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The Business of Baby: What Doctors Don’t Tell You, What Corporations Try to Sell You, and How to Put Your Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Baby Before Their Bottom Line by Jennifer Margulis

On May 11, 2013, in Book Reviews, Health, Mind & Body, Nonfiction, by Editor

An illuminating combination of meticulous research and in-depth interviews with parents, doctors, midwives, nurses, health care administrators, and scientists, Margulis’s impassioned and eloquent critique is shocking, groundbreaking, and revelatory. The Business of Baby arms parents with the information they need to make informed decisions about their own health and the health of their infants.

The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry by Gary Greenberg

On May 2, 2013, in Book Reviews, Health, Mind & Body, Nonfiction, by Editor

For more than two years, author and psychotherapist Gary Greenberg has embedded himself in the war that broke out over the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—the DSM—the American Psychiatric Association’s compendium of mental illnesses and what Greenberg calls “the book of woe.”

In the Kingdom of the Sick: A Social History of Chronic Illness in America by Laurie Edwards

On April 12, 2013, in Book Reviews, Health, Mind & Body, Nonfiction, by Editor

Through research and patient narratives, health writer Laurie Edwards explores patient rights, the role of social media in medical advocacy, the origins of our attitudes about chronic illness, and much more. What The Noonday Demon did for people suffering from depression, In the Kingdom of the Sick does for those who are chronically ill.

Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America’s Greatest Tragedy by David Sheff

On March 31, 2013, in Book Reviews, Health, Mind & Body, Nonfiction, Social Studies, by Editor

Addiction is a preventable, treatable disease, not a moral failing. As with other illnesses, the approaches most likely to work are based on science — not on faith, tradition, contrition, or wishful thinking. These facts are the foundation of Clean, a myth-shattering look at drug abuse by the author of Beautiful Boy.

A Slap in the Face: Why Insults Hurt And Why They Shouldn’t by William B. Irvine

On March 27, 2013, in Book Reviews, Health, Mind & Body, Nonfiction, by Editor

Insults are part of the fabric of daily life. But why do we insult each other? Why do insults cause us such pain? Can we do anything to prevent or lessen this pain? Most importantly, how can we overcome our inclination to insult others? rousing follow-up to A Guide to the Good Life, A Slap in the Face will interest anyone who’s ever delivered an insult or felt the sting of one–in other words, everyone.

Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us, A Shocking Manifesto by Michael Moss

On March 16, 2013, in Book Reviews, Business & Investing, Health, Mind & Body, Nonfiction, by Editor

From a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter at The New York Times comes the explosive story of the rise of the processed food industry and its link to the emerging obesity epidemic. Michael Moss reveals how companies use salt, sugar, and fat to addict us and, more important, how we can fight back.

One Nation Under Stress: The Trouble with Stress as an Idea by Dana Becker

On March 15, 2013, in Book Reviews, Health, Mind & Body, Nonfiction, by Editor

Examining both research and popular representations of stress in cultural terms, Becker traces the evolution of the social uses of the stress concept as it has been transformed into an all-purpose vehicle for defining, expressing, and containing middle-class anxieties about upheavals in American society.

Shouting Won’t Help: Why I–and 50 Million Other Americans–Can’t Hear You by Katherine Bouton

On March 2, 2013, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Health, Mind & Body, Nonfiction, by Editor

Shouting Won’t Help is a deftly written, deeply felt look at a widespread and misunderstood phenomenon. In the style of Jerome Groopman and Atul Gawande, and using her experience as a guide, Bouton examines the problem personally, psychologically, and physiologically. She speaks with doctors, audiologists, and neurobiologists, and with a variety of people afflicted with midlife hearing loss, braiding their stories with her own to illuminate the startling effects of the condition.

No Matter What Your Medical Condition, Be Your Own Best Advocate – Essay by Maria McCutchen

On February 27, 2013, in Guest Writers, Maria McCutchen, by Maria McCutchen

No matter what your medical condition; be your own best advocate. Take your health into your own hands and fight for your life with all your might. We all have it in us to be an advocate, and who better to be an advocate for, than yourself.

Anti Aging Diet, Hormone Balancing and Anti Oxidants Foods

On February 27, 2013, in Cooking & Baking, Guest Writers, Lifestyle, Misc. Contributions, by Misc. Contributions

It is a well known fact that eating the right food will keep you healthy. A healthy diet will do wonders to your body including maintaining your youthful look and slowing the natural aging process. Aging is an inevitable process that continues throughout the lifetime of an individual. At the same people love to look young and energetic.

The Business of Baby: What Doctors Don’t Tell You, What Corporations Try to Sell You, and How to Put Your Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Baby Before Their Bottom Line by Jennifer Margulis

In the Kingdom of the Sick: A Social History of Chronic Illness in America by Laurie Edwards

Shouting Won’t Help: Why I–and 50 Million Other Americans–Can’t Hear You by Katherine Bouton

No Matter What Your Medical Condition, Be Your Own Best Advocate – Essay by Maria McCutchen

Anti Aging Diet, Hormone Balancing and Anti Oxidants Foods

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