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Author: Ani Phyo Publisher: Da Capo – Lifelong Books – 305 pages Book Review by: Laxmi Chaandi It is rare to find books on raw foods. Let’s consider ourselves lucky that we found this one. After all, before man discovered fire, he ate raw plants and fruits – the most natural of foods. That included grains, nuts, legumes and seeds, as time went by. If you count the vast varieties of foods coming up from the ground, which includes root crops, plants and trees, all of those put together far surpass all the different kinds of meats and seafood. Yet meat and seafood dominates the American fare, and vegetables for the most part are simply side dishes. If you grew up in India like I did, plant-based food ruled, and meat was an exception. That has not changed much, especially in the villages and towns, and even in India’s cities. There is such a huge variety of vegetarian food available to enjoy in India and in the other countries of Asia, which many in the Western world are not aware of. Ani’s Raw Food Asia introduces that range of food to the Western palate. You will find a large range of delicious raw food that is also healthy for you. In over 300 pages, you will find drinks and foods for different times of the day: from breakfast breads...

Author: Jonathan Bloom Publisher:  Da Capo-Lifelong Books -366   pages Book Review by:  Sonu Chandiram People living in the United States throw away more than 100 billion pounds of food a  year, enough to end hunger for about 1.7 billion people, or around a quarter of our planet’s nearly seven billion inhabitants today. This wasted food represents about 40 percent to almost half of all the food produced in this country, depending on which source you consult, writes the author of this award-winning, eye-opening book Jonathan Bloom, a journalist. A graphic way of looking at the amount of food wasted daily in he U.S. (if you can imagine it) is that it can fill the Rose Bowl, a football stadium in Pasadena, California with a seating capacity of 90,000 fans. In the course of gathering material for this book Jonathan Bloom worked at many of the places where food waste occurs, especially on a large scale. He observed first hand how and how much food was wasted. The discoveries are shocking. He takes us through the path from our typical food-growing sources – the farms – to the food distribution and consumption destinations – our supermarkets, restaurants and kitchens – and shows us how billions of pounds of food, collectively, are just discarded, while millions of people in other parts of the world are starving and suffer from malnutrition. He...

Author: David Scheffer Publisher: Princeton University Press – 533 pages Book Review by:  Anu Kampa This book is an important segment of the personal story of David Scheffer, a lawyer, who helped change the popular belief that mass killers can get away from paying for heinous crimes against their fellowmen. It is an account of his personal battle against mass murderers and how he helped write into law the provision that heads of state or government officials can no longer use ‘leadership immunity’ to protect themselves from prosecution, imprisonment or execution in international courts of law. One of his most important contributions to humanity was that he created five war crimes tribunals from 1993 to 1996 to bring to justice dictators primarily responsible for large massacres in various parts of the world. Those politico-military leaders, constantly and for many years, used the baseless defense of ‘leadership immunity’ to avoid prosecution, but Scheffer’s admirable efforts “brought to an end the presumption of immunity for atrocity crimes.” Schaffer in effect brought about the new era of ‘credible justice’ wherein punishment is the rightful end result of trials of dictators who became mass murderers. Saddam Hussein of Iraq, for example. The courts of justice he created were: the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, the International Criminal Court, the Rwanda Tribunal, the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and the Yugoslav Tribunal....

Editors: Khalid W. Bibi, PhD and Michael G. Niederpruem, MS Publisher: Wolters Kluwer-Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins – 308 pages Book Review by:  Nano Khilnani This book is for individuals who want to take and pass the ACSM ‘s Health Fitness or the Clinical Comprehensive certification examinations. It contains 12 chapters within its 300-plus pages, one each on the following areas: anatomy and biomechanics; exercise physiology; human development and aging; pathophysiology and risk factors; human behavior and psychosocial assessment; health appraisal and fitness training; safety, injury prevention and emergency care; exercise programming; nutrition and weight management; program and administration, and management; metabolic calculations; and electrocardiography At the end of each chapter is a Review Test. This test is multiple choice, and you are asked to select the best single answer among four choices given to you. Typically there are 20 to 30 questions. Following these questions is the section entitled  Answers and Explanations, wherein you not only discover the correct answer but an explanation as to why that is the correct answer. The organization of each chapter, just as the book itself, follows a simple pattern. There are headings under which there are topics. Under those are sub-topics and sometimes, under those are sub sub-topics. A lot of material is organized in list form in alphabetical or numerical order. The discussions of terms are short and to the point, making...

Editors: Graham R. Nimmo and Mervyn Singer Publisher:  Wiley-Blackwell – www.abcbookseries.com  – BMJ Books – 76 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This book is part of the ABC book series edited and written by specialists for non-specialists and published jointly by the two publishers mentioned above. Dr. Nimmo is a consultant physician in intensive care medicine and clinical education at Western General Hospital in Edinburgh in the United Kingdom and Dr. Singer is professor of intensive care medicine at University College in London, UK. The two editors have selectively sought and received material from 15 contributors – 14 of whom are from the UK and one from Scotland – as well as contributed articles themselves to the book. This book provides core knowledge and principles in intensive care patient management with respect to the conditions of various key organs and critical-stage body functions of patients who require such care and close watch. The key organs and systems are: the brain and the nervous system, the heart and the circulatory system, the liver and the hepatic system, the kidney and the renal system, the lungs and the respiratory system, the stomach, intestines and associated organs (gall bladder, liver, pancreas, etc.) of the digestive and excretory system. The 15 chapters in this book cover topics ranging from general principles of intensive care management to end-of-life care, with specific discussions on...