Age Defying Fitness or Soul Wisdom

Age-Defying Fitness: Making the Most of Your Body for the Rest of Your Life

Author: Marilyn Moffat

Growing older does not mean accepting diminished fitness. Two of the nation's top physical therapists show how to assess your fitness levels and create a specific profile to achieve optimum physical health.

There is no doubt that our bodies change with age, as the baby boomer generation is now learning firsthand. But many of the problems attributed to inevitable age-related changes are in fact not inevitable and are often lifestyle induced and reversible.

In this new book, Moffat and Lewis show how to overcome the aches, stiffness, and unsteadiness in your muscles and joints. Using their simple, self-administered tests, you will assess your level of physical performance in these five critical domains: posture, balance, strength, flexibility, and endurance. The authors help you develop a personal profile, according to the results of these tests. Easy-to-follow strengthening and stretching exercises, based on the latest clinical research, are included along with a Thera-Band® resistive exercise band for use in some exercises.

More than a simple how-to book, Age-Defying Fitness encourages you to take responsibility for your physical well-being, and offers an easy everyday approach to achieving better health.

About the Authors
MARILYN MOFFAT, PhD, PT, an internationally recognized leader in the field of physical therapy, is professor of physical therapy at New York University. In 1997, she completed a six-year term as the president of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA). She is currently on the executive committee of the World Federation for Physical Therapy. She has also been in private practice for almost forty years.

CAROL B. LEWIS, PhD, PT, is founder and owner of a large physical therapy practice in Washington, DC. She currently serves on the medical faculty of George Washington University as a full adjunct professor in the Department of Geriatrics. Lewis has published numerous textbooks and articles in the field of aging. She has a PhD from the University of Maryland and two master's degrees from the University of Southern California.

Kirkus Reviews

If you are an aging baby-boomer, chances are good you will fail this book's quick quiz assessing your overall physical health. Read on and you may soon earn a passing grade.

Library Journal

Clinical physical therapists Moffat (NYU) and Lewis (geriatrics, George Washington Univ.; founder & president, Premier Physical Therapy) provide excellent, easy-to-understand guidance for baby boomers looking to assess their level of physical fitness in five domains: posture, strength, flexibility, balance, and endurance. Chapter 1 sets the scene, explaining changes that take place as our bodies age. Simple tests, well illustrated with clear black-and-white drawings and photographs, enable readers to assess their capabilities and lead to a personal profile for physical fitness in each of the five domains. Many of the strengthening and stretching exercises use the Thera-BandR resistive band; others use only wrist or ankle weights and a sturdy chair. The benefits of each exercise are listed, while charts and work sheets allow readers to track their progress. A great resource for determining one's fitness level and custom-tailoring a program; highly recommended for public libraries, though selectors should note that a bound-in insert contains the Thera-BandR. Jodith Janes, Cleveland Clinic Fdn. Lib. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

See also: The Stress Effect or Children with Disabilities

Soul Wisdom: Practical Soul Treasures To Transform Your Life (Includes MP3 Download)

Author: Zhi Gang Sha

In Soul Wisdom, internationally acclaimed Soul Master, healer, and bestselling author Dr. Zhi Gang Sha takes healing and personal transformation to the ultimate level, the soul level. Dr. Sha's teachings empower you to melt all of your life blockages with practical soul treasures: Soul Language, Soul Song, Soul Movement, Soul Tapping, and Soul Dance. This is the first time in history that the Divine has released these soul secrets to transform the consciousness of humanity and create love, peace, and harmony for humanity, Mother Earth, and the Universe.

"The Soul Song for Healing and Rejuvenation" included in this book is an MP3 file that only some CD players can play. If your CD player cannot play MP3 files, you can download a music file at drsha.com and burn it to a CD that will work on virtually all CD players.

