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This book is so easy to approach that I have ever read. As a medical student or resident, I suggest that you must buy one like this to enhance you for understanding the use of antibiotics and some knowledge in infectious diseases. You can make a quick reference from this book and some helpful information also.

There is nothing better for a clinician than finding the answer to your question quickly. This handbook does just that and with accurate, up-to-date information. bruce thomas.

A valuable and educational book. A must for the uninformed public about our healthcare status. Your health is your responsibility not the government's. Socialized medicine is Socialism and after Socialism comes Communism.

This book opened my eyes to the misinformation the media and government put out there to gain support for programs that will create bigger bureaucracies but do nothing to improve health care. The book is well-documented and presents an un-biased analysis of what is really going on.

It was easy to read and understand and full of great information.

Heart Fitness for Life's content is much broader than the title indicates. It addresses many basic issues and goes into enough detail to answer questions/concerns from patients and releatives.

After having reviewed and read 18 or more books on heart disease, I can say with confidence that McGowan's book is the best without qualification. Heart books date very quickly but Heart Fitness addressed Homocystein issue and genes in concise style that was easy to understand.

My only suggestion for the next edition would be to address the "stress" as one of the signficant risk factors. Saplosky's, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers" is a useful update on stress related disease and the linkag to our hearts.

Dr. Ornish's and Dr. MacDougal's books would make positive companion's to this book and are worth considering.

I strongly recommend McGowan's not as the "first" comprehenisive approach to her topic but as the "most current" on the every changing field of caridology.

This one of the only books which lives up to the promotion of itself on the cover. It covers the spectrum of treatments for coronary artery disease. It is written in a very interseting and readable form. This is a terrific resource for patients. It offers hope and means to overcome the number killer in the U.S.

After discovering I had a very serious heart arythmia, I went on a quest to find information on how I could treat the root of my condition instead of just taking drugs (that had serious side effects). This book has literally changed my life. I currently am doing very well using what I learned from this book and drinking a Hawthorne Berry tea. This book is very deep, authentic and comprehensive. I have no ties to the author and I must say that if you know anyone with a heart condition who is willing to do some self examination, this book will give them incredibly important and useful information.

Dr. Sinatra is both a cardiologist and a psychologist, a rare and useful combination. The thesis of this book is stated way back on page 239:

"My patients have taught me so much about the preciousness of life. If you want to heal or prevent heart disease, the first step is recognition o fold wounds, losses and your emotional reactions to them. The next step is mobilizing those trapped energies and feelings and discharging them in ways that are nurturing to your heart. Following a healthy lifestyle is another significant step toward obtaining optimum health. The final step in healing is to realize the profound depth of spirituality and how heart disease can, indeed, be a messenger of something more."

His objectives are to answer his questions listed in his Preface as follows: 1) To what extent do emotional factors and one's own intrinsic personality play a part in heart disease? 2) Are suppressed feelings and emotions significant? 3)Do negative feelings such as abandonment, heartbreak, betrayal or humiliation create conditions that invite death? 4) What do positive emotions such as love, faith, and good humor play in the process of healing and staying well? 5) What is the significance of the way we breathe?

Dr. Sinatra takes us through his medical training and explains his reasons for pursuing a degree in psychology. As the above selection says, he emphasizes the role of heartbreak and loss in the child to the eventual heart diseased adult. He explains the concept of narcissistic injury, how the narcissistic parent inflicts it on the child, and the consequences in later years.

He prescribes his heart disease reversal program which is based on established findings in cardiology, but also on his training and knowledge as a bioenergetic psychologist. His program seems a little out of the ordinary since it resembles alternative medicine, but he describes it in a way that makes sense.

The only shortcoming of this book, in my opinion, is his case histories since they do not seem to relate to his points very well. They could be omitted or put in an appendix.

As a heart patient, I learned much from this book, and recommend it.

This book is a great help in my profession and would be a good source for anyone outside of the profession as well. Easy to understand and very portable!

