The Last Well Person or Charting A Course to Wellness

The Last Well Person: How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System

Author: Nortin M Hadler

Have you had it with celebrity gurus offering miracle cures? Are you sick of being treated like a diseased time bomb? Finally, someone has the courage to address the tough questions about our health care. In The Last Well Person Dr Nortin Hadler cuts through the medical white noise with his trademark tough love: Heart bypass surgery: Usually a waste of money, time, and energy, Treatment for prostate cancer: Does more harm than good, Testing for breast cancer: Not always effective, Chronic pain: See your therapist, not your pharmacist.

Dr Hadler skewers a self-serving medical industry and shows that constant monitoring and unnecessary intervention turn healthy people into patients. Sick with worry, we are a culture panicked over unfounded illnesses. The Last Well Person offers practical solutions on to, cs including aging, obesity, diabetes, and back problems. If you're not afraid of seeing conventional wisdom overturned by hard facts, if you're ready to educate yourself and trust your own judgment, you are ready for Dr Hadler.

About the Author:
Nortin M. Hadler has lectured widely in North America and abroad and testified before the U.S. Congress and U.S. Social Security Board

Table of Contents:

Pt. 1	The Methuselah complex	9
1	Interventional cardiology and kindred delusions	17
2	Fats, fads, and fate	35
3	You and your colon	65
4	Breast cancer and how the women's movement got it wrong	77
5	Prostate envy	92
Pt. 2	Worried sick	101
6	Musculoskeletal predicaments	107
7	Medicalization of the "worried well"	128
8	Turning aging into a disease	146
9	Health hazards in the hateful job	166
10	Why are alternative and complementary therapies thriving?	177
	Epilogue : a ripe old age	201

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Charting A Course to Wellness: Creative Ways of Living with Heart Disease

Author: Graham Kerr

The host of "Cooking Light" and the former "Galloping Gourmet" shares his secrets for healthy living

Part autobiography, part cookbook, part inspiration, this book shows how to create a healthy lifestyle and a new way of eating. Celebrity chef and world famous nutrition and healthy eating expert Graham Kerr and wife Treena describe their 33-year journey from an indulgent, destructive lifestyle to one that is healthy and healing, a change made necessary by Treena's heart attack and diabetes.

Readers can use a food preference list to include foods they love in the recipes from the Kerr kitchen. There are 300 great-tasting fruit and vegetable recipes, and 180 recipes from Graham Kerr's highly popular public television show, "The Gathering Place."

Graham Kerr (Mt. Vernon, WA) is a world-renowned chef and award-winning author. Host of "The Gathering Place" and former "Galloping Gourmet" star, Graham has published 23 books, with more than 14 million sold.

Library Journal

Former Galloping Gourmet star Graham Kerr and his wife, Treena, recount their transition to a healthy lifestyle. When Graham first started in television cooking, he and Treena searched for interesting recipes and ate "sumptuous," unhealthy restaurant fare that elevated their cholesterol, blood sugar, and blood pressure. Ultimately, Treena developed diabetes after suffering a stroke and a heart attack. Dismayed by the "don'ts" and limitations in most recommended diets, the Kerrs educated themselves and developed the recipes and lifestyle options presented here, focusing on small, positive changes that can lead to major health improvements. They do an excellent job of describing the nine stages of change, illustrating the emotional phases necessary to commit to a new, healthier lifestyle and maintain it. Food Preference Sheets allow users to select from tastes, aromas, colors, and textures that appeal to them most, so that they can tailor a diet to their own wants and choices. Included here are almost 400 recipes, many of them vegetarian and all of them using easy-to-find ingredients and simple instructions. Readers will empathize with the Kerrs' experiences and find useful information in their novel and engaging collaboration. Recommended for all consumer health collections.-Janet M. Schneider, James A. Haley Veterans Hosp., Tampa Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.