Table of Contents:

Soul Power Series     ix
How to Receive the Divine Downloads Offered in the Books of the Soul Power Series     xxi
What to Expect After You Receive Divine Downloads     xxiii
Foreword   Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith     xxv
Preface     xxvii
Soul Language: Universal Communication
Introduction     3
What Is Soul Language?     9
Bring Out Your Soul Language     47
Soul Language and Healing     70
Soul Language as Service     88
Translating Soul Language     103
Conclusion     124
Soul Song: The Song of the Heart and Soul
What Is Soul Song?     129
Soul Song and Joy     140
Soul Song and the Song of the Universe     153
Conclusion     170
Soul Movement: Ancient Practice to Energize, Heal, Rejuvenate, and Enlighten Soul, Mind, and Body
Introduction     175
Basic Formula for Soul Movement     184
Boosting Energy, Stamina, Vitality, and Immunity     188
Healing     193
Rejuvenation     196
Englightenment     202
Putting It All Together     206
Soul Tapping: Advanced Soul Healing for Ages 8 to 108
Introduction     215
What Is Soul Tapping?     220
Key Areas for Soul Tapping     225
Healing Emotional, Mental, and Spiritual Imbalances and Blockages     232
Group Healing and Remote Healing     240
Everyone's Soul Tapping Power Is Different     245
How to Uplift Your Soul     248
Soul Tapping Master Healers     257
Soul Dance: Soul Joy in Motion
Introduction     263
What Is Soul Dance?     265
The Heavens Delight in Soul Dance     277
Soul Dance as a Manifestation of the Divine     288
Conclusion     297
Acknowledgments     299
A Special Gift     301
Dr. Sha's Teachings and Services     303

Struggle for Intimacy or Gluten Free Gourmet

Struggle for Intimacy

Author: Janet Geringer Woititz

For those who have grown up with alcoholism or dysfunction in the home, finding intimacy in relationships can be very difficult. Here, Janet Woititz, mother of the recovery movement, sensitively addresses the barriers of trust and intimacy that children learn in an alcoholic family. She provides suggestions for building loving relationships with friends, partners and spouses.

Book about: Public Relations Campaign Strategies or Principles of Macroeconomics

Gluten-Free Gourmet: Living Well without Wheat, Second Edition

Author: Bette Hagman

An updated, beautifully designed edition of the essential resource for people who cannot tolerate wheat or gluten.

With her four cookbooks, Bette Hagman has brought tasty food Whack into the lives of over one million people who are intolerant of the gluten in wheat, oats, barley, or rye, or who are allergic to wheat. The premier creator of delicious gluten-free fare, Hagman has spent more than twenty years developing recipes using special flours for pizza, pasta, breads, pies, cakes, and cookies. Containing over 200 recipes updated to include new flours, ingredients, and tips, the second edition of The Gluten-free Gourmet makes cooking gluten-free faster and more fulfilling than ever before. The Gluten-free Gourmet is more than just recipes, however. A complete sourcebook on how to live healthily with celiac disease or wheat intolerance, it features important new information on developing a celiac diet, raising a celiac child, avoiding hidden glutens, eating well while traveling or in the hospital, and locating and ordering from suppliers of gluten-free food and flour. This and Hagman's other books in the Gluten-free Gourmet series are recognized by health newsletters around the world as the best in this special diet category.

Library Journal

The more than 100,000 Americans allergic to wheat are usually deprived of Sourdough Bread, Butterscotch Brownies, and all the other favorite dishes Hagman has created without using gluten. Her recipes use flours other than wheat flour, but they are generally uncomplicated and quick to prepare--suitable even for those noncooks who have been craving their forbidden foods. There are few other cookbooks in this area; recommended for all special collections.

Delivered from Distraction or The Hot Zone

Delivered from Distraction: Getting the Most Out of Life with Attention Deficit Disorder

Author: Edward M Hallowell

In 1994, Driven to Distraction sparked a revolution in our understanding of attention deficit disorder. Widely recognized as the classic in the field, the book has sold more than a million copies. Now a second revolution is under way in the approach to ADD, and the news is great. Drug therapies, our understanding of the role of diet and exercise, even the way we define the disorder–all are changing radically. And doctors are realizing that millions of adults suffer from this condition, though the vast majority of them remain undiagnosed and untreated. In this new book, Drs. Edward M. Hallowell and John J. Ratey build on the breakthroughs of Driven to Distraction to offer a comprehensive and entirely up-to-date guide to living a successful life with ADD.

