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Perfect Health: The Complete Mind/Body Guide

Deepak Md Chopra

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Total reviews: 37 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

I am not reviewing this book... 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 8 people found this review helpful.

Since after the British invasion in around 18 th century, Indians have been introduced and were forced to follow the British system for everything.When they left India 60 years back, Indians got so adapted to the British systems that they continued following them.You could realise that if you analyse the current India.The Education system,Political system, Medicine , Lifestyle of people everything is no longer what India had been 260 years ago.
The only medicine that the people of Current India are familiar with is the English medicine.Having been born and brought up in India, I never visited an ayurveda practioner nor has taken an ayurvedic remedy for any ailment. Nowadays, because of the heavy globalisation, there have been a dramatic change in the current Indian lifestyle.
So, saying that Ayurveda has failed in its native country based on the current statistics is just ignorance.I am not trying to offend the person who commented here. I am talking about the ignorance of me and my fellow Indians who have been so foolish and blind to neglect the ancient Indian treasures which have been a result of hundreds of years of research and hard work of our ancient ancestors.
I also wanted to clarify something here.Even though most of the people in India don't go running to an Ayurveda practitioner for a remedy these days, our ancestors made sure that the medicine was incorporated in our daily routine and lifestyle.The spices and herbs we Indians use in our diet, our daily rituals, our festivals are great testimonials for the ancient wisdom. Scientists and Physicians all around the world just started realising that. Recently, American Scientists found out that Indians are less prone to Parkinsons and Alzeihmers diseases because of some particular herbs that they use in their regular diet.
I didn't read this or any other books written by Deepak Chopra.I am not trying to sell him or his books.He works against the important Indian philosophy that Medicine and Education should never be distributed for monetary or any other gains.
All I can say is that any literature on Ancient Indian wisdom cannot be complete or accurate.You also should realise that being written 5000 years ago in India, the knowledge obviously could not be exactly or literally applied in the present times considering the living and geographic conditions at the time it was written.

Editorial Review:

The latest Western medical breakthroughs and the wisdom of ancient India meet in specific strategies tailored to individual needs. 55 black-and-white illustrations.

The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for Persons with Alzheimer Disease, Related Dementing Illnesses, and Memory Loss Later in Life

Nancy L. Mace, Peter V. Rabins

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Total reviews: 87 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Excellent Resource 5 out of 5 stars.
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I purchased this book for my mother who is taking care of someone with Alzheimber's Disease. She found it an excellent resource for accomplishing day to day activities such as eating, bathing, using the bathroom and keeping her occupied through the day.

The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for Persons with Alzheimer Disease, Related Dementing Illnesses, and Memory Loss 4 out of 5 stars.
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This book had been recommended to me. I bought the book as a gift for a care giver. The care giver said the book was very informative.

The 36-Hour Day - A helpful book about memory loss in old age 5 out of 5 stars.
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I bought this book for the first time a number of years ago at the request of my mother, who wanted me to understand what she was dealing with when my stepfather developed Alzheimer's disease. It was so helpful to me at that time that I recently bought another copy to give to friends whose mother appears to be becoming confused.

If you have a family member with Alzheimer, you need this book 5 out of 5 stars.
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If you have a family member with this disease, you need this book. It will make your life better!

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A guide to caring for an Alzheimer's patient provides the basic facts about dementia and shows readers how to deal with daily care, get outside help, and handle financial issues. Reissue. NYT.

The Language of Yoga: Complete A to Y Guide to Asana Names, Sanskrit Terms, and Chants

Nicolai Bachman

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• Finally, a tool to help yoga teachers and students pronounce asana names and yoga terms correctly!
• The Language of Yoga is the definitive A-Y of yoga specific words. (There is no Z in Sanskrit)
• Useful for yoga teachers and students

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Total reviews: 25 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Truly a "must" for non-Indian yoga teachers 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

I can't believe I have never reviewed this before! I've been a yoga teacher for - oh yikes, way too long to admit to but until I listened to the CDs that come with this book, I had been pronouncing things incorrectly. I guess my teachers learned the wrong pronounciation from others who didn't know...and on it goes. But my students know the difference now; hopefully, they will pass it on as some of them become teachers.
I've also used the book for tattoos. Just enlarge the writing for the artist...perfect.
Namaste

The Language of Yoga 5 out of 5 stars.
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As a student in Yoga Teacher Training, I found this book excellent. It is a clear and easy to find Sanskrit to English and English to Sanskrit on Yoga Postures, with simple diagrams, and pronunciation. The book includes to CDs
to help hear the proper pronunciation of the words.

