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The Intuitive Eating Guide to Recovery: Let Go of Toxic Diet Culture, Reconnect with Food, and Build Self-Love
by Meme Inge MS, RDNEmbrace intuitive eating to heal your relationship with food and your body Intuitive eating means trusting your body to tell you what, when, and how much to eat—instead of sticking to restrictive diets. The Intuitive Eating Guide to Recovery gives you the tools to practice intuitive eating effectively and reframe the way you think about food and body image. You'll learn to listen to your own hunger and fullness signals, and respect that all foods provide nourishment for your body, mind, and spirit. The Intuitive Eating Guide to Recovery helps you: Rediscover self-love—Explore the 10 principles of intuitive eating, and embrace helpful strategies to navigate a diet-obsessed world. The complete guide—This book is both a companion for recovery and a resource of practical advice for turning intuitive eating into a lifestyle. A healthier frame of mind—Learn to eat in a way that makes you feel nurtured and satisfied, and stop tying your health and happiness to what your body looks like. Find the guidance you need to disengage from diet culture and start truly nourishing your body.
The Intuitive Eating Plan: A Body-Positive Approach to Rebuilding Your Relationship with Food
by Kirsten AckermanA gentle, comforting, body-positive approach to foodIt's time to explore and build new, positive relationships with food, moving away from restriction, deprivation, and obsession with body image. The Intuitive Eating Plan provides you with the information and steps necessary to heal your relationship with food and accept your body's beautiful intuition.You will be introduced to intuitive eating concepts that challenge what you previously believed about food, health, and wellness. Learn about the misconceptions of dieting, the mechanics and physiology behind hunger and satisfaction, how to address emotional eating, and how to make informed choices. Waiting for you on the other side is not only a healed relationship with food but also an intuitive eating bond that will impact every area of your life.The Intuitive Eating Plan includes:A healing reality—No matter what results you have attempted to achieve, come to terms with the fact that natural body diversity exists.Interactive approach—Explore questions about your beliefs on things like food and stress levels, and document your progress with questions and journal prompts.SMART goals—Use the proven SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-Based) method to effectively set attainable goals.Learn the principles of intuitive eating and reject the common diet mentality.
The Intuitive Eating Workbook: Principles for Nourishing a Healthy Relationship with Food
by Evelyn Tribole Elyse ReschThe Intuitive Eating Workbook offers a comprehensive, evidence-based program to help you develop a healthy relationship with food, pay attention to cues of hunger and satisfaction, and cultivate a profound connection with your mind and body. The Intuitive Eating Workbook offers a new way of looking at food and mealtime by showing you how to recognize your body's natural hunger signals. Structured around the 10 principles of intuitive eating, the mindful approach in this workbook encourages you to abandon unhealthy weight control behaviors, develop positive body image, and - most importantly - stop feeling distressed around food! You were born with all the wisdom you need for eating intuitively. This book will help you reconnect with that wisdom and ultimately change your life - one meal at a time.
