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Organic Housekeeping: In Which the Non-Toxic Avenger Shows You How to Improve Your Health and That of Your Family, While You Save Time, Money, and, Perhaps, Your Sanity

Ellen Sandbeck

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Longing for a kinder, gentler world? As the old saying goes, everything begins at home, and odds are, if you live in the all-American household, the air inside is more toxic than the air outside, even if you live in the most polluted of cities. You regularly handle the filthiest object in your home -- the kitchen sponge -- and put the same chemicals on your face that are used in brake fluid and antifreeze.

The cleaning agents and personal care products commonly marketed to and used in American homes contain not only some very dangerous, toxic chemicals, but they also create an "overly clean," chemically bombed-out house that compromises immune systems. And with more than fifty million Americans suffering from allergies and other autoimmune diseases -- not to mention the developing and fragile immune systems of children and seniors -- large numbers of people are actually being made sicker and sicker by their homes.

Learn to live a clean, healthy, more economical way with Ellen Sandbeck, the nontoxic avenger. In this must-have book for the twenty-first- century home, this passionate, witty advocate of all things organic will teach you how to maintain every part of the home -- from living room to septic tank, kitchen floor to bathroom sink -- using safe, simple cleansers and quick preventative measures as well as the most effective organic products on the market to get the job done.

Learn time-saving, preventative housekeeping, such as taking thirty seconds to clean the shower while you shower. Take care of bathroom stains with baking soda and vinegar rather than commercial, toxic bathroom "bombs" peddled to you with such force by manufacturers. Need whiter whites? There is no bleaching power on earth stronger than the sun. Snow clean your fine rugs. Choose fruits and vegetables from the relatively pesticide residue-free list. Clean felt-tipped pen stains with vodka. Make furniture shine with olive oil and lemon. Your house will also smell as great as it looks.

The Complete Guide to Navy Seal Fitness, Third Edition (Includes Free DVD): Updated for Today's Warrior Elite

Stewart Usn (Seal) Smith

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The complete package for the serious exercise enthusiast interested in obtaining the fitness level required by Navy SEALs

Whether you want to be a Navy SEAL or just be as fit as one, here’s your chance. The Complete Guide to Navy Seal Fitness, Third Edition has returned with updated BUD/S workouts, an instructional DVD, and the latest entrance requirements from the Navy. With this program, you will be ready for any military training or physical challenge in the world. Train with the world’s fittest and strongest individuals: the US Navy SEALs!

This complete package includes:
• Updated step-by-step instructions to help the fitness recruit on their path to SEAL entry
• Bonus DVD instruction on swimming, running, and exercise
• New beginner workouts for those who need to lose 20 pounds or more
• A special 12-week plan for the Navy Special Operations EOD, SWCC, Diver Physical Screening Test
• New information for optimal weight loss from a certified nutritionist

Written by a top SEAL instructor, The Complete Guide to Navy Seal Fitness, Third Edition, is the advanced exercise program that can walk you through the no-frills workout that has conditioned some of the best bodies around.

Eating For Beauty

David Wolfe

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In Eating For Beauty, author David Wolfe, one of America’s foremost nutrition experts, describes how to cleanse, nourish and beautify by utilizing the benefits of a fresh-food diet. The lessons contained within this book can be applied to improve one’s appearance, vitality, and health. This book is about how to become more beautiful, not just how to maintain beauty or even slow the aging process. It is about rejuvenation at the deepest level, and the enjoyment of life.

This book contains the key for creating beauty within oneself through diet and other complementary factors. Though it explores the role of yoga, beauty sleep, and the psychology of beauty, this book is primarily about the way to eat for beauty. The Beauty Diet is based on principles of raw nourishment—representing the cutting edge nutritional science.

With scientific explanations of the human body’s chemical reactions to various elements of nutrition, physical activity and sleep, this book provides a guide for how to reach your potential for beauty. More than 30 gourmet “beauty recipes” and in-depth descriptions of beneficial foods help to steer beauty-seekers down the path of aesthetic enlightenment. The magical, beautifying secrets held within this book will help the human race reclaim one of its most divine attributes: beauty, inside and out.

