Dieting Books

Although advances in medical science and technology continue to broaden, deepen, and expand our understanding of disease, for a great many ailments just what causes them remains a mystery. In the "Health and Disease Symbology Handbook: A Mind Body Perspective", author and natural products leader, Michael Schwartz presents an interesting and compelling look at the cause of disease through the symbolisms behind it. In this informed and informative guide, readers will learn how the language of symbols can guide them to the insights that lead to the correction of the causes of diseases, common physical conditions and unhealthy states of mind. Presented as a reference guide for healing-arts practitioners and a self-help and self-healing resource for everyone, the "Health and Disease Symbology Handbook" is packed from cover to cover with symbolic meaning and nutritional advice, making it a highly valued and urgently recommended addition to personal, professional, academic, and community library Health & Medicine reference collections and supplemental reading lists.

Mr. Gormley has yet again delivered an excellent, very concise and readable yet also impeccably researched book on the brain-boosting benefits of a good fat, phosphatidylserine, or PS. This is one "PS" though that should be at the TOP of your list and not at the bottom! Thank you.

The Healthy Cookery Index is an index to 20 cookbooks devoted to healthy eating or to restricted diets. The indexing begins with Acorn Squash and ends with Zucchini. The reader can look up major ingredients and find lists of recipes. There is over a page of references to Zucchini recipes to help out the Summer gardener. Individual recipe names are not indexed, but well-known dishes like Gazpacho are listed with short descriptions of specific variations and the name of the book and page number where the recipe will be found. Also types of dishes like Soups, Sauces, or Salads are headings with recipes listed alphabetically beneath them, again with references to the pages in the cookbooks. Recipes are also indexed by ethnic groups, countries or regions. Being a healthy food index, recipes are even indexed by method of preparation (e.g.: Grilled Food, Steamed Foods, etc.). The indexing is excellently done and my mouth began to water reading the brief descriptions.

However, this book does not have a single recipe in it. Without the indexed cookbooks, the book has little, if any, value. I personally have only one of the indexed cookbooks so this volume is of no use unless you own or buy at least some of the works indexed. Ideally, I see this book in the kitchen of a person building a collection of healthy eating cookbooks where they can use this book as a guide for purchasing quality cookbooks for their own use. Also it would be great in a small public library where they also made the effort to purchase the indexed cookbooks and maybe even keep them on a shelf together. One problem I see with this book is that the cookbooks it indexes cover a lot of different health needs. Low-fat, low-cholesterol and vegetarian (or natural foods) cookbooks are well represented. There are a couple of general food allergy cookbooks indexed as well as books on special needs like gluten-free, diabetic, and dairy-free cooking. Thus only a library or cook serving a large group of people's needs would have reason to purchase all or most of the cookbooks.

Also, even though this book came out only last year, a quick search of the Amazon website revealed that two of the indexed cookbooks are already out of print: Graham Kerr's Best and The Living Heart Cookbook. Luckily, the Internet makes obtaining out-of-print books relatively easy.

I would think that anyone who is considering buying this book should know what cookbooks are indexed in it. So here is a list of all the ones still in print:

Better Homes & Gardens Healthy Family Cookbook;

American Heart Association Cookbook;

American Heart Association Low-Fat, Low-Cholesterol Cookbook;

American Heart Association Low-Salt Cookbook;

500 Fat-Free Recipes;

The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook;

Vegetarian Times Complete Cookbook;

High-Flavor, Low-Fat Vegetarian Cooking;

Nikki & David Goldbeck's American Wholefoods Cuisine;

The Greens Cookbook;

The Moosewood Cookbook;

Rodale's Basic Natural Foods Cookbook;

The Allergy Self-Help Cookbook;

The Complete Food Allergy Cookbook;

Dairy-Free Cookbook;

The Gluten-Free Gourmet;

The Art Of Cooking For The Diabetic; and

The Joslin Diabetes Gourmet Cookbook.

Healthy Eating For Busy People offers simple, organized and easy steps to make dietary and lifestyle changes. What I like most about the planner is that the nutrition recommendations build on each other and are reinforced throughout. We all make changes but sticking to them is hard. The concept of Healthy Eating For Busy People will help you overcome this barrier. Healthy Eating For Busy People is a great tool for everybody who wants to eat healthier, increase energy, lose weight, or just feel great!

I bought this for my Mom to help her with her high cholesterol. She said she really liked the book and the recipes so far have been really good.

These recipes are slightly higher in fat than her Fabulous Fat Free Cooking, but I thought it was a terrific book. Every recipe was tested (said in the intro) and you can tell. Really gourmet healthy cooking. Well, she;s written more healthy cookbooks than anyone in the world.

I have been involved with health issues for almost 30 years, and the information in John Heinerman's book is very helpful. The author tells how common foods and herbs can help relieve over 100 health conditions such as allergies, heart problems, gallstones, bladder infections, liver ailments, menopause, high blood pressure, warts, and yeast infections. The book is arranged in alphabetical order according to disease symptoms. For example, green tea was found to help heart disease in a Japanese study of men over 40. Total cholesterol was reduced and HDL increased. Many other disease solutions are discussed in the book, also. You'll be glad you bought this book!

I read this book three times before I actually went on the plan. I thought it would be hard for me, but it actually wasn't. I followed the plan specifically and purchased the 10 herbs and ate what she suggested. Before the detox I was extremely toxic from a mild case of food poisoning at our office Christmas party. I had no energy at all. In four days I felt so much better. I had more energy, my bowel movements were just as she stated in the book. One additional benefit I noticed was that my breath was fresh.

this health guide will take you to a process of detoxification with herbs and teas that will explain to you step by step how to detox your overloaded poision body in the best gradually way known to the alternative medicine. what to eat\ when\ and how\ and for how much time to do each stage.the liver immunization and cleancing is a major role of the plan and it is explained in simplicity and details as well.how to avoid unnecesary side effects are also explained, and a section on special teas are also discovered.what kinds of herbs that should not mixed together are also explained and also what kind of preparations before the cleancing you should do is also there. superb practical logical scientific and easy to follow. very recommanded!

After seeing Steven cook in Miami, I was convinced that I could easily cook healthily. This book has changed my diet, and have since lost the 15 pounds I never thought possible. marc.billing@dsquared.co