A useful health companion that focuses on hypertension.
A debut primer to tackling high blood pressure within one month covers everything from nutrition to spirituality.
This work is a joint undertaking by DeRose, Steinke (both physicians with Master of Public Health degrees), and nurse practitioner Li. The authors have made the slightly unusual choice to speak through a single first-person voice, thereby amalgamating their many years of experience. High blood pressure is known as a “silent killer,” they remark, earning comparatively little media attention even though it “wreaks far more havoc worldwide than do all natural disasters combined.” For instance, it can have devastating effects on eye and kidney health and puts sufferers at increased risk of heart disease. The “NO PRESSURE” mnemonic offers 10 straightforward strategies for tackling hypertension; even small changes made in a few of the areas over the book’s one-month time scale can make a big difference, the authors insist. They emphasize the importance of developing a realistic plan and getting help from an accountability partner. The worksheets at the end of each chapter allow readers to set individualized goals. The book also gives pithy, anonymized case studies of patients with whom the authors have worked, which provide helpful models. Lucid layperson’s explanations and frequent figures, such as a diagram displaying heart anatomy and a chart showing good sources of magnesium, serve to both break up and illustrate the text. The book’s core chapters reflect a dedication to holistic approaches to health, with social connectedness, stress management, and spirituality getting as much attention as diet, exercise, and sleep. Surprisingly, a whole chapter is devoted to beverages (choosing water over alcohol, caffeine, and soft drinks). Were it not for the mnemonic, this could surely just be a subsection in the nutrition chapter. The one slight misstep is in the chapter on spirituality, in which the authors draw well-being messages from the Beatitudes in the New Testament. Generic messages about humility and forgiveness are applicable, but it seems inappropriate to use one faith’s tenets as a framework. In general, though, the guide delivers plenty of good advice and intriguing facts, clearly conveyed. Did you know the vegan diet was naturally cholesterol-free? Now you do.
A useful health companion that focuses on hypertension.Pub Date: Sept. 27, 2016
ISBN: 978-1-942730-02-6
Page Count: 440
Publisher: CompassHealth Consulting
Review Posted Online: Feb. 9, 2017
Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 15, 2017
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
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An extravaganza in Bemelmans' inimitable vein, but written almost dead pan, with sly, amusing, sometimes biting undertones, breaking through. For Bemelmans was "the man who came to cocktails". And his hostess was Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolfe), arbiter of American decorating taste over a generation. Lady Mendl was an incredible person,- self-made in proper American tradition on the one hand, for she had been haunted by the poverty of her childhood, and the years of struggle up from its ugliness,- until she became synonymous with the exotic, exquisite, worshipper at beauty's whrine. Bemelmans draws a portrait in extremes, through apt descriptions, through hilarious anecdote, through surprisingly sympathetic and understanding bits of appreciation. The scene shifts from Hollywood to the home she loved the best in Versailles. One meets in passing a vast roster of famous figures of the international and artistic set. And always one feels Bemelmans, slightly offstage, observing, recording, commenting, illustrated.
Pub Date: Feb. 23, 1955
ISBN: 0670717797
Page Count: -
Publisher: Viking
Review Posted Online: Oct. 25, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1955
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