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Book Reviews: 19 Mar - 25 Mar 2007

Smart medicine for Menopause
The Parenting Survival Kit
When food is love-Exploring the relationship between eating and intimacy
Fat wars-45 days to transform your body
Foods for healthy kids
Cystitis - The complete self help guide
Everyday health tips-2000 practical hints for better health and happiness
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1) Smart medicine for Menopause

The author discusses both the short term and long term consequences and symptoms of menopause. The book outlines the full range of options both conventional and alternative, that are available today. The book also discusses hormone replacement therapy, dietary and lifestyle strategies, the use of herbs and nutritional supplements, and a plan to slow down the aging process, and also answers your questions on menopause.

Authors: Cabot Sandra
Publishers: Avery Publishing Group
Date of Publication: 1995
No. of pages: 201

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2) The Parenting Survival Kit

The book deals with how to make it through the parenting years with your family, dealing with seven inventive strategies for surviving the stress of parenthood. The book is a A-Z guide to common problems and solutions that is discipline, sibling rivalry, parenting as partners, food issues, work and family conflicts, sleep disorders, school, values and more. It is a comprehensive directory of on-line and other resources.

Authors: Koman Aleta and Myers Edward
Publishers: Berkley Publishing Group
Date of Publication: 2000
No. of pages: 463

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3) When food is love-Exploring the relationship between eating and intimacy

The author shows how dieting and compulsive eating can become a substitute for intimacy. The author examines the crucial issues that surround compulsive eating, need for control, dependency on melodrama, desire for what is forbidden. The author shows why many people overeat in an attempt to satisfy their emotional hunger, and why weight loss frequently uncovers a new set of problems. The book will help readers break destructive, self perpetuating patterns and learn to satisfy all the hungers.

Authors: Roth Geneen
Publishers: Plume Book
Date of Publication: 1991
No. of pages: 205

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4) Fat wars-45 days to transform your body

The book tells us how a human body works and how it makes energy, how it stores fuel, how it moves fat around, and how to burn that fat. It tells us how to craft an eating and activity plan.

Authors: King Brad J
Publishers: Macmillan Canada
Date of Publication: 2000
No. of pages: 179

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5) Foods for healthy kids

A number of experts apart from the author have helped prepare the recipes and text. They know the value of good food, simply and tastefully prepared. Healthy food does not have to taste like roots, blossoms and bark. The author has put together the snacks that appear in the foods for restless kids, and tested them on real live children.