w.a.t.e.r. Bibliography

Water and Water-based foods:

Your Bodies Many Cries for Water, Dr. Fereydoon Batamanghelidj, M.D. believes that a majority of our health problems is dehydration (a salt and water deficiency). When dehydration is corrected, many illnesses are improved or cured.

You On A Diet, Dr. Michael Roizen teaches how to determine your ideal waist size and why this is important. He has excellent examples of how to use food to help you lose waist and weight.

The China Study, Colin Campbell provides research about the benefits of a vegetarian diet.

Acceptance:

The Teaching of Buddha, (The Buddhist Bible)

The Essential DALAI LAMA, His Important Teachings, edited by Rajiv Mehrotra. This book brings together the Dalai Lama’s writings on all aspects of life, from work to meditation.

Thankfulness:

Present Moment Wonderful Moment, Mindfulness Verses for Daily Living, Thich Nhat Hanh gives us practical verses to help us accept and enjoy each moment of our lives.

The Miracle of Mindfulness, A Manual on Meditation. Thich Nhat Hanh gives us a “method of learning the skills of mindfulness-of being awake and fully aware”.

True Love, A Practice for Awakening the Heart, Thich Nhat Hanh tells us that “if you do not understand the person, you cannot love properly. Understanding is the essence of love”.

Exercise:

SPARK, The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain, John J. Ratey, MD “demonstrates exactly how and why physical activity is crucial to the way you think and feel”.

Change Your Brain, Change Your Life; The breakthrough program for conquering anxiety, depression, obsessiveness, anger and impulsiveness, Daniel Amen

Rest:

Public Library of Science, Dec. 6, 2004 Emmanuel Mignot, MD PhD. Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavior Science and colleagues at Stanford and the University of Wisconsin studied volunteers from the Wisconsin Sleep Cohort Study, a population-based longitudinal study of sleep disorders that began in 1989.

North American Association for the Study of Obesity, Nov. 17, 2004 Dr. Steven Heymsfield of Columbia University and St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in New York with James Gangisch, Columbia epidemiologist.