Do You Remember Me or Longevity Bible

Do You Remember Me?: A Father, a Daughter, and a Search for the Self

Author: Judith Levin

In her award-winning Harmful to Minors, Judith Levine radically disturbed our fixed ideas about childhood. Now, the poignantly personal Do You Remember Me? tackles the other end of life. The book is both the memoir of a daughter coming to terms with a difficult father who is sinking into dementia and an insightful exploration of the ways we think about disability, aging, and the self as it resides in the body and the world.

In prose that is unsentimental yet moving, serious yet darkly funny, complex in emotion and ideas yet spare in diction, Levine reassembles her father's personal and professional history even as he is losing track of it. She unpeels the layers of his complicated personality and uncovers information that surprises even her mother, to whom her father has been married for more than sixty years.

As her father deteriorates, the family consensus about who he was and is and how best to care for him constantly threatens to collapse. Levine recounts the painful discussions, mad outbursts, and gingerly negotiations, and dissects the shifting alliances among family, friends, and a changing guard of hired caretakers. Spending more and more time with her father, she confronts a relationship that has long felt bereft of love. By caring for his needs, she learns to care about and, slowly, to love him.

While Levine chronicles these developments, she looks outside her family for the sources of their perceptions and expectations, deftly weaving politics, science, history, and philosophy into their personal story. A memoir opens up to become a critique of our culture's attitudes toward the old and demented. A claustrophobic account of Alzheimer's is transformedinto a complex lesson about love, duty, and community.

What creates a self and keeps it whole? Levine insists that only the collaboration of others can safeguard her father's self against the riddling of his brain. Embracing interdependence and vulnerability, not autonomy and productivity, as the seminal elements of our humanity, Levine challenges herself and her readers to find new meaning, even hope, in one man's mortality and our own.

Publishers Weekly

Unsentimental and unsparing, this work studies in unnerving detail what happens when the mind begins to separate from the body and how our society has no model for coping with such fragmentation. Everything disintegrates for Levine's father, a psychologist and liberal political activist, after his Alzheimer's diagnosis. He can no longer comprehend books and magazines, and continues to flirt with women but cannot be intimate with his wife of 59 years. Levine, a natural storyteller and author of the controversial Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex, presents more than a tale about one man's disease and its impact on his family; she also examines how society separates itself from those who can no longer think clearly. She explicates the mind/body issues inherent in Alzheimer's from multiple perspectives, invoking a host of psychologists and scientists. She makes herself examine her relationship with her father (which has always been fraught) and her mother (whom she resents for leaving her ill father for another man). Statistics explicate Alzheimer's prevalence (10% of those over 65 have it; 50% of those over 85), but Levine delves beyond the numbers, examining the socio-political psychology of Alzheimer's treatment and what happens to those who fall prey to it. As her father worsens, Levine gets closer to him. This is a daughter's poignant homage to a father she came to know best after he lost his mind, but it's also a searing indictment of how America treats its disabled and a cautionary tale for aging baby boomers. Agent, Joy Harris. (May 11) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

This sensitive, insightful memoir of a daughter coping with her father's Alzheimer's is reminiscent of Carol Wolfe Konek's Daddyboy. Unlike Sue Miller (The Story of My Father) and Eleanor Cooney (Death in Slow Motion), Levine (Harmful to Minors) is not her parent's primary caregiver, yet her account, like theirs, depicts the toll a loved one's dementia takes on family and friends. Over a period of 12 years, Levine helped her mother care for her father. The experience caused her to reflect on the meaning of self in a culture that emphasizes cognition and rationality at the expense of emotions and relationships. As her father deteriorated, first mentally and later physically, the stress of caregiving led to the collapse of her mother's health and her parents' separation after 50 years of marriage. Levine became her father's advocate and attempted to establish a new relationship with the man who abused her physically and emotionally as a child and an adolescent. Though she provides dates, Levine's nonlinear narrative style (using flashbacks to illuminate the present) may be distracting to readers initially, which unfortunately diminishes the power of her message. Recommended for large public libraries. Lucille M. Boone, San Jose P.L., CA Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews

A tenaciously engaged memoir from Levine (Harmful to Minors, 2002, etc.) about her relationship with her parents as her father drifts deeper and deeper into Alzheimer's. It starts with Lillian and Stan Levine's 50th wedding anniversary party, as Stan rambles on and on and on. "For those who do not know what is happening to him, the party is Dad's coming out as a dement," writes his daughter. For his family-feisty, contentious, left-wing, New York Jewish intellectuals among whom the brain reigns supreme-it is the cruel reality. But in the bigger picture, reactions to Stan's ailment reflect our hyper-cognitive society, she argues: "We consider dementia not just a disease, but a living death." Delving into the literature of Alzheimer's for answers and writing with a sure hand on unstable ground, Levine explores the disease's social effects. "More than social normality comes with language; personhood does," and as the first goes, so, our society deems, does the latter. Once, "the aged lived among us all, ill or hale, helpful or inconvenient, respected or humiliated in differing measure." That is often no longer the case; we have systematically "stripped elderly people of the roles that had sustained meaning in their lives through mandatory retirement, social isolation, and the disintegration of traditional family ties." After her mother starts to crumble under the responsibility, starting a new relationship as the old one slips away, Levine must confront the idea of putting her father into a nursing home. Her narrative is emotional as well as intellectual: she grapples with her feelings for her father, who was an overbearing, provocative (and occasionally violent) lord of misrule; sheconsiders and rejects taking him under her own care; she jousts with her mother over her seeming abandonment of her husband. It is a maddening, very human dance, and Levine gets it down just right. Roiling, confrontational family portrait.

Table of Contents:

	Prelude	1
1.	Anger	11
2.	Mind	29
3.	Acquaintance	51
4.	Quarantine	71
5.	Care	103
6.	Body	131
7.	Dis/loyalty	153
8.	Decompensation	173
9.	Decisions	211
10.	Family	249
11.	Himself	281
	Reading List	302
	Acknowledgments	309

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Longevity Bible: 8 Essential Strategies for Keeping Your Mind Sharp & Your Body Young

Author: Gary Small

From the author of The Memory Bible and The Memory Prescription, Dr. Gary Small's exciting, all-encompassing formula for living a longer and better life

Bestselling author and expert on aging Dr. Gary Small show us how to live longer, stronger, better lives in his new book, The Longevity Bible, by following simple guidelines such as a positive attitude, gratifying relationships, and lifelong education.

Comprised of advice on memory fitness, healthy diet, physical conditioning, and stress reduction, The Longevity Bible follows the stories of four typical readers in different stages of their lives, and how those lives are improved with his plans.

Publishers Weekly

Small (The Memory Bible; The Memory Prescription), chief of the UCLA Memory and Aging Research Center, offers eight essentials (positive outlook, mental and physical exercise, acceptance of change, are three) in this manual for a better, longer life. He takes a holistic approach to body and brain fitness, covering everything from meditation to diet and skillful makeup application. While his "essentials" likely won't be anything new to reasonably self-aware readers, the author does provide thought-provoking questionnaires, helpful step-by-step approaches to achieving various goals and detailed anecdotes about patients who have benefited from UCLA's programs. Information gleaned from UCLA's research lends credibility, and a section called Putting It All Together makes self-improvement efforts manageable, not overwhelming. The chapters that focus on memory are the most detailed; they include helpful tricks and challenging games that will surely inspire an increase in sales of crossword-puzzle books. Perhaps in recognition of the book's ambitiousness, a nine-page list of additional resources will prove handy for those who wish to further investigate some of the topics touched upon in the book. (June) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

Aging baby boomers are inundated with all sorts of resources advising them on how to live longer, happier, and healthier lives. This latest self-help book by neuroscientist Small (chief, UCLA Memory & Aging Research Ctr.; The Memory Bible) tackles both mind and body well-being in later life. His eight strategies for quality longevity include the usual suspects, e.g., keeping mentally and physically fit, maintaining healthy social and sexual relationships, keeping a positive attitude, avoiding stress, and following a low-fat diet rich in protein and antioxidants. Information is presented in concise, readable portions and is backed by summaries of relevant scientific research. While most of the material is available elsewhere (e.g., Gary Null's Ultimate Anti-Aging Program; Andrew Weil's Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Guide to Your Physical and Spiritual Well-Being), Small's upbeat attitude; readable text; and abundance of lists, questionnaires, quizzes, puzzles, case studies, and recipes are informative and fun and encourage readers to apply his recommendations to their own lives. The bibliography references scientific literature only. A good choice for all consumer health and aging collections.-Karen McNally Bensing, Benjamin Rose Lib., Cleveland Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Appetites or Yoga for Living

Appetites: On the Search for True Nourishment

Author: Geneen Roth

Geneen Roth's When Food Is Love profoundly explored the relationship between eating and intimacy in women's lives. Her rejection of convention in dieting practices has motivated hundreds of thousands of women to think more deeply about, and alter their relationship to, eating and food. When Food Is Love became a bestseller - but in the wake of that success, Roth found herself in an unexpected position: she descended into a long illness, losing what she thought she could never live without - her health, her hair, and even her best friend. In Appetites: On the Search for True Nourishment, Geneen Roth explores, with great insight and clarity, the process of questioning what was at the core of her own life, her ultimate return to good health, and the new and unexpected ways she found to nourish herself and those she has loved and worked with. Over the course of this journey, Roth looked deeply into women's friendships and what happens when they change; the longing for success and affirmation for one's work; the conflicting emotions a woman can have when she considers whether or not to have a child; the longing for a safe place to live and build toward the future. She writes, "Appetites is the story of friends and women with whom I've worked as they've questioned the meaning of success, thinness, friendship, and fulfillment ... Why, I asked myself, is an embarrassment of riches embarrassing? Why do most women feel they will lose friends as they lose weight? ... What feels good about feeling bad? And where do we turn for nourishment when it's not in the places we thought it would be?"

Publishers Weekly

That some of us overeat in order to feed a spiritual rather than physical hunger isn't a new idea, but perhaps no one has chatted it up with as much panache as Roth (When Food Is Love). In her earnest new book, this popular workshop guru focuses on the ersatz bliss of overeating but also expands her vision to question "the meaning of success, thinness, friendships, and fulfillment." Drawing on much personal anecdote-her hair loss following illness; her ties to her best friend; her worries about another's health, etc.-she charms readers toward realizing that true happiness comes not from a sleek body, wealth or indeed any external attribute but from a sense of inner worth. There's nothing new in that idea either, but Roth presents it, as usual, in just the right mix of confession, sass and style. (Apr.)

Library Journal

After 20 years of therapy and 13 years of "spiritual practice," diet guru Roth (When Food Is Love, Dutton, 1991) shares 243 pages of inspirational insights about self-esteem. "You are the feast," she concludes, having recounted at length her own tribulations brought on by an illness she will not name that caused her to lose her hair-a crowning blow. She was thus forced to reevaluate her own advice to those she had counseled about appearance and self-esteem. Roth continues to give lectures and workshops; to assist the reader, she offers her business address and telephone and FAX numbers at the end of the book. Though full of New Age platitudes, her work nonetheless has a following. For Roth's fans.-Cynthia Harrison, George Washington Univ., Washington, D.C.

BookList

Roth speaks of issues that, chauvinism aside, only women can truly understand and identify with. In the past, her books were about food, weight, dieting, and the almost universal obsession that women have with their bodies and self-esteem. Now her canvas of introspection and discussion has expanded: eight chapters examine the nature of women's friendships, the craving to be famous, the longing for safety, and the search for a parallel life (or the perfect fantasy), among other topics. Based on intensely personal experiences, written with intensely emotional and intellectually probing prose, Roth's book pushes far beyond the issue of weight to ask what will make women happy. Her not-so-easy answers, divined from decades of therapy, of experiential beingness, of Buddhist practice, will speak to many.

Kirkus Reviews

A dubious exploration of appetite as a metaphor in women's lives, from the author of When Food Is Love (1991), who conducts workshops on women, food, and self-esteem.

According to Roth, women desire obsessively—a perfect body, success, love—instead of embracing themselves as they are and appreciating what they already have. A woman who overeats, for example, may be trying to fill a void within herself, not realizing that she already has what she needs. Roth gives examples from her own life: Having obtained what she thought she wanted—fame, a good man, a thin body, a life in scenic northern California—she still wasn't happy. Then she developed chronic fatigue syndrome and a vitamin deficiency that caused her hair to fall out, all of which made her realize that she should have appreciated her health while she had it. A series of chance disasters—an earthquake, a fire that nearly burned her house down—led her to understand that everything she has could easily be taken away, that her deepest satisfaction must come from herself. Though witty and lucid about her personal experience, Roth does, unfortunately, lapse into the occasional New Age, pseudo-Buddhist truism. Nor is it always obvious how particular parts of the narrative fit into her overall argument. Worse, the author can be downright maudlin: Anthropomorphic paeans to her cat's capacity for enlightened contentment, though mitigated by moments of self-mockery, get embarrassing after awhile.

Roth's lack of self-consciousness about her own privilege is an even larger problem. It is easy enough to preach about finding happiness within yourself when you have what you always wanted from the world. But those who haven't found love, fame, rewarding work, or money may be less than sympathetic to the spiritual struggles of the "woman who has everything" and still isn't satisfied.

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Yoga for Living: Feel Confident

Author: Uma Dinsmore Tuli

An upbeat, modern approach to help bring balance and health to one's life.

In today's hectic, fast-paced world, millions of people are beginning to discover the health benefits of the ancient discipline of yoga . To help focus this new awareness, DK presents Yoga For Living, a new series that targets some of today's most common health problems, shows how to reduce stress, and how to live easier and feel better.

