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Burning FAT
– the perennial problem for men and women

MONDAY MORNING MOTIVATION: How to burn stored fat and burn it faster!   [ How to Burn Stored Fat ]   [ How to Burn Fat Faster ]

Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
– David D. Burns

“When two people respect each other, the ability to be vulnerable and to reveal hurt feelings can create a powerful emotional connection that is the source of real intimacy and friendship.”  The good news is that anxiety, guilt, pessimism, procrastination, low self-esteem, and other “black holes” of depression can be cured without drugs. In Feeling Good, […]

Can You Make Yourself Smarter?
– Dan Hurley

Can you make yourself, your kids, and your parents smarter? Expanding upon one of the most-read New York Times Magazine features of 2012, Smarter: The New Science of Building Brain Power penetrates the hot new field of intelligence research to reveal what researchers call a revolution in human intellectual abilities. Shattering decades of dogma, scientists began publishing studies in […]

On Becoming a Person – Carl Rogers

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”  The late Carl Rogers, founder of the humanistic psychology movement, revolutionized psychotherapy with his concept of “client-centered therapy.” His influence has spanned decades, but that influence has become so much a part of mainstream psychology that the ingenious […]

Phantoms in the Brain
– V. S. Ramachandran

“Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars.”  Neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran is internationally renowned for uncovering answers to the deep and quirky questions of human nature that few scientists have dared to address. His bold insights about the brain are matched only by the stunning simplicity of his […]

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
– Oliver Sacks

“If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self – himself – he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.”  In his most extraordinary book, “one of the great clinical writers of […]

Thrive – Brendan Brazier

Featuring a long-term eating plan that may help you achieve optimal health through stress-busting plant-based whole foods, this title includes: the best whole foods; over 100 easy-to-make recipes with raw food options that are wheat, gluten, soy, corn, refined sugar, and dairy free; and, an easy-to-follow exercise plan. [From: Goodreads.com] The thrive diet is a long-term […]

Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
– William Styron

“It is a positive and active anguish, a sort of psychical neuralgia wholly unknown to normal life.”  Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness is U.S. writer William Styron’s memoir about his descent into depression, and the triumph of recovery. First published in December 1989 in Vanity Fair, the book grew out of a lecture that Styron originally delivered at a symposium […]

Avocados – some fun facts

    Avocados are a fruit, not a vegetable. In Brazil avocados mixed in with ice cream is a very popular dessert. The avocado is also called an Alligator Pear because of its pear-like shape and it’s bumpy green skin. California produces about 90% of the national avocado crop in the Usa. To tell if […]

What’s wrong with what we eat
– Mark Bittman

From TED.com In this fiery and funny talk, New York Times food writer Mark Bittman weighs in on what’s wrong with the way we eat now (too much meat, too few plants; too much fast food, too little home cooking), and why it’s putting the entire planet at risk. Mark Bittman is a bestselling cookbook author, […]

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