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Book Reviews
Book Reviews: 04 June - 09 June 2007

  1. Pregnant & Lovin' It
  2. An Aspirin A Day
  3. Mental Health Or Mental Illness?
  4. When Food Is Love
  5. Daily Meditations For Women Who Love Too Much
  6. The 5 Day Miracle Diet


1) Pregnant & Lovin' It

The book gives the facts of pregnancy in an easy-to-understand format and helps any expectant mother have a happier, healthier pregnancy. It answers the questions most asked by today's pregnancy woman.

Authors: Lindsay R. Curtis
Publishers: Price Stern Sloan
Date of Publication: 1988
No. of pages: 228


2) An Aspirin A Day

In this book Aspirin has been transformed from a humble home remedy for headaches, arthritis, menstrual cramps, and the pain from everyday injuries to a near miraculous drug that could help prevent several of the leading causes of death and disability. It explains why and how aspirin works, as well as presenting important information on side effects, reactions with other medications, why some people shouldn't take it and other possible uses and benefits of aspirin.

Authors: Michael Castleman
Publishers: Hyperion
Date of Publication: 1993
No. of pages: 177


3) Mental Health Or Mental Illness?

It is a sound and sensible book on psychiatry for the layman and the professional worker who deals with people and their problems. The purpose of the book is to shed light on the problems of mental illness, to remove any stigma from it, to explain clearly how both sick and well people function, and to show what psychiatry does and should do to help them.

Authors: William Glasser
Publishers: Harper mand Row Publishers
Date of Publication: 1960
No. of pages: 208


4) When Food Is Love

The Book explores the relationship between eating and intimacy. It shows why many people overeat in an attempt to satisfy their emotional hunger, and why weight loss frequently just covers a new set of problems. This book helps readers break destructive, self-perpetuating patterns and learn to satisfy all the hungers-physical and emotional-that make us human.

Authors: Geneen Roth
Publishers: Penguiun Group
Date of Publication: 1992
No. of pages: 205


5) Daily Meditations For Women Who Love Too Much

The book is about and for women for whom love is form of addiction. It represents a series of medications to help work through the addiction and start new, healthier relationships.

Authors: Robin Norwood
Publishers: MJF Books
Date of Publication: 1997


6) The 5 Day Miracle Diet

This book is a weight loss and high-energy programme that changes the body chemistry so that one will never have to diet again. It is based on the simple idea that the reason one gain weight is because we cannot control food cravings. The book contains a programme, which in just 5 days teaches one how to control cravings by learning to eat certain foods at certain times.

Authors: Adele Puhn
Publishers: Vermilion
Date of Publication: 1997
No. of pages: 251

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