The Yoga Biomedical Trust is a charitable organization established in 1983 to promote and advance the study and practice of, and research into, the therapeutic effects of yoga as a means of improving the mental, physical, and spiritual health of the community.

Health Basics or Losing 100 Pounds Naturally

Health Basics: A Doctor's Plainspoken Advice about how Your Body Works and What to Do when It Doesn't

Author: Michael S Richardson

Would you like to know how your body functions, what happens in sickness and how to optimize your chances for better health? Become an informed participant in your health care by getting the answers to hundreds of questions like these: What are the proven health benefits of exercise? Why don't doctors like high-protein diets? How much alcohol is too much? What is cancer, anyway? What is a nutritional supplement, and why do doctors sigh when I ask? How can I get what I want from my visit to the doctor? Why does my heart skip like that? Why is my cholesterol high when I eat like a rabbit? When should I call 911 instead of a doctor's office? Why can't I stop coughing? Why do I have heartburn and when should I see a doctor? How can I control my bladder better? What is really known about estrogen? How can I relieve my PMS?

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Losing 100 Pounds Naturally: Personal Insight from a Christian Physician

Author: Jean Ronel Corbier

Losing 100 Pounds is a personal insight from a Christian physician.  Chapter One opens with Dr. Jean-Ronel Corbier's gone and unhappy days of being overweight.  The chapter emphasizes a call to live like you recommend.  He says," I was more than 100 pounds overweight, and believe me, I was unhappy.  As a physician who spends a great deal of time convincing patients of the importance of health and nutrition, I was not a good role model."

            In Chapter 2, he vivifies lifestyle as a strategic avenue to losing and managing weight.  He even employs a style that makes necessary comparisons between lifestyles in two different continents, which he has lived.  Noteworthy, is how lifestyles on these continents affect weight management.

            Chapters 4, 5, 6, and 7 carefully address the effects of obesity and how these effects could be reversed.  Of paramount importance is the RESTORATION MODEL (Chapter 6).  Dr. Jean-Ronel Corbier and his wife Dr. Michelle Corbier developed this model of health and healing that is dynamic, comprehensive, and integrative.  This model centers on thorough comprehension of the biopsychosociospriritual factors.  These are unambiguous factors that consider the psychological, social, and spiritual causes of obesity, not just the biological factors.

            Ufomadu Consulting & Publishing is proud to publish such a great book that is written to make life better for human race.  Check this book out and tell others about it.

Flat Feet or The Healthy Prostate

Flat Feet: A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References

Author: ICON Health Publications

This is a 3-in-1 reference book. It gives a complete medical dictionary covering hundreds of terms and expressions relating to flat feet. It also gives extensive lists of bibliographic citations. Finally, it provides information to users on how to update their knowledge using various Internet resources. The book is designed for physicians, medical students preparing for Board examinations, medical researchers, and patients who want to become familiar with research dedicated to flat feet.If your time is valuable, this book is for you. First, you will not waste time searching the Internet while missing a lot of relevant information. Second, the book also saves you time indexing and defining entries. Finally, you will not waste time and money printing hundreds of web pages.

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The Healthy Prostate: A Doctor's Comprehensive Program for Preventing and Treating Common Problems

Author: Arnold Fox

This breakthrough book is a medical doctor's proven prescription for a healthy prostate. Arnold Fox, M.D., who has successfully treated prostate problems for over forty years, speaks directly to your vital concerns, including:

• Early symptoms of prostate problems and what to do about each type
• The full range of traditional and alternative treatments available, notably the best drug-free, nonsurgical options
• Easy-to-understand, step-by-step treatment plans for each type of problem
• The pros and cons of common medications
• Innovative treatments such as hyperthermia and cryosurgery
• Checklists and brief quizzes to accurately assess your health status
• A detailed prevention program to maintain your good health
• Important questions to ask your doctor now

Table of Contents:

	Introduction
1	The Prostate - An Overview of the "Unknown" Gland	1
2	What Can Go Wrong - and Why	10
3	How Prostate Problems Are Diagnosed	29
4	Medicines for the Prostate	52
5	Surgeries for the Prostate	72
6	Other Standard Treatments for Prostate Problems	102
7	Alternative Approaches to Treating the Prostate	123
8	If the Diagnosis Is Cancer	135
9	Dealing with the Serious Side Effects of Prostate Problems	158
10	Honest Talk from Men Who Have Been through It	173
11	The Healthy Prostate Program, Part I: Prevention	187
12	The Healthy Prostate Program, Part II: Treatment	202
13	The Latest Word on Treating the Prostate	221
	Appendix: Sources for More Information	225
	Notes	228
	Glossary	233
	For Further Reading	236
	Index	239