Intuitive Fasting: The New York Times Bestseller
by Dr Will Cole'Intuitive Fasting is Will's clear four-week program designed to set you up to feel your best for all the other weeks to come... It's full of what he's learned about reducing inflammation, restoring balance, recharging metabolism, and resetting gut health.' GWYNETH PALTROW, founder and CEO of goopFor some, the idea of fasting by eating only one or two meals a day still sounds like an extreme and overly restrictive dieting tactic. But many of us already feel like victims of our daily eating schedule: three meals a day, plus snacks. The truth is: this is an artificially constructed schedule that does not reflect our bodies' natural cycles. In fact, eating three meals every day can cause metabolic inflexibility, which can easily lead to inflammation, weight gain, fatigue and chronic health problems. For millions of years, our bodies have functioned best with periodic times of fasting. With his fresh approach to fasting, New York Times bestselling author and functional medicine expert Dr Will Cole gives you the ability to take control of your hunger and make intermittent fasting intuitive. You'll get in touch with your instinctive eating patterns and become healthier and more mindful about how and when you eat. Intuitive Fasting will show you how to find metabolic flexibility - and once you've reached it, you can trust your body to function at optimal capacity, whether you've eaten six minutes or six hours ago. During his 4-Week Flexible Fasting Plan, Dr Cole will guide you through varying intermittent fasting windows, with each week of the plan tailored to focus on a different aspect of your health. He demonstrates the most effective ways to fast and eat to amplify the health benefits of intermittent fasting, balancing rest and repair with nutrient dense, delicious foods. By the end of the four weeks, you will have all the tools necessary to:- Reset your body- Recharge your metabolism- Renew your cells- Rebalance your hormonesAlong with more than 65 recipes, you'll find a maintenance plan, so you can adapt fasting and feeding windows to work sustainably with your lifestyle.'If you're looking for a way to recalibrate your body's hunger signals, rebalance your cravings, and comfortably and safely learn how to fast, Intuitive Fasting is a must-read.' ELLE MACPHERSON
Intuitive Fasting: The New York Times Bestseller
by Dr Will ColeFind out how to use the powerful benefits of flexible intermittent fasting to gain metabolic flexibility and find food peace.For some, the idea of fasting by eating only one or two meals a day still sounds like an extreme and overly restrictive dieting tactic. But many of us already feel like victims to our daily eating schedule: three meals a day, plus snacks. Eat every few hours, we are told by the experts. This fixed eating schedule has become the norm. But the truth is this is an artificially constructed schedule that does not reflect our bodies natural and most optimal eating schedule. In fact, eating three meals a day causes metabolic inflexibility, which can easily lead to inflammation, weight gain, and disease.For millions of years, our bodies have actually functioned best by fasting. With his new approach to fasting, bestselling author and functional medicine expert Dr Will Cole gives us the ability to take control of our hunger and makes intermittent fasting intuitive. You'll get in touch with your instinctive eating patterns and become healthier and more mindful about how and when you eat. Intermittent fasting fosters metabolic flexibility and once you've reached metabolic flexibility, you can trust your body to function at optimal capacity, whether you've eaten six minutes ago or six hours ago.With his four-week fasting flexibility plan, Dr Cole will help you reset your body, recharge your metabolism, renew your cells and rebalance your hormones. He'll illustrate the most effective ways to fast and eat to amplify the health benefits of intermittent fasting, balancing rest and repair with clean, nutrient-dense, delicious foods. Along with sixty-five recipes, he also includes a maintenance plan, so you can adapt fasting and feeding windows to work with your lifestyle.'If you're looking for a way to recalibrate your body's hunger signals, rebalance your cravings, and comfortably and safely learn how to fast, Intuitive Fasting is a must-read. Dr Will Cole makes intermittent fasting accessible for everyone, encouraging vibrant health and wellness.' - Elle Macpherson (P) 2021 Penguin Audio
Intuitive Fasting: The Flexible Four-Week Intermittent Fasting Plan to Recharge Your Metabolism and Renew Your Health (Goop Press)
by Dr. Will ColeThe most effective and achievable guide to intermittent fasting, outlining a unique plan that merges the science behind fasting with a holistic approach to eating, from the bestselling author of Ketotarian and The Inflammation Spectrum. &“Intuitive Fasting is Will&’s clear four-week program designed to set you up to feel your best for all the other weeks to come. . . . It&’s full of what he&’s learned about reducing inflammation, restoring balance, recharging metabolism, and resetting gut health.&”—Gwyneth Paltrow, from the forewordFor some, the idea of fasting by eating only one or two meals a day still sounds like an extreme and overly restrictive dieting tactic. But many of us already feel like victims to our daily eating schedule: three meals a day, plus snacks. Eat every few hours, we are told by the experts. This fixed eating schedule has become the norm. The truth is, this is an artificially constructed schedule that does not reflect our bodies&’ natural eating schedule. In fact, eating three meals every day can cause metabolic inflexibility, which can easily lead to inflammation, weight gain, fatigue, and chronic health problems. For millions of years, our bodies have actually functioned best with periodic times of fasting. With his fresh new approach to fasting, bestselling author and functional medicine expert Dr. Will Cole gives us the ability to take control of our hunger, making intermittent fasting intuitive. You&’ll get in touch with your instinctive eating patterns and become healthier and more mindful about how and when you eat. When your body is out of balance, it can be very difficult to discern what it needs to build vibrant wellness. Intuitive Fasting will show you how to find metabolic flexibility—and once you&’ve reached metabolic flexibility, you can intuitively trust your body to function at optimal capacity, whether you&’ve eaten six minutes ago or six hours ago. With his 4-Week Flexible Fasting Plan, Dr. Cole will guide you through varying intermittent fasting windows, with each week of the plan tailored to focus on a different aspect of your health. He illustrates the most effective ways to fast and eat to amplify the health benefits of intermittent fasting, balancing rest and repair with clean, nutrient-dense, delicious foods. By the end of the four weeks, you will have all the tools necessary to Reset your body, Recharge your metabolism, Renew your cells, and Rebalance your hormones. Along with more than sixty-five recipes, you&’ll also find a maintenance plan, so you can adapt fasting and feeding windows to work sustainably with your lifestyle.
