Caffeine Books

To be honest, I really did not believe to get such excellent results from reading this book. I had hoped for a modest improvement. For 22 years I suffered from acid reflux disease and persistent heartburn. I took acid inhibitors and chewed antacids by the boxful.

At times, the burning sensation was so bad that I had trouble sleeping. It was especially difficult to handle during long commutes home from work; being hungry and tired led to carsickness and nausea, on top of the heartburn.

It was difficult to give up some of my favorite highly-caffeinated beverages and acidic things like tomatoes, but I knew if I didn't, I'd suffer for it later that day. After suffering with this condition for so many years, I didn't expect a miracle. Call me a skeptic.

My doctor suggested that removing caffeine, especially coffee, tea, and soft drinks from my diet might help the problem. He recommended this book to help provide me an insight about my caffeine dependency.

I had been a long-time coffee drinker, morning and afternoon, so I cut down on coffee slowly to avoid the nasty side effects such as headaches. Eventually I was able to virtually eliminate caffeine and acidic beverages from my diet.

Much to my surprise after switching from coffee to a coffee substitute recommended in this book, my problem is about 95% improved. I imagine in about several weeks I should not have any problems at all.

I found that not only did the heartburn clear up and my stomach settle down, but I was able to handle periods of hunger without overwhelming acidic, nauseated feelings.

I no longer use some of the medications I regularly took. I sleep better and my commutes are much more pleasant. In fact, I feel so good that I rarely miss my old beverages at all! For me, this book was simply priceless!

I like this book so much, I've bought copies for my friends -- something I've never done before. This was the only book I found that had the most up-to-date research on caffeine. The author explains everything in detail and points out dozens of things I've never suspected.

I have been trying to give up caffeine, in the form of coffee and diet coke, for years but was unsuccessful. But I knew I had to do it after I read how caffeine was exhausting my adrenal glands and not allowing to have a restful night's sleep.

When I finally quit the withdrawal symptoms made me feel exhausted, depressed and had a foggy brain for the first few days but now I feel great.I wake up feeling refreshed without having to drink coffee. The money I'm saving alone by not purchasing coffee at "Fourbucks" daily is incentive enough.

I highly recommend this book. It is definitely worth reading if your looking to gain more insights into the effects of caffeine.

I had a myriad of the health problems described in the books and it was clear that I had a severe dependency to caffeine even though I only drank a cup a day. This book lets you see the extent that caffeine is affecting your quality of life. Highly recommended!

Talk about a life changing book. I read it from front to back without putting it down. It has been over six months since I stopped drinking coffee and energy drinks. I've been sleeping restfully and deeply every night, feeling great in the morning. If you ingest caffeine in any form, I suggest you read this book. If you drink coffee the replacement mentioned in this book is absolutely delicious and it really helped me to get off coffee and have more energy throughout the day.

I just wanted to share my views on this great book. I had no idea that caffeine was so dangerous and that my seemingly innocent morning cup of coffee was really harming me!

I started drinking coffee when I was in high school and at the time it was kind of like a rite of passage into adulthood. My parents didn't see anything wrong with it. Later on, the coffee, sodas, and candy I ate in college to perk me up added to a huge consumption of caffeine. No wonder I had trouble sleeping at night. For years, I couldn't fully "wake up" unless I had that first cup of coffee.

My cardiologist highly recommended your book. What an eye-opener! I learned that caffeine is a culprit behind a lot of illnesses such as heart disease, high blood pressure, and cancer, and also anxiety and depression. Until I read this book, I didn't know that when I buy products that are labeled "decaf" or "caffeine-free", they might still actually have some amount of caffeine in them. This book helped me to become a more cautious label-reader and more discriminating shopper.

This book also gave me helpful advice on cutting down and eliminating caffeine from my diet. Also, the tips on more healthy food sources and better nutritional choices were very helpful.

This is a book for everyone who was ever enmeshed in a corporate boondoggle. Hilarious and candid, Ross tells horror stories from the New Economy that have plenty of relevance for the Old Economy.

Ross chronicles dot-com madness during the height of the vogue, no-profit frenzy. It was like the California Gold Rush of 1849 but with no location, no objective, no direction, no product, and no defined value - just big talk and empty promises. Nothing else I've read has captured it better. We always have to re-learn the lessons in this book. Why is it important? Well, I don't know about YOUR mutual funds and investments but mine went down the toilet this year. I'll be wiser next time.

This book is a therapy of laughter for those who have been there, eating bad food and listening to the mind-numbing drone of snake-oil salesmen. And it's a sobering warning for those who haven't. Wherever you are -- in the New Economy or Old Economy, a battle-scarred manager or fresh out of B School - this book is for you. With a catalog of anecdotes that will shrivel your privates, Ross shows what happens when you mix arrogance with buffoonery, brazenness with fear, and hysteria with money. He ties it all together with an easy-to-read analysis that is at times stunning in its insight. A great read and a great value that will leave you either laughing or crying, but never in doubt about the truth of the New Economy.

Finally! A book that tells the truth about the so-called "New Economy." I'd always suspected there was more hype than reality being spewed forth by the consultants and Internet entrepreneurs. This book confirmed my suspicions. Like many other people, I've read a lot of books about the Internet and the New Economy. None of them have been as revealing as this one. The author's conversational style and humor make this an entertaining read. But don't let that fool you. There are serious lessons learned, which the author recaps in his Ten Lessons from the Front Line. His tips on how to deal with vendor phone calls alone makes the book worth purchasing. I wish I'd known about the gems contained in this book months ago. It would have saved my firm a lot of money.

