Better Bones Better Body or Desperately Seeking Self

Better Bones, Better Body: Beyond Estrogen and Calcium

Author: Susan Brown

Challenging traditional assumptions that estrogen and calcium deficiencies are the only causes of osteoporosis, this book explores the disorder from a wider perspective that includes lifestyle and exercise. This newly revised second edition features a personal osteoporosis risk assessment questionnaire and a step-by-step program for strengthening bones and improving overall health and well-being.

Susan E. Brown, Ph.D., a medical anthropologist and certified nutritionist, directs the Osteoporosis Education Project/Nutrition Education Consulting Services.

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Desperately Seeking Self: A Guidebook for People with Eating Problems

Author: Viola Fodor

For people concerned with eating disorders and the psychotherapists who treat them. This is a gift book that can be given to anyone troubled by foodand weight issues, family and loved ones, and therapists.

Using an unique approach—a dialogue between a client and therapist—this book offers a spiritual dimension to healing from eating disorders. Presented in an appealing gift book format, the intimate dialogue will help readers open their hearts and minds to explore the nature of the inner self and the importance of self-love.

The client, a woman with bulimia, is a composite character based on patients Ms. Fodor has helped during her fifteen years as a psychotherapist. Their conversation, in a question and answer format, touches on the most basic human questions and truths, such as: Why do I have this illness? Who am I to think that I deserve more? How does life become different when we awaken to this deeper level? Is anxiety a natural state? What exactly is a transformation?