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Book Reviews: 01 Apr - 07 Apr 2007

  1. 40-30-30 Fat Burning Nutrition
  2. Healing with complementary alternative therapies
  3. The handbook of natural beauty
  4. Living The Good Life
  5. Safeguarding Motherhood
  6. Never Be Tired Again
  7. The McDougall Program for Maximum Weight Loss
  8. Natural Prescriptions


1) 40-30-30 Fat Burning Nutrition

The book covers the connection of dietary hormones to permanent weight loss and better health. It teaches ways to combine carbohydrates, proteins, and fats to maximize your body's fat burning potential and therefore be able to feel and perform better. It also teaches an easy way to balanced nutrition to burn fat 24 hours a day while eating foods one enjoys.

Authors: Joyce and Gene Daoust
Publishers: Wharton Publishing
Date of Publication: 1996
No. of pages: 116


2) Healing with complementary alternative therapies

The book presents healing techniques in complementary and alternative medicine as a way to promote optimal health care. It begins by discussing the concept and origins of healing, the rise in popularity of complementary and alternative healing modalities, and the nature of integrative health care. The book also includes acupuncture, herbal medicine, traditional Chinese medicine and massage and explores the process of becoming a healer and the body - mind-spirit connection to health and illness.

Authors: Lynn Keegan
Publishers: Thomson Delmar
Date of Publication: 2002
No. of pages: 520


3) The handbook of natural beauty

Every woman needs a beauty manual to consult for self help in smoothing roughened skin, removing dark circles from under her eyes and for multitude of other cosmetic problems that arise daily. This book gives practical ways and homemade preparation to bring out ones natural beauty. The natural beauty preparations include shampoos, moisturizers, toning lotions, hand creams, bath oils, cleansing grains, facial masks, perfumes, sachets and colognes and much more.

Authors: Virginia Castleton
Publishers: PG Publishing Pte Ltd.
Date of Publication: 1975
No. of pages: 302


4) Living The Good Life

This book is a guide to health and success, it encourage one to live the good life. What is good life? It is about allowing body to become the best it can be. It's the feeling of energy and alertness you feel when you're in good shape. It's about the confidence with which you meet life challenges. It's knowing that you can achieve far more than you ever dreamed of. It's the sense of yourself as a body, mind, heart and soul - a whole being, vibrant and alive.

Authors: David Patchell-Evans
Publishers: BCW Press
Date of Publication: 2004
No. of pages: 244


5) Safeguarding Motherhood

This is a book for the woman who wishes to learn all she can about the proper way to care for herself during pregnancy. It provides the expectant mother not only with clear information on the physical aspects of pregnancy and labor, but also with sound psychological preparation. It strengthens the team-work between patient and doctor by giving the mother-to-be keener insight into the ways and wherefores of the doctor's suggestions. The book is designed to be recommended with confidence as a sound and comforting supplement to the physician's advice.

Authors: David Patchell-Evans
Publishers: BCW Press
Date of Publication: 2004
No. of pages: 244


6) Never Be Tired Again

This book deals with proven nutrition, fitness and lifestyle step by step program that leaves people with more energy and vigor to fight disease, heal, work more effectively and have fun; combining with easy to learn exercises, nutritional guidelines, healthful recipes and breathing techniques.

Authors: Dr. David C. Gardner and Dr. Grace Joely Beatty
Publishers: Harpes & Row Publishers
Date of Publication: 1990
No. of pages: 370


7) The McDougall Program for Maximum Weight Loss

The author draws on the latest scientific and medical evidence about nutrition, metabolism, and hunger to provide a simple weight loss plan .It also includes more than 100 healthy and delicious recipes, packed with all information and total weight loss program. The author shares the secrets of carbohydrates, metabolism, and weight loss, the truth about fat-in one's diet and on one's body, super market shopping guides, how to deal with eating disorders, dining information and also studies and documentation on the McDougall approach.

Authors: McDougall John A
Publishers: Plume Book
Date of Publication: 1994
No. of pages: 323


8) Natural Prescriptions

The author identifies over 100 ailments, and gives us precise instructions for their treatment with vitamin supplements, herbs, specific diet, advice and lifestyle changes. The author treats the cause, not just the symptoms. He explains what the ailment or disease is, what the likely causes are, and which treatments are effective, and concludes with a concise list of lifestyle changes and specific dosages with vitamin and herbal supplements.

Authors: Robert M. Giller and Kathy Matthews
Publishers: Carol Southern Books
Date of Publication: 1994
No. of pages: 370

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