Editorial Review:

This interactive book/cd set includes more than 200 asanas with illustrated yoga postures and 300 Sanskrit definitions. Nicolai Bachman teaches you how to read and pronounce these sacred sounds with precision, and guides you through seven yoga chants with exact rhythm, tone, and pronunciation. This is an indispensable reference guide for any serious student of yoga.

Dr. Atkins' New Carbohydrate Gram Counter

Robert C. Atkins

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Total reviews: 66 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Pocket book for the supermarket 5 out of 5 stars.
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This purse-size book is indespensible! It lists total carbs, fiber, net carbs, protein, fat, and calories to help you make the best choices, or even endulge a little while knowing how much you are doing so!

My copy is dog-eared and I carry it everywhere with me. When I think I might want something (like grapes, for example), I can look them up in the booklet right there in the supermarket and decide if they will fit into my diet plan or not. (The grapes were too high in carbs, in case you were wondering.)

The book also lists many common and name brand items, both high and low carb.

It is split into several sections such as beverages; milk, cream, butter, and yogurt; breads, muffins and crackers; fruit; pancakes, waffles, and breakfast pastries; poultry; sweeteners, jams, and syrups; etc.

It even has a section for "dining out" with tips on dining away from home, and a "fast food" section with counts for popular foods at fast food restaurants.

If you are watching either your fat or your carbs, you need this book!

Editorial Review:

The companion to the New York Times best-seller.

The Thyroid Solution: A Mind-Body Program for Beating Depression and Regaining Your Emotional and Phys ical Health

Ridha Arem

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Total reviews: 79 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

It's sometimes called a hidden epidemic: One in ten Americans--more than twenty million people--has a thyroid disorder. At any given time, millions of people have an undiagnosed thyroid disorder and experience a chronic mental anguish that almost certainly arises from the very same source. This health crisis flourishes in the shadows of the medical community because many primary-care doctors still don't recognize the importance of the thyroid in mind-body health. In fact, when they do diagnose a thyroid disorder, they treat it as a simple physical problem rather than what it really is: a complex blow to the body and mind--and an increasingly common cause of clinical depression, weight gain, fibromyalgia, high cholesterol, memory loss, anxiety, and other disorders. It's time to treat the source and not the symptom!

The Thyroid Solution is the first mind-body approach to identifying and curing thyroid imbalances. Written by a medical pioneer and leading authority in the field of thyroid research, this groundbreaking book offers Dr. Ridha Arem's practical program for maintaining thyroid health through diet, exercise, and stress control--and through his revolutionary medical plan, which combines two types of hormone treatments with astounding results. Inside you'll discover

- The thyroid basics--what it is, where it is, what it does
- How thyroid hormones affect the brain and alter mood, emotions, and behavior
- The difference between hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism and why both conditions are often undiagnosed or misdiagnosed
- What tests to ask your doctor to give you--and what they mean
- The facts your physician may not know about your thyroid, depression, fibromyalgia, and chronic fatigue syndrome
- The vital connection between stress and thyroid imbalance
- The benefits of antioxidants and essential fatty-acid foods and supplements
- How to recognize and cure the deep and lingering effects of a thyroid imbalance
- How thyroid hormone can work as an antidepressant when your thyroid gland is normal and conventional antidepressants have failed

Filled with remarkable and dramatic patient histories and interviews that document the dramatic results of Dr. Arem's bold new treatments, The Thyroid Solution now gives you and your doctor the tools you need to live a life with peace of mind . . . and body.