The Healthy Guide to Unhealthy Living or Better Back

The Healthy Guide to Unhealthy Living: How to Survive Your Bad Habits

Author: David J Clayton

STRAIGHT TALK FROM A DOCTOR ON HOW TO MINIMIZE THE DAMAGE FROM THE UNHEALTHY LIFESTYLE CHOICES WE ALL KNOW WE SHOULDN'T MAKE -- BUT DO ANYWAY

There are thousands of books out there on how to live a healthy life, but let's be honest: most of us don't want to live a healthy life -- we want to know how to live our unhealthy lives better. The Healthy Guide to Unhealthy Living is a straightforward and honest guide to maintaining the fast-paced lifestyle you're accustomed to, without giving up all the bad habits that come along with it.

Whether you stayed up all night prepping for that early presentation or want to lose ten pounds fast for a high school reunion, whether you drank too much last night or wound up in an unfamiliar bed this morning, here's the practical advice you need for minimizing the damage and moving on with your life. A few of the issues addressed in this book include:

• Drinking and drugs: From easing the hangover pain to kicking a drug habit
• Sex: Pregnancy, STDs, and why you shouldn't believe everything you read on the Internet
• Pushing the limits: Sleepless nights, stress, and unavoidable life-related anxieties
• Everyday habits: Smoking, fast food, all-nighters, and the rest of those New Year's resolutions you haven't gotten around to yet

Whether you indulge yourself in Vegas or your own backyard, when it comes to your health, it's easy to assume the worst. But even if you don't live a completely virtuous life, The Healthy Guide to Unhealthy Living says that if you make some smart choices, you can avoid major worries or embarrassment.While this book won't take the place of your own doctor, it will give you some shortcuts to healthier habits and better living -- like safer sex and better sex, or a healthier diet and a better body -- that might become habits you can live with.

Publishers Weekly

New York City physician Clayton has put together a guidebook that should be a godsend for young adults with fast-paced, hard-partying lifestyles. He addresses popular vices from smoking, drinking and junk food bingeing to having multiple sex partners and doing recreational drugs. Clayton's view is that it's possible to reduce the negative side effects of such behaviors and minimize the risks associated with occasional poor choices. Naturally, he advocates making healthy choices to begin with, but being an urban 30-something himself, he realizes that since this won't always happen, it's better to be armed with the facts-and some great tips for damage control. Want to avoid a hangover? Lower the risks of smoking? Concoct a "morning after" pill? Avoid testing positive for drugs on a job interview? Clayton explains all in intelligent but easygoing language, as well as ways to deal with work stress, problems with sexual performance, STDs and dieting. Using real life examples and maintaining a sense of humor throughout, Clayton is the kind of unshockable, practical-but hip-doctor that any young person would be delighted-and relieved-to consult. Agents, Emily Nurkin and Laura Yorke. (Jan.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

There are many guides to healthy living written for people over 40-Jeanne Wei and Sue Levkoff's Aging Well: The Complete Guide to Physical and Emotional Health; James Fries's Living Well: Taking Care of Yourself in the Middle and Later Years. Clayton, however, targets young professionals and provides practical, compassionate, nonjudgmental advice on how to make intelligent risk-reducing lifestyle choices. This approach shines in the chapters on alcohol abuse, diets, sexual performance improvement, and unwise sexual choices. Clayton wisely discourages tobacco and drug abuse (illegal and prescription); both conventional and complementary medicine therapies are discussed. Bad habits not mentioned include unsafe driving (and other potentially injurious actions) and unhealthy eating habits that contribute to cancer and cardiovascular diseases. A breezy, late-night comedy delivery is interspersed with some complex medical explanations. Overall, this is a relatively quick, informative read, though a list of resources is noticeably lacking. Best placed in urban public and consumer health libraries where interest warrants.-Janice Flahiff, Medical Univ. Lib. of Ohio, Toledo Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

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Better Back

Author: John Tanner

Offering authoritative, constructive advice and information on this worldwide health problem, Better Back assesses a wide variety of available treatments and gives a detailed overview of the solutions to back pain. Explaining how the back works and outlining the many causes of pain, this is the ideal guide for anyone with a bad back pain who wants to take an active role in their own health care.

Author Biography: Dr. John Tanner is a private practitioner of orthopedics and sports medicine, with special interests in back injuries and their treatment. He is on the council of the Society of Orthopedic Medicine and the Institute of Orthopedic Medicine.