Solidly supported by research, Defy Aging explains for lay and professional readers the "mental ABCs" - 4 Attitudes, 36 Beliefs, and 4 Coping Skills that foster vital longevity. It is a very practical self-help book that focuses on what works and helps the reader develop and implement an individualized, personalized life vision, mission, purpose and strategies.

It is critically acclaimed by Dr. Bernie Siegel, Betty Friedan, Dr. Ronald Katz, (Pres. Amer. Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine) and 4 past presidents of the Amer. Psychological Assoc.

An excellent road map and tool kit to assist you in creating a longer, healthier, more joyful life. Read and learn how to be too busy to die, and become ageless by losing track of time. –Bernie Siegel, MD, Author of Love, Medicine, and Miracles and Peace, Love and Healing

[Read anything by Dharma Singh Khlasa. These are all highly recommended sources.]

The author, a physician and a yogi, follows up on his Meditation as Medicine with this guide to nutritional therapy. Together with drinking recommended juices and taking vitamins and herbs, this diet, according to Khalsa, will lead to a healthier, disease-free life. He bases his program on the seven principles of yoga nutritional therapy: body detoxification; the use of organic products; elimination of genetically engineered foods; eating only clean protein (e.g., fish, soy, beans, legumes); fresh juices and supplements; cooking consciously and eating mindfully; and a complete transition to a yoga nutrition therapy diet.

Fans of Andrew Weil (Eating Well for Optimum Health) and Deepak Chopra (How to Know God) will appreciate the author's combination of spirituality and diet. Khalsa offers a low-fat diet that is rich in grains, organic fruits and vegetables and non-meat protein. A variety of useful recipes with these components are included here as well as suggestions for maintaining peaceful meal times and a spiritually balanced life.

Although this particular nutritional program should improve physical well-being, he also maintains that his nutritional plan can reverse many serious diseases. Interestingly enough,

Highly readable and informative this is a good start. Jean Carper is lucid and thorough.

Nationally syndicated columnist and America's leading authority on health and nutrition, Jean Carper now turns her attention to the public's increasing demand for medically proven natural cures. The first comprehensive guide to fully document the effectiveness of vitamins, minerals, herbs and other natural substances, Miracle Cures is backed by the latest scientific findings of leading scientific institutions, research centers and medical journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Classic paperback on the nature of change in health and medicine. Where do they really come from.

from a reader: Rene Dubos, a doc, was one of the first and most influential environmentalists and also bent medicine. This book established that disease is PART of health---not in some goopy self-awareness way but as an inherent part of a system remaining able to correct itself and restore dynamic homeostasis.

A great resource. Highlyr ecommneded. Practicle and quite readable.

From an online review:

This is a practical overview and reference guide to research and literature of 92 common diseases, covering thousands of studies on anemia, cancer, dementia, diabetes, osteoporosis, Parkinsonism, schizophrenia, and many others. Appendices detail common nutritional deficiencies, nutritional supplements, and more.

A disease overview delineates nutrient factors, nutrient deficiencies, associated physiological phenomena, and other factors. Basic dietary recommendations are offered, and information from reports of experimental and observational studies, controlled studies, and double blind studies is provided.

Appendices include common nutrient deficiencies, dangers of supplementation, guidelines for nutritional supplementation, laboratory methods for nutritional evaluation, nutrient bioavailability and interactions, and syndromes due to abnormal tissue nutrient levels.

The classic text on cognitive enhancement drugs. Irreverant and comprehensive.

An inspiring and profoundly enlightening exploration of one doctor’s discovery of how hope can change the course of illness

Since the time of the ancient Greeks, human beings have believed that hope is essential to life. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Harvard Medical School professor and New Yorker staff writer Jerome Groopman shows us why.

The search for hope is most urgent at the patient’s bedside. The Anatomy of Hope takes us there, bringing us into the lives of people at pivotal moments when they reach for and find hope--or when it eludes their grasp. Through these intimate portraits, we learn how to distinguish true hope from false, why some people feel they are undeserving of it, and whether we should ever abandon our search.

Can hope contribute to recovery by changing physical well-being? To answer this hotly debated question, Groopman embarked on an investigative journey to cutting-edge laboratories where researchers are unraveling an authentic biology of hope. There he finds a scientific basis for understanding the role of this vital emotion in the outcome of illness.

Here is a book that offers a new way of thinking about hope, with a message for all readers, not only patients and their families. "We are just beginning to appreciate hope’s reach," Groopm

Wonderful short book on newer concepts of cardio vascular disease and health. A must read including sensible exercise and eating routines.

This book should find its way onto the shelf of any self-respecting cardiologist, preferably dislodging the seriously over-used prescription pad from its prominent position front and center in the battle against heart disease. Highly recommended to one and all!

Nobody can beat James Duke at comfortable pop-level communication combined with solid, informed good judgement. In this book he gives practical preparation and dosage suggestions -- something the too-careful books don't do. He also provides clear, definite cautions on drug interactions and side-effects.

My only criticism of Duke's book is that he may be a bit too confident when he suggests combining several herbs at once to treat some conditions. Folklore and formal studies may provide reasonable dosage guides for individual herbs. But no single folklore or ancient system encompasses, at once, medicinal plants of South America, China, and Europe. Combining herbs that have not been traditonally used, nor clinically tested, in such combination, is not something I would advise to a general audience.

Nevertheless I rate this book very highly. I don't know how many copies of the previous edition I bought to give to people: teenagers, undergraduate college students, my old hippy friends, my father, doctors, and various people who ask me about medical botany.

John Gray's "The Mars & Venus Diet & Exercise Solution" is a remarkable achievement. That an expert in relationships has taken the time and effort to read and master esoteric research on brain chemistry and made it accessible and usable for us lay readers is amazing.

Edwards Deming, the quality guru, once said: "It's not what you don't know that's the problem; it's what you know that's NOT SO!" Gray punctures many of the myths about diet and exercise that people have been religiously following for years. The famous Pritikin and Atkins diets, for example, do not emerge unscathed.

This is not just another weight-loss book. People suffering from conditions as desparate as ADD/ADHD, addictions, brain concussions, or depression, to name a few, can find valuable new approaches to treatment. It's actually a book on how to effectively manage your own brain chemistry.

The book challenges the dominance in our culture of allopathic (that is, traditional) medicine with its overuse of powerful drugs and their side effects. It supports the use of alternative therapies such as homeopathy and aromatherapy. And it is not "one size fits all": Gray makes careful distinctions, not only by gender as one would expect from the creator of the Mars/Venus school of gender differences, but by body type as well. What

from a reader:

This is a brilliant book and I am amazed that this is the first review. It is a 'tour de force'. It brings together many threads of the great advances of modern medicine post war and chronicles how the golden age petered out eg the pharmacological revolution slowed rapidly particularly post thalidimide.

It explores the fallacies and cheating which gave us the Social Theory ie ill health is all our own fault because of what we eat - we shouldn't eat so many lamb chops or choccie bikkies - and the unfulfilled expectations of genetics and its possible limited application in medicine. It is both scholarly and readable as well as becoming quite compelling. Even if the bloke is a journalist this is stunning stuff. I am still searching for an effective contrary view.