The Enzyme Factor

Hiromi Shinya

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Translated into English for the first time is the book that has taken Japan by storm, selling 100,000 copies every month for the past year.

In "The Enzyme Factor", Dr. Hiromi Shinya presents his research, grounded in his 45 years of medical practice in the United States and Japan. This research supports the idea of a miracle enzyme out of which all the enzymes the body needs are produced. He suggests cancer and other diseases occur when this key enzyme is depleted and cannot properly do its job. In this book he clearly shows how what we eat affects that key. Dr. Shinya's science is clearly explained and easy to understand. The suggestions for diet and lifestyle based on this science are simple and easy to follow. Even those who think they know everything about how to eat right will be surprised when they discover what is really healthy.

This simple health regime has led hundreds of his patients, many suffering from cancer and other life-threatening diseases, to perfect health.

Inside "The Enzyme Factor" you will discover:

* How to look younger and delay aging
* How to live strengthen your body's natural defenses.
* Why there has been no relapse of cancer when patients follow the Shinya Diet & Health Regimen.
* How to become a healthy 100 year old
* Misconceptions with many dietary trends
* What your intestinal traits can teach you about your health
* Why drinking milk will cause osteoporosis
* How your body will become oxidized if you eat oxidized foods
* Why eating the meat of animals that have a higher body temperature than humans pollutes the blood
* The inseparable relationship between the human body and the land
* How love activates the immune system

This is a new, important and affordable approach to health care in America by the world's leading gastroenterologist, and inventor of colonoscopic surgery, who has spent his life in empirical research on the subject of human digestion. If we follow Dr. Shinya's health prescription we will lose weight, be fit, save money and enjoy a long and healthy life.

The Truth About Beauty: Transform Your Looks and Your Life from the Inside Out

Kat James

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The Truth about Beauty is a revolutionary guide to transforming your shape, your looks, and your life without drugs, deprivation, sweat, or surgery. Renowned holistic beauty expert and health advocate Kat James introduces pro-beauty lifestyle upgrades that will help readers shed the toxic mindsets and popular regimens that sabotage our bodies, and recreate ourselves from the inside-out with stunning physical rewards. Backed by current science and based on the author’s own remarkable transformation, this indispensable resource will help readers:

* Discover the three crucial elements missing from standard beauty and body approaches
* Learn why chemistry counts more than calories
* End food cravings and reshape their body
* Reverse wrinkles without acids and conquer chronic skin issues without drugs
* Convert dozens of autopilot routines into powerfully transforming beauty rituals

The book includes an extraordinary Resource Guide filled with the most affordable and appealing science-backed solutions that maximize your vitality and quality of life.

Kat James's advice has been featured on Today and MSNBC and in Vogue, O, Self, and Seventeen. Her clients have included both everyday women and celebrities such as Sarah Jessica Parker and Kate Hudson. She is a regular columnist for Better Nutrition and founder of the science-based Web site, InformedBeauty.com.

Somatics: Reawakening The Mind's Control Of Movement, Flexibility, And Health

Thomas Hanna

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Review of the other reviews 4 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

I had severe chronic abdominal pain for the best part of a year. I had to quit my sport (rowing) and it really affected my studies. Truth is I was already beginning to realise that my problem was somatic and had begun to release the abdominal tension just by thinking about it. I discovered somatics after that. Personally I have found it an effective approach to releasing tension. It has worked for me but what I would like to know is whether it has worked for others?

The thing about this sort of book is that it is likely to attract positive reviews. We only see the successes and the failures are forgotten about thus distorting the reviews. Indeed this is a failure of the book itself. As a practitioner of somatics Hanna must have had people he could not help. What was their situation? How long did he work with them? As such the first part of the book which discusses case studies and its philosophical basis cannot be regarded as scientific. We can learn as much from failure as from success.

