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Helpful Introduction
This simple, sensitive book is a wonderful introduction to those new to therapy and/or exploring their childhood histories of abuse. It is written for people of all backgrounds and thus is accessible to most. I've probably referred well over a hundred people to this book at some point in their therapy. Reactions have included "It doesn't apply to me", but were mostly along the lines of "I couldn't put it down - I kept reading and re-reading it." The beauty and power of it lies in it's simplicity. It's almost impossible to get lost in it intellectually - you have the space to "get it" emotionally.

Outgrowing But Up-growing
I thought it was a little immature. Not for older readers. It's for young teens to sit around and read to understand their "so-called" feelings about what they have experienced in the recent past. Or a older teen that just remember about a past experienced about at the ages of 4-6. Not for prelonged abuse survivors.

A good read--but a bit short
This is a simple read to get a survivor physical, emotional, or sexual abuse started. I found it a bit lacking in depth--perhaps because it is so short--and I did not care for the illustrations. Again, recommended as a good starting point. For a more in-depth examination of this subject, I found Miss America By Day by Marilyn VanDerber to be extremely compelling. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Abuse - General    2. Child abuse    3. Family / Parenting / Childbirth    4. General    5. Psychology    6. Complementary Medicine    7. Self-Help / General   

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Reduce impact of Aging
Excellent book, good resource for understanding aging and how to minimize aging impact.

The Only Anti-Aging Reference Book You'll Need
There are 6 sections to this wonderful book.
The Best Anti-Aging Book I've Seen
This is the best all-around book on anti-aging that I have seen.It functions as an encyclopedia of food supplements including research findings, includes descriptions of just about every theory of aging, has chapters devoted to male and female hormone supplementation, and gives practical lifestyle advice to help you live longer. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Aging    2. Consumer Health    3. Dietary supplements    4. Health & Fitness / Alternative Therapies    5. Health/Fitness    6. Healthy Living    7. Hormone therapy    8. Longevity    9. Self-Help / Aging    10. Alternative Therapies    11. Beauty & Grooming    12. Fitness & diet    13. Herbal Medications    14. Maturation & ageing    15. Self-Help    16. Vitamins   

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Excellent Book
This book is the most comprehensive book I have read.It truly helps the newbies that are interested in pilates.I have a better understanding of my body and it has helped me truly understand pilates and how it affects my body, not just my core.I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in pilates.

A Must read!!!
Pelvic Power is an awesome book to read and apply to your life. My once awful sciatica is now non-existent thanks to proper care and the aid of this book. I found areas in my pelvic floor region that needed attention that normally dancers don't even think about during our careers!! THe flexibility and control is remarkable and the results are immediate. I look forward to enjoying a very ahppy married life in the future, LOL!!

best exercise book purchase ever
This book has helped me more than a very expensive pelvic floor workshop I attended which just taught me how to become tense. These are the best fourteen bucks I have spent in exercise literature. The book has to be slowly digested and paced to fully grasp the content. The explanations are simple and the visuals are wonderful, but the simplicity is deceptive: the subtle movements require complete calm and focus. I have a lot of problems around the pelvic/hip/lumbar region and these exercises are a treasure to me. I feel I have only started taping into the benefits they can bring if done correctly. I keep coming back to the book and the exercises again and again. Totally recommended! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Body, Mind & Spirit    2. Consumer Health    3. Exercise    4. Holism    5. Inspiration & Personal Growth    6. Meditation    7. Mind and body    8. Movements    9. New Age    10. Pelvis    11. Physical fitness    12. Exercise & workout books    13. Health & Fitness / Exercise    14. Mind, Body, Spirit   

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This book should come with diagnosis
This book is essential.I was diagnosed with Breast Cancer in late 2003 and was given this book as a gift from a survivor I'd never met and still haven't to date. Because of her thoughtfulness, I was able to better understand, work with my treatment and get well again.I have given my copy away, that copy passed on by the person I gave it to again and I trust again since that time.Another friend of a friend was diagnosed in Florida (I'm in Michigan, my benefactor in California) and this was the first thing I did (after saying a prayer for her).Best Wishes for a speedy and full recovery to any/all who have need for this book.

