DNA or Fasting Path

DNA: How the Biotech Revolution Is Changing the Way We Fight Disease

Author: Frank H Stephenson

Foreword by Herbert Boyer, Founder of Genentech

In the fall of 2005, leading scientists from the National Cancer Institute announced the beginning of the cancer genome atlas project, a large-scale endeavor to map every gene implicated in cancer and the first step toward development of new therapies for treating this still baffling disease. This spin-off of the human genome project is only the latest exciting research advance in a decades-long quest to fully understand the biochemistry of the human body and thereby gain insights into the secrets of health, disease, and aging. Biochemist and veteran lab researcher Frank H. Stephenson tells the compelling story of how scientists on many fronts are succeeding in the battle against disease. With a gift for making the complexities of genetics and biochemistry understandable to the average reader, Stephenson offers a fascinating tour of the mechanisms of our body and the therapeutic techniques that are gaining in sophistication and effectiveness every year. From heart disease to AIDS and cancer, he helps you understand how the tools of biotechnology are being used to combat our most common afflictions. Stephenson examines a wide variety of health threats and illnesses: HIV infection, the many forms of cancer, asthma, diabetes, Alzheimer's, obesity, and even erectile dysfunction. Each is discussed in terms of its root cause and treatment in plain, jargon-free language that not only educates but also entertains. This is the ideal primer on the biotechnology revolution for the layperson. Stephenson offers many insights into both the diseases that destroy health and the great promises that biotechnology offers for preserving andprolonging a healthy life.

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Fasting Path

Author: Stephen Harrod Buhner

A centuries-old tradition, fasting has long been recognized for its ability to increase one's sensitivity to the nonmaterial world, to enhance one's personal experience of the sacredness of the self and the universe, and to help one regain a sense of orientation and purpose.

In order to be truly transformed, you must first empty yourself. Use The Fasting Path as your guide to help you fully experience the deep and intricate relationship of the mind, the body, and the spirit world.

Table of Contents:

	Preface	xiii
	A Note to the Reader: About Water and Juice Fasting	xv
1	On Fasting and the Spiritual Life	1
2	Spiritual Fasting and Detoxification	17
3	Emotional Fasting and Detoxification	35
4	Physical Fasting and Detoxification	61
5	Preparing for the Fast, Fasting, Breaking the Fast	109
6	Deepening the Fast	139
Appendix 1	A 10-Week, Low-Fat Cleansing Diet	155
Appendix 2	Juices for Fasting	161
	Resources	185
	Notes	187
	References	191
	Index	199

Lonely Sad and Angry or Herbal Emissaries

Lonely, Sad and Angry: How to Help Your Unhappy Child

Author: Barbara D Ingersoll

Here is a source of accurate and up-to-date information about depression and depressive disorders in children and adolescents. Parents are at the front line in recognizing signs of depression and anger in their children. This book will give parents the tools to identify when their child is troubled and how to go about finding the right help. Information on psychological treatments, medications, and family relationships will provide the knowledge all parents need to to help their unhappy child.

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Herbal Emissaries: Bringing Chinese Herbs to the West: A Guide to Gardening, Herbal Wisdom, and Well-Being

Author: Steven Foster

 
This extensive and engaging book--the first collaboration between a Chinese scientist and an American author and herbalist--blends traditional wisdom from both cultures with scientific verification of the medical effectiveness of many ancient Chinese plants, thereby deepening our knowledge of and appreciation for ornamentals whose usefulness extends far beyond their beauty. 
  
More plants have been introduced from China to American and European gardens than from any other part of the world.

Many of the Asian species grown as ornamentals--such as daylilies, forsythia, gardenia, peonies, crape myrtle, and mums--are widely used in traditional Chinese medicine. 

The authors supply specific techniques for cultivating Chinese herbs and flowers in Western gardens, as well as for using them medicinally.
 

Library Journal

Since 1949, China has worked to integrate traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and modern Western medicine, so that today both systems are used, along with a blend of the two. TCM is now researched using scientific methods at institutions such as the Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing, where Chongxi is a pharmacognosist. He has also authored numerous works on herbal medicine. Foster has authored several herb books (and coauthored the Peterson Field Guide to Medicinal Plants , Houghton, 1990). The authors introduce Western readers to a blend of the two systems by describing about 50 plants used in TCM that are also known to Westerners as ornamentals, weeds, or herbs (e.g., day lilies, gardenias, honeysuckle, privet, and forsythia). They cover in detail the uses, history, dosage, descriptions, cultivation, and processing of each plant. An excellent resource for alternative medicine collections.-- Katharine Galloway Garstka, Intergraph Corp., Huntsville, Ala.

Winter,1999 - Journal of ... Eastern Health & Fitness

Anyone wishing a deeper understanding of Chinese herbs, their uses and histories will appreciate this beautifully written and easily read book. Professionals will augment their knowledge and anyone opening its cover will enjoy the lively history of culture and civilization as seen through the eyes of an herbalist.

Table of Contents:

 

Herbal Emissaries
Bringing Chinese Herbs to the West

A Guide to gardening, herbal wisdom, and well-being
Preface
Introduction
Using Plants as Drugs in Traditional Chinese Medicine
How to Use This Book
A Note on the Transliteration of Chinese Names
1.  Major Chinese Medicinal Herbs
2.  Garden Flowers
3.  Ornamental Shrubs
4.  Ornamental and Unusual Trees
5.  Weeds
Glossary
Bibliography
Useful Addresses
Plant Index
Subject Index

Beating the Senior Blues or Children and Nature

Beating the Senior Blues

Author: Leslie Eckford

Depression among older adults is more common than ever. Based on the authors' experience working with seniors, this self-help guide teaches readers how to improve nutrition and fitness, evaluate medication options, deal with anxiety, build self-esteem, and connect with community resources.

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Children and Nature: Psychological, Sociocultural, and Evolutionary Investigations

Author: Peter H Kahn

For much of human evolution, the natural world was one of the most important contexts of children's maturation. Indeed, the experience of nature was, and still may be, a critical component of human physical, emotional, intellectual, and even moral development. Yet scientific knowledge of the significance of nature during the different stages of childhood is sparse. This book provides scientific investigations and thought-provoking essays on children and nature.

Children and Nature incorporates research from cognitive science, developmental psychology, ecology, education, environmental studies, evolutionary psychology, political science, primatology, psychiatry, and social psychology. The authors examine the evolutionary significance of nature during childhood; the formation of children's conceptions, values, and sympathies toward the natural world; how contact with nature affects children's physical and mental development; and the educational and political consequences of the weakened childhood experience of nature in modern society.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction
1	The Primate Relationship with Nature: Biophilia as a General Pattern	1
2	The Ecological World of Children	29
3	The Development of Folkbiology: A Cognitive Science Perspective on Children's Understanding of the Biological World	65
4	Children's Affiliations with Nature: Structure, Development, and the Problem of Environmental Generational Amnesia	93
5	Experiencing Nature: Affective, Cognitive, and Evaluative Development in Children	117
6	Animals as Links toward Developing Caring Relationships with the Natural World	153
7	Animals in Therapeutic Education: Guides into the Liminal State	179
8	Spots of Time: Manifold Ways of Being in Nature in Childhood	199
9	Adolescents and the Natural Environment: A Time Out?	227
10	Adolescents and Ecological Identity: Attending to Wild Nature	259
11	Political Economy and the Ecology of Childhood	279
12	Eden in a Vacant Lot: Special Places, Species, and Kids in the Neighbourhood of Life	305
	List of Contributors	329
	Name Index	331
	Subject Index	341