Health Book Club

Health Book Club Review: Easy Ways to Feel Better

We are often faced with countless books and how to plans of how to get better. The problem for many people is knowing where to start. What I find interesting in the book: "Health: The Reader's Digest Version: Easy Ways to Feel Better and Live Longer" is that it really can be easier to do than most people think. The book makes it easy for individuals to start adding health into their lives and that is what is important.

What's In It?

The book offers some good insight. It does make some bold promises like teaching you the best ways to live to be 100, lower your stress by 75 percent and to avoid hair loss. What makes this book a standout is that it actually makes getting and being healthy far easier to do than most people expect. You can pick up the book and start to use it. There is no long learning process or complex science included. That makes it easier for everyday people to get healthy the way they want to. Read more about Health Book Club Review: Easy Ways to Feel Better

Health Book Club Review: Is Wheat Belly for You?

As the new year gets underway, it is inevitable that many will take on the resolution of losing weight. It is a great way to get fit and one book may help you to do just that. Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health written by William Davis may be the informational book you need. The book promises to help you to finally lose all of that stored body fat by taking smart measures to reduce the wheat and wheat products in your diet. Does it work?

Davis is a cardiologist and he takes the stance in this book that the only way to reduce and prevent fat storage in the body is to do so by eliminating wheat from your diet. It can even improve and reverse many of the health problems individuals have. He states that eating a lot of wheat in the diet can lead to high blood sugar, minor rashes and many things in between. He also says that wheat is the single largest contributor to the country's obesity problems. Read more about Health Book Club Review: Is Wheat Belly for You?

Health Book Club Review of the Week: Spontaneous Happiness

In our health book club review of the week, we feature the book Spontaneous Happiness, written by Andrew Weil. As the title suggestions, the book provides guidance and information for everyday people to live a happy life that does not really focus on material things. Rather, the author provides a guide on how to maintain optimum physical health and how in doing so, you'll be happy.

Dealing With Loss

Loss can come in many forms. Whether a loved one or of a pet, there are many things that can cause a person to be thrown into emotional turmoil. This can be extremely devastating for a child especially if they have to cope with the loss of a pet that they have had for most of their lives. Consider that these are friends, protectors and confidants of these children. These kids have to go through so much as they watch their favorite dog grow up with them and do everything with them. It is so important to do all you can to help them to get through this emotional time.

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Healthy Eating Around the Holidays Guidebooks

Do you find yourself facing turkey-coma late in the day on Thanksgiving? Many people do. This is the social season, when people are spending more time at parties and special dinners. Even if you take away the actual holiday meals which are often pump full of calories, you will find you are eating out more and adding on the pounds. What can you do?

Stop, Drop, and Roll

Teaching kids about fire safety

Last month was Fire Safety Month, so my daughter and I decided to check out a book about fire safety. Naturally, most of the books were checked out, but Margery Cuyler’s Stop, Drop, and Roll was available. It’s a “Jessica Worries Book,” which we didn’t really understand until we checked out the book and realized that the main character, Jessica, just likes to worry about everything. Read more about Stop, Drop, and Roll

Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease: The Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven, Nutrition-Based Cure

by Dr. Esselstyn

Heart disease is one of the most common ailments in our country, and its effects can be devastating. While many people can keep major heart problems at bay by following traditional medicine, for others medicine and contemporary diet advice is just not enough. Being dependent on medications can be a big concern for sufferers of heart disease, but what can be done?

As it turns out, a change in diet can not only reduce the severity of heart disease for some people, it can actually completely reverse it. Researcher Dr. Esselstyn proves just that in a twenty-year study of patients with heart disease. Some of these patients were terminally ill from heart disease, given less than a year to live. Read more about Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease: The Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven, Nutrition-Based Cure

The China Study

The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-Term Health

Something is wrong with our Western diet. We all know it. Our kids are fatter, we’re fatter - even our pets are fatter - and we are all plagued with diabetes, cancers and heart disease. Scientists and nutritionists have tried to tell us why, pointing the finger at this single ingredient or this particular nutrient, but still we keep getting sicker and bigger.

The China Study is a jaw-dropping revelation into why what we’re doing isn’t working. Around the world, we are the perfect example of how not to eat, and The China Study goes a long way toward revealing why that is. In a comprehensive set of studies across 2,500 counties in China and Taiwan, researchers looked at 350 variables of nutrition and health in 6,500 adults. Read more about The China Study

Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats

I first read this book in the spring of 2009, and it has really changed my outlook on my health and food in general. Sally Fallon, co-founder of the Weston Price Foundation, expounds on the research of Weston Price into the health and eating habits of non-industrialized societies all around the world. Read more about Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats

The Seven Pillars of Health by Donald and Mary Colbert

Moving away from the Western diet and back to the diet of common sense

The Seven Pillars of Health addresses the root cause of many of our modern disease: poor diet, unhealthy lifestyles, lack of exercise, inadequate sleep and stress. This seven-week program is designed to restore our bodies to the way they were designed to operate.

Not only about diet plans and the body’s requirements, Seven Pillars is a motivational journey to look past the immediate concerns of our world and into a long-term, healthy lifestyle that promotes all of the body’s necessary components, the seven pillars of health:

Water
Sleep and rest
Living food
Exercise
Detoxification
Supplements
Coping with stress

With a daily devotional feel, The Seven Pillars of Health includes verses from Scripture, although religion is not the main focus of the book.

Dr. Colbert talks about the food choices we make today, including all of the refined sugars and flours so prevalent in the Western diet. He advocates limited or doing away with these empty calories and focusing instead on organic foods, proper supplements and following the seven pillars to a total lifestyle change.

With a nearly perfect review score on Amazon, this book has been very well-received in the health conscious community, and continues to be a favorite among its readers, staying high on Amazon’s list despite the fact that its publish date was five years ago.

Seven Pillars aims to restore us to what we were before the industrial food world began taking over our food choices and urging us toward a highly processed, refined way of eating.

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