Drink to Your Health or Asthma Survival

Drink to Your Health: Delicious, Easy-to-Prepare Juices, Smoothies, Teas, Soups and Other Beverages

Author: Anita Hirsch

As juice bars open across the U.S., the concept of healthy beverages is reaching more people than ever. Drink to Your Health offers over 125 vitamin- and mineral-packed recipes for both hot and cold beverages, including juices, smoothies, shakes, teas, infusions, soups, and more. Specifically formulated to help address - and possibly prevent - 40 ailments, from colds, headaches, and stress to cancer, HIV, and heart disease, the recipes include Tomato Veggie Powerhouse, Frosty Apricot Mint Cooler, and, of course, Classic Chicken Soup. Many recipes can be prepared with nothing more complicated than a hand whisk or long-handled spoon.

Book about: Inside the Apple or The Sex Lives of Cannibals

Asthma Survival: The Holistic Medical Treatment Program for Asthma

Author: Robert S Ivker

Modeled directly on the bestselling Sinus Survival, here is the most integrative, complete asthma-relief guide available today.

Here's why asthma sufferers can't afford to be without Asthma Survival:

• It features a Quick Fix, fast-start program. The Quick Fix allows the reader to begin the most important aspects of the program immediately without having to read the whole book.
  
• It is one of the only books to address the huge overlap of allergies (90 percent of asthmatics have them) and sinusitis (nearly 70 percent of asthmatics have them).
  
• It provides specific, integrated instructions for a dietary supplement plan.
  
• It lays out its New Life Eating Plan as one of the most profound ways to slow the disease.
  
• It gives a balanced, comprehensive approach to herbal choices that are most accepted within the holistic medical community.
  
• It offers a simple, powerful introduction to the most important breathing exercises.
  
• It offers the only book to propose a unified theory of emotional causes of this disease based on worldwide trends and statistics of familial patterns
  

Author Biography: Robert S. Ivker, D.O., is an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Family Medicine and a clinical instructor in the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and past-president of the American Holistic Medical Association.

Todd H. Nelson, N.D., is a widely recognized naturopathic physician and the director of the Tree of Life Wellness Center in Colorado

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	1
1.	The Asthma Quick Fix	10
2.	What Is Asthma? What Causes It? How Does Conventional Medicine Treat It?	25
	Risk Factors and Causes	29
	Conventional Medical Treatment	38
	NHLBI Classification of Asthma Severity and Pharmacological Treatment	43
3.	Holistic Health: The Thriving Self-Test	48
4.	Healing Your Body	57
	Holistic Medical Treatment and Prevention	59
	Symptom Treatment	61
	Physical and Environmental Health Recommendations for Asthma	64
	Air and Breathing	64
	Water, Moisture, and Nasal Hygiene	91
	Candida and Fungus	102
	Diet for Optimal Health: New Life Eating Plan (NLEP)	140
	Nutritional Supplements--Vitamins, Minerals, and Herbs	158
	Professional Care Therapies	188
	Exercise and Rest	189
	Summary	202
5.	Healing Your Mind	204
	The Body--Mind Connection	207
	Play/Passion, Meaning/Purpose	209
	Psychotherapy	210
	Beliefs, Attitudes, Goals, and Affirmations	211
	Emotional Causes of Asthma	224
	Guided Imagery and Visualization	229
	Optimism and Humor	234
	Emotional Health	236
	Breathwork and Meditation	241
	Dealing with Anger	244
	Dreamwork and Journaling	246
	Work and Play	250
	Summary	252
6.	Healing Your Spirit	254
	Accessing Spirit	255
	Are We Spiritual Beings? The Near-Death Experience	256
	Prayer	258
	Gratitude	260
	Meditation	263
	Intuition	265
	Spiritual Counselors	266
	Spiritual Practices	267
	Social Health	271
	Intimacy--Communication, Recreation, Touch	272
	Committed Relationships and Marriage	272
	Touch	276
	Sex	279
	Parenting	280
	Forgiveness	282
	Friendship	284
	Selfless Acts and Altruism	285
	Support Groups	287
	Summary	288
7.	Asthma Survival Success Story	289
	Appendix	297
	References	311
	Resource Guide	321
	Product Index	331