This is a truly excellent guide to herb-drug interactions. Well organized, succinct, and comprehensive.

Sabina Zimering has created a monument to courage. This is the unusual holocaust memoir of two Jewish sisters' flight from Poland and extermination camps. They flee to Germany where they hide in the open till the end of the war. The gripping story pulls the reader along to its bittersweet ending. During their flight the sisters time and again escape apprehension and when they, during the last months of the war, settle in as domestics in a hotel housing Gestapo officers they face daily danger. Sabina Zimering's prose is captivating and colorful, her story compelling. A must read for anyone interested in the holocaust and WWII.

Dr. Zimering is a wonderful new writer. I had heard of her story and was pleased she had it published. This book holds special meaning to me because I know one of its characters, Helka. Helka is in her 70's now, and a strong woman who understandably carries the weight of her past on her shoulders. However, she's a very private woman and her past had mostly been a mystery to those of us who know her. The mystery is solved as Dr. Zimering's writing takes the reader into an ugly era filled with remarkable people. Understanding the history helps me better know Helka. I'm overwhelmed with the story Dr. Zimering writes and am planning on purchasing 15 more copies of this book to share with others who know Helka. I hope to meet Dr. Zimering one day soon, as she seems an amazing, courageous woman whom I would be proud to know.

My marriage was in despair and I bought this book, read it through with my wife, and worked hard, and now we're doing much better. The book did not provide a magic solution to our wedded woes; but it did do everything it said it would and now my wife and I are looking forward to many happy years together. Thank you Dr. Kotin!

How to Change Your Spouse and Save Your Marriage by Dr. Joel Kotin, MD is just about the best book I have ever read on the real dynamics of marriage. A noted psychiatrist and family therapist, Dr. Kotin has brought a quarter century of expertise to a clear, comprehensible book that looks at how the partners to a marriage can keep the flame of love burning by understanding that change and compromise can be achieved without destroying the bond. I think this book should be given to every couple entering upon marriage and will prove invaluable to every couple at any stage of their marriage. "Husbands and wives choose each other with exquisite sensitivity. They pick each other out of all the men and women in the world. The reasons why two people have chosen each other are more unconscious than conscious," says Dr. Kotin. This book explore how each partner to a marriage can make it work in ways that insure its longevity and joy.

The other reviewer described the book so I will write about what it did for me. I had sprained a tendon in my leg/hip (how, I have no idea; it just came on) and was in some pain. I didn't know it was a tendon, so I began to worry about it. The pain increased, I began limping, and kept worrying--magnifying it into some sort of dreadful cancer eating away at my bones. (Well, you know, sprains should heal up in a few weeks. I'd had this for a couple months! And I still have it three months later.) Anyway, I read through this book and ended up releasing all the emotional involvement in my leg. The pain was reduced about 80 percent and I no longer limped. Now I just refuse to worry about it and instead bought a bicycle so I can strengthen and provide better stability for my muscular system.

We humans are very capable of endowing our minor injuries (or even major illnesses) with such power that they incapacitate us or, at the very least, demand a lot of attention. This book will help you put such things in perspective. Attitude truly is everything for the body/mind/spirit is a trinity, each component affecting the others. If you can improve your attitude you can improve your health. And the more you concentrate on your injuries or illness, the worse they will become. I highly recommend this book for anyone in pain or anyone with a bad attitude. And I recommend it for everyone who likes to read or who breathes on a regular basis. It's a keeper to which you can refer over and over for encouragement and reminders of the important things in life!

Dr Schindler claims in this book that most of us are just muddling through life instead of attaining enduring happiness. Because of this muddling through we develop what Dr. Schindler calls "E.I.I" (i.e. emotionally induced illness). Emotion by William James definition is "a state of mind that manifests itself by sensible changes in the body". Because one's has or produces the wrong kind of emotions, sooner or later he will develop physical symptoms. He then goes to his doctor to complain about these symptoms whereas the real cause of his illness is mental - his unhappiness. This book main purpose is to teach people how to change their way of living. The first part of the book is dedicated to describe how one's emotions makes him ill while the second part deals with advices and techniques to cure E.I.I.. In the latter part Dr. Schindler describes, among other things, 12 principles for richer living, and six man's basic needs - six things that deep inside one's must have. The fullillment of those six needs is the program for living that is blue printed for you. An amazing book!, A must read, Highly recommended!

