Walking or The Tao of Healing

Walking: A Complete Guide to the Complete Exercise

Author: Casey Meyers

“A GIANT STEP FOR IMPROVING THE HEALTH OF MANKIND.”
–Kenneth H. Cooper, M.D., M.P.H.

It’s true: walking, the primary gait we use every day, is actually the safest, least expensive, and overall most beneficial way to lose weight and improve cardiovascular health.

Casey Meyers was diagnosed in 1995 at high risk for stroke or heart attack, and he has been out daily walking for his life–literally. Meyers (a fit and active 79) has conducted hundreds of walking clinics nationwide. In this revised and updated classic, he shows you how to achieve a healthier, happier life through exercise-walking. He tells you exactly what you need to know, including:

Benefits: weight loss, weight maintenance, losing fat, gaining muscle
Walking guidelines: how often, how far, how fast?
Pacing yourself: the stroll, brisk walking, and aerobic walking
Warm-ups: targeted stretches, posture, rhythm, and stride length
Gear: shoes, socks, and athletic dress for all types of weather
Safety: best times and places for secure exercise-walking
Lifestyle: eating smart, yoga, meditation
Questions and answers: the twelve biggest concerns of exercise-walkers

Walking is unrivaled in depth and breadth, truly comprehensive and invaluable for exercise-walkers at every level of fitness.

“Easy to follow and practical for people from eight to eighty.”
–Publishers Weekly

Publishers Weekly

Meyers ( Aerobic Walking ) is a man with a mission. He knows that walking is often viewed as the stepchild of aerobic exercise, suitable only for the out-of-shape. And he wants to correct that misconception: in his latest book, he argues that walkers can achieve out of context, `produce' a clumsy verb ``the cardiovascular fitness level and caloric expenditure of a runner without the injuries.''44 Meyers also believes that perambulation has a ``potential cross-training effect'' for people devoted to other sports--skiing, cycling, running, tennis.15 To demonstrate why walking for fitness works, he explains the biomechanics of the evolution of the human gait, with a nod to Lucy, our famous three-million-year-old female forebear.18 He recognizes that a lifetime fitness see below program108 must be sounds like Marxist jargon? simple enough for casual exercisers and yet challenging enough to maintain their interest. His walking program increases aerobic conditioning using intensity (how fast), frequency (how often), and duration (how far).60 In chatty prose, he extols the virtues of gradually increasing one's pace from strolling to brisk walking, with the goal being a 12-minute mile. He also dispenses advice on everything from stretching62 and diet216 to road safety 184 and how to choose a shoe174 . His design for fitness may not be glamorous, but it is inexpensive, easy to follow and practical for people from eight to 80. Author tour. (Apr.)

Library Journal

In his second book on walking, Meyers ( Aerobic Walking , Random, 1987) goes beyond ``how to'' and argues for walking's absolute supremacy as a method of weight loss and cardiovascular fitness. He backs up his assertions with scientific evidence, though he admits this evidence often runs counter to much of current thought. His arguments would be more easily acceptable if he did not harp on his feeling that the rest of the world gives walking short shrift (runners, he says, hold walkers in ``contempt''), and if he did not see fit to chop down other forms of exercise in order to elevate his own. Still, his book will stimulate some to give walking a try, and Meyers offers sound technical advice. Recommended with reservations for larger exercise collections.--Jim Burns, Broward Cty. Lib. System, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

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The Tao of Healing: Meditations for Body and Spirit

Author: Haven Trevino

Haven Trevino, a lifelong student of Taoism, was in the final stages of Lou Gehrig's disease when he wrote this book. His modern adaptation of the Tao Te Ching captures the power, depth, and simplicity of the ancient work, which lends itself beautifully to the subject of healing. These meditations offer insight, humor, and hope to both healers and those in need of healing.

