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Book Reviews
Book Reviews: 12 Mar - 18 Mar 2007

  1. Dr.Atkins quick and easy new diet cookbook
  2. Jump Start
  3. Siblings without rivalry
  4. The Melatonin Miracle-Nature's age reversing, diseasefighting and sex enhancing hormone
  5. The healing hearts
  6. Mega-Nutrition
  7. Mental health or mental illness
  8. The 5 day miracle diet


1) Dr.Atkins quick and easy new diet cookbook

The book is designed for healthy eating; just beginning the diet, shedding pounds or maintaining ideal weight. The cookbook will help to produce delectable meals everyday. It contains mouth watering recipes that go from stove to table in 30 minutes or less.

Authors: Atkins Robert C and Atkins Veronica
Publishers: Fireside
Date of Publication: 1997
No. of pages: 213


2) Jump Start

The book is a 21 day plan to lose weight, get fit and increase energy and enthusiasm for life. The book has easy and comprehensive plan to lose weight and tone the body. The detailed simple Jump Start Plan shows on how to plan healthy meals, with complete workout routines, the secret of lasting weight loss.

Authors: Austin Denise
Publishers: Simon and Schuster
Date of Publication: 1998
No. of pages: 392


3) Siblings without rivalry

The book is written with humor, compassion, and understanding and is illustrated with delightful cartoons. The book challenges the idea that constant, unpleasant conflict is natural and unavoidable. The easy to understand anecdotes and stories shows the many ways to teach your children how to get along. Also it has effective strategies and skills that reduce or eliminate sibling rivalry. There are guidelines and real life examples for fostering wholesome co-operative sibling relations.

Authors: Faber Adele and Mazlish Elaine
Publishers: Avon books
Date of Publication: 1987
No. of pages: 219


4) The Melatonin Miracle-Nature's age reversing, diseasefighting and sex enhancing hormone

The book tells us how to grow younger. The authors explain clearly, simply, and persuasively how melatonin works, how to use it, and what to expect when you do. Melatonin naturally exists in our bodies and is perfectly safe. By boosting our melatonin back to the level of our youth, one can actually trick the body into thinking and behaving as though we are still young. The ongoing research suggests far ranging health benefits.

Authors: Pierpaoli Walter, Regelson William ,with Colman Carol
Publishers: Simon and Schuster
Date of Publication: 1995
No. of pages: 255


5) The healing hearts

The book explores the medical ways of the world, an introduction to all medical systems, ancient and modern, scientific and complementary. The book is a good guide for anyone interested in the developing state of medicine and health and in the ongoing search for cure. From herbalism to surgery, the book is a comprehensive survey that examines the quality and usable contributions of medicine developed in many cultures and shows how 20th century western scientific medicine can be enhanced by other healing systems.

Authors: Kaptchuk Ted and Croucher Michael
Publishers: Summit Books
Date of Publication: 1987
No. of pages: 176


6) Mega-Nutrition

The book is the new prescription for maximum health, energy and longevity. Mega-nutrition is a program designed to utilize the basic materials of nature-vitamins and minerals-for super health. The book is based on the principle that nutrition as a form of treatment can be more effective. Thus it examines the success of nutritional therapy in the treatment of serious and prevalent diseases.

Authors: Kunin Richard A
Publishers: Mcgraw-Hill book Company
Date of Publication: 1980
No. of pages: 248


7) Mental health or mental illness

This is a sound and sensible book on psychiatry for the layman and the professional worker. The author, a practicing psychiatrist, gives in clear and simple terms a broad perspective of the human mind and its patterns. The purpose of the book is to shed light on the problems of mental illness, to remove any stigma from it, to explain clearly how both sick and well people function.

Authors: Glasser William
Publishers: Harper and Row
Date of Publication: 1960
No. of pages: 208


8) The 5 day miracle diet

The book is about weight loss and high energy program that changes the body chemistry so one will never have to diet again. The program alters our body's biochemistry so that we don't crave for food. The author teaches you how to control these cravings by learning to eat certain foods at certain times.

Authors: Puhn Adele
Publishers: Vermilion
Date of Publication: 1997
No. of pages: 251

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