As Hallowell and Ratey point out, “attention deficit disorder” is a highly misleading description of an intriguing kind of mind. Original, charismatic, energetic, often brilliant, people with ADD have extraordinary talents and gifts embedded in their highly charged but easily distracted minds. Tailored expressly to ADD learning styles and attention spans, Delivered from Distraction provides accessible, engaging discussions of every aspect of the condition, from diagnosis to finding the proper treatment regime. Inside you’ll discover

• whether ADD runs in families
• new diagnostic procedures, tests, and evaluations
• the links between ADD and other conditions
• how people with ADD can free up their inner talents and strengths
• the new drugs and how they work, and why they’re not for everyone
• exciting advances in nonpharmaceuticaltherapies, including changes in diet, exercise, and lifestyle
• how to adapt the classic twelve-step program to treat ADD
• sexual problems associated with ADD and how to resolve them
• strategies for dealing with procrastination, clutter, and chronic forgetfulness

ADD is a trait, a way of living in the world. It only becomes a disorder when it impairs your life. Featuring gripping profiles of patients with ADD who have triumphed, Delivered from Distraction is a wise, loving guide to releasing the positive energy that all people with ADD hold inside. If you have ADD or care about someone who does, this is the book you must read.

Publishers Weekly

This follow-up to the authors' 1994 manual, Driven to Distraction, has the advantage of personal testimony regarding adult Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)-the authors themselves have ADD-as well a very readable presentation of the latest research in the field. Defining ADD as a collection of traits, some positive, some negative, the authors intend to encourage those who have this condition or are raising children with it and advise on how to maximize their abilities and minimize characteristics, such as procrastination, that may hinder them at school or work. In a comprehensive overview, Hallowell and Ratey provide a new screening questionnaire for adults and list methods that physicians, parents and educators can use to diagnose and treat the ADD child. Of primary importance to readers are the recommended steps for living a satisfying life with ADD; these include developing personal relationships and engaging in creative activities that will foster self-esteem. The authors also separate nutrition fads from what is known about how diet can affect brain functioning and discuss whether to take medication. Overall, this is an excellent resource. Agent, Jill Kneerim. (Dec.) Forecast: Driven to Distraction has sold more than one million copies over 10 years; the market should be equally promising for this sequel. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

Here are two different but successful takes on attention deficit disorder (ADD). Psychiatrists Hallowell and Ratey (Harvard Medical Sch.) follow up their successful Driven to Distraction, which dispelled myths about ADD, with this comprehensive guide to living a successful life with ADD. The authors cover new medications; dietary and nutritional suggestions; approaches to diagnosis, including quantitative electroencephalography and single proton emission computerized tomography; and understanding of the characteristics of ADD. A concise Q&A chapter on the basics of ADD is followed by reader-friendly sections organized around actual stories of patients with ADD who have all been successfully treated by the authors. The authors' professional clinical background is further enhanced by their firsthand experience with ADD, which results in an important contribution to ADD collections in all libraries. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 9/1/04.] Only 19 when he wrote this book, which was first self-published in Australia in 2003, Polis has lived with ADD all his life. In his distinctive writing style, he shares what it's really like inside the mind of a child/adolescent with ADD and provides encouragement for parents and educators who strive daily to reach children and adolescents with ADD. Through his great determination and use of self-taught concentration techniques, along with timely intervention by the right medical team, the author managed to complete high school, attend university, and create this remarkable firsthand account. Polis's youthful perspective is a significant contribution to the growing ADD literature and includes a foreword by Edward M. Hallowell (see review of Delivered from Distraction, above); highly recommended. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 9/1/04.]-Dale Farris, Groves, TX Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story

Author: Richard Preston

A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this exotic "hot" virus. The Hot Zone tells this dramatic story, giving a hair-raising account of the appearance of rare and lethal viruses and their "crashes" into the human race. Shocking, frightening, and impossible to ignore, The Hot Zone proves that truth really is scarier than fiction.