Safe Liposuction and Fat Transfer or Skinny Mexican Cooking

Safe Liposuction and Fat Transfer, Vol. 24

Author: Rhoda S Narins

This text covers tumescent liposuction and fat transfer techniques and how they have developed into extremely safe, reliable, and efficacious procedures. Thirty-five respected surgeons discuss the safety of tumescent liposuction techniques, an anatomical approach to tumescent liposuction surgery, and the latest and greatest surgical tips from the experts.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Jane S. Weston, MD (Atherton Plastic Surgery Center)
Description: This book on liposuction is edited by Rhoda Narins, MD, and written by a group of contributors that reads like the Who's Who of dermatologic liposuction. Chapters cover a wide variety of topics addressing practical and clinical concerns.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide inexperienced as well as experienced liposuction surgeons with the information necessary to assure safe and effective liposuction and fat transfer. The book also serves to defend the tumescent technique of liposuction, as performed primarily by dermatologic surgeons, as the safest technique available. The goal of promoting safety in liposuction is a worthwhile one. However, the scope of this book. combined with the wide array of authors, diffuses the focus. The early chapters address issues of interest to neophyte surgeons but most of the clinical chapters assume a familiarity with the technique that few novices possess. The thought of a novice reading this book and practicing liposuction without supplemental training gives little assurance of safety.
Audience: This book is intended for dermatologists. Residents in training and practitioners new to liposuction may benefit from the chapters discussing the basics of setting up a surgical suite, photographing patients, computer imaging, and obtaining informed consent. Dr. Narins' surgical results are impressive and establish her as a credible authority in the field.
Features: The editor has chosen her contributors well. The book includes several "classic" writings including, "The Weekend Facelift" by Drs. Cook, syringe lipoplasty by Pierre Fournier, MD, and structural lipoaugmentation by Sydney Coleman, MD. As with most multiauthored books, some chapters are more helpful than others. Detailed descriptions of the tumescent technique are offered in several chapters. Risks are addressed and specific hints for each anatomic site are detailed. The book includes up-to-date discussions of newer technologies such as ultrasonic liposuction and power-assisted liposuction.
Assessment: As an experienced liposuction surgeon, I found the book lacking in depth, addressing many topics superficially. Dr. Narins might have fared better had she written two books, each addressing one of her two intended audiences. Nonetheless, I think this book would be a helpful addition to a medical library, offering "one stop shopping" for a lot of basic liposuction and fat grafting information.

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

Table of Contents:

	Series Introduction
	Foreword
	Preface
	Contributors
1	History and Development of Tumescent Liposuction	1
2	Initiating the Practice of Liposuction	9
3	The Surgical Suite for the Liposuction Surgeon	19
4	Tumescent Anesthesia	29
5	Liposuction: Consultation and Preoperative Considerations	41
6	Computer Imaging	69
7	Photography for Liposuction Surgery	79
8	Abdomen, Hourglass Abdomen, Flanks, and Modified Abdominoplasty	95
9	Violin: Hips, Outer Thighs, and Buttocks	121
10	Liposuction of the Medial Thigh, Knee, Calf, and Ankle	149
11	Liposuction of the Arms and Back	183
12	Surgical Approaches to the Aging Neck	197
13	Gynecomastia - Dynamic Technique	215
14	Weekend Alternative to the Face Lift	235
15	Ultrasonic Liposuction	269
16	New Techniques: Powered Liposuction	275
17	Assessing the Results and Liposuction Tips	287
18	Megaliposculpture and Therapeutic Megaliposculpture	307
19	Immediate and Long-Term Postoperative Care and Touch-Ups	329
20	Liposuction Complications	343
21	Safety of Liposuction	353
22	Managing Adverse Events: A Medicolegal Perspective	363
23	Handling the Dissatisfied or Difficult Patient	375
24	Fat Transfer Microliposuction and Liposuction for Advanced Repair of Liposuction Defects	393
25	Liposhifting Instead of Lipofilling: Treatment of Postliposuction Irregularities	399
26	Structural Lipoaugmentation	409
27	Syringe Fat Grafting	425
28	Syringe Techniques Used to Obtain Autolipocollagen	455
29	Periorbital Lipoaugmentation	463
30	Reduction Syringe Liposculpting	483
31	Facial Volume Restoration with the Fat Autograft Muscle Injection Technique: Preliminary Experience with a New Technique	511
32	Fat Viability Studies	527
33	Anticellulite Creams, Endermology and Other Nonsurgical Methods for Treating Excess Adipose Tissue	545
34	Nutrition and the Liposuction Patient	555
	Index	569

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Skinny Mexican Cooking: Over 100 Low-Fat, Easy, Delicious Recipes from Nachos and Tamales to Chicken Mole, Snapper Vera Cruz and Caramel Flan

Author: Sue Spitler

Mexican food is America's number-one ethnic culinary choice. Now you'll be delighted to find that all of your old favorites--tamales, nachos, enchiladas, burritos, and chili (to name a few) taste just as wonderful stripped of excessive fat, calories, and sodium. Good taste and good health are synonymous in these 100-plus quick, easy-to-make, economical recipes that run the gamut from family meals to party snacks.