The only critical review at the time of writing is right to criticise the poor visibility of the skeleton diagrams. Others have criticised its lack of mention of the fact that there are people trained in somatic education. If you decide to take on the program then I advise you to go to someone trained in the movements otherwise you risk doing it wrong and wasting your time or at worst making your problem worse.

Somatics is not an alternative to Pilates or Yoga rather it takes certain aspects of those disciplines and refines them as well as adding some additional ideas not found in either. Pilates is about core stability, yoga is about... well yoga and somatics is about muscle tension. The book also fails to adequately put itself within context of other related disciplines.

Anyway, Somatics is a great discipline. I hope that the next edition works out these criticisms.

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The groundbreaking program for healthy aging through movement and flexibility.

In the revolutionary Somatics, Thomas Hanna demonstrates that so many problems we accept as inevitable over time--chronic stiffness, bad back, chronic pain, fatigue, and even high blood pressure--need never occur if we maintain conscious control of nerve and muscle, a state which Hanna calls sensory-motor awareness. This gentle, lifelong program can help almost anyone maintain the pleasures of a supple, healthy body indefinitely, with only a five-minute routine once a day.

Creating Affluence: The A-to-Z Steps to a Richer Life (Chopra, Deepak)

Deepak Chopra

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Extremely Slim, Readable, and Penetrating 5 out of 5 stars.
11 of 14 people found this review helpful.

I am in the middle of a cross-over from being a former spy and infantry officer--metrics driven--to partnering with 23 others to create the Earth Intelligence Network and empower the public with public intelligence that forces the policymakers into accountability. So I find myself in strange territory--I used to blow off all the spiritual "squishy" stuff, and now I am finding that it provides not only a bridge, but a safety network as I venture into a "leap of faith" on what might be possible.

I found the same authors DVD The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success and book by the same title, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Pocketbook Guide to Fulfilling Your Dreams (One Hour of Wisdom) to be so worthwhile that I watched and then read them in combination.

This is a gem of a book, the kind of thing that the author himself says should be read once, and then used as a daily reminder, reading several pages each day. I agree.

Most fascinating for me, as a specialist in information and intelligence, is the authors emphasis on pursuing the goddess of knowledge so as to make the goddess of wealth envious (hence attracting wealth), and also his emphasis on how the raw material of the world is non-material, everything is a hierarchy of states of information and energy, a seamless matrix of nothingness. What I used to write off as gobblygook now has meaning to me.

The author's emphasis on Failure as good finally resonates with me. I have just closed the door on fifteen years of trying to help governments get in touch with the 96% of the information they do not and cannot steal, and as I reflect back on all that leads to the founding of the Earth Intelligence Network, I see a string of failures that led to this day:

Refused an offer from Lloyd's Bank Internation to join US Marine Corps
Average infantry officer, accepted by CIA because of background
Resigned from CIA when I found the clandestine service corrupt
Resigned from the Civil Service as founder of USMC Intelligence Center when the lawyers refused to let me run another conference on Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)
Abandoned effort to help US Government specificially in achieving access to the 96%v via a Multinational Decision Support Center, when too many factors precluded engagement.

Now I am here, about to begin my true life's work as intellligence officer to the five billion poor (and to those corporations that wish to follow the green to gold path, as well as those foundations that wish to use a global impact plan to armonize their spending for poverty, disease, environmental degradation and so on).

"Failing" at infantry, spying, bureaucracy was all a prelude to my life's work--I cannot yet say it is destiny, but my published books are now starting to show a pattern, and the next three (all free online as well as offered via Amazon, now, finally, "make sense:" Collective Intelligence: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace; Peace Intelligence: Assuring a Good Life for All; and Commercial Intelligence: From Moral Green to Golden Peace.

This book, which has two sections, one offering a page (sometimes more) on 26 steps, followed by one on 25 quantities of a unified field, is real and it is not at all squishy. I'd like to see more hard-nosed CEOs and others give this book a chance.

Some other items I have enjoyed over the years that you might like also:
Radical Man: The Process of Psycho-Social Development.
Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics
What the Bleep Do We Know!?