The Intuitive Healer: Accessing Your Inner Physician
by Marcia EmeryThe doctor is within.Do you believe that you are doing everything you can to help yourself heal? Do you listen to your body, heeding its messages on health-- or disease? So you honor your hunches when something just doesn't feel right? Would you like to learn how?In The Intuitive Healer, renowned intuition expert, Dr. Marcia Emery shows readers how to unlock their inner powers of health and healing by harnessing the wisdom of their intuition. Learn how to:* Discover the deeper meaning of any ailment* Know what steps to take to address the causes of disease and begin the process of healing* "Tune in" to any ailing body part to help healing take place* Hear the intuitive healer speak through dreamsThrough inspirational anecdotes and step-by-step exercises, Dr. Emery will show you how to call on your own "inner physician" for a dose of prevention or a cure for what ails you. The Intuitive Healer will empower you to take your health into your own hands, placing you on the road to lasting wellness.
Intuitive Intelligence: Make Life-Changing Decisions With Perfect Timing
by Paul O'BrienPaul O&’Brien, founder of Tarot.Com, shares how readers can tap into their creative power, leverage synchronicities, and cultivate their sixth sense. Through a combination of effective decisions and strategic timing, readers can align with their greatest dreams.What happens when a vision of creative freedom, courageous risk-taking and good timing come together? What if you focused on what fascinates you, then mastered some skills, including a level of intuitive decision-making that helps you make the right moves at the right time? The answer is a life filled with success on your own terms. In this unique book about self-discovery and manifesting your true destiny, author Paul O'Brien distills a lifetime of business and personal adventures into an eloquently articulated process for making the best strategic decisions with an ever-improving sense of timing. His true stories of lessons learned will intrigue and delight the reader, while the presentation of skills required to make great decisions with perfect timing captivate and motivate. The author's elegant Visionary Decision Making process and philosophy clearly define the essential skills of accessing intuition when you need it most. The book shows readers how to take charge of their life and fearlessly take the risks that will that help them realize their goals and dreams to fearlessly take those risks that will grow them as a person. Intuitive Intelligence is the 2020 Silver winner of the Coalition of Visionary Resources (COVR) Visionary Awards. In Intuitive Intelligence, you will learn how to: - Discover what truly fascinates you and let that motivate you. Understand what turns on your creative imagination and innate desire to be of service. - Fine-tune your intuitive sense, so that you can hear its quiet voice even in the midst of chaos. - Leverage synchronicities meaningful coincidences to receive direction from the realm of Infinite Intelligence, outside the box of linear thinking. - Channel archetypes of power to, call forth your inner Hero, the Sovereign, Warrior, Magician, and Lover, and put them to work for you! - Develop intuition rituals. Learn how to use guided meditations and the I Ching (Book of Changes) as aids for cultivating and activating Intuitive Intelligence when you need it most. - Adopt visionary beliefs. Take ownership and upgrade your operating assumptions. - Execute decisions with exquisite timing, trusting in the process and yourself. Like compound interest, the more you trust intuition the easier it becomes to notice and interpret its subtle signals. - Develop perfect timing and cultivate a Synchronistic Lifestyle characterized by inspiration, joy, wisdom, and grace.
