Food for Life or Reiki Energy Medicine Bringing the Healing Touch into Home Hospital and Hospice

Food for Life: How the New Four Food Groups Can Save Your Life

Author: Neal D Barnard

Citing overwhelming medical evidence previously downplayed by powerful lobby groups, Dr. Barnard reveals why a diet based on the new four food groups (grains, legumes, vegetables, and fruits) will sharply decrease the risk of cancer and heart disease and dramatically increase life expectancy. He also unveils a 21-day program for a smooth transition to the new way of eating healthfully. Line drawings.

Library Journal

Vegetarianism is growing in this country, and the new food pyramid released by the Department of Agriculture has attracted media coverage. Barnard (medicine, George Washington Univ.) suggests his own food groups, which are grains, vegetables, fruits, and legumes. Dean Ornish ( Eat More, Weigh Less, LJ 6/1/93) provides an introduction, but Barnard goes further than Ornish in advocating a complete vegan diet. He also goes further than Gene Spiller's The Superpyramid Eating Program ( LJ 3/15/93) in his claims for the health benefits of such a diet. While Barnard discusses the reduced risk of heart disease, cancer, obesity, and the danger of free radicals, he also mentions the likely effects of diet on balding, hormones and sexual function, early puberty, and general aging. Extensive chapter notes back up most assertions, with a few supported anecdotally. The recipes, though quick and easy to prepare, offer complex and delicious flavors and textures. This is recommended for collections on popular health and nutrition.-- Carol Cubberley, Univ. of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg

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Reiki Energy Medicine: Bringing the Healing Touch into Home, Hospital, and Hospice

Author: Libby Barnett

Reiki is an ancient, hands-on healing art with origins in the Tibetan sutras. It has been used primarily by individuals in a daily practice that helps recharge, realign, and rebalance energy in the body. Today Reiki is joining other complementary therapies in the conventional settings of hospitals, hospices, counseling centers, emergency rooms, intensive care units. Nurses, physical therapists, surgeons, midwives, and anesthetists report that Reiki can help manage pain and promote healing. Counselors and caregivers treating those with terminal illness find that Reiki gives patients an increased physical, emotional, and psychological ability to cope. Reiki Energy Medicine explains the body's energy system, and describes how Reiki can be used in a variety of settings to balance energy and create the conditions needed for healing.

Reiki Energy Medicine is the first book to show how this ancient art of touch therapy can work within our mainstream health care system.

As our health-care system challenges institutions to offer high-quality but cost-effective service, Reiki can be an important tool that can help maximize patient care and minimize recovery time.

Reiki does not require complicated techniques or extensive training: practitioners of many disciplines are able to easily incorporate it into their specialties.

Massage Magazine

A significant contribution to the growing number of books that illustrate how complementary approaches to health and healing can be integrated with conventional medical treatment.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Preface: Our Origins
Foreword
Chapter 1 Universal Life Force: The Fundamental Principle of Health
Chapter 2 The Unique Power of Reiki
Chapter 3 Self-Reiki: Caring for the Caregiver
Chapter 4 A Progressive Approach to Wellness
Chapter 5 Visions for the Future: Reiki and the Partnership
Model of Care
Appendix I: Self-Reiki Treatment Series
Appendix II: Reiki Treatment on Others
The Reiki Healing Connection
Notes