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Here are seven of the best health books that I've read in the last couple of years?

 

EIGHT WEEK CHOLESTEROL CURE

Robert Kowalski

Robert Kowalski's died in September 2009 at the age of 65 but his personal story is legendary. By the age of forty-one, he had suffered a heart attack and had undergone two coronary bypass surgeries. A traditional dietary approach to lowering his cholesterol failed dismally, and faced with the unpleasant alternative of a lifetime on medication, he created a program that proved astonishingly effective for him - and legions of others worldwide who use it.

 

 

This edition of the 8 week Cholesterol Cure contains new information about risk factors, exercise, and supplements, "The New 8-Week Cholesterol Cure" is even more powerful in fighting heart disease.

 

It includes:

 

The facts about homocysteine and the deadly cholesterol Lp(a)

A diet that jump starts cholesterol reduction

The heart-healthy secrets of niacin, other B vitamins, and safe supplements

The latest findings on exercise

New cholesterol-testing methods

New heart-healthy products...and more!

THE BLOOD PRESSURE CURE

Robert Kowalski

 

'The book is exceptional in its clarity and depth. I would recommend it to anyone with a tendency to hypertension' - Charles Keenan Jr., M.D., Associate Professor of Family Practice, UCLA. '

 

 

 

'Hypertension is an important member of the quartet of risk factors for cardiovascular disease - the other three are elevated cholesterol levels, diabetes, and cigarette smoking. Robert Kowalski endeavors to bring all these risk factors under control without resorting to medications. This book presents simple answers to the questions that arise when people take charge of their own health in partnership with their physician' - Calvin Ezrin, M.D., author of Your Fat Can Make You Thin.

 

'The Blood Pressure Cure offers a comprehensive, nutritionally sound, and easily accessible guide to lowering one's blood pressure safely and effectively' - Kristen Caron, M.A., M.F.T., author of The Everyday Meal Planner for Type 2 Diabetes.

 

'Robert Kowalski is now doing for blood pressure what he did for cholesterol in his previous books - he is revolutionizing the way we think about the non-pharmaceutical treatment of this important risk factor for heart disease. This well-written, concise book is a must-read for every person suffering from or treating high blood pressure' - Paul Dougherty, M.D., Professor of Medicine, UCLA.

 

Robert Kowalski, the bestselling author of The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure, presents a clinically proven program that draws on the very latest research on high blood pressure causes, development, and treatment. With the most up-to-date information on herbs, supplements, diet, physical activity, and more, this commonsense, easy-to-follow program can help you lower your blood pressure so that you can decrease your risk of heart attack and stroke-and increase your chances of living a long and healthy life.

 

THE TYPE 2 DIABETES DIET BOOK

Calvin Ezrin and Robert Kowalski

 

Proved to be remarkably effective for both Type II diabetics and non-diabetic people with chronic weight problems, the Insulin Control Diet - based on low-carbohydrate and low-caloric intake - allows patients to decrease insulin production and convert stored fat into fuel. In this new edition, Dr. Calvin Ezrin provides updated ADA recommendations and a complete section of revised recipes and meal plans.

 

INSTINCT TO HEAL

David Servan Schreiber

 

Over the last couple of years I've been promoting Servan-Schreiber's book, Healing without Freud or Prozac. It's difficult to get, but this one has turned up in it's place.

 

His new book on the topic of depression is another thoughtful, well-researched down to earth, commonsense approach to what you can do to recognise and then treat the symptoms of depression.

 

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Although written by a trick cyclist it's definitely not rocket science.

 

According to Servan-Schreiber, exercise, nutrition, the ability to get your autonomic nervous system ticking over nicely and cognitive therapy stand head and shoulders over medication up at the depression front line.

 

The epidemic of depression will continue to escalate at the same rate as the epidemic of dysfunction in all other body systems - unless people start to keep themselves fit and healthy and do the things that fit and healthy people do to keep themselves in good shape.

 

The foundation of a good mental health strategy is a good health and fitness strategy.

 

WHAT YOUR DOCTOR DOESN'T KNOW ABOUT NUTRITIONAL MEDICINE MAY BE KILLING YOU

Ray Strand

 

It's a strange state of affairs, that after all their training, doctors are unable to diagnose dietary insufficiency.

 

Vets are much better at it and their patients can't even tell them how they feel? Practitioners of natural and traditional Chinese medicine also have a much better handle on the causes of many common body system dysfunctions and the relation the dysfunctions have to either a deficiency or excess of certain nutrients.