This is an excellent book for doctors who practice neural therapy. It has excellent photographs of a real subject with exact position of entrance sites and illustrations to help you locate the right place for anesthetics application. A must for any serious practitioner of neural therapy especially beginners, but also good help for experimented practitioners to review infrequently used sites.

Is a book, that show us how the organism can react a small stimulations.

For years, my husband suffered from anxiety attacks that hit without warning and were quite debilitating. He sought drug therapy, but as time passed, the attacks became more frequent and severe until one day he went into Bells palsy and anaphylactic shock and found himself in the emergency room surrounded by physicians with no answers.

When he received the older version of this book in 1990, it was a revelation. My husband had been becoming increasingly sensitive to MSG while at the same time unknowingly adding it to his diet. In clear, easy-to read language, the book helped identify sources of MSG. It became clear that it was in virtually everything he was consuming--from breakfast cereals to canned tuna to Coca Cola. We altered his diet drastically, choosing mostly unprocessed whole foods, and the results were incredible. His personality changed as he was no longer on edge. His concentration and memory improved dramatically. He no longer needed drug therapy, and stopped doubting himself as an anxiety-prone person. As an added bonus, he lost weight, increased muscle mass and became generally healthier.

As his allergy continued to be quite severe, we turned to the book frequently to avoid more ER visits, and have been largely successful for the past twelve years. It is hard to imagine how life would have been had we not had this book at our disposal. My husband would have continued to suffer his 'mysterious ailment' until, quite possibly, it took his life.

I cannot recommend this book heartily enough. It should be *required* reading for anyone who even suspects they have "Chinese restaurant syndrome" and recommended reading for just about everyone else. It is incredible that such a small book can make such a big difference.

George Schwartz, M.D. wrote the first edition of In Bad Taste more than ten years ago. Since then "the use of MSG and MSG-containing substances has more than doubled." While some people can use MSG with no adverse effects, many others have severe reactions to it, some of them life-threatening.

Kombu, a seaweed, was first used in Japan as a flavor enhancer. A Japanese doctor isolated the main ingredient--MSG, or monosodium glutamate--and started what has become a million-dollar industry. "MSG is used in processed food, in fast-foods and in Chinese food." It's also found in nearly all canned and frozen foods. It's the "most widely used flavor enhancer in the world."

MSG has been linked to asthma, headaches, and heart irregularities. "Behavioral and physical problems of children, such as incontinence and seizures, as well as attention deficit disorder (ADD), have been diagnosed and successfully treated as MSG disorders."

Those wishing to eliminate MSG from their diets are faced with an almost impossible task. Food preparers are often unaware that they're even using MSG. Labels can be misleading. A label that says "No MSG added" doesn't mean that the food is free of MSG, it simply means that the manufacturer didn't put in additional MSG. MSG goes under many aliases, one of the most common being "hydrolyzed vegetable protein," an additive used to increase the protein content of a wide variety of foods.

Manufacturers also hide MSG as part of "natural flavorings," because it is a natural product. As Dr. Schwartz points out, arsenic is also a natural product--being natural is not the same as being harmless.

Dr. Schwartz describes how MSG works in the body, and lists the symptoms it causes.

He provides several other lists, including the names used to hide MSG, general food sources of MSG, and specific brand names of items known to contain MSG. He also includes a selection of basic recipes to help people reduce their MSG consumption.

Dr. Schwartz says his book will help people learn to identify MSG reactions, and then how to avoid eating it. He adds, "knowing how to avoid this flavor enhancer can dramatically change lives." Readers wishing to understand MSG reactions and avoid using it will find In Bad Taste an invaluable resource.

Sandra I. Smith Reviewer