This book pulls no punches as it outlines the smoke and mirrors used to sell the internet to buisness. Brian outlines the methods used by these internet companies to obtain money and use your established company name to build their reputation, all without supplying a meaningful product. His view as a middle manager outlines the dangers company executives entertain and the burdens they place on their people when they have high expectations without understanding the true buisness model of the companies they want to partner with. See the recent writeup in the October 2001 Harvard Buisness Review.

As a second-year MBA student who is interested in e-commerce and the new economy, I have read many recent books on relevant subjects. Unfortunately too often those ooks were written by consultants or vendors who purposely created unnecessary buzz words, confusions, and self-serving exaggerations that twist the truth and mislead the reader.

Well, finally here 's a book that brings fresh, unbiased, and insightful perspectives. It is written by a global e-commerce manager from a fortune 500 company, who managed his company's e-initiatives and venture capital fund. Maybe because he is very hands-on with his job, this book does not preach complicated economic theories or strategies, rather it offers real world cases and examples that makes the book simple but powerful, and abover all, REAL. It is hence very easy and enjoyable to read.

The portrayal of corporate America in this book is precise and revealing. I wonder which company the author works for. It certainly reminds me of my internship in the east coast this summer.

This book is ideal for MBAs interested in careers in start-up, consulting, and corporate America.

Ever since the first tea leaves were brought from Asia into Europe, tea drinking has been an iconic mark of civilized society. In "Passion For Tea", Beverly Rorem brings to bear her enthusiasm for tea in a compendium of information on the history of tea from its history in China, to its cultural impact on Japan, India, Russia, Turkey and the Middle East, Europe, and the United States. These historical overviews are capped off with a concluding chapter on what scientific research has revealed about the therapeutic benefits of tea for everything from alcohol damage to liver and brain, to arthritis, cholesterol, bacterial infections, cancer, skin care, and more. Deftly written and knowledgeably presented, "Passion For Tea" is very highly recommended reading for anyone who has every enjoyed a cup of tea in good company.

The slightly naughty but nice cover attracted me when I first saw the book.
When I opened Beverly Rorem's new book, "Passion for Tea," I thought I would just take a tentative sip. But there I sat, drinking the entire book in, just like a delicious cup of tea. Much more than a simple overview of types of teas which is what I had expected, Bev has done her homework. Even though the book is a fun and easy read, it contains an amazing amount of scholarly research: history, international scope, specific medical and health references, and even travel suggestions in various countries including off the beaten track tea salons and tips on French waiters.
Having just visited an exhibition of Mary Cassatt's paintings, including the two that Bev references: "The Cup of Tea," and "Five O'Clock Tea," I know I will view these works with more understanding the next time I see them!
Being a tea drinker, I am familiar with a couple of the earlier books on tea, but none of them are as well written, researched, or have the scope of this new contribution to Tea Literature!
I've purchased a couple for friends and recommend you pick up a copy. Enjoy it with of course a cup of tea.

The scenes are engaging and inventive. Fun stuff for actors. I really like this book.

In this book, Dr. Santos and Dr. Lima, in a very authoritative approach, show that the plant coffee is not only natural but a healthy drink. They show that coffee was a beverage used by ancient Hebrews as in the Bible, by all the Muslims and later the favorite one of all Christians. They defend the hypothesis that if every youth in America, Europe and Asia start drinking a cup of coffee with milk instead of artificial beverages (sodas, energetics, Colas, etc) they will be more alert, increase memory capacity, strength thinking and mood, not to mention the calories that will be cut off. This is important in the prevention of diseases such as obesity and diabetes that has been growing within this age range. Wait there is more. The authors state that if every human being can replace one drink a day of alcoholic beverages such as spirits, wine or beer for a cup of coffee, he will be helping to save more lives, including his own, by preventing diseases such as depression/suicide, alcoholism/cirrhosis, Parkinson/ Alzheimer's disease as well as cancer. All these brand news are known as the Coffee Paradox as it is far more important than the French Paradox.

Not only is this book well-written and extremely informative, but the guy that wrote it is very VERY handsome. See page 12 for details.

Author Jacqi Lumer does it again in another delightful work, "Self Help."
Within the pages of this book, we are given beautiful pictures nestled in the glow of pink color that portray the beginning of our expressions.

We are given the start of a sentence, such as, " I have no regrets about," It's okay to be selfish about," or "Little things that make me happy are," and we are encouraged by the page alone to fill the blank with our inward feelings.
It's always helpful to be able to write down our emotions, be free to express our heart, and in this well constructed book we are given the nudge that maybe needed to complete that task.

I enjoyed this and intend to put it to good use. Very nice work; simple, yet effective.
Shirley Johnson

I Loved it.... What a great way to look at life's experiences; with Humor. I couldn't put the book down (except when I got to the parts that made me laugh so hard I couldn't see to read). Very healing; laughter. I recommend this book to anyone who would like to experience real life situations with the higher light of laughter.

West Palm Beach, FL

This book helped cure my deadly addiction to caffeine when i was in the intensive care unit becuse of a caffeine overdose my girlfriend brought me this book and i read it in a day now i have cut caffeine totally out of my diet thanks to this book!

It is said that it does our spirit well to stop, think and write down our inward feelings. If you have ever done this you know it can be quite surprising what we see written before us, and the release that it brings is always refreshing.
In Ms Lumer's work, "Wishful Thinking," we hold in our hand a beautiful constructed book with words and pictures that gently nudge us to be free to express our feelings. On each page we are given the beginning of a sentence such as, "I always daydream about," or "If I could do anything," and we look at the blank page that follows waiting for us to fill it with our hearts wishes.
This is a beautiful book, the sketched pictures that are merged into soft blue color
of the pages seem to bring peace and a longing to release your inward feelings.
"Wishful Thinking," is definitely a very tender way to keep a journal of ones desires and I believe any woman would truly love to have it.
Shirley Johnson