Book Review: The Checklist By: Manny Alvarez, M.D

The Checklist presents itself as a manual or guideline to a healthy lifestyle; just follow the steps using the “Decade by Decade Health Maintenance Plan”, and you will stay as healthy as possible. Though the concept brought out the skeptic in me, as I read through the chapters, which are organi

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Book Review: Nolo’s Guide to Social Security Disability:Getting and Keeping Your Benefits, 2nd Edition

Author: David A. Morton III, M.D. If you have found yourself no longer able to work due to chronic illness, it is likely that you have had to either apply for disability benefits, via Social Security, or at least consider doing so. The various stages in the process and the question of whether you qu

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Book Review: Nolo’s Guide to Social Security Disability:Getting and Keeping Your Benefits, 2nd Edition

Author: David A. Morton III, M.D. If you have found yourself no longer able to work due to chronic illness, it is likely that you have had to either apply for disability benefits, via Social Security, or at least consider doing so. The various stages in the process and the question of whether you qu

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Book Review: The Tea Drinker’s Handbook by Francois Xavier Lelmas, Mathias Minet, Christine Barbaste

This book is amazing. It’s printed on high gloss paper and filled with beautiful photographs. It covers enough about tea that you could write a thesis paper on it! It is all about tea – kinds, places it’s grown, how it’s harvested, the colors of tea, how to brew it, how it tastes, and wh

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Book Review: Lupus: Alternative Therapies That Work

By Sharon Moore Since my diagnosis I have contemplated the idea of  going "Natural". It seems there are more drug warnings and recalls than before. Needless to say, neither the drug companies nor our doctors ever know all the side effects that may transpire from long term use of a d

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Book Review: Deception Point – Author: Dan Brown

I don't know how many of you are of the same mindset as I am. You find one book by an author that you like, and it's almost addictive. For me, that was Dan Brown. The first book I ever picked up by Dan Brown was Da Vinci Code; the mystery, the intrigue, the deception, the ultimate quest for the

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Book Review: The Zentrepreneur’s Idea Log and Workbook

by Ron Rubin and Stuart Avery Gold As a reader of the motivational Zentrepreneur Guide's series of books, I looked forward to the advice, knowledge and inspiration that these books usually contain, when I received the new idea log and work book. The pages of this workbook follow the same theme, us

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Book Review: The Wonder of Probiotics

A 30 day plan to boost energy, enhance weight loss, heal GI problems, prevent disease, and slow aging. by John R. Taylor N.D. and Deborah Mitchell I have been hearing a lot about probiotics lately, in the news, on television and even by some of my health blogging friends. Simply put, probiotics ar

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Cookbook Review: the no-salt, lowest sodium international cookbook

The title of this new cookbook might not immediately grab you with it's lowercase lettered title and the concept of low salt dishes. This is a cookbook that you buy with good intentions of getting healthy and cooking nutritionally better dishes. Since I wanted to write a review of this book I needed

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Book Review: Life on the Refrigerator Door by Alice Kuipers

This is Alice’s first published book and it explores the intimate bonds a mother and daughter share. It walks the reader through the hardships of broken hearts, divorced parents, and one’s own growth. Ultimately, the mother-daughter relationship is challenged when a health crisis emerges, forcin

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