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Marked by Brother Raven… Uprooted and dumped in a small town at the edge of the Colorado mountains, Jimmy Walker is at odds with everything. He feels adrift, alienated from his classmates and even his own family. It's hard being a teenager in a new town, struggling with grades, depression, hostile classmates, and a stepfather bent on making his life hell- Until a violent collision with fate leaves Jimmy bleeding under the light of a Full Moon…...
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Denial is a major characteristic of addiction, and it is certainly a key problem when it comes to chemical dependency on sugar and other hyper-processed foods. Denial is an issue of consciousness. A major aspect of food addiction is that those who have it do not think they have it, and those who are treating it professionally do not think that it is a serious problem.
Food addiction begins with physical craving. Physical craving distorts the hunger...
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This book has been written in response to requests for more diverse and practical information on living with hepatitis C. It has received invaluable input from patients (both on and off treatment), their partners, families and friends, nurses, consultants and so many others. There is information out there on hepatitis C and helping you through treatment, but the big gap appears to be in providing information covering practical, day-to-day issues....
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Do you feel wasted? -- Get It Out! Passing a kidney stone is considered one of the most painful experiences the human body can endure. Diverticulitis causes a stabbing pain in the belly, and can lead to internal bleeding, infection and death. Prostate enlargement can torment a man day and night, just as menopausal hot flashes, sweats and imbalances can destroy a woman's quality of life. Cervical dysplasia and yeast infections plague young women, who...
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Warning: this book will not be conventional in the sense that it will try to provide politically correct answers to the problems that we are facing in urban America. A subject of this matter requires a deeper analysis that goes well beyond the scope of one's typical way of thinking, so I wrote this book as a starting point in an attempt to address such matters. We must explore unconventional solutions, or at least view the situation from an unconventional...
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Are you tired of suffering from painful heartburn, acid reflux, indigestion, embarrassing belching, or the frightening feeling of food getting stuck in your throat? If you're one of the 60 million Americans suffering from heartburn or one of the 20 percent affected by GERD, you may be looking for solutions to ease your symptoms and heal your digestive tract. Or you may be one of an estimated 20 million people who suffer from GERD but doesn't know...
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If you believe in medical Doctors (AMA) and the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) then read no further. If you believe in the word of the good Lord that without a cause there will be no curse, then read on. In nature if there should be a curse (Cancer?), then there is a cause and cure. Remove the cause and God will heal. The choice is yours. The alternative natural treatments or manmade drugs and surgery, chemotherapy and radiation.
88) Inside Out
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This book is a personal journey that is at once an adventure, a tragedy, a comedy, and an insightful look at the connection between the environment and the fragility of life. The story chronicles the day-to-day challenges and revelations of life with a chronic health condition (chemical sensitivities). It examines the recovery and emerging new life that arises from a personally unique experience. Written by a landscape architect and artist, the story...
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The author is a well-known educator and planner who has written extensively about architecture and city planning in his 13 books and 90 professional and academic articles. He has practiced planning as a consultant, and was involved in several of the developments discussed in this book.
He believes that New Urbanism offers a family-centered, small town approach that ius an alternative to urban sprawl. He sees it as a lifestyle choice over central city...
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Is your doctor making you sick? If you have been told that you have high blood pressure, low thyroid or diabetes, you may be a victim of one of the most common medical scams of our time. Are these conditions really diseases, or could they be clever methods for medicine to drum up business? Internationally acclaimed medical anthropologists Sydney Ross Singer and Soma Grismaijer are known for their discoveries of the lifestyle causes of disease. Their...
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X-out Cancer with Exercise is a book written for cancer survivors and those wishing to prevent cancer by using exercise. In the first section, science behind how exercise can benefit health and wellness is explained as well as how exercise can prevent cancer and benefit cancer survivors. The book then outlines an approach to exercise that can be developed by each person, no matter their current health or background for exercise with information about...
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Is your diabetes treating you like a bad boyfriend would? Put your foot down now and get control! In today's world, it is all too common to feel hopeless and drained by an endless effort trying to manage diabetes. Terren found herself in this same predicament. After being unsuccessful at controlling her type 1 diabetes and reaching a goal HgA1C for over twenty-five years, she knew something had to change. A shift occurred when she took her diabetes...
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For years, advice for diabetics has centered around taking drugs. But what if there was a safe way of controlling your symptoms, and in some cases even eradicating them – without taking drugs at all? In DIABETES? NO THANKS! Lars-Erik Litsfeldt lifts the lid on the hidden story that the pharmaceutical industry doesn't want you to know – how a natural and evolutionary low carbohydrate, high fat diet can, in fact, alleviate all the symptoms of diabetes...
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Dr. Tony Hampton provides expert advice on how to improve diabetes through diets and lifestyle choices. Extensive research, personal stories, motivation, and direct lists about what foods should and should not be eaten support his passion for helping his patients with diabetes. A Family Physician who for two decades, Dr. Hampton has treated patients with multiple chronic conditions. The condition that has had the greatest impact in his life has been...
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You are about to discover what causes normal cells to turn cancerous to begin with, and how that process can often be reversed. You will also learn that the traditional cancer protocol (surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy), which is "capable of creating or promoting cancer", is total insanity! It has a poor success rate and creates unnecessary collateral damage to millions of once-healthy cells (and thus organs). Most importantly, you will find that...
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Cancer is a lot like fire, both need certain things in order to exist and spread. Fire needs air, wood, and dry conditions. Cancer needs a lack of oxygen, extreme acid pH, and a weak immune system. Fire creates smoke and cancer creates tumors. And just as smoke is an indication of fire, a malignant tumor is an indication of a cancerous process that must be stopped. Tumors are symptoms of cancer, and getting rid of them does not eliminate cancer any...
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Controlling your diabetes is the key to preventing or slowing serious complications. The Essentials of Diabetes helps you fully understand what diabetes is, what you need to do to control it, and why control is so important. Easy-to-use facts and action steps, coupled with in-depth information on tests, medications, exercise and diet mean you'll have the knowledge you need to finally get your glucose levels to your goal range. You can also work more...
98) Emotional Recovery from Congenital Heart Disease: A Guide for Children, Youth, Adults and Parents
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Winner of the Outstanding book (self-help) and Book of the Year Award (3rd) in the 2016 Independent Author Network Book of the Year Awards. More than forty thousand babies are born every year in the United States with the most common birth defect – congenital heart disease (CHD). The number of babies born annually worldwide with CHD approaches one million. While medical interventions for CHD have radically improved, less attention has been paid...
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I was approaching my 37th birthday, and slowly killing myself. At just under five foot eight, I weighed almost 400lbs and was a "Bad Diabetic," as my elderly mother declares, as if there were any other kind. When I was diagnosed in 1988, Diabetes education was all but absent from medicine and Diabetes was not the national epidemic it is today. I did little to address the disease and eventually was taking more than the maximum doses of oral anti-diabetic...
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This textbook provides an extensive overview for use of laser and IPL technology in skin care and rejuvenation. Parameters for the cosmetic laser procedures, photo-facial, vascular and pigmented lesions, and tattoo removal are presented and discussed in depth and details. The topics also include Lasers / IPL tissue interaction, skin tightening and resurfacing, acne treatment, skin typing, and operational and treatment safety measures. Discussion of...
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