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Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things

26 Aug

by Frost, Randy O, and Gail SteketeeBook Cover
If you are a fan of the television show Hoarders, then this is the book for you. Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things explores every aspect of hoarding. Hoarding has always existed, but has only recently come into the media spotlight and this book is a wonderful overview of the topic. The authors cover the various types of hoarding, the wide variety of reasons behind hoarding, the role of genetics, and how to effectively treat this devastating mental illness. Filled with personal stories from hoarders, family members, and professionals this book is a fascinating look at the world of hoarding and how it impacts not only the hoarders themselves, but their families and communities as well.
- reviewed by Jessica, University City Regional, PLCMC

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Recovering from mortality: Essays from a cancer limbo time

10 May

by Cumming, DeborahBook Cover
Local resident and Novello Festival Press author, Deborah Cumming, wrote these short essays during what she refers to as cancer limbo time. This moving tribute to what she felt during this uncertain time allows those of us unfamiliar with this experience a glimpse of what it must be like to be living in this limbo. The piece Slow Shock, relates the memory of finding out the news of her cancer, “Like a time-release pill, the shock will be released through the rest of my life…” In Control, she relates the time when she realized that she can not control cancer, just like she cannot control other parts of her life, cancer became her teacher. As cancer taught Cummings, this book reminds us how to live like each day could be our last.

- reviewed by Sherry, Sugar Creek, PLCMC

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Dr. Gundry’s Diet Evolution : Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You

06 May

by Gundry, Steven R.Book Cover
Dr. Steven Gundry, cardiac surgeon, performed surgery on heart patients that were very overweight. Despite being a cardiac surgeon with all his medical knowledge, exercising and dieting, Gundry found that he looked like his obese patients at risk of heart disease. That started to change when a patient with inoperable heart disease was referred to him for help. The patient said he had taken supplements and lost 45 pounds in the past months. When the patient’s angiogram was repeated, it showed that most of his blockages had shrunk by 50%. This resulted in this “diet evolution” that is a fascinating read on our body and how it controls us.

- reviewed by Gloria, North County Regional, PLCMC

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To Love What Is: A Marriage Transformed

02 May

by Shulman, Alix KatesBook Cover
How would you react if your spouse of over twenty years suffered a traumatic injury and required long-term care? Alix Kates Shulman finds out when her seventy-five year old husband Scott falls and suffers a traumatic brain injury. He recovers, but has virtually no short-term memory and will require constant care. Many of Alix's friends don't understand why she wants to take on most of Scott's daily care; some encourage her to place him in a nursing home and move on with her life. But Alix remembers their vows, “in sickness and in health”, and is determined to enjoy their altered relationship rather than focus on what is lacking. To Love What Is tells a powerful story of love and commitment.
- reviewed by Jessica, Mint Hill Branch, PLCMC

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Twinkie, Deconstructed : My Journey to Discover How the Ingredients Found in Processed Foods are Grown, Mined (yes, mined), and Manipulated into What America Eats

28 Apr

by Ettlinger, SteveBook Cover
Twinkie, Deconstructed is not for the faint of heart or anyone with a love of junk food. When it comes to the highly-processed snack foods that you love, ignorance is bliss. Once you follow Steve Ettlinger down the path of common snack food ingredients and learn how each is altered, chemically processed and manipulated into stuff that you can barely call “food”, you may never be able to look at that snack cake the same way. In fact, you may never be able to look at a food label again without seeing something sinister lurking. It reveals a great deal about the history of food in America and how large scale production has affected the nutritional content of what we eat and our health as a nation.
- reviewed by Laura, Sugar Creek Branch, PLCMC

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The World Is Fat

28 Apr

by Popkin, BarryBook Cover
The world is fat. This is hardly news to the general public. The author reports on this frightening obesity epidemic that is threatening everyone. He follows the lives of four families in Mexico, India, and the United States to show how their eating habits have changed and how that has resulted in changes in their waistlines and health. In major parts of the world, the population has sugar enriched large portions of food and drink with little nutritive value. Combining this with our lack of exercise has resulted in an obese population with frighteningly poor health. This was a very interesting, eye-opening, and easy read.

- reviewed by Gloria, North County Regional, PLCMC

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