Simonton's "Getting Well"
Book is very informative and offers hope and help.It is far too old and needs to be updated to more current situations but many of the facts remain true and it is still probably the best cancer help book out there.

An essential book for anyone who has been diagnosed with cancer
The theme of this book is that with positive expectancy of treatment and the patient's positive outlook, you CAN turn your cancer diagnosis into one of renewal of health. A patient CAN do this!Of the many books we have read, this one is outstanding.Dr. Simonton's book, Getting Well Again, is referenced in other volumes as well.The ideas are concrete, meaningful, and most of all---can be implemented. Positive expectancy is the key theme. We have read and reread its passages many times and have received renewed HOPE and OPTIMISM with every reading. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Cancer    2. Diseases - Cancer    3. General    4. Healing    5. Imagery (Psychology)    6. Mind and body    7. Psychological aspects    8. Psychology    9. Coping with illness    10. Health & Fitness / Healing   

Editorial Review

To reap the holistic benefits of any mind-body exercise, students must relax and stay focused throughout their class. That's tough to do when the instructor seems to be--or actually is--speaking a foreign language, or when the physical movements seem equally foreign to the body. In Read more

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MindBody Fitness for Dummies
This book wins the"fitness relevance" award for being virtually the first to apolitically and respectfully describe the major mindful exercise modalities that exist in the West today - in one concise volume. There are hundreds of yoga, tai chi, Pilates, martial arts and derivative publications today each extolling the papal and fitness-related virtues of their own species of mind-body exercise. Therese has put together a utilitarian compendium of the classical and contemporary forms, yes in somewhat abstract form, but always with skillful instruction and quite meaningful resources. This is a wonderfully organized reference for those desiring a wide-angle and descriptive view of the major players in mind-body exercise modalities. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Allied Health Services - General    2. Consumer Health    3. Exercise    4. Hatha Yoga    5. Health & Fitness    6. Health/Fitness    7. Holism    8. Mind and body    9. Physical fitness    10. Yoga    11. Fitness & diet    12. Health & Fitness / Exercise   

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Great for a beginner
I am a novice to mediation, and was looking for mediation/visualization resources to help me stay calm and centered during a very stressful and negative time in my life.I never found her voice irritating as others have-- on the contrary I find it soothing and easy to listen to.It was very effective in helping me stay positive during challenging times (and I believe the positive imagery helped turnaround a negative situation)

Creative Visualization Meditations
Wonderful book. The meditations greatly helped me to become a better, more powerful and clear person.
Not Good
Oh my, what a voice, she really gets on one's nerves. In waytoo much a hurry with all that she is "trying" to achieve.
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Subjects:  1. Affirmations    2. Audio Adult: Books On Tape    3. Careers - General    4. Cognitive Psychology    5. Meditation    6. Personal Growth - General    7. Personal Growth - Success    8. Self-Help    9. Self-actualization (Psychology)    10. Unabridged Audio - Self Help    11. Visualization    12. Mind, body, spirit: disciplines & techniques    13. Popular psychology   

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Makes pulse diagnosis easy for anybody
I Realy enjoyed this book. It makes pulse diagnosis acceessible to anybody even without a lot of experience. Very clear and sharp distinctions are made between the different pulses. The writer shares his experience which realy helps.

