healthy living

40? Do These 8 Things Now

At 40, many of us have a million things on our plate. Our kids are still young and demanding, our parents are still around and need some help, our jobs still take a big chunk out of us – and there are so many niggling issues our body keeps bringing to the table, including difficulty in losing weight.

The 40 Checklist

Page Turners: Holistic Book Reviews - [The Undiet Cookbook By Meghan Telpner]

Is it possible to look and feel your best while eating the most delicious food? Canadian nutritionist and founder of the Academy of Culinary Nutrition, Meghan Telpner, asks and answers that very question in her latest book, The Undiet Cookbook: the answer is a resounding yes!

Page Turners: Holistic Book Reviews - [Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are by Jack Kornfield]

Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are

by Jack Kornfield

Bringing Home the Dharma is a compelling historical and personal exploration of the nature of the mind, and it contains teachings and perspectives that are important for our times. You don’t need to move to an ashram or monastery to find inner peace and wisdom. “Your life, just as it is, is the perfect place to be,” Jack Kornfield shares.

Nature’s Nectar: 7 Sweeteners That Aren’t White Sugar

There are so very many reasons why more and more people are trading in the well-known white sugar, also known as table sugar, for natural sugar and other natural sweeteners. Some people seek a healthier lifestyle, whether by choice or medical necessity, while others may simply choose by taste or preference.

Page Turners: Holistic Book Reviews - [Whole Health: A Holistic Approach to Healing for the 21st Century By Mark Mincolla]

Whole Health: A Holistic Approach to Healing for the 21st Century

Page Turners: Holistic Book Reviews - [The Plan: Eliminate the Surprising “Healthy” Foods That Are Making You Fat and Lose Weight Fast by Lyn-Genet Recitas]

The Plan: Eliminate the Surprising “Healthy” Foods That Are Making You Fat and Lose Weight Fast

A Writer's Day: What I Eat For Dinner

Does one ever enjoy a supper that is so healthy, he or she temporarily feels that all is right not only in the larger world schematics (however heavily floating the dinner is in suspended disbelief), but that everything is copacetic within the integral subset of one’s own body? The other night, I ingested such a nutritious, tastily-fortified dinner— And, you may also partake:

Page Turners: Holistic Book Reviews - [The Ultimate Guide to Organic Foods By James Branden]

The Ultimate Guide to Organic Foods 

by James Branden

This book is geared towards providing exact and reliable information in regards to eating healthy, getting healthy and losing weight. It explains the process in a very clear and easy way to understand. It also emphasizes that you can be healthy in a smarter way and that organic food is definitely worth pursuing.

Key objectives:

Perk up your Productivity with Parkinson’s Law

“Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.”

How many minutes to do you have to read this right now? Are you leisurely strolling through some of your favorite webpages? …At home or at work? Should you be doing work instead?

Page Turners: Holistic Book Reviews - [The Art of People: 11 Simple People Skills That Will Get You Everything You Want By Dave Kerpen]

The Art of People: 11 Simple People Skills That Will Get You Everything You Want

By Dave Kerpen

This book is a different way of looking at one-on-one contact with another. Dave Kerpen’s style is fresh and full of good tips on dealing with people, particularly as it pertains to sculpting and maintaining relationships in the workplace. The conclusion section at the end of the book nicely summarizes most of what he has to say that relates to the eleven people skills that will get you everything you want.

Dave Kerpen talks about: