- SWEETEN YOUR LIFE THE XYLITOL WAY
Karen Edwards, Ph.D.
- HELP ME TO HEAL
A practical guidebook for patients, visitors
and caregivers
by Bernie Siegel, M.D. and Yosaif August
- POSITIVE ENERGY
Ten Extraordinary Prescriptions For
Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear into Vibrance, Strength and Love
by Judith Orloff, M.D.
- LIVING THE LOW CARB LIFE
From Atkins to the Zone
Choosing the Diet That’s Right For You
by Jonny Bowden, M.A. , C.N.S.
- OM AT HOME
A Yoga Journal
by Cyndi Lee
- REIKI FOR LIFE
The Complete Guide to Reiki Practice for
Levels 1, 2 and 3
by Penelope Quest
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SWEETEN YOUR LIFE THE XYLITOL WAY
by Karen Edwards, Ph.D.
ISBN 097460450
$17.95/hardcover
80 pages
254 pages
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Nutritionist Karen Edwards has compiled
dozens of recipes for everybody’s favorite
desserts using a natural low-calorie sugar
substitute in Sweeten Your Life the Xylitol
Way.
Recipes for over 80 favorite sweets—cookies, pies, cakes and frostings, ice cream,
drinks, breads and muffins—have been
adapted using xylitol and other natural
ingredients for healthier cooking.
Recipes are quick and easy, have a minimum
number of components and use
whole foods and the freshest items for delicious
results.
The cookbook has a hard cover with spiral
binding inside to let pages lie flat. It contains
sections on xylitol, helpful hints, special
ingredients, choosing cookware and
bakeware and where to find special products
used in recipes.
Sweeten Your Life lets you satisfy your
craving for sweets the healthy way.
Using xylitol to replace sugar:
- Provides same sweetness as sugar with 40 percent fewer calories
- Is recommended for diabetics
- Reduces tooth decay and sinus infections
- Has been approved as a food additive in unlimited quantities for foods with special dietary purposes.
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HELP ME TO HEAL
A practical guidebook for patients, visitors and caregivers
by Bernie Siegel, M.D. and Yosaif August
Hay House
$19.95/hardcover
211 pages
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Every hospitalization, period of convalescence
or visit to a patient can be an opportunity
for healing to occur. Since many hospitalizations
are sudden and unexpected,
few patients and family members are prepared
to act in an empowered way to take
advantage of these healing opportunities.
Help Me to Heal is a “just-in-time” resource
that anyone can pick up and use immediately—to help realize this great healing
potential and its survival value. It provides
the empowering tools, strategies and
resources that will enable readers to turn
their bedside environment and illness experience
into a sacred space and time where
healing can take place.
When patients, caregivers and family
members are provided with these strategies,
they become participants in the healing
process. They are then able to communicate
their needs to doctors and staff simply and
effectively, thereby creating a healing team
that enhances patient empowerment and
the ability to survive and heal.
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POSITIVE ENERGY
Ten Extraordinary Prescriptions For Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear into Vibrance, Strength and Love
by Judith Orloff, M.D.
April, 2004, Harmony Books
Review by Joan Borysenko Ph. D. author of Minding the Body, Minding the Mind, and Inner Peace For Busy People
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This incredibly valuable book offers a lifeline
to everyone who is exhausted or
stressed out. It helps you realize the energetic
power that has always been within
you. Dr. Judith Orloff is the real deal—a
physician, an authentic human being, a
skilled medical intuitive and teacher of
energy medicine. In her book she teaches
you how to connect with the flow of positive
energy within and around you, how to
stop “energy vampires” from draining you
and how lead a balanced life that brings
happiness and inner peace.
Positive Energy presents 10 specific prescriptions
for building energy, one per
chapter. The prescriptions focus on essential
topics such as creativity, sexuality and spirituality.
Throughout the book Dr. Orloff
uses case histories of patients she’s worked
with, offers wonderful exercises to boost
vitality and gives intimate examples from
her own life, including lessons learned from
her own energy crash. She describes her
practice of Energy Psychiatry, a field Orloff
has pioneered which incorporates intuition,
the body’s subtle energies (sometimes called
chi), and traditional medicine to provide
new kinds of solutions in areas from workaholism
to rushing to feeling overwhelmed
in crowds.