TCM pulse examination made clear
Western students and practitioners of Chinese medicine will thank Bob Flaws for this book, which presents TCM pulse diagnosis in a lucid, understandable fashion.Read more

Subjects:  1. Acupressure & Acupuncture    2. Diagnosis    3. Health & Fitness    4. Health/Fitness    5. Medical / Nursing    6. Medicine, Chinese    7. Medicine, Oriental, Traditiona    8. Physical diagnosis    9. Pulse    10. Acupuncture   

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underwhelmed
I ordered what I thought was a full size intro to yoga book and got the pee wee version for elves. I had been breathlessly waiting for my full size edition to arrive in the mail because I was so excited to be starting yoga. As I held the pitifully small thing in my hand I got so depressed because it reminded me of some bad relationships i've had in the past--big promises and nothing to back it up with. I binged on a quart of dulce de leche ice cream and a dozen black bottom cupcakes to try to numb my pain. These evil satanic deceivers must be stopped.

Yoga for Dummies
Very good and informative.Written in plain direct instructions.

great little book
This book is enormously helpful to asana students AND it does justice to Yoga's spiritual background as well. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Alternative Medicine    2. Consumer Health    3. Exercise    4. Hatha Yoga    5. Health & Fitness    6. Health/Fitness    7. Yoga    8. Health & Fitness / Yoga    9. Yoga for exercise   

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Wonderful
This is the best book I've found on Amazon that has all a person needs to know about starting massage.There's information on table heights, contraindications, business practices and everything else.I would recommend this to anyone interested in taking a massage course, or starting in the profession.

Goodreference for national board massage exam
I used this book for the National Certification Examination for Therapeutic Massage and Bodwork.It is useful as good knowledge source for the massage techniques parts of the exam.It is also listed as a reference by the National Certification Board of Massage and Bodywork for the NCETMB.I also used the following books which were very good: Medically detailed & Belongs under Nursing as well.
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Subjects:  1. Acupressure & Acupuncture    2. Alternative Medicine    3. Health & Fitness    4. Health/Fitness    5. Massage & Reflexotherapy    6. Medical / Nursing    7. Complementary Medicine    8. Medical / Alternative Medicine   

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Excellent TCM Source
This is an excellent book for TCM practitioners. It covers a wide variety of diagnostic techniques all included in one book (rather than having to buy 20 short books with similar info). From face diagnosis, to nail diagnosis, to in depth pattern recognition (for thin necks to swollen ears to stomach aches), Maciocia has included it all. I found the part about using palm lines to show tendencies towards certain types of diseases very interesting. There are colour plates in the back of the book that show examples of body type, tongues, and skin conditions.
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Subjects:  1. Alternative Medicine    2. Diagnosis    3. Medical    4. Medical / Nursing    5. Medical / Alternative Medicine    6. Medical diagnosis    7. Traditional medicine & remedies   

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Great introduction to Applied Kinesiology
Robert Frost's AK manual is lean and to the point. It gives the history of AK, how AK is used in Europe and the USA, theory into the mechanisms of the reflexes used in AK, basic therapeutic procedures with explainations, and clear diagrams of the basic muscle tests and the appropriate reflexes.A perfect complement to the 100 hour course.I recommend this book to any student or practioner in health care who is looking to expand their skill set. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Allied Health Services - Physical Therapy    2. Alternative Therapies    3. Diagnosis    4. Diseases    5. Handbooks, manuals, etc    6. Health & Fitness    7. Health/Fitness    8. Human mechanics    9. Kinesiology    10. Massage & Reflexotherapy    11. Medical / Nursing    12. Musculoskeletal system    13. Patients    14. Physiology    15. Rehabilitation    16. Biomechanics, human kinetics    17. Popular medicine    18. Reflexology    19. Health & Healing   

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Tough language but few verifiable facts
In a world desperate for health solutions, the uneducated masses flock to purported cures and aids that havenot met the tests of either scientific or medical validity.Alkaline water is one of those potholes that the unsuspecting customer encounters.
Great review of the science behind alkaline diets
This was one of the first books I picked up after reading Dr. Young's "The pH Miracle", which had left me with more questions than answers.
A very valuable book
Forward-thinking health theorists stress the need for our bodies to be less acidic.Civilization and laziness have led most of us to detrimental eating habits, one result being acidic bodies.If you want to test your acidity all you need is ph testing paper from the health food store.Test your urine.Then try to get more alkaline.It isn't easy.Read more