The Merck Manual of Medical Information: 2nd Home Edition (Merck Manual of Medical Information Home Edition)

Mark H. Beers

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Total reviews: 28 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

For more than 100 years doctors have been coming to us for advice. Now you can, too.

The Merck Manual has traditionally provided exclusive, up-to-the-minute information to doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals. Now, with this special Home Edition, the general public can access virtually the same critical data contained in the physician's version -- but in everyday language and a reader-friendly format.

With contributions from nearly 200 internationally respected medical experts, this fully revised edition offers vital, easy-to-understand information about almost every known medical issue, including:

• AIDS • cancer • eating, digestive, and nutrition disorders • heart disease • mental illness • pediatric care -- including a new chapter on early-childhood development • sexual dysfunction • terminal illness • viruses and infections

...and much more. Featuring original illustrations and diagrams, an A-Z listing of brand-name and generic drugs, and an appendix of medical resources, The Merck Manual -- Home Edition is published as a not-for-profit service by Merck, a world leader in breakthrough medical discoveries with a long commitment to making the world a healthier place.

How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter

Sherwin B. Nuland

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Total reviews: 67 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

For Physicians and Patients Alike... 5 out of 5 stars.
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I believe this is a must read book for doctors and patients alike. While not cozy and comforting, it presents the facts in a wholly acceptable and honest manner.

I read this after both of my parents passed away from cancer 10 months apart in an attempt to make some sense of what they endured both mentally and medically. This book provided the answers and a great measure of righteous anger at the attending physicians and their attitudes that somehow they could cure the uncureable right up until the very last moment, depriving everyone of the necessary time to say the things that needed to be said.

This book will tell you that you, as the patient, must seek the truth about your illness as it isn't always handed to you by your physician. For the physician, it teaches how to tell the truth without destroying the time left to terminal patients.

Editorial Review:

Attempting to demythologize the process of dying, Nuland explores how we shall die, each of us in a way that will be unique. Through particular stories of dying--of patients, and of his own family--he examines the seven most common roads to death: old age, cancer, AIDS, Alzheimer's, accidents, heart disease, and strokes, revealing the facets of death's multiplicity.

"It's impossible to read How We Die without realizing how earnestly we have avoided this most unavoidable of subjects, how we have protected ourselves by building a cultural wall of myths and lies. I don't know of any writer or scientist who has shown us the face of death as clearly, honestly and compassionately as Sherwin Nuland does here."--James Gleick


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Webster's New World Medical Dictionary

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Webster Medical Dictionary 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

The book has helped me out a lot with my studies. I am studing medical assisting and coding and the dictionary comes in handy more than i thought it would! thanks alot

Heather

Webster's Medical Dictionary 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book looks to be a very complete dictionary, and will serve my purpose well as a student.

Great Book! 5 out of 5 stars.
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I have to say this is my first medical dictornary I have bought. I work in preauthorization in a medical facility and it comes in very handy. It's paperback and it's not too big so I can jsut it in my bag. Also ordering from Amazon, it cheaper and quick delivery to my door step. Great job Amazon!

Editorial Review:

Created by the experts at one of the Web's hottest health sites, this up-to-the-minute reference will help consumers decipher today's medical terms and jargon -- and take control of their health. The companion CD-ROM includes the entire text in searchable format, along with live links to additional resources at medicinenet.com. Readers get: -- 7,500+ definitions of diseases, treatments, medicines, and more -- Contributions by more than 50 medical experts representing 24 medical specialties -- Internet links to medicinenet.com's treatment and pharmaceutical directories

Sugar Blues

William Dufty

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Sugar Blues by William Dufty 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

I am a Certified Holistic Counselor and I give this book to all my clients that attend my program. I teach workshops for Corporations and individuals who are interested in health and lowering health care cost.


When friends and family are willing to make lifestyle dietary changes,instead of taking a pill for depression etc, it is at that point that I suggest purchasing a copy of William Dufty's "Sugar Blues". Like a master he helps to uncover something some people are unwilling to face-- sugar addictions,sugar and Sugar Bluesour emotions and sugar relationships with disease.

