A Mayo Clinic study following nearly 13,000 Americans for about 14 years found normal-weight people with a high waist-to-hip ratio faced 2.75 times the cardiovascular death risk and 2.08 times the all-cause death risk of those with normal BMI and ratio.
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Book news - Almost Alcoholic: Is My (or My Loved One's) Drinking a Problem
Robert Doyle tells Martha Rosenberg that drinking can quietly erode quality of life before serious problems appear. He likens it to blood pressure drifting toward the high end of normal: act early rather than waiting for a DUI or a reprimand at work.
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Book: 21-Day Weight Loss Kickstart
A product listing for Neal D. Barnard's book 21-Day Weight Loss Kickstart, a $25.99 hardback of 368 pages offering a three-week plant-based program with more than 60 recipes, daily meal plans and grocery shopping tips.
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Great books recommended by EWG
EWG staff share the books they read this year: cookbooks from Sheryl Crow, Mark Bittman, Myra Goodman and Laurie David, plus green-living titles and a biography of Alice Waters. Shopping through EWG's Amazon links supports the group.
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Book news: Zest for Life
A letter from a nutritionist and health writer introducing her cancer-prevention guide, Zest for Life: The Mediterranean Anti-Cancer Diet, and asking that it be recommended to readers.
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“How do I get off all the depression drugs?” We asked an expert
In an interview about his book Psychiatryland, Florida psychiatrist Phillip Sinaikin describes a grieving patient medicated with seven psychiatric drugs, calls that overdiagnosis criminal, and argues psychiatry mimics science while treating subjective symptoms.
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Behind the Scenes of a Drug Intervention; Interview with Dr Phil interventionist, Joani Gammill
An interview with nurse and recovering addict Joani Gammill about her book The Interventionist, in which she recounts frightening and frustrating drug interventions, describes seeing past the person to a disease she shares, and disputes the idea that she can make anyone quit.
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How to cook with Style, AP Style
The 2011 AP Stylebook adds a 16-page food, wine and spirits section with 140 new entries and more than 400 consolidated food terms, from locavore and amuse-bouche to blind bake, ghee, huitlacoche and which pear varieties to capitalize.
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How To Stop Managing Others' Lives and Enjoy Our Own
Melody Beattie tells Martha Rosenberg why recovery from codependence differs from the 12 Steps: codependents have often spent their lives “giving,” so sponsorship can recreate the compulsive helping and rigid thinking that brought them into recovery.
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Embracing Our Ordinariness: Interview with "The Gifts of Imperfection" author Brené Brown
Brene Brown tells Rosenberg that shame sits underneath so-called narcissism, since grandiosity and shame both grow from feeling that being ordinary is not enough. She calls perfectionism a process addiction aimed at earning approval, not self-improvement.
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How Does Alcoholic Self-Help Group Work? New Book Gives Glimpse
Martha Rosenberg interviews Sid Farrar, editor of Hazelden's reissue of the 1939 Alcoholics Anonymous working manuscript. Bill Wilson sent the draft to 400 people, Farrar says, and the marked-up pages show an early group conscience with no single author.
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FAN Bulletin 2031: Fluoride book due out Oct 4 & Updates
A Fluoride Action Network bulletin announcing the October 4 release of "The Case Against Fluoride" by Connett, Beck and Micklem, and recounting a UK speaking tour that included a Southampton fluoridation meeting drawing about 150 people.
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Conde Nast Closes Iconic Gourmet Magazine
Conde Nast will stop printing Gourmet, published since January 1941, and continue it on Gourmet.com. The move surprised insiders; after a three-month McKinsey analysis the publisher was told to cut costs 25 percent, having lost 8,000 ad pages since the downturn.
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What You Don't Know Can Hurt You . . . In Fact, It Already Is (Press Release)
A BenBella Books press release announces Toxic Beauty, in which Samuel S. Epstein, MD and reporter Randall Fitzgerald argue that ingredients in everyday cosmetics and personal-care products carry avoidable health risks, and point readers toward safer alternatives.
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Book recommended : The End of Food
Paul Roberts argues industrialized food production has hit diminishing returns: high-volume systems breed new foodborne illness risks, yields of declining nutritional quality, a billion overweight alongside a billion who cannot get enough, and compromised soils and water systems.
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Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods
A book notice for Jeffrey Smith's Genetic Roulette, which lays out 65 claimed health risks of genetically engineered foods in two-page spreads and calls for an immediate ban, with endorsements from Michael Meacher, John Robbins and GMO researcher Arpad Pusztai.
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