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LIVING THE LOW CARB LIFE
From Atkins to the Zone Choosing the Diet That’s Right For You
by Jonny Bowden, M.A. , C.N.S.
Sterling Publishing
$19.95/hardcover
338 pages
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The low-carb revolution is changing lives. A
person can’t escape the barrage of the low-carb
phenomenon, but how does one navigate the
overwhelming terrain of diets and experts?
They turn to weight-loss coach Jonny
Bowden. In his book Living the Low Carb
Life, Bowden not only reviews 14 of today’s
most popular low-carb diets but also offers his
insight into each program so that dieters can
choose the right one of them.
This comprehensive guide cuts through
the confusion, showing dieters how to choose
and customize an effective low-carb plan for
their own metabolisms and lifestyles. In
straightforward language he rates and discusses
the differences between the top-selling
low-carb diets—from Dr. Atkins New Diet
Revolution to The South Beach Diet to
Sugarbusters.
He provides the history behind low-carb
dieting and explains the science of low-carb
dieting and how it affects the body. In addition
to hundreds of practical food tips and
insider secrets to make the lifestyle work,
Bowden details the important role supplements
play in maintaining optimal health
while dieting.
If you are trying to research low-carb dieting,
Living the Low Carb Life is a tremendous help. It
is convenient to find information about many
of the popular low-carb plans in one place.
Having the basics of the diet explained in ordinary
terms provides a better understanding of
how this diet works. Readers receive the facts
they need to make informed choices.
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OM AT HOME
A Yoga Journal
by Cyndi Lee
Chronicle Books
$15.95/hardcover
128 pages
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OM at Home combines two timehonored
traditions for self-reflection: journaling
and meditative yoga. Celebrated OM Yoga
founder, Cyndi Lee, has created the optimum
balance in this easy-to-use yoga journal, which
follows the four seasons of the natural year.
OM at Home brings a refreshing yoga class
into your home by offering seasonal yoga
series and poses for each week of the year.
Each season brings changes in the environment
and those changes affect our physical
and mental energy. The four yoga programs
in this journal are designed to match the natural
energy of their corresponding season:
blooming spring, outgoing summer mellow
autumn and quiet winter. Every season’s program
contains thirteen poses that follow each
week in the season. Guided prompts with
blank spaces invite reflection and contemplation,
providing all the tools necessary for creating
a meaningful and user-friendly yoga
practice in the privacy of your home.
When done mindfully, yoga can become a
powerful path to waking up to the vibrancy of
your everyday life. It is a method for cultivating
a variety of skillful means that lead to a
more balanced, harmonious and healthy life.
Similarly, keeping a journal encourages daily
reflection of life’s experiences and its natural
rhythms. OM at Home: A Yoga Journal will
inspire users to appreciate their daily experiences,
from season to season and year after
year.
Also available by author Cyndi Lee is
OM Yoga: A Guide to Daily Practice
(Chronicle Books, 2002, $19.95/hardcover)
which is a daily yoga series.
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REIKI FOR LIFE
The Complete Guide to Reiki Practice for Levels 1, 2 and 3
by Penelope Quest
Piatkus Books
$22.95/Softcover
310 pages
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Reiki for Life is aimed at everyone interested in
healing and self-healing with Reiki at any level,
from absolute beginners to practitioners and
masters. Unlike other books on Reiki, it is a
complete guide to Reiki practice, giving all the
Reiki techniques from the well-known Western
tradition, including some never in print before.
Reiki for Life also presents additional methods
originally used by Dr. Usui, the founder of the
Reiki healing system, which until recently were
only available to Reiki students in Japan.
Quest explores for the first time the true
depth, power and promise of this wonderful
healing system. From the development of Reiki
in both Japan and the West to a comprehensive
description of first and second degree techniques,
it provides an essential resource for
Reiki practice in the 21st century. Reiki for Life
looks at the necessary background information
about energy and metaphysical beliefs and provides
a thorough foundation in the basics of
self-treatment and how to treat others with
Reiki at first degree. However, it goes much further
than other books, it emphasizes the holistic
and spiritual impact of becoming a practitioner
or master. It explains in detail how to carry out
distant healing treatments and methods to heal
and let go of personal problems as well as many
other techniques. The aim of Reiki for Life is to
help anyone at any level to reach his or her full
potential as a healing channel for Reiki. .
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