Subjects:  1. Family & Relationships / Aging    2. Family/Marriage    3. Gerontology    4. Health & Fitness / Holism    5. Medical / Alternative Medicine    6. Medical / Holistic Medicine    7. Self-Help / Aging    8. Sociology    9. Acid-base imbalances    10. Alternative Medicine    11. Diet / Health / Fitness    12. Health & Fitness    13. Health aspects    14. Holistic Medicine    15. Water   

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Imaginative Exploration
Listen to the salutation to the dawn,
Powerful tool for physical and emotional transformation
Anodea Judith's Chakra Balancing Kit continues to amaze me.I first bought her Eastern Body Western Mind about five years ago as I was beginning on the path of personal awareness and growth.I found that book to be extremely informative as I navigated the early stages of my own awakening conciousness.The information was somewhat overwhelming at times.If the Balancing Kit had been around when I first began this work I think I would have chosen to buy it first.The book Eastern Body seems to supplement the Balancing Kit well.The information in the kit is more accessible and the applications of the ideas much more practical.I would recommend this kit to anyone who is serious about exploring themselves more deeply.

My thoughts on the Chakra Balancing Kit
I am relatively new to the field of Chakras - and I found that this "kit" was very helpful and informative.I learned a lot not only about myself, but why I act and react the way I do.I highly recomend this book - or kit - to anyone that needs to learn more about themselves.
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Subjects:  1. Audio Adult: Books On Tape    2. Body, Mind & Spirit    3. Healing    4. Healing - Energy (Chi Kung, Reiki, Polarity)    5. Healing - Prayer & Spiritual    6. New Age / Body, Mind & Spirit    7. Spirituality - General    8. Complementary Medicine   

Editorial Review

"To tell you the truth, you can learn the basics of meditation in five minutes," asserts Stephan Bodian, meditation instructor, psychotherapist, and former editor-in-chief of Read more

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A helpful guide to basic meditation
This is the perfect book for anyone who wants to learn more about basic meditation. In addition to guiding us through different methods of meditation step by step, Stephen Bodian also gives us a short summary of the history of meditation which is interesting and in the same time puts everything into context.
Covers All Bases
This book really covers all bases for someone new to meditation. Included are many methods of meditation, various approaches to meditation and much more. It's easy to skip around and select the parts of the book that work best for you.

couldbemoreconcise
toomuchabstractstuffontheleadingchapters; alwaystalkingabouthowmeditationpracticewilldoyougood ... Well, I alreadyknowmeditationisverygood , O.K.?Justtellmewhattodoandhowtodo
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Subjects:  1. Meditation    2. Psychology    3. Self-Help    4. Mind, body, spirit: disciplines & techniques    5. Self-Help / Meditations   

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Disappointed
Nothing new in this book and CD does not add to the value of this purchase. I purchased the book and CD combination in hopes of having experiential exercises. Exercises are provided, yet the author merely explains these on the CD versus guiding one through a meditation. It feels as if he is merely reading the directions for the exercises and the exercises are not new or imaginative. If one is new to self help books on healing trauma or anxiety, this may be the book for you. I've read and heard authors and psychologists talk about the flight and fight response over 20 years ago. I, personally, have found more healing/success in spiritual books, guided meditations or intense physical exercise where my heart rate increases or in strength training.

Finally, something for vetwives struggling with Secondary Stress
Dr. Levine's book is the first and only answer that I've found in four years of searching to the problem of Secondary Stress in the wives of combat veterans suffering from PTSD. With his program, we can finally get real help with the problems we face every day in this tumultuous life of living with PTSD in veterans. If you are a vetwife, buy this book. It will change your life.
Healing Trauma
If you bring forth that which is within you,
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Subjects:  1. General    2. Healing    3. Mind and body therapies    4. Personal Growth - General    5. Psychic trauma    6. Psychology    7. Self-Help    8. Mind, Body, Spirit    9. Psychotherapy   

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This book does what it says.....only if you do what it says
Sometimes in life we have to take a chance on ourselves and really try for change. If you want to change your body for the better, your mind, your habits, do the program and stick with the program you have nothing to lose and everything to gain. I suprised myself with the gains that I have posted, and I am making more and more. Great information and great results but I was catalyst. The results I got was because, I got out of my head and did exactly what the program said to do.I am better for it.

