Book Review
The Secret Life of Fat
Fat is not the antithesis of health, as this insightful book shows. "The Secret Life of Fat" by Sylvia Tara takes a fresh look at a taboo. The word “fat” is so often associated with succinct, negative labels like bad and gross. But...
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The Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy
Essential oils are the latest craze in the home-party market, but these natural health products pack a much more powerful benefit than kitchen gadgets and fashion items. Worwood was an essential-oil expert well before the current trend....
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Your Health, Your Decisions
As a physician, Robert Alan McNutt comes from a position of knowledge and power, but he knows that the key to true health is to share knowledge rather than hoard it, to offer power rather than cling to it. For many patients, when a...
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Yoga for Athletes
Yoga’s reputation is often soft and feminine, all yoga pants and calming breathing. As a result, many skilled, dedicated athletes see yoga as something outside their realm, but Ryanne Cunningham shows how the intensity and adaptability...
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Finding Maria
"Finding Maria" is a heartfelt, honest look at love and loss across generations of a family. In Finding Maria, Peter Szabo tells a personal, yet relatable, story about the passing of his grandmother. It is a narrative of discovery of...
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Survival
"Survival" is a detailed account of one man’s simple and powerful pursuit of meaning amid the horrors of life in a prison camp. Survival: My Father’s War as an Air Force Gunner and POW by Barbara Trendos is an epistolary-style...
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Eat Wheat
Gluten-free has gone from diet craze to full-scale movement. But is gluten unequivocally a substance to be avoided? That, along with similar concerns about dairy, is the question of John A. Douillard’s book. Through his experience, he...
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A Snowflake Never Falls in the Wrong Place
This memoir is an invitation to reflect on life through faith. "A Snowflake Never Falls in the Wrong Place" by Richard Zakka is a warm memoir centered on the belief that everything happens according to God’s plan. Zakka is a creative...