Pennyworth Books

In this wacky book, Patch Adams joins forces with Jerry Van Amerongen to give the reader a practical guide in introducing laughter into the healing process. The book is divided into three sections. The first section is filled with thoughts on being well. Dr. Adams provides instruction on being healthy and then provides some action steps to assimilate faith, humor, curiosity, relaxation, passion, exercise, nutrition, friendship, service, and other positive values into your daily life. These guidelines are cleverly illustrated by Jerry Van Amerongen with one panel cartoons that bring home the message of the suggestion and motivate the reader to take action. Amerongen is the creator of the Ballard Street syndicated cartoon strip.

Section two follows the same format but offers suggestions on what the reader can do to make a visit in the hospital, to shut-ins, or someone in the community, beneficial and enjoyable for both parties. These steps…

I just finished reading this book “Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle” and would like to do an honest review about it. Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle has a big volume, it consists of 17 chapters and over 300 pages. I am not going to list the chapters here. If you want, you can view them by following the link at the end of this article. Despite its size, this book contains no “fluff” at all. In fact, all the chapters give you important information about losing weight and living a healthy lifestyle. I find the book very easy to read and motivating. After reading the book, you will feel that you’ve known your body much better and ready to embark on a healthy journey.

However, do keep in mind that this is not for people who are looking for a quick fixes or another diet program. In fact, it…

We trace the beginning of the rise of modern man – homo sapiens – back 150,000 years.

We were living in East Africa, and actually on the verge of extinction. Only 10,000 people left. Any Martians watching our progress would have given better odds to our Neanderthal cousins in Europe.

Yet we turned a corner. We made more progress in a few thousand years than we had for the previous three million. We left Africa and spread around the globe. The Neanderthals couldn’t stand up to us.

Our brains grew in size, especially our frontal cortex the seat of reasoning and planning. This gave us the ability an unprecedented ability to think, make tools and alter our environment.

You can debate and question the need and benefit of some of the ways we’ve altered our environment, but the fact is that no other species on this planet has the capacity to debate and question.

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Co-sleeping or the family bed as it is sometimes known is a maligned and misunderstood practice that is often secretly practiced by many new families desperate for a good night’s sleep. A recent survey in the UK found that 90% of new mothers admit to falling asleep with their baby in the beds…at least once. Three in a Bed: The Benefits of Sleeping with Your Baby by Deborah Jackson offers a thoughtful and thorough exploration of the facts and myths surrounding this practice that continues to be the norm in much of the world.

In addition to exploring the practice from historical and sociological points of view, she also looks at the most practical of issues, such as how safe is the practice, how to sustain a sex life and when the child is ready to leave your bed. Her chapter, Practically Speaking, offers excellent advice in a question and answer…

“Managing Depression with Qigong” by Frances Gaik is a very well researched book on the “what” and “why” of qigong, rather than on the “how.” Gaik describes what qigong is and offers many studies and examples of why qigong can be used to treat depression successfully. It also appears that Gaik looked for studies to reinforce the belief of qigong, and if you want “proof” that qigong works, this book sets out to prove it.

The book is fairly short, but definitely well researched. There are ten pages of sources listed in the back. Some of the book gets a bit technical with the “why” qigong works. There are various charts showing things such as the change of blood serotonin, changes in plasma endorphins, and EEG topographies to name a few.

The chapter that is an action plan seems a bit more like suggestions to incorporate qigong into your routine, but I…

Tom Venuto’s Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle is all you need to get the body you want.

Weighing in at a whopping 340 pages, Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle would be a fat boy if each page was a pound. Or would it? It’s quite the opposite. There is not a single picture, and the only thing in the book other than text is tables detailing nutritional information. There is no filler, just straight knowledge and instruction.

If you want pictures, go to the grocery store and browse through a muscle mag. If you want to read something that will help you gain that body others will hate to love you for, six words… Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle. Don’t worry about needing pictures to use a guide to do the exercises properly. Tom Venuto gives a personal reference of a book that will show you any and every…

In Kevin Trudeau’s best selling book Natural Cures “They” Don’t Want You To Know About, he takes an in depth look into the big pharmaceutical companies that do not want the public to get healthy, the Federal Drug Administration, the cause of sickness, and natural yet simple cures.

In the first chapters of the book Mr. Trudeau takes a look at who “they” are. As it turns out “they” are the major drug companies that are in bed the the FDA. He goes into great detail about why the major drug companies have a vested interest in the public not getting healthy. After reading these chapters you’ll accept as common sense that these big businesses are not looking out for our best interest and actually make lots of money off of the public’s suffering.

In the next chapters the book takes a turn to look at the reasons why we get sick.…