Have a Better Life

From the Back Cover
Improve your health and extend your days with simple food choices

Today we have an abundance of options when it comes to the food we eat. But all foods are not created equal. In fact, some food should not even be labeled food but rather “consumable product” or “edible, but void of nourishment.”

In Eat This and Live! Dr. Don Colbert provides a road map to help you navigate this often treacherous territory. Based on the key principles for healthy eating in Dr. Colbert’s New York Times best seller, The Seven Pillars of Health, this practical guidebook to food includes “Dr. Colbert Approved” foods and restaurant menu choices, along with helpful tips, charts, and nutrition information that will make it easier for you to stay healthy and lose weight. Now is the time to build the rest of your life on this wonderful pillar of health–living food!

Whether you want it or not, let’s face it, we are heading towards Christmas at a Concord speed.  My children are already making their gift wishing list and television commercial are already showing some possible Christmas presents for children.

So, although we are not yet sending Christmas party invitations and we still have a few weeks ahead until Christmas, I would like to mention here a book that is going to be launched in Sep 21, 2010 from Betty Croker.

The spectacular all-in-one guide to Christmas cooking, decorating, and entertaining Perfect for all kinds of Christmas inspiration, Betty Crocker Christmas Cookbook gives you everything you need to make the holiday sparkle-tasty recipes, entertaining essentials, decorating tips, and creative gift-giving ideas. Packed with hundreds of recipes for traditional dishes and creative new flavors, this comprehensive Christmas cookbook is chock full of great ideas.  (read more)

For sure the book will be a bestseller. Betty Crocker recipes are always excellent.

On my journey to a green life, I’m always looking for natural products. Having safety products at home is a priority especially when we have kids and we want to keep them away from the toxic products. Natural Alternatives is a book that help us out on that journey.

From soaps, shampoos and fragrances to household cleaners and bug repellents made with natural ingredients, you can learn to make a difference in the environment and your personal health using Natural Alternatives for You and Your Home.

Choose from the 175 precise recipes, for both your home and yourself, featured in this book and use the easy-to-follow instructions and photos to create economical and eco-friendly products.

If you want to know more about this book take a look at Amazon.

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She had me at the macaroni and cheese.

Before I received Ellie Krieger’s new cookbook, I had never heard of her or Healthy Appetite, the Food Network show she hosts. But in my preliminary flip through the book I stopped at the photo of Macaroni and Four Cheeses and knew I had found a healthful-eating philosophy I could embrace.

Krieger’s smart, sensible approach to diet uses healthful fats, whole grains and plenty of fruits and vegetables in recipes for beloved comfort foods. –The Baltimore SunEllie Krieger, host of the Food Network’s show “Healthy Appetite,” advances her sensible and appealing approach to nutrition in “The Food You Crave: Luscious Recipes for a Healthy Life“. Krieger, a registered dietitian, eschews (more…)

If you are pregnant or already have a baby this book will help you having a green pregnancy and a green baby care. Raising Baby Green: The Earth-Friendly Guide to Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Baby Care by Alan Greene has all the information you need explained in a very easy way.

Here is the Product Description by Amazon:

In this illustrated and easy-to-use guide, noted pediatrician Dr. Alan Greene, a leading voice of the green baby movement, advises parents how to make healthy green choices for pregnancy, childbirth, and baby care—from feeding your baby the best food available to using medicines wisely. Consumer advocate Jeanette Pavini includes information for making smart choices and applying green principles to a whole new universe of products from zero-VOC paints for the nursery, to pure and gentle lotions for baby’s delicate skin, to the eco-friendly diapers now in the marketplace, as well as specific recommendations for hundreds of other products.

Baby grow really fast (no extra human growth hormone) so next week I will bring you a green book for grown-ups.

Young girls struggle everyday with their body. Am I fat? Am I too thin? Do I have pimples? Why do I have to use stretch marks cream? Why my body has a different shape from my best friend?

These questions are real and they can be traumatic for young girls who don’t understand why they are different or why they are not similar to a friend.

The book Body Drama: Real Girls, Real Bodies, Real Issues, Real Answers by Nancy Amanda Redd is absolutely amazing. Quoting one of the reviewers from Amazon Dr. Paul:

It’s unique as advice for teenage girls about their bodies: sharp, brainy, witty beyond merely funny, yet compassionate and never derogatory. You know what this book exudes? Sass with class.

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The author speaks from experience, kicking in things about herself as a minor Body Drama Queen. But the book isn’t about her; it’s about how to fix the root of a major American psycho-social problem: the perception of female bodies. The solution: start with girls themselves. Duh! If girls can treat themselves to fact instead of fiction, their body confidence will surely rise, along with everyone’s well-being.

Product Description from Amazon:

“You’d think a Miss America swimsuit winner would feel completely confident about her body, right? Not always! So I decided to write the book I wish I’d had as a teen and in college— an honest, funny, practical, medically accurate, totally reassuring guide to how women’s bodies actually look, smell, feel, behave, and change. Alongside real-deal photographs of women just like you and me (no airbrushing, no supermodels, no kidding) you’ll find medical pictures of things you need to be able to recognize, true confessions by yours truly, and the encouragement you need to appreciate the uniqueness, strength, and beauty of your body. What are you waiting for?”
–Nancy Redd

Still having some extra pounds from the last holiday season? Well just before Christmas the book Fat-Burner Foods: A Pyramid Health Paperback
by Caroline M. Shreeve was published. This book teaches you how to lose weight with the top fat burners food there are.

According to Amazon Product Description:

Whether you want to reduce your weight or establish a healthier lifestyle, this book outlines a comprehensive four-day eating plan with recipes and hints and tips on getting the most out of fat-burner foods.

With guaranteed weight-loss of seven pounds a week, without feeling hungry, Fat-Burner Foods provides a safe and realistic way to diet successfully. The diet guarantees satisfactory weight reduction whilst also including all the essential food groups, simultaneously banning hunger and boosting energy levels. With a comprehensive four day eating plan and a range of easy-to-prepare, adaptable recipes, Fat-burner Foods provides a dietary plan that helps establish healthier eating and ensures the weight stays off.

About the Author
Dr. Caroline Shreeve was, for many years, a doctor in the outback of Australia, having acquired a considerable track record both medically and as a health writer and journalist in the UK. Whilst in Australia she became aware of fat-burning food and diets which are used, principally to reduce the weight of patients needing surgery. Caroline has adapted the principles to achieve safe rapid weight loss for everyone.

Some foods are natural fat burners, take advantage of them and have a healthy life.