Intuitive Living: A 6-week guide to self-love, intuitive eating and reclaiming your mind-body connection
by Pandora PalomaIt's time to throw away the diet book and start living intuitively. In our increasingly busy world, how to be healthy has become more and more confusing and our relationship with food is ever-changing and often complex. We're bombarded with so many messages that it's causing a disconnect between us and what true health really is: a connection to our body's innate wisdom. In other words, our intuition.This six-week guide introduces the concept that by using our intuition, we can become experts on ourselves and, in turn, learn how to best navigate our own health and happiness. Each week is broken down into steps, giving you the tools and techniques to make the right food and health choices for you. Through celebrating food, encouraging kindness and embracing a positive body image, Holistic Nutritionist and Life Coach, Pandora Paloma takes you on a journey to reconnect with your body and transform your life.
Intuitive Living: A 6-week guide to self-love, intuitive eating and reclaiming your mind-body connection
by Pandora PalomaIt's time to throw away the diet book and start living intuitively. In our increasingly busy world, how to be healthy has become more and more confusing and our relationship with food is ever-changing and often complex. We're bombarded with so many messages that it's causing a disconnect between us and what true health really is: a connection to our body's innate wisdom. In other words, our intuition.This six-week guide introduces the concept that by using our intuition, we can become experts on ourselves and, in turn, learn how to best navigate our own health and happiness. Each week is broken down into steps, giving you the tools and techniques to make the right food and health choices for you. Through celebrating food, encouraging kindness and embracing a positive body image, Holistic Nutritionist and Life Coach, Pandora Paloma takes you on a journey to reconnect with your body and transform your life.
Intuitive Living: A Sacred Path
by Alan SealeThis modern guidebook to spiritual growth starts with the awakening of self-awareness; awareness of our bodies, our feelings, our thoughts and the energy that flows through every cell of our being. It leads us to the inner states of freedom and peace,seen not as the absence of conflict, but rather a response based on a deeply rooted knowledge that no matter what is happening around you, nothing can harm you at your center. Seale works with the tool of meditation and shows how we can open to the language of love and Spirit. Includes 45 exercises and meditations which speak to us in profoundly different ways at each stage of spiritual growth and can therefore be of great value both now and as our practice deepens. Glossary. Bibliography. Index.
Intuitive Manifesting: Align with Your Inner Wisdom and Attract Your Dream Life
by Brigit EsselmontCreate your dream future by tapping into your deepest intuition and manifesting your goals, all with the help of Brigit Esselmont, world-renowned founder of Biddy Tarot and author of Everyday Tarot. Have you ever wanted to manifest your wildest dreams, but weren't sure where to begin? The answer lies in Intuitive Manifesting, a practical, inspirational guide to tapping into your most powerful tool in attracting your brightest future—your own intuition! By learning how to tap into this limitless resource, you will supercharge your manifestation powers, create soul-aligned goals, and build a toolkit of resources to achieve what you want. Author and founder of the leading online tarot resource Biddy Tarot, Brigit Esselmont, guides you on a path of discovering your manifesting superpowers, as you learn what manifestation truly means (it's more than just putting pictures on a vision board!) Her four step process will teach you to: Picture Your Perfect Future Elevate Your Energy Vibration Break Free from Limiting Beliefs Supercharge Your Results This clear path will be paved with key questions, journal prompts, visualization exercise, and more to help you achieve the most powerful manifestations you can imagine. Throughout, you'll discover how to use tarot cards as a secret weapon to connect with your intuition and guide your manifestations.
Intuitive Studies: A Complete Course in Mediumship
by Gordon SmithDuring the many years he spent delivering messages of hope and love from the spirit world, Gordon Smith has observed how many people long to learn how to be more intuitive themselves, and would love to be able to connect to the other side in the same way he does. Gordon feels strongly that developing your intuitive gifts should be something that gives you joy, brings you clarity and makes you more contented in your life. Based on his experiences of teaching and guiding complete beginners on their paths to communicating with spirit, this book provides simple and easy-to-follow exercises that will help you sharpen your psychic senses, open yourself to receive communication from your spirit guides and interpret the telepathic language of spirit. Once you have learned the basics and gained confidence in your skills, Gordon then guides you to the next step of your journey, showing you how you can use this very special energy to help others.
