Posts under ‘Book Reviews’

Book Review: The Pleasure Trap

I’ve been reading about and researching healthful living for years.  I know what to do to be healthy.  I know why I need to do these things.  Yet, making these changes  have always been difficult for me and I have failed many times in the past.  That pattern is by no means unique to me [...]

Book Review: Slow Fat Triathlete

I LOVED this book!  Borrow or buy it, but definitely read it.
The end.
Okay, it’s not really the end.  Even though I’ve been a lazy blogger all week, I’ll tell you a little but more about “Slow Fat Triathlete“.
Jayne Williams was well on her way to 300 pounds and the big four-oh and spent her [...]

Book Review: The Omnivore’s Dilemma

Thank you all for the kind and heartfelt birthday wishes! I had a lovely time.
My family all gave me gift cards (which I’d requested) and my in-laws gave me a set of heavy crystal candle holders.
The sweetest gift was a copy of the newspaper of the day I was born – 5 September 1969.  [...]

Book Review: The pH Miracle

Let me start by saying that I wholeheartedly believe in the connection between our pH balance and our health.  I have learned a lot about it over the years and have seen first hand (and read many accounts of) the difference that an alkaline-forming diet can make to our health, especially our healing.  My whole [...]

Book Review: Lose the Diet

I have long believed, and often said, that excess weight is a symptom of a life out of balance.  In fact, I believe that is true for most of the diseases and conditions we suffer from these days.
It is precisely for this reason that I’ve never been a fan of dieting.  I’ve done a few [...]