ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICITY

Chemical Deception : The Toxic Threat to Health and the Environment-- Lappe
Book News, Inc., 12/31/91: Lappe charts both individual and global episodes of toxicity and discusses the myths that have perpetuated them: that the risk from cancer-causing agents is remote; that tap water is safe; that the body's defenses can handle food, air, and water contaminants; that a fetus is protected from dangerous substances; that the environment is resilient; and so on.

Chemical Exposures : Low Levels and High Stakes (hardcover)--Ashford, Miller
Book News, Inc., 06/01/91: Based on a report commissioned by the New Jersey Dept. of Health, this work explains how day-to-day variations in chemical exposure can cause unusual and seemingly unpredictable symptoms (e.g. headache, breathing problems, anxiety, fatigue), including many that have in the past been termed psychosomatic.

Chemical Sensitivity : A Guide to Coping With Hypersensitivity Syndrome, Sick Building Syndrome and Other Environmental Illnesses--Matthews
Customer Comments: rating=10: Best book for its information on the subject out of all the books that I have read on the of chemical sensitivities, this book is by far the best in print. Most or all of the research and information are 100% correct. I would recommend this book to anyone that has chemical sensitivities or knows someone that does.

Clean House, Clean Planet: Manual to Free Your Home of 14 Common Hazard Household Products--Logan
Synopsis: Reveals the secret of using simple, ordinary ingredients to make effective, environmentally friendly cleaning products for the home, from using plain club soda as a window cleaner to making a copper-cleansing solution with lemon juice and salt.

Healthy Homes in a Toxic World : Preventing, Identifying, and Eliminating Hidden Health Hazards in Your Home--Breecher
Book News, Inc., 02/01/93: Provides current information on lead, radon, asbestos, carbon monoxide, pesticides, and potentially toxic household products; alerts readers to the many symptoms of a "sick house"; and provides a directory of federal and local experts and agencies that can help. An excellent household reference and safety guide.

Healthy Living in a Toxic World : Simple Ways to Protect Yourself & Your Family from Hidden Health Risks--Fincher
Synopsis: Dr. Cynthia Fincher provides readers with a framework to understand chemicals and their effects, as well as the regulatory and political forces that allow their dangers to perpetuate. She then explains how people can reduce their use of chemicals--thus reducing the risk of damaging effects.

Is This Your Child's World? : How You Can Fix the Schools and Homes That Are Making Your Children Sick--Rapp
Midwest Book Review: Environmental dangers may not be as obvious as you think: consider these case histories and a focus by Rapp, a specialist in environmental medicine. From an 'antsy' child's puzzling school behavior, traced to disinfectant aerosol spray used in the nursery school, to a child's hidden allergy to a new carpet at school, this helps parents track down hidden problems and also provides easy, inexpensive remedies to health problems which could cause asthma, hyperactivity, and learning problems.

The Sick Building Syndrome : How Indoor Pollution Is Poisoning Your Life- And What You Can Do--Tate

Toxic Metal Syndrome--Casdorph, Walker

EXERCISE / FITNESS

The 90-Day Fitness Walking Program--Fenton
Synopsis: The editors of Walking Magazine present a day-by-day, progressive walking program that helps strengthen the heart, burn fat and improve fitness in 90 days. Fenton and Bauer teach walkers how to choose the right shoes, warm up properly, employ walking sticks and weights, and more.

Abs of Steel : Flatter, Firmer Abs in Just Four Weeks--Hart, Neporant
The creators of Buns of Steel now present a six-week program for abs, based on the same no-nonsense approach and high-quality instruction as the bestselling Abs of Steel videos, and featuring an even more in-depth focus on one of the most problematic areas for women: the midsection. Over 100 photos.

The Aquatic Handbook for Lifetime Fitness--Katz

Bone Loading : Exercises for Osteoporosis--Simkin, Ayalon
Synopsis: Bone-loading is a new approach to the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis. Recent research has shown that even bones already showing signs of osteoporosis, if regularly subjected to repetititve or slightly unusual loads, can regain some of their former mass. The exercises and information in this book could be your passport to freedom from pain and injury in the years to come. Presented in an easy-to-follow format, are more than forty bone-loading exercises, photographed and explained step by step including warm-ups, stretches , back and abdomen toners, and cool-downs.