The Intuitive Warrior: Lessons From A Navy SEAL On Unleashing Your Hidden Potential (Intuitive Warrior #1)
by Michael JacoFrom conflicts in Panama to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Navy SEAL Michael Jaco has employed his powers of perception and awareness to save his own life and those of his fellow SEALs. In The Intuitive Warrior, Michael Jaco recounts the mentally and physically demanding training required of members of one of the most elite Special Forces units, the SEAL Team Six, and how the intuition developed during that training can be learned and applied by anyone.
The Intuitive Way: The Definitive Guide to Increasing Your Awareness (Transformation Series)
by Penney PeircePenney Peirce—bestselling author and renowned intuitive and visionary—shows you how to trust and develop your intuition to an advanced degree. Intuition is the skill of the future, and it will absolutely give you an advantage in whatever you do.As the first book in Peirce&’s groundbreaking Transformation series, The Intuitive Way shows how intuition is an innate human capacity that can easily be enhanced and developed. Synthesizing insights from psychology, East-West philosophy, religion, metaphysics, and business, this hands-on workbook in the tradition of Julia Cameron&’s The Artist&’s Way can teach anyone to achieve a heightened state of perceptual accuracy and apply it to daily life. Intuition, writes Penney Peirce, is &“not the opposite of logic,&” but rather &“a comprehensive way of knowing life that includes both left-brain analytical thinking and right-brain direct-knowing states.&” On a practical level, intuition helps you learn faster and make more inspired decisions. On a deeper level, it &“is a powerful tool that can heal the painful split we all feel between our earthly, mundane selves and our divine, eternal selves.&” Widely praised and highly popular, The Intuitive Way, with a foreword by Carol Adrienne, continues to bring Penney Peirce&’s pioneering work to new generations of people who want a comprehensive course on this most valuable skill.
Intuitive Wellness: Using Your Body's Inner Wisdom to Heal
by Laura Alden KammTwenty years ago, Laura Alden Kamm recovered from a near-death experience with the amazing new ability to telepathically scan the structure of a person's body and see inner disturbances in intricate detail. Kamm also had the ability to see Kirlian fields -- the electromagnetic energies that pulse around all organic matter. She has since created educational programs to train others in the intuitive way to prevent or reverse disease. Kamm shows us how to become our own healers by both preventing disease before it manifests physically and treating existing conditions. Clearly explaining both ancient and newly developing philosophies that guide her work, she offers quick, simple, and practical exercises that help readers learn about their unique energy systems, develop confidence in their intuition, and resolve emotional and physical pain.
Intuitive Wellness: Using Your Body's Inner Wisdom to Heal
by Laura Alden KammTwenty years ago, Laura Alden Kamm recovered from a near-death experience with the amazing new ability to telepathically scan the structure of a person's body and see inner disturbances in intricate detail. Kamm also had the ability to see Kirlian fields -- the electromagnetic energies that pulse around all organic matter. She has since created educational programs to train others in the intuitive way to prevent or reverse disease. Kamm shows us how to become our own healers by both preventing disease before it manifests physically and treating existing conditions. Clearly explaining both ancient and newly developing philosophies that guide her work, she offers quick, simple, and practical exercises that help readers learn about their unique energy systems, develop confidence in their intuition, and resolve emotional and physical pain.
