Invitation to Holistic Health: A Guide to Living a Balanced Life, Second Edition |  | Author: Charlotte Eliopoulos
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
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Edition: 2
Pages: 500
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 7 x 1
ISBN: 0763761125
Dewey Decimal Number: 613
EAN: 9780763761127
ASIN: 0763761125
Publication Date: March 30, 2009
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Invitation to Holistic Health: A Guide to Living a Balanced Life provides solid principles and proven measures to promote optimal health and well-being using a holistic approach. Divided into three parts: Strengthening Your Inner Resources, Developing Health Lifestyle Practices, and Taking Charge of Challenges to the Mind, Body, and Spirit, this easy-to-read guide it provides how-to information when dealing with a variety of health-related issues that includes, but is not limited to, nutrition, exercise, herbal remedies, and homeopathic remedies. The Second Edition as been completely revised and includes current research on the effectiveness and safety of herbs and other complementary and alternative medicine therapies. The chapter on Menopause has been updated to reflect current thinking about the safe use of estrogen replacement, soy products, and other approaches to manage symptoms and new suggested readings and resources have been provided for further exploration into topics.
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 Bought for a class...glad I have it. June 27, 2010
Lakotasue (Ypsi MI)
I bought this book as a requirement for a class, but I have found it to be very useful outside of a "school environment". Lots of information and resources. Worth buying if you are one who wishes to create a more holistic approach to your lifestyle.
 Nice basic introduction September 7, 2009
Susan C. Sturgess (Long Island NY)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
A lot of the material is common sense but it's nicely organized and fairly well written. Provides a concise and easy to understand introduction to Eastern wellness such as yin & yang philosophy.
An Invitation to Absurdity: April 4, 2010
Robert J. Cullen (Bridgeport, CT)
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
So, this book does offer many synonyms for that central figment of holistic [whatever that means] medicine / CAM, that physiology is controlled by a "life force."
You get: "every society had a term for the life force [...e.g.] pneuma [...] chi (qi) [...] life force [...] prana [...] ki [...] mana [...] bioenergy, biomagnetism, subtle energy [p.227...] chi (qi), or life force [p.228]."
I particularly like the claim:
"the basic premise underlying the science [!!!] of homeopathy is that the body's own healing process is activated to cure illness naturally [...] the remedies stimulate and increase the vital force (often referred to as the life force) [...] the vital force is the energy responsible for the health status of the body [...] homeopathy is based on the theory that illness emerges as a result of a disturbance of the body's vital force, causing an imbalance in the energy within a person [p.412]."
Well, vitalism is hugely outside of science.
So, I fully appreciate the absurdity: science = science-ejected.
-r.c.
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