Life Change Habits

Book Review: Aging Backwards: Reverse the Aging Process and Look 10 Years Younger in 30 Minutes a Day By Miranda Esmonde-White Aging Backwards , the most recent installment of Essentrics, is available both as a book and DVD series. Essentrics is a flowing, fluid routine that is similar to dance. I found it to be much more enjoyable than yoga, and noticed benefits to my body within days. There are four components to the Aging Backwards program that address various aspects of our physical needs: posture, pain-relief, mobility and bone-strengthening.  The gentle stretches of these exercises are age appropriate and suitable for persons of any level of physical activity to do safely at home. Like swimming or cross-country skiing, Essentrics utilizes and therefore strengthens all 650 muscles and 206 bones of the human body. The author, Miranda Esmonde-White, a Canadian dancer and fitness expert, has developed an amazing series of stretching workouts called that anyo...

Cancer changes life. I found this book while undergoing treatment for breast cancer.  After I had undergone a lumpectomy and radiation treatments, I wanted to learn more about cancer and more important, be a part of my own healing. Dr. David  Servan - Schreiber ,* a physician and scientist, wrote  Anti-Cancer: A New Way of Life  to share his experiences with cancer, and what he learned as a result of his ordeal. He was at the top of a successful career as a psychiatrist and research scientist when he discovered by chance that he had a malignant brain tumor. After receiving his unwelcome diagnosis and undergoing the treatment for disease, he found that his physicians could not answer many of his questions regarding what he might do to increase his own ability to fight the cancer. His thesis is simple: All of us have cancer cells in our bodies, but not all of us will develop cancer. What are the factors that contribute to the formation of this disease, and what i...