Intuitive Witchcraft: How to Use Intuition to Elevate Your Craft
by Astrea Taylor“An absolutely terrific book, full of heart, practical advice, and some of the best witchcraft to make the printed page in years.” ―Jason Mankey, author of The Horned God of the WitchesFeaturing extensive exercises, examples, and rituals, this amazing book reveals how to embrace the wisdom of your inner voice as you explore the endless possibilities of witchcraft. With Astrea Taylor’s guidance, you can unlock your intuitive magical potential and celebrate the truth of who you are.Intuitive Witchcraft also offers insights from some of the best writers, thinkers, and leaders in their fields, helping you become your most empowered self. Discover how to work with energy, interact with deities and spirits, and create a personal practice that fits your beliefs and lifestyles. Learn to face your shadow side, make the mundane magical, use divination tools, and much more. Whether you’re a beginner or advanced practitioner, this incredible book illuminates the path to manifesting your greatest desires in an intuitive way.“Provides techniques for melding intuition and witchcraft in a way that is emotionally and spiritually satisfying.” ―Publishers Weekly“The exercises are a great way to enhance your intuitive connection to nature, deity, and magical practice . . . This book has something useful for practitioners at every level.” ―Alfred Willowhawk, author of I Am Healer, Storyteller and WarriorPriest and host of the podcast Up Close & Personal“From personal shadow work to rituals, to forming your own practicing groups, Astrea brings intuition to the forefront of Witchcraft.” ―Phoenix LeFae, author of Life Ritualized
Intuitively Rational: How We Think and How We Should
by Andrew McGee Charles FosterThis book is about the respective roles of intuition and reasoning in ethics. It responds to a number of well-known philosophers and psychologists, and proposes a new perspective – radical in its moderation. It examines in depth the work of the philosopher Joshua Greene and the psychologist Jonathan Haidt. With the so-called empirical turn in ethics, much work has been done to try to isolate the role of reason and intuition in forming our moral judgements, with Haidt and Greene leading the research programmes and attracting much of the professional and public attention, and many others following. The current view – shared by both camps – is that intuition is largely the driver of our moral judgements – a view summed up in Haidt’s slogan ‘intuition first, strategic reasoning second’. Haidt believes we have to live with this and accept it. Greene does not: he contends that our intuitions, while suitable for the environments in which we evolved, are worthless in the modern, global, technological age, and to avoid ethical disaster we must learn to adopt reason as the arbiter of moral truth. This book steers a middle course between these two positions and is therefore of great interest to philosophers and psychologists alike.
IntuWitchin: Learn to Speak the Language of the Universe and Reclaim Your Inner Magik
by Mia MagikA savvy witch&’s guidebook on strengthening their innate capacity to speak the symbolic language of the universe and trusting their inner knowing—their intuwitchin.From the founder of Witch School Mia Magik comes a guide to what she calls IntuWitchin. There&’s a key difference between intuition and IntuWitchin. While they both come from within us, IntuWitchin involves our innate capacity to learn and fluently speak the symbolic language of the Universe. It allows us to receive information from every animal or number, any part of our body, dreams, conversations, and more. We&’ve all been told to follow our intuition, but IntuWitchin shows you how. It means reclaiming your magik to see how the world around you is always communicating with you and letting you know which way to go.IntuWitchin makes you your own teacher, guide, healer, and hero of your story. Putting the Witch in IntuWitchin supports you in owning your witchiness—how your wisdom expresses through you—and synergizing that unique essence with the magik of the world all around you.The book describes how to tap into your Intuwitchin and apply it in your life with rituals, magikal practices, journaling prompts, and chapters on: Reclaiming the witch wound in order to move forward in courage and empowerment Understanding signs and symbols from the UniverseDivination tools like astrology, tarot, numerology, and color magikRecognizing how your body speaks to youIncorporating the wisdom of the elements into your magik
Invader Moon: Who Brought Us the Moon and Why?
by Rob ShelskyA UFO investigator presents a provocative theory about how the moon got here, who brought it here, and why—with fascinating historical evidence!Was the moon always in our skies? UFO investigator Rob Shelsky doesn’t think so. In Invader Moon he reveals the secret history of a time before the moon, its dramatic arrival, and its momentous impact on Earth’s civilizations.Shelsky contends that there were two distinct civilizations on our planet—ours, and one before ours. He goes on to suggest that the earlier civilization did not originate on Earth. When it arrived here, it brought the moon along with it. Offering more than mere conjecture, Shelsky supports his theory with physical and archeological evidence, historical records, and oral histories from around the world.
Invasion of the Prostate Snatchers: No More Unnecessary Biopsies, Radical Treatment or Loss of Sexual Potency
by Ralph H. Blum Mark ScholzRadical prostatectomy is still the most widely recommended treatment for prostate cancer. Yet, according to a recent study, only one out of every forty-eight men who undergo this debilitating procedure survives longer than those who forgo surgery. Invasion of the Prostate Snatchers reports the latest thinking on prostate cancer management in clear, easy-to-understand prose. In a unique collaboration, a patient and his doctor provide a new perspective on living with this disease. Ralph Blum’s surprisingly entertaining twenty-year journey and eventual decision to treat his cancer as a “chronic condition,” together with Dr. Mark Scholz’s presentation of the newest scientific evidence, will liberate thousands of newly diagnosed men to pursue a noninvasive approach and thereby preserve normal sexual and urinary function.