 

Medical practitioner, Ray Strand's wife was crook with chronic fatigue. He was unable to diagnose the cause of the problem and the prescriptions he doled out weren't making her better. (Sound familiar?) She kept getting worse.

 

It was a friend of his wife who suggested a nutritional supplement, and after a short time, health was restored and the rest, as they say, is history. Friend '1' doctor 'nil'.

 

Strand put on his thinking cap and, as a result has produced a book that makes eminent good sense and spends his time giving lectures on the vitamins and minerals we need to be taking to reduce oxidative stress in our bodies. It's his belief that it's oxidative stress that's causing many body system dysfunctions. It's something we all need to bone up on.

 

I read elsewhere that a toxic body (from all the poisons we ingest), a body that's too acidic, a body harboring all manner of fungi, and a body that's intolerant of some of the widely available foods is the cause of all manner of body system dysfunctions. I think that's probably right too.

 

This is one of the best books in the last few years. A lady at a seminar suggested I buy it. I'm glad I did and I encourage you to rush out and buy it as well.

 

The dieticians and doctors think this is all baloney, holding sacred the position that if you eat the perfect diet you'll get enough vitamins and minerals food to keep you in good health. Well that's  bunkum and you know it's bunkum. I'll prove it to you.

 

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Hands up all those who eat the perfect diet?

   

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Hands up all those who think their food contains all the essential nutrients in just the right amounts to keep them healthy?

 

Buy this book. It will put you on the right track to keeping yourself fit and healthy.

 

OVERDOSED AMERICA

John Abrahamson

 

If you want to know what swifties the junk medical and pharmaceutical industries are pulling on you and your country, you must read this book. John Abrahamson, a doctor himself, working out of the Harvard-based sheltered workshop for the academically gifted has written a hard-nosed, no holds barred, no-punches-pulled, no nonsense look at how pharmaceutical companies have perverted the course of good health in the last couple of decades of the 20th century.

 

 

Thank God we're now seeing a flood of books and articles exposing junk medicine for what it is, a dreadful, costly, iatrogenic fraud. Read this book and then join the increasing number of people who are choosing to keep themselves fit and healthy rather than dosing themselves up on junk pharmaceuticals.

 

PAIN FREE

Pete Egoscue

 

This is the best book I've read about the causes and treatment of musculo-skeletal dysfunction. If you've got a crook back, stiff neck, 'cold' shoulder, bung hip, gamy leg, dicky knee or RSI, this book is a must.

 

I've been to Egoscue's clinic in San Diego as a paying client and I've been standing on his shoulders ever since. I do his exercises regularly and in the last year my back has gone from 10/100 to 95/100, (on a scale in which 1 is wretched and 100 is absolutely fantastic.)

 

Some of the opinions I got from the book are:

 

It's motion starvation that's causing your dysfunction.

Don't blame the desk and chair, it's the inability of weak and tight muscles to keep you in good postural alignment that's the cause of your dysfunction.

The cause of the pain is rarely at the site of the pain.

Bones do what muscles tell them to do. Restore muscle function and the bones will come back into alignment. The pain will go away.

It's a big ask expecting your body to get better by having someone do something to it. Sooner or later you have to do something to yourself - strength, flexibility and postural alignment exercises.

 

Pain Free has a clear and concise outline of the exercises you need to do to restore function. This book will do more for your musculo-skeletal dysfunction than any X-ray, MRI or Cat scan, any anti-inflammatory or cortisone injection, any rub down, crunch, hot wheat bag, electric shock or scalpel. It's a must buy and comes with my highest recommendation.

 

Regardless of whether you are a member of the pick and shovel or the sit down profession you need to read and digest what it says in this book. It will be a revelation.

 

It fits in well with the natural healing philosophy which says that you can do things which protect you from musculo-skeletal dysfunction or which can fix your musculo-skeletal dysfunction without recourse to therapists, chemists or surgeons.

 

And regardless of which profession you're in, there's a good chance that somewhere down the track you'll get a crook back, stiff neck, frozen shoulder, bung hip, game leg, dicky knee and RSI if you don't keep your body strong and flexible. Save yourself the bother. Buy the book. Do the exercises.

 

If you're an OH&S professional buy a copy for everyone on your staff. Make them read it and make them do the exercises. It will save you a poultice in compo claims and sheet home the blame for any musculo-skeletal rehab claim (especially for people in the sit down professions) to where it belongs!