Bragg Fitness Program with Spine Motion: Unique Exercises to Banish Backaches--Bragg

Buns of Steel Total-Body Workout--Hart, Neporent
Synopsis: Now, a full-body workout program, based on the phenomenally successful fitness video series Buns of Steel, is available in this easy-to-follow, completely illustrated book. Each chapter focuses on firming and strengthening a different area of the body, and exercises are arranged into 10-, 15-, and 20-minute workouts suitable for beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels. 100 photos.

Callanetics: Fit Forever(paperback)--Pinckney
Synopsis: Callan, deviser of the nonimpact exercise program named after her, here addresses women older than 40. In the first section, she explains Callanetics principles, then addresses such middle-age concerns as diet, nutrition, menopause, and stress. Her basic tenet that exercise is necessary to a healthy lifestyle she supports with various examples. In the final section she includes illustrated directions for a series of stretches to be followed by specific one-hour workout routines that combine low-impact aerobics with a series of small muscle stretches and contractions.

Cliff Sheats Lean Bodies Total Fitness : Get Leaner Faster With Fat Burning Workouts and Increased Calories--Sheats
Synopsis: The long-awaited companion book to the bestselling Cliff Sheats' Lean Bodies updates this unique nutritional program for losing body fat by increasing calories. The author encourages people to combine aerobic exercise with weight training to increase muscle mass and improve the body's metabolic rate. 50 photos.

Cycling for Health, Fitness and Well-Being--McCullagh
Synopsis: From the publisher of Bicycling magazine comes the definitive cycling resource for all ages and levels of skill. A life-long cyclist, McCullagh shares advice on buying a bike, information on clothes and accessories, how to tackle all terrain, a weight loss program and menu, and stories of people who have cycled their way back to health from illness or injury.

Dr. Earl Mindell's What You Should Know About Better Nutrition For Athletes--Hopkins, Mindell

Fitness Cross-Training--Yacenda
Synopsis: Features 60 workout sessions geared to meet the needs of people at all fitness levels and that mix running, cycling, swimming, weight training, aerobics, and walking. The author addresses important psychological and social elements of cross-training, providing motivational tips that ensure an enjoyable and winning approach to fitness.

Fitness for Dummies--Schlosberg, Neporent
Customer Comment: rating=10: It's not just for Dummies anymore...Wow! A fitness book that doesn't claim to make things easy, or to get you in shape in just "five minutes a day!" Liz and Suzanne know their stuff, and they're willing to be blunt about what you need to do to get (or stay) in shape. Basic enough for beginners (including some nifty illustrations), and after years of reading fitness magazines cover-to-cover, I still learned something! Leave the dummies to their exercise gadget infomercials... buy this book!

The Fit-Or-Fat Woman--Bailey, L. Bishop
Synopsis: Bailey's helpful book can help any woman determine her own best fitness and fat control program. As always with Bailey's books, the science is up-to-the-minute, and the specific applications have been validated repeatedly with his audiences and workshop participants.

The Fit Swimmer : 120 Workouts and Training Tips--Brems
Customer Comment: rating=9: a wonderful progressive listing of workouts for swimming if you want to get fit in the pool, the best way to get there is have a plan. this book is the plan. with over 100 mostly progressive workouts, this can (over time folks) take the beginner to intermediate or advanced levels of swim fitness. To enter the pool without a workout plan is the easy way to not get a good workout. Brem's book will help you push yourself.

Get Rolling: The Beginner's Guide to In-Line Skating (paperback)--Miller
Customer Review (rating=*****): "Liz Miller has written a great book for the beginner skater. It covers what you need, how to avoid injuries, maintenance of equipment and over a dozen of skills...This book makes great reading for both instructors as well as the general skater."

