The simplest and most comprehensible knowledge needed to live longer is in this book with unique reader participation and interaction.

Celebrate your 150th birthday healthier and happier!

Dying soon or living longer is a matter of basic body knowledge.

What you know about your body is your most important knowledge in life.

The lack of knowledge of your own body is your biggest liablity in life!

The message in this book will be with you forever...It is all about you. Experience for yourself that when it comes to improving your health, there is nothing complicated or impossible about it (as it has been in the past with information that was so hard to understand). For many of you, you will be happy to finally make sense of an issue so important in your lives. No matter what age, sex, or ethnic background you are, this book is for you!

This book covers all aspects of the problem of obesity. It is unique in that it combines education in exercise techniques, healthful eating, stress management and human physiology and biochemistry in one volume. It is also the first book ever to provide a completely flexible meal planner that uses the entire nutritional database as a substitution source.

This book informs the reader of the major preventative health recommendations now practiced by the medical community. Prior to the middle of the last century medical care was primarily episodic. Patients did not see their doctor until they were acutely ill. Now, the advances in medical knowledge of disease processes and the availability of improved diagnostic techniques and treatments have focused medical practice on the prevention of disease. In other words, before the occurrence of a heart attack, stroke, diabetes, and even cancer, there are detectable underlying disorders which, when discovered and treated early, can prevent life limiting disease. Four underlying disorders, namely, high blood pressure, abnormal blood lipids, elevated blood sugar and overweight are major risk factors for the chronic diseases. Five chronic diseases, namely, coronary artery disease, cancer, lung disease, stroke and diabetes are responsible for 80 per cent of deaths in the American population. This book presents a preventive care plan in seven steps designed to counter these risk factors and diseases, and extend both the length and quality of life. The seven steps are discussed as separate chapters: Exercise, Weight, Health Evaluation, Non-prescription Agents, A Medical Approach, A Surgical Approach and "Preventive-Preventive Care."

Doctors have learned that the chronic diseases associated with aging usually do not start in older age, but often are present by middle age and younger. Then, changes in lifestyle and early treatment to control the known risk factors and underlying disorders are most effective in extending both the length and quality of life. This book will provide pertinent medical information for the reader to embrace a "golden challenge" of preventive care to know and to fully enjoy the rewarding "golden years" ahead.

In this book, my hope is that you will find your personal answer to the question that the title asks: "Whatever happened to 'the good life?'" Along the way you will also find an opportunity to determine your own "RQ" or "recreational quotient" based on involvement (or lack of same) in a broad spectrum of recreational pursuits. After doing this and seeing where you score personally, you can then take the necessary steps -- if you wish -- to raise your Recreation Quotient ("RQ"). Further, this discussion of your leisure-time involvement will be related to society's development.

The "test" or "assessment" of your recreational quotient ("RQ") is based on a scale moving from passive, to vicarious, to active, to creative involvement in life's many educational and recreational activities. It gives you more credit if you are a most interested onlooker or listener rather than a passive one. Additionally, you will score even higher if you actively take part in a particular recreational activity. The highest rating goes to the person who participates in a superior and/or creative fashion.

Why should this subject concern you? It should because one development of modern society has been that people are increasingly crowded together in heavily populated urban and suburban communities. This has created a serious problem. We now need to know how people can find happiness, satisfaction, and a high quality of life despite the increased tempo of living often amidst such badly crowded conditions?

With advancing civilization North Americans have been accused of being afflicted with spectatoritis (i.e. spending too much of their free time watching others taking part in some form of activity, recreational or otherwise). Obviously, this practice is not something that should be encouraged too extensively. It is the unfortunate truth that throughout history people in many societies have misused leisure after they have earned it. In certain instances this misuse of free time has actually had much to do with the downfall of that society.

Studies have shown that people are concerned about whether they are getting sufficient pleasure out of life. We know, also, that sound recreational pursuits can add zest and vigor to our lives. The resulting question revolves about whether we will be able to encourage people of all ages to get involved in a variety of recreational pursuits actively and creatively.

We can all appreciate further that there are many ways of looking at the subject of recreation. However, although we could determine averages (or norms) for a given population in regard to types of recreational pursuits followed, it just doesn't seem advisable in a free society to set standards that people should follow.