Good
The writer of this book clearly wanted to help men in need of sexual performance and treatment for weak erections. This book is meant to teach self control for the male, tell about the different symptoms of impotence and other sexual disorders and be a general informative guide. Unfortunately it is way to general for me, so when i needed something that had more depth i read "Volume II - Natural Penis Enlargement: New methods of avoiding and curing impotence, premature ejaculation, and erectile dysfunction safely and inexpensively. ... Book on CD-Rom for PC & Mac Computers" by Platinum Millennium, a book that really satisfied me

If you want to feel great, buy this book!!!
I'm alive again!!! I feel like shouting it from the roof. But I have restrained myself to shouting it in the living room and in emails to friends.
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Subjects:  1. Health & Fitness / Alternative Therapies    2. Health & Fitness / Men's Health    3. Sexuality - Manual   

Editorial Review

Women considering hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for menopause symptoms and health benefits should read this controversial, provocative book first. "Advertising and research dollars are spent trying to convince women that estrogen will cure everything from heart disease to Alzheimer's," writes John R. Lee, M.D., "but there is scant evidence for any of these claims and reams of evidence that synthetic estrogens are highly toxic and carcinogenic." Lee has studied the research and concludes that estrogen is not the magic bullet for protection against heart disease and osteoporosis, nor does it retard aging. Natural progesterone, instead, puts postmenopausal women's hormones in balance, says Lee. He cites study after study that indicates that natural progesterone, obtained in cream form, delivers what the usual HRT only promises. Read more

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Excellent work - you must read carefully
As a professional health specialist I have read extensively about natural progesterone cream and hormones since my diagnosis of breast cancer in 2001 and have been using it since that time instead of the drugs and radiotherapy recommended by my doctors.Dr Lee's work is remarkable but you must read carefully otherwise you will be under misapprehensions like some of these other reviewers who are still making mistakes about the difference between natural progesterone and synthetic progestins!They are molecularly different and natural progesterone does not carry the same side effects or risks that the synthetic ones do!I am the Hormone Health Expert for the CMA and Bio Vitality Limited where we also advocate hormone testing so that you do not supplement if you do not need it!It's really what the doctors should be doing before they give out hormones of any description.

Good advice - but remember everyone is different
I was diagnosed with uterine fibroids seven years ago, and through browsing the internet I found out about Dr. Lee and this book. I took his advice, and I must have indeed been progesterone deficient because using the natural progesterone did clear up the fibroids and repair some other problems I was having. Dr. Lee also has other good pieces of advice that most physicians will not talk about in the realm of nutrition and environmental toxins. Especially eye-opening was his discussion of how non-organic meats and milk are full of estrogen due to modern farming methods. In retrospect, he apparently was also right about Premarin, as in the past three years medical trials showed this drug to be so harmful that the test was in fact halted due to its initial findings. Prior to that it was being passed out like candy by physicians to practically all menopausal women. However, I do have an aunt who has been on it for over twenty years, closely monitored, and her quality of life is probably higher because of it. This is because for her, specifically, the drug works without side effects. As for me, as I passed through menopause and continued to take progesterone, it began to cause problems for me. My blood pressure went up, I was constantly hyper, I had palpatations, and my blood sugar went up and down like a roller coaster. I took a saliva test for my hormones, and my progesterone was off the charts. The nutritionist I was working with said to stop the progesterone immediately. She also told me that although natural progesterone is a godsend to many women, there are some, like me, that are very sensitive to the cortisol related to progesterone and have the woes I described. Within three months of quitting the progesterone, everything returned to normal with the exception of my thyroid, which still requires supplementation to this day, three years later. I guess the moral to this story is that there is always something out there - whether it be a pharmaceutical or a natural product- that helps some people. Progesterone is one of those natural products, but please monitor yourself with regular hormonal saliva tests to insure that you personally are in balance. It's just too bad that proponents of natural cures and traditional physicians have to look at each other as enemies and not realize that both have something to add to the quality of life.