Getting Stronger: Weight Training for Men and Women : Sports Training, General Conditioning, Bodybuilding--Pearl, Moran
Customer Comment: rating=10: Simply put, there is no better book for beginning or intermediate weight trainers (and advanced trainers better already own it). Whether your goal is toning, bodybuilding, training for sports--whatever--this is the must-have book if you use weights to workout.

How to Keep the Heart and Cardio Vascular Healthy and Fit--Bragg

Jumping for Health : A Guide to Rebounding Aerobics--Walker
Synopsis: Rebounding aerobics is a nonstrenuous exercise system with more benefits than ordinary sports like tennis or jogging. Learn how to strengthen every cell in your body and increase your fitness while preventing strain on your muscles and joints. The result is better health with less exertion.

Keeping the Connection: Choices for a Better Body and a Healthier Life --Greene
Synopsis: Keep the Connection is, as you'd expect, full of exercises--but many of the exercises are mental. Greene holds that you can't change until you understand yourself, so he offers several mental exercises to help you become more self-aware. After you've had your mental workout, Greene describes the four components of fitness: flexibility (with photos of stretches), cardiovascular power and endurance, abdominal and back fitness (with photos of a variety of crunches), and muscular strength and endurance (illustrated using Cybex machines). Greene also outlines a sensible nutrition plan based on the food pyramid, and gives 18 recipes.

The MacRobiotic Way : The Complete MacRobiotic Diet & Exercise Book--Kushi, M.
Synopsis: A new edition of the bestselling, definitive guide to achieving vibrant health through a macrobiotic lifestyle. 30 years ago Kushi recognized that diet was a principal cause of many illnesses and began teaching how the macrobiotic diet--based on whole grains, fresh vegetables, beans and sea vegetables--can prevent health problems. Features 37 nutritional charts and a complete exercise program.

Make the Connection : Ten Steps to a Better Body and a Better Life--Greene, Winfrey
Customer Comment: slccoc@northweb.com, 10/29/96, rating=9: Finally, a book on nutrition and overeating that makes sense Oprah and Bob have done it. This book is destined to become a bible for people with eating disorders. This book offers the basic steps you learned about nutrition in home economics class and tells you how to use those steps in your everyday life. You learn something as you turn every page. There are no diet plans, no quick fix to losing weight and no pills involved. This book is written with Oprah's testimonials from her heart. She is a true inspiration to those of us who struggle on a daily basis to change our lives for the better. Bob Greene has made a tremendous impact on her life. Thank you Oprah and Bob!

The New Fit or Fat--Bailey
Synopsis: The revolutionary little book that changed America's thinking about eating, exercising and losing weight is now completely updated and expanded. The New Fit or Fat puts the latest scientific discoveries about fat metabolism and exercise physiology into guidelines for daily use.

Prime Moves : A Step-By-Step Fitness Program for a Healthier Life: Low Impact Exercises for the Mature Adult--Edwards, D., Nash
Synopsis: This book shows older adults how to custom-design exercise programs for themselves. Prime Moves emphasizes the advantages of regular exercise and provides unique exercises designed especially for the mature adult. Included are special exercises that may benefit those with arthritis, diabetes, or heart disease. There’ s even a sit-down workout for people who need to start out slowly.

Raw Power!: Building Strength and Muscle Naturally--Arlin
Customer Comment (rating=*****): Stephen Arlin explains in Raw Power how to achieve optimum health and strength, on a raw food diet. He explains it so eloquently and gently. That all I can say is WOW and THANK YOU!!!! I really needed this book! This book is not just for the "body builder" it is for anyone who desires an awesome, perfect body. This book IS for everyone!

Smart Exercise: Burning Fat, Getting Fit (paperback)--Bailey
Synopsis: Here is a comprehensive guide to exercise and training; an irreverent debunking of weight-loss myths; a lucid explanation of how our bodies stay fit or go fat. Bailey reveals the secret of true fitness: keep your muscles in peak form and everything else will follow.

Stretching--Anderson, Bob
Customer Comment (rating=*****): Best stretching book on the market I haven't seen a more comprehensive text on stretching. Figures are well done.