I firmly believe that a person's value system will -- and should -- undergird basically any choices that he or she may make about which types of recreational pursuit to follow. Accordingly in the Appendix, you will have an opportunity to assess yourself "socio-culturally" and "philosophically" in this respect.

So there you have it. I hope this book will help to broaden your perspective on the whole question of lesire. I hope, also, that you will consider, and then perhaps even reconsider, this important matter of putting quality recreational time in your life to just the right amount. It's a challenge, of course, but it should be great fun to work it out personally. The "good life" is still out there, but you will have to plan -- oh so carefully!--to achieve it. Good luck -- and "good planning!"

This book is about our riveting secrets, and our journey through ourselves. It is the application of quantum psychology into the human drama. The result takes us into the twenty-second century and a whole new self-choosing to live differently in every domain. In a divinely human experience: new thoughts, a new way of relating and feeling, and new attitudes, and beliefs makes all dreams real experiences.

It includes a story of our origins as well as the mechanics of soul that are intended to help us understand ourselves. This is the map of the ancient wisdom and what was once the secret applications of the spiritual truths that now must become common place to overcome death in the physical body. The root is always love. This book is a profound in depth analysis of what that word means at every possible level. There is also a guide for a deeper understanding of our children and the new teachings they are bringing to Earth at this time.

Yet, even now, we are challenged to find the same God that all great ones before us found within them, and even go beyond them. If one follows the whole book, the progression of the steps into their enlightenment, will outline the next era in understanding teaching/healing. The story will be read to our children and we will practice it on ourselves.

Artwork by Maia Christianne Nartoomid "www.mysticalstreams.com" And "www.spiritheart.org"

The book Love your Body: Change the Way You Feel About the Body You Have is designed to help guide you toward a better relationship with your body and improve body image. This transformative workbook offers a way out from the constant critical thoughts and words you think and speak about your body. It is designed to help you learn more about your body and yourself so you can start to appreciate the gift you have. Your constant negative thoughts, unrealistic expectations, perfectionism and body hatred keep you down, depressed and struggling. This book is about hope. It will help you end your struggles and learn to love and accept yourself.

With 80% of American women dissatisfied with their bodies, this book is a must have. Love Your Body: Change the Way You Feel About the Body You Have is filled with exercises, examples, techniques, personal stories and recommendations that will teach you to create an environment of self-nurturing and self-care. Statistics show that negative body image issues manifest themselves at a very early age. These scars will continue to hurt you if you don't stop, and take the time and energy to heal them now. The biggest gift you can give yourself is to let go of the constantly nagging voice that is inside your head telling you that your body doesn't measure up. Love your Body: Change the Way You Feel About the Body You Have can help free you of those negative, hurtful thoughts and help you create an accepting and nurturing attitude about your body.

Americans are bombarded with so many rationales and diets that many among us reflect a confusion of choices that has little to do with the actual experience of food effects on our bodies. We can become so busy gathering knowledge that we have no energy or motivation to see the relationship between our food choices and our general well being.

This book neither promotes nor pans any existing diets. Instead, readers will find it useful as a guide to help decide which foods and manners of eating are best for them. The Tao of Eating reflects a way of living in harmony with all that we call life; it does not describe the process. Rather, it mirrors the philosophy of the Tao Te Ching: that living is deepened and informed by our turning inward and tapping into stillness as a source of clarity. The chapters are intended to be used as daily readings (or occasional readings.) They are not meant to be read all at once but, rather, assimilated and integrated over time and in harmony with the reader's needs.

The content was derived through comparison of 14 translations of the Tao Te Ching,by Lao Tzu, and through the use of supportive Taoist literature, all of which is listed in the bibliography. Since I do not read Chinese, and because each translator views the Tao from an individual's perspective, I used these several translations to gain a sense of the original content of each chapter.

The Tao is notably paradoxical; it speaks through the metaphor of water, which, while soft and apparently passive, can effortlessly wear away or break stone. Water enters a stagnant pool as readily as it does a flowing stream. Guided by Tao, no challenge is too great; all chaos can be transformed and harmonized. This approach applies to eating as well, and it serves to simplify and clarify the complexities and confusion inherent in America's foods and diets.

Americans are bombarded with so many rationales and diets that many among us reflect a confusion of choices that has little to do with the actual experience of food effects on our bodies. We can become so busy gathering knowledge that we have no energy or motivation to see the relationship between our food choices and our general well being.

This book neither promotes nor pans any existing diets. Instead, readers will find it useful as a guide to help decide which foods and manners of eating are best for them. The Tao of Eating reflects a way of living in harmony with all that we call life; it does not describe the process. Rather, it mirrors the philosophy of the Tao Te Ching: that living is deepened and informed by our turning inward and tapping into stillness as a source of clarity. The chapters are intended to be used as daily readings (or occasional readings.) They are not meant to be read all at once but, rather, assimilated and integrated over time and in harmony with the reader's needs.

The content was derived through comparison of 14 translations of the Tao Te Ching,by Lao Tzu, and through the use of supportive Taoist literature, all of which is listed in the bibliography. Since I do not read Chinese, and because each translator views the Tao from an individual's perspective, I used these several translations to gain a sense of the original content of each chapter.

The Tao is notably paradoxical; it speaks through the metaphor of water, which, while soft and apparently passive, can effortlessly wear away or break stone. Water enters a stagnant pool as readily as it does a flowing stream. Guided by Tao, no challenge is too great; all chaos can be transformed and harmonized. This approach applies to eating as well, and it serves to simplify and clarify the complexities and confusion inherent in America's foods and diets.

Good health and a productive life are the most precious gifts that a person can ever expect to be blessed with by a loving Creator. Since the creation of man, there have been countless times when we could have chosen to live in good health and survive the onslaughts of time without much of the wear and tear that comes with aging. But many times we take a careless detour that often proves detrimental to our lives.

Make no mistake this is not an ordinary "learn and live well book." Each page depicts the author's meticulous attention to all ages by offering concrete advice and practical steps on how to start and maintain health and fitness through progressive exercise, proper supplementation and the adoption of an open positive outlook. This will afford one to look at life with adequate courage and determination to live well. These are the bare mechanics of survival in human existence.

So pervasive these days are the fear of growing old, catching an incurable disease or losing one's health through careless living. The thought of being helplessly overwhelmed by such situations can be intimidating but reading this book will be a tremendous resource for everyone who desires to survive and excel.

The beauty of this book is that it appeals to every age and promises to help those who would help themselves without any personal reservations in order to achieve positive power in their lives.

The chapters that deal with the ABC's of Health and Fitness serve the needs of everyone Through the Ages. Included also are the Nuts and Bolts of Exercise which are necessary to attain the level of fitness fitted to one's age. Additional steps of lighter exercise or Aerobics round up the Sections to Fitness and Healthful Living.

Warrior's Way: Strength and Fitness "Secrets" of Ancient Warrior Societies

EXERCISING WITHOUT EXERCISES?
What if there were no "natural" athletes?

What if you could learn the "secrets" of men and of women who knew how to keep their bodies hard and battle-ready in ages when battle was an individual test of endurance and of raw physical power and of athletic ability? Where gymnasiums and regular physical exercises weren't available. Where in battle the weak died first and "mighty men of war" ruled the world. What if there was a second muscle control system built into our bodies, that must be "turned on by an act of will", that's designed to exercise our bodies 24 hours a day. What if all "naturally" strong, fit people who don't seem to exercise use it. What if you could teach yourself to use this "system" and then join them? What if you never find out how?

Race along with Navajo Indian Ben Singer on a desperate quest to master the super-power, super-strength secrets of ancient warriors. Learn along with Ben as Axelron, Ben's time-traveling mentor, teaches you to energize key muscle groups that force your body to exercise itself gently, steadily, 24 hours a day to build a body packed with the physical power and grace that only "natural" athletes can command.

Your best friend won't tell you how to do it, but Ben Singer will. Ben is taught, and you can learn with him. We don't need such power now, but Ahhhhhh...wouldn't it be nice to have it anyway...

Nature has not made these people your "natural" superiors. You have deliberately made yourself inferior to them by not using this gift nature has given all of us DON'T BE WIMPY ANOTHER DAY...JOIN BEN SINGER ALONG THE "WARRIOR'S WAY"