Publishers Weekly

Far more infectious than AIDS, filoviruses (thread viruses) are relentless killer machines that consume a human body in days, causing a gruesome death. Symptoms include liquefying flesh, spurts of blood, black vomit and brain sludge. Outbreaks of the Ebola filovirus devasted Sudan and Zaire in 1976. And in 1989 Philippine monkeys in a Reston, Va., research lab, found to be infected with Ebola, were the target of a U.S. Army-led biohazard task force that decontaminated the lab, exterminating hundreds of monkeys to prevent the possible airborne spread of the disease to humans. In a horrifying and riveting report, portions of which appeared in the New Yorker , Preston ( American Steel ) exposes a real-life nightmare potentially as lethal as the fictive runaway germs in Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain. Preston plausibly argues that the emergence of AIDS, Ebola and other highly adaptable rain-forest viruses is a consequence of ecological ruin of the tropics. A movie based on this book, directed by Ridley Scott ( Alien ), will star Robert Redford. Author tour. (Sept.)

Library Journal

Expanded from Preston's 1992 New Yorker article, this account of a lethal virus run amok is Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain come true. In the fall of 1989, imported monkeys at a Reston, Virginia, facility began dying of a mysterious illness. Was it simian hemorrhagic fever (fatal to monkeys but harmless to humans) or was it Ebola, an extremely deadly tropical virus that had devasted villages in Zaire and the Sudan in 1976? Writing in a breathless novelistic style, Preston (American Steel, LJ 4/15/91) follows a military SWAT team as they don biohazard space suits to enter the "hot zone" and contain the alien virus. While this is thrilling reading (there are plenty of gruesome descriptions of Ebola's effects on human victims), one does wonder how much Preston sensationalized events for the sake of a good story. He also only sketchily discusses the possiblity that the destruction of the rainforests are releasing unknown viruses into the human population. Still, with a forthcoming movie starring Robert Redford and Jodie Foster, there will be demand. Buy multiple copies. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 6/1/94]-Wilda Williams, "Library Journal"

School Library Journal

YA-Warning-not for faint hearts or weak stomachs! In 1989, an obscure filovirus travels from the African rain forest to a lab near Washington, D.C., where the monkeys quickly sicken and die. Preston traces the history of the Warburg and Ebola filoviruses in minute, horrific detail that is as fascinating to read as it is alarming to contemplate-these filoviruses have the capability to mutate and possibly cross species. There are extraneous descriptions of scenery and of the characters' lives, but these passages serve to relieve the mounting tension and terror as the virus spreads and the CDC, the Army, and a private firm work out a containment plan to prevent a mass epidemic. YAs interested in science or fans of Stephen King or Michael Crichton will find this a fast-paced medical chiller right to the last disturbing page.-Judy Sokoll, Fairfax County Public Library, VA

BookList

One of the nation's more famous planned communities, Reston, Virginia, stands at the epicenter of this whirlwind tale of potential biological disaster. Preston, award-winning author of "First Light" (1987) and "American Steel" (1991), wrote a 1992 "New Yorker" article on the recognition and containment of a devastating tropical filovirus at a monkey house--the Reston Primate Quarantine Unit--operated by a division of Corning, Inc., about 10 miles from Washington, D.C. Preston expands on that article by describing his 1993 journey to Kitum Cave on Mount Elgon near the edge of the Rift Valley in Kenya, the place scientists believe is the source of all four identified filoviruses: the Marburg, the Sudan, the Zaire, and the Reston strains of Ebola. "The Hot Zone" is a compelling "science fact" thriller: filoviruses kill most of their monkey and human hosts in vividly gruesome ways. The process through which the U.S. Veterinary Corps at Frederick, Maryland, spotted Ebola at Reston and recruited a secret SWAT team to contain it is tense and terrifying; and Preston, who lived in Kenya for part of his youth, places this chilling incident in a broad global context, eloquently arguing that "the emergence of AIDS, Ebola, and any number of other rain-forest agents [may be] a natural consequence of the ruin of the tropical biosphere." Expect reader interest: Random House plans heavy promotion; Robert Redford and Jodie Foster are working on a motion picture based on Preston's article; and Dustin Hoffman stars in a second film on this frightening subject.

Booknews

Look for a pot-boilin', splatter flick from this fictionalized medical horror story. On the filovirus out of Africa & the Philippines and its ghastly symptoms in man & monkey. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

Part 1	The Shadow of Mount Elgon	1
Part 2	The Monkey House	155
Part 3	Smashdown	283
Part 4	Kitum Cave	373
	Main Characters	412
	Glossary	414
	Credits	419