Invasion of the UFOs (Bloodhounds, Inc. #4)
by Bill MyersSean and Melissa Hunter are stumped by their strangest mystery yet--a suspected UFO sighting. When bizarre messages about a possible alien invasion begin transmitting through Old Man Carlson's TV, things get even weirder.
Invasive Plant Medicine: The Ecological Benefits and Healing Abilities of Invasives
by Stephen Harrod Buhner Timothy Lee ScottThe first book to demonstrate how plants originally considered harmful to the environment actually restore Earth’s ecosystems and possess powerful healing properties • Explains how invasive plants enhance biodiversity, purify ecosystems, and revitalize the land • Provides a detailed look at the healing properties of 25 of the most common invasive plants Most of the invasive plant species under attack for disruption of local ecosystems in the United States are from Asia, where they play an important role in traditional healing. In opposition to the loud chorus of those clamoring for the eradication of all these plants that, to the casual observer, appear to be a threat to native flora, Timothy Scott shows how these opportunistic plants are restoring health to Earth’s ecosystems. Far less a threat to the environment than the cocktails of toxic pesticides used to control them, these invasive plants perform an essential ecological function that serves to heal both the land on which they grow and the human beings who live upon it. These plants remove toxic residues in the soil, providing detoxification properties that can help heal individuals. Invasive Plant Medicine demonstrates how these “invasives” restore natural balance and biodiversity to the environment and examines the powerful healing properties offered by 25 of the most common invasive plants growing in North America and Europe. Each plant examined includes a detailed description of its physiological actions and uses in traditional healing practices; tips on harvesting, preparation, and dosage; contraindications; and any possible side effects. This is the first book to explore invasive plants not only for their profound medical benefits but also with a deep ecological perspective that reveals how plant intelligence allows them to flourish wherever they grow.
Invasores: Historias reales de extraterrestres en la Argentina
by Alejandro AgostinelliImaginemos que un extraterrestre está leyendo este libro. Que cadalector elija al biotipo extraterrestre que más le guste. No importa, eneste caso, cuál es la apariencia física del extraterrestre, ni suplaneta de origen, ni el carácter pacifista o guerrero de susintenciones. No importa cómo se alimenta, ni cómo copula, ni cómofunciona su aparato excretor. No importa el diseño de sus navesespaciales ni tampoco la tecnología que las impulsa. No importa dóndeestá leyendo este libro: si en su planeta, si a bordo de su nave o en labase que, como todo el mundo sabe, los extraterrestres tienen enRoswell. Lo único que importa, en este caso, es que es un extraterrestrey que está leyendo este libro. Es indudable que éste será un libroimprescindible en toda biblioteca extraterrestre, y no lo digo por sushistorias sobre extraterrestres: al fin y al cabo, todo extraterrestremás o menos informado las conoce o al menos ha oído hablar de ellas. Esindudable, decía, que éste será un libro imprescindible en todabiblioteca extraterrestre, porque éste es un gran libro sobre sereshumanos. Y si ellos, los extraterrestres, planean visitarnos, o bien enson de paz, o bien para invadirnos, este libro puede resultarles muyútil para conocernos.La materia prima del trabajo de los buenos periodistas yAlejandro Agostinelli es uno de los mejores que conozco son laspersonas, y no la política, la economía, los deportes, el arte, laciencia o los extraterrestres. Los buenos periodistas terráqueos noolvidan jamás que cada episodio que describen, cada historia quecuentan, trata sobre seres humanos.Alejandro Agostinelli ha dedicado buena parte de su vida a investigareste tipo de casos: me consta que podría escribir veinte libros tanbuenos como éste sin repetir una sola historia. Como lector, deseo quelo haga. De esa maravillosa materia está hecho Invasores, concebido yescrito para que lo disfruten los lectores de todo el universo, perosobre todo, los que residen en la Tierra.