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Featuring a new Foreword by Richard Carlson, author of "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff", this new edition of Deepak Chopra's bestselling book explores the full meaning of "wealth consciousness" with clear and simple wisdom.

The Emotional First Aid Kit: A Practical Guide to Life After Bariatric Surgery

Alexander Cynthia L.

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The Emotional First Aid Kit / Bariatric Surgery 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

I am a Bariatric Coordinator at a medical center in Nebraska. I have many books on bariatric surgery related to care and experience of the patient through all phases of surgery and aftercare. This by far is the best book I have found. It is very forthright and practical! I have members of my support group reviewing several copies that I ordered. We are strongly considering using this book for discussion at some of our support group meetings in 2009. I would encourage you to get this book because it really gives you a common sense approach to bariatric surgery as a patient. Thanks.

Dissapointing: Not a motivating or helpful guide. 1 out of 5 stars.
3 of 4 people found this review helpful.

I was dissapointed with this little book. Treatment of a really important componant of weight loss surgery, your emotions, was superficial. I felt it smacked of someone who had no personal experience of being overweight - I could be wrong. And while it's not essential that the author have had direct experience of being overweight, I just got the sense that the author didn't have a realistic view of what is required to overcome the emotional baggage that someone who has got to the point of having weight loss surgery has.

This is a light-weight book (no pun intended) that didn't provide me with any realistic useful tips to use on my weight-loss journey. The constrant referals to seek out professional help made the value of the book redundant.

Heartmath Solution: The Institute of HeartMath's Revolutionary Program for Engaging the Power of the Heart's Intelligence

Doc Childre

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&ldquoThe HeartMath approach outlined in this [audiobook] could save you years of therapy.” - Deepak Chopra, M.D.

What if you could easily. . . Make better decisions? Enhance creativity? Slow down aging? You can! Simply by understanding your heart's intelligence - which has more impact on our emotions, our mind, and our physical health than was ever thought possible.

And what if you learned that there is something you can do - potent tools that can channel your heart's intelligence - to live a healthier life with greater potential than ever before? Now, at last, the internationally esteemed Institute of HeartMath shares its research and the revolutionary techniques relied on by prominent physicians and Fortune 500 companies. In this audiobook, the authors offer astonishing proof that the heart has an intelligence, one that profoundly affects our mental and physical health.

They have proven that when the heart's intelligence is engaged, it can completely alter our heartbeat, blood pressure, and hormone levels. When we use our brains alone, it is difficult to sift out all the emotions and perceptions that we have. Our bodies react to emotional stimuli that often unbalance us physically and mentally. When we engage the power of our heart's intelligence, then, and only then, can we make the most of our health and our minds. These life-altering techniques will show you how to deepen the qualities long associated with the heart'wisdom, compassion, courage, love, strength, and joy.

Read by author Howard Martin on two cassettes.

20,000 Secrets of Tea: The Most Effective Ways to Benefit from Nature's Healing Herbs

Victoria Zak

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Fight Colds and Flu
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An ancient Chinese legend: Once there was a man who knew 100,000 healing properties of herbs. He taught his son 80,000 secrets. On his deathbed, he told his son to visit his grave in five years, and there he would find the other 20,000 secrets. When the son went to his father's grave, he found, growing on the site, the tea shrub....

Teas are the gentle, natural, most beneficial way to absorb the healing properties of herbs--easily and inexpensively. A simple cup of tea not only has the power to soothe and relax but to deliver healing herbal agents to the bloodstream more quickly than capsules, tinctures, or infusions. Feeling tired? Rose hip tea will rev you up and beautify your skin. Need some help with your diet? Ginger tea will provide the boost you need and help aching joints too. Hot or iced, these pure and simple drinks offer delicious ways to stay healthy and revitalize you from the inside out. This unique guide offers:

An A-Z listing of common ailments followed by the teas best used to treat them
Instructions on how to create your own medicinal kitchen
Advice on creating your own tea blends
Descriptions of the top 100 herbs and their secret healing properties
And much, much more!