Sugar Blues has help my clients find other ways to conquer their sweet tooth. Are you comsuming 3 lbs of sugar daily? I would recommend that you read Sugar Blues.
This book is logical,easy to read and he gets us to see a wider view on what sugar really is, what it isn't, and how it's been misused historically.
Connie
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Editorial Review:

It's a prime ingredient in countless substances from cereal to soup, from cola to coffee. Consumed at the rate of one hundred pounds for every American every year, it's as addictive as nicotine -- and as poisonous. It's sugar. And "Sugar Blues", inspired by the crusade of Hollywood legend Gloria Swanson, is the classic, bestselling expose that unmasks our generation's greatest medical killer and shows how a revitalizing, sugar-free diet can not only change lives, but quite possibly save them.

The Yeast Connection: A Medical Breakthrough

William G. Crook

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Total reviews: 14 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Saved my life... 5 out of 5 stars.
11 of 11 people found this review helpful.

This book and it's companion cookbook literally saved my life, after years of getting no help ~ or getting sicker ~ from the established "medical profession." I changed my diet and in three days the pain disappeared, and a week later I tossed away my cane and bounded up the stairs. I couldn't believe it, it was a miracle. I still can't believe it; all because of changing the foods I ate.

Now, years later, when I go off the no-sugar, no yeast diet, the pain and stiffness and depression returns and I have to stop and think... ahhh, I've been eating sugar = candida yeast infection! So back I go and all is well. This change in eating habits has saved untold thousands of people like me from suffering and pain and "given us our lives back." Why don't doctors tell us? I will never understand this.

How did I hear about this book & the problem of candida yeast infection? Three friends, from different parts of the country, told me about it, and I visited a nutritionist who backed up everything Dr. Crook says in the book. Et Voila! I was cured.

It is very hard at times not to feel great bitterness towards the "regular doctors" who wasted my time and money, and left me suffering for so many years, yet who have little or no training in basic nutrition.

It is not this way in Europe; here they seem to know only how to prescribe surgery or useless medications, some of which made me sicker, but I have to continue to remind myself that this is the training of the AMA. I hope things change, and soon.

In the meantime, a note of importance:

I developed the initial candida yeast infection was drinking "100% pure fruit juice." I drank it all day or night long, for three years, sitting in front of my computer working. I was a computer programmer at the time. Turns out any bottled fruit juice turns into fructose sugar during processing, and I was making myself sick by believing that the "100% pure juice" was healthy for me. How wrong that was. That's how I got sick.

After going on the anti-candida yeast diet for a few months (during which I lost 40 lbs as well! The fat just melted off me), all was well. Then I started drinking cartons of orange juice purchased from the grocery store. Joint pain, exhaustion and suffering again! I was told by a woman shopping alongside of me that processed orange juice was causing my returning joint pain, and she was right. She knew because she had been through the same thing. She was an angel from above! Now I only drink juice that is fresh squeezed, and stick to the rest of the diet, and I have no more problems whatsoever. (I have problems only when I go off).

I have recommended this book to many, many people and all have received a great deal of relief. If only I had been told about it sooner, it would have saved me three years of exhaustion, pain, suffering & immobility. It even hurt to breath some days, and doctors did not help at all. I tried everything.

The diet is simple: no sugar, no dairy, no yeast, no wheat, only organic foods and water to drink. It's not "easy" at first, but mayonnaise, eggs and chicken are allowed, spices, curries, rice syrup (really sweet), fresh corn tacos or chips take the place of many kinds of foods. Health food stores have lots of "gluten and dairy free foods, so you will shop there to your heart's content. Plus I had immediate results within three to seven days.

This diet was like putting "Miracle Grow" on roses with yellowed & blackened leaves half dead from lack of proper nutrients, and seeing green and healthy results, literally overnight! I still can hardly believe it. After four months, people said it was as if I was twenty years younger, and they were right!


Thank you, Dr. Crook! You have saved my life.

I recommend this book and it's change in diet with acupressure massage, and a bit of prayer and meditation. With Grace on our side, all will be well.

Editorial Review:

An in-depth guide to those health problems in people of all ages and sexes that can be traced to sensitivity to the yeast germ candida albicans.