Be careful
Dr. Lee is not an OB/Gyn.be careful when reading this book.Recend clinical studies are not included in this book.
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Digestive issues? Read on...
I thought this book was really helpful for those who are stuggling with their weight or have digestive issues but are unclear why.
Caveat Emptor
I read this book, and found it to pretty much be a rehash of ideas and theories that have been around the internet and "hypochondriac" community for a while (I say hypochondriac community because that's how most doctors treat us and we're left to go find our own solutions).
Easy, useful reference
The book recaps material from other authors,such as Sherry Rogers, M.D. and other experts, in a handy and straight forward way. Having read numerous more complicated books while struggling with fatigue and brain fog, this one was a breath of fresh air (pun intended). It also has significant original material that I had not read elsewhere. All in all, an excellent read. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Consumer Health    2. Diet / Health / Fitness    3. Diseases - General    4. Health & Fitness / Alternative Therapies    5. Health & Fitness / Diseases / Abdominal    6. Health & Fitness / Naturopathy    7. Medical    8. Alternative Medicine    9. Diseases    10. Food Allergies    11. Gastroenterology    12. Gastrointestinal system    13. Irritable colon   

Editorial Review

As a result of extensive research into the role of water in the body, the author, a medical doctor, believes that he has found chronic dehydration to be the cause of many conditions including asthma, allergies, arthritis, angina, migraine headaches, hypertension, raised cholesterol, chronic fatigue syndrome, multiple sclerosis, depression, and diabetes in the elderly. Read more

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I am no longer sick and dehydrated
This book is a great value to anyone who does not understand the value thata glass water can change your life. I have expirienced physical change in body and mental clarity from a water hydration challange. A must have libray book for those serious about no longer being sick and tired. For the price of one bottle of aspirin Dr. Batmanghelidj can give you information for a liftime of enjoyment. Water is what our body cries for and you should know how to listen to its needs before its to late.

A missing key to health
After reading this book many years ago I developed the habit of drinking 2 liters of water a day. What a difference this makes in health. I have only been sick 3 times in the past 6 years. Yes, I follow other healthy habits, but drinking adequate water is the starting point. This books explains why dehydration causes many of our modern illnesses and how much water to drink for your body weight. He explains how adequate water can improve and heal hypertension,ulcers, and asthma and much more. When my wife drinks a liter a water a day her asthma symptons
LOVE this Book!
This book has remarkable research and amazing spiritual confirmation for the channeled information that I received about water. Since incorporating the wisdom from this book and Dr. B's many other books of which I have many of them and have read them all, and also through the messages I received confirming these messages through Dr. B's books, I have lost two dress sizes, 2 shoe sizes all without even trying! I have also incorporated Dr. B's books, along with my own research, and spiritual messages into a new book I just published ~ Stepping Into Spiritual Oneness available at http://www.lulu.com/diamondlady and here on amazon within the next few weeks. As a fellow doctor, author of two books myself, I surely have enjoyed reading and learning from this book and highly recommend it!:) It is the fountain of youth that we all have been looking for; a fountain of youth that is free from being found within an age-defying cream or diet pills, but through what we are made of ~ Water!
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Subjects:  1. Consumer Health    2. Diseases    3. Health & Fitness    4. Health aspects    5. Health/Fitness    6. Healthy Living    7. Nutrition    8. Therapeutic use    9. Water    10. Water-electrolyte imbalances    11. Complementary Medicine    12. Popular medicine