This Book Could Save Your Life: The Science of Living Longer Better

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He gives away new cars, pays for his maid's hip replacement, sends the weary housewife to a spa. "This is the person he wants to be," Homes writes. "He wants to be able to do this for others, strangers, it doesn't matter who, and he wants to be able to do it for himself." His Good Samaritan impulse also inspires a series of impromptu rescue operations: A horse is trapped in a sinkhole, a hostage is trapped in a trunk, a woman is trapped in a bad marriage. These episodes are mildly amusing (for 15 minutes, he's a national celebrity, a punch line on Letterman), but because Richard is so imperturbable and his success so firmly guaranteed, the scenes never develop any real suspense. There are some very serious themes here. How does this man (Richard) who’s made a fortune playing the financials – in what is a fairly sensible, structured, disciplined world – become a guy who decides to take on a woman, as a friend, who he meets in a local supermarket sobbing like a baby because of her miserable life. Richard’s new friendship with the owner of a donut shop is equally as unlikely. If you have any ideas about the ending and what was going on there, I'd love to hear from you. I am so over the ambiguous ending, especially in a book that's not really good enough on its own for me to care. But I do want to know what happened to the dog.

The first book was far better at conveying the ambiguous and uncertain nature of science. Its whole appeal was in shying away from the false promises often made by popular health writers. While this book is based on a similar premise, unfortunately it is often unclear when the author is drawing on personal anecdote, summarising the science, or indeed just rehashing something written elsewhere.Despite many laugh out loud moments, the serious undertones in this novel are unmistakeable. Richard, in mending his relationship with his teenage son, “feels the full weight of the years he missed, the gap between how he is and how he wishes he could be…” Homes expertly reveals our common vulnerabilities, unashamedly and candidly puts emotion under the microscope. So, Richard embarks on this crazy, sometimes too surreal to be true, but maybe it can be, sort of journey. And he becomes The Good Samaritan, The Good Neighbor, The Anonymous Benefactor. He’s the kind of guy I would hope to be if money were never an issue. I loved this book. I loved every single character in this book. From Anhil, the existentialist donut man, to the overworked ex-wife (she who shall not be named, I guess), to misguided, sweet Ben, to the misunderstood, sweet Nic, to Cynthia---who I can so relate to---but most of all, I love Richard. Jest napisana konkretnie, rzeczowo bez wydumanych porad, które nijak mają odzwierciedlenie w naszej rzeczywistości.

Nedá mi nepochváliť aj autorov štýl písania. Bolo to pútavé a zrozumiteľné. Uznávam, že veľakrát nešiel úplne do hĺbky, ale vždy sa čo najlepšie snažil opísať všetky procesy, ktoré s danou problematikou súviseli tak, aby to čitateľa neunudilo a zároveň tomu pochopil. A pre hotentotov (ako som napríklad aj ja) nechýbalo na konci kapitoly vždy jedno-dvojvetové zhrnutie. This book will help you to evaluate the potential benefits and harms of various therapies, whether they are part of western medicine or a traditional or complementary practice. When making smart health choices, you should bear in mind what we don’t know as well as what we do know about the pros and cons associated with use. Sadly this book goes nowhere. At all. Things happen. There are even plot resolutions. But they're so artfully hidden, so well-buried under that pile of prose that you only realise that something has happened hours later. And that robs the book of any closure. I've had a few weeks to think about it and figure out the story. And I still feel like someone tore out the last chapter of the copy I read. It's just left me with unresolved frustated feelings for the book. Which is ironic, given the subject matter.In the final thoughts passage, I believe Ben perfectly summarised this book’s impact for me ‘I hope you I liked it and it kept my interest for a good while, but only because I could almost never imagine what was coming next, certainly not because what came next was in any way organic or a necessary outcome of anything previous. The book seemed to become more frenetic and random as it neared the end, and I got a little impatient with it--I had realized by then that nothing was going to be wrapped up, we'd just keep lurching from event to event--by the time we came to the SOS from the car trunk, I was pretty much done. Suffering is normal. Pain is normal, it is part of life. So why are we here? Why are we afraid of suffering? Why do we try and avoid suffering? We do we think it is wrong to suffer? We medicate, we medicate we are desperate not to suffer” W swojej książe przedstawia podejście holistyczne, które traktuje człowieka jako integralną całość, gdzie zdrowie fizyczne, jak i kondycja oraz samopoczucie psychiczne są ze sobą ściśle powiązane.

Nemôžem nič len odporúčať. Prosím prečítajte si ju. Všetci. Povinne. Sľubujem, že vám dá omnoho viac ako vám vezme :) This is a great Los Angeles novel and really gives you a beautiful sense of the city - from the Hills, to Malibu, to the highway culture and the natural disasters always looming in LA (mountain lions, floods, earthquakes). Although many cases of harm result from human and/or system errors, there are many other ways in which harm can be done. Sometimes, bad things simply happen by chance and are unavoidable. In other cases, they are caused by the well-meaning, but ill-informed, use of treatments and tests that do more harm than good. In addition to this, there are tens of thousands of people who, although not being harmed by their care, are not receiving the best possible treatment for their situation. Studies in many countries have shown that the way the same condition is treated can vary dramatically, depending on where the patient lives or on which type of doctor or health practitioner they see. Much remains unknown about how best to prevent or treat many common conditions; however, there is widespread evidence that the information that is already available is often not put to best use. 6 Middle-aged Richard Novak experiences diffuse intense pain and ends up in an Emergency Department, he also has a massive sinkhole growing next to his well-to-do home in LA.How can you minimise the risks of getting diabetes, cancer or Alzheimer's? And how can you slow the ageing process? For every time I started to think this book was just lightly entertaining there would come a scene so real and brutal it would hurt a bit. Broken child-parent relationships. Exes whose scent still lingers. Women sobbing in the produce section of a supermarket.

IQто и пишеш глупости, как можеш да си го увеличиш - най-вероятно не можеш. Но то и не ти трябва.. генерични справочниците като този са много полезни. In addition she has been active on the Boards of Directors of Yaddo, The Fine Arts Work Center In Provincetown, The Writers Room, and PEN-where she chairs both the membership committee and the Writers Fund. Additionally she serves on the Presidents Council for Poets and Writers.From stress to saturated fats, HIIT to HRT, veganism to vitamins, This Book Could Save Your Life debunks the fads and explores the real science of better health. Yet, through all this you see him struggle with himself. His fear of dying, of not being a better son, brother, husband, father. This is what makes me just want to be in his presence, like maybe I’d catch some of what he is. I’d be tempted to use the word ‘aura’ but it might just be the Californian influence within the book, This is what made me hate to see the book end. zambra, “okumamak”ta a.m.homes’dan çok bahsediyor. bu kitap benim okumamak sonrası alışveriş listemdendi. ama yanlış kitapla mı başladım bilmiyorum. zaten irem (merixien) de yazmıştı yorumunda. beni de sarmadı. But the whole question of how the individual should respond to the wider social impact of a drug is a complex one. My consumption of the odd glass of wine with my dinner is quite irrelevant to the wider social problems of domestic violence, drunken driving, and so on, though it is highly relevant to its harm to my health.