice

I am an Internist who bought this prior to deployment to a Level 2 BAS in Iraq. This was very helpful not only in terms of diagnosis, but management. It lets you know just when to refer, so you are not taking up medical evac resources, or placing soldiers on the road unnecessarily. I highly recommend this book as part of your packing list if you are a non-ortho battalion surgeon.

This is an excellent reference to rapidly give you the plan of treatment for any fracture in a table form as well as a longer written discussion. It states when orto MD must be seen and when. Perfect as a ready reference!

Clever use of the 13 full moons in a year with interesting side notes from cultures all over the world. This book will help guide anyone trying to make healthy food choices, but the author also provides an explanation as to why these choices make sense nutritionally and several recipes at the end of each chapter. A must read for anyone interested in improving diet and overall health.

This book is written with heart, soul and spirit. A book to use and refer to as well as delight you along the way.

This is an incredible resource for those hungering to find a more complete, more functional way to eat than low-carb or low-fat.

Prentice weaves information about food and nutrition with myths, legends and indigenous practices as well as her own impressions as a chef and food activist. It's packed with cooking and food history from around the world. But it also reads like a very personal, relatable journey. I especially appreciate her including the struggles with food she had as a young woman.

This is on my Christmas list to give to everyone this year.

A great book!
The vegetarianism essay alone is worth the purchase price, but other parts of the book are just as engaging.

I've never met the author, but after reading this book I feel like she is an old friend.

Jessica Prentice does a beautiful job with both her writing in each chapter and her recipes. I love learning about various cultures, the thirteen moons and the environment. Her recipes are also delicious and a real help to someone who's trying to eat based on the seasons and local produce. I first checked this book out from the local library but had to have it for the recipes. Definitely a good book!

what a humble and truthful insight to the life and art of a real Chinese martial art master! love it.

Good introduction to Pa Kua. However, there is a lot missing. There is so much more to Pa Kua than what this book covers. It would also benifit greatly to have a video to supplement the illustrations.

~I'm finally glad they got Vol. 1 on this website. I'd written a review for Vol.2 awhile ago, but had to imply that there was a Vol.1 to be read, as well. It's been a while, and others have already gotten to it, but I thought I'd plug in my 2 cents...

WONDERFUL!

In retrospect, there is some mystery here. BaGua, as with many Chinese martial arts styles, is all about your instructor, your instructor's instructor, etc.. Your lineage is key. BaGua has a very complex geneaology, stemming~~ from Dong Hai Chuan (various phonetic spellings) the legendary Grandmaster. In fact, two key branches of BaGua (since Dong Hai Chuan only taught experienced martial artists-- most whom he purportedly defeated in combat) are those that seem very BaGua like, and those that seem Hsing-Yi-ified. Those are my terms. In my experience, you can take the forty or so BaGua styles, and classify them as fairly "pure" BaGua (circular, evasive, fine, intricate), and those that have integreated~~ significant Hsing-Yi principles-- linear, power, direct.

Park Bok Nam's style is more pure BaGua in terms of evasiveness, footwork, and hand-techniques. His teacher, the legendary Lu Shue-Tien, is a bit of an unknown... Even in this book, there is no real claim as to who taught Lu Shue-Tien. Other sources I have speculate...

That being said, this book is a wonderful, detailed work that describes basic techniques-- footwork, some foot-trapping, and elementary strikes down to the~~ smallest level of biomechanics. How to move your feet, knees, pelvis, abdoman, to generate power, for example. In more detail than in any other book on any other style I've ever read. Superb for anyone who is trying to understand the underlying principles of this art, or even for the advanced practitioner trying to compare this or that, or to glean insights.

This is not a forms book. Park Bok Nam gives some simple palm changes that are basically qi gong postures with circle walking. ~~ It's a mechanics book. A superb one.

Finally, the lineage is important. BaGua varies significantly from style to style. The techniques can be dramatically different, as can the mechanics at the more superficial level. But I think from a basic concepts level, the biomechanics are all pretty much the same. So this is an insight into one family, not all. But I think confining it to mechanics kept it manageable, and pure. No hullabaloo or flash. And eminently useful.

Wonderful,~~ clearly written, adequate pictures (get the videos for better illustration of Park's technique). A must for the martial artist.~

I've just started pa kua practice and bought this book in order to use it as a reference, but it became more than that! The examples are relatively easy to follow and the theory behind the art of pa kua is also explained very well. I never really understood the theories of "sung" or the "kung fu body" until I read this book. The examples in this book must be practiced, however, or else it will be of no use.

This is a detailed and in-depth but very readable book on this still little known form of Chinese boxing, tai chi and even hsing-i still being probably better known outside of China, although none of the so-called internal boxing arts are still as well known in the west as kung-fu.

After an introduction and chapter on the history of the art and the exploits of Master Lu Shui T'ien, the senior author's teacher, the writers launch into a discussion of the techniques and philosophy of pa kua. Chapters cover footwork and stepping methods, hand and palm training, body training, pa kua philosophy, the production of chi energy, and a final chapter on pa kua chi kung methods.

Pa kua is most known for its unique stepping and footwork and I was most interested in that, and the book has a nice 50-page chapter on it. The descriptions of several stepping and circle methods were very clear and so were the illustrations and diagrams. However, it would be very difficult for someone who hadn't actually seen a practitioner stepping the circle to get an idea of what it's really like from just reading; but as I'd seen it before that wasn't a problem for me.

Compared to karate, kung fu and other martial arts, pa kua is most likely to strike while moving or stepping rather than being planted in a rooted or powerful stance. Although I was exposed to pa kua many years ago when I was intensively studying wu-style tai chi and chin na, I was most interested in the stepping methods and whether they could be adapted to the system of knife-fighting and knife-fighting defenses I've developed over the last 25 years, which are a combination of escrima/kali, Indonesian silat, European fencing, and American Bowie-style methods. I'd already incorporated several pa kua turning and stepping methods into the system and was interested in whether the book might show me anything new or different, and I may have gotten a few extra ideas for things that might work, although I was familiar with most of the material from my previous studies.

So although my main interest is not in pa kua I still found the book useful as an interesting review of the material, and as I said, may have picked up some things that might be useful in my present teaching and training in karate, kobudo weapons, and the knife.

If you're beginner to intermediate practitioner this is still a good book with much good information and I can highly recommend it. Also, the first chapter on Master Lu's adventures and exploits, and his ideas and approach to training (which was very strict in those days) make for entertaining reading.