I wounld't recommend M.C. Bolin's book Armageddon to anyone.The first reason is because the book is so much like the movie. When you read a book you want excitement. The second reason is the book is to specific about what they are trying to tell you. The third reason is that there is really know excitment in it at all. This is what I think of Armeggedon.

I saw the movie "Armageddon." It was really good, then I bought the novel. I read it quickly, it seems M.C. Bolin was in a hurry because he didn't describe much. One thing I think he shouldn't have done was cut out Steve Buscemi's wisecracks out. It goes by the movie good, but I think in this case the movie was better then the book.

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Toda la alienacion posible en un inmigrante la encontrara en este libro, cayendo en las inmensas profundidades de la mente humana y los caminos no recorridos por nadie.

Todas las necesidades insatisfechas, todas las debilidades humanas, todas las irrealizaciones, estan para ser leidas, interpretadas, y hasta tal vez entendidas.

This book should be considered fiction because it has no basis in fact or science. Using leptin injections to reduce weight has been proven in tests to be a big failure. Using leptin and dietary fats as the cause for obesity is false and sidetracks one from the real reason for obesity, excessive consumption of carbohydrates.

Robert Pool uses the Pima Indians in Arizona and Mexico to explain why the Arizona Pimas are the fattest in the United States verses their relatives in Mexico who are much thinner. Mr. Pool states that the Pima Indians were given bacon and cheese in the 1930's which started them on the weight gain. This is FALSE. Mr. Pool wrongly believes, as many still do today, that weight gain and diabetes is caused by the consumption of fats. Bacon and cheese has a very short shelf life and the Pimas did not have refrigeration. These were very expensive commodities which were NOT given to the Indians in those times. Excessive carbohydrates in the diet was and continues to be their problem. The Pimas were given sugar, white flour and canned goods like highly sweetened fruit in sugar sirup, jams and jellies. Mr. Pool did not even mention the sugar and white flour in the list of foods give to the Pimas.(...)

Don't buy Robert Pool's book unless you enjoy reading fiction.

This book should be considered fiction because it has no basis in fact or science. Using leptin injections to reduce weight has been proven in tests to be a big failure. Using leptin and dietary fats as the cause for obesity is false and sidetracks one from the real reason for obesity, excessive consumption of carbohydrates.

Robert Pool uses the Pima Indians in Arizona and Mexico to explain why the Arizona Pimas are the fattest in the United States verses their relatives in Mexico who are much thinner. Mr. Pool states that the Pima Indians were given bacon and cheese in the 1930's which started them on the weight gain. This is FALSE. Mr. Pool wrongly believes, as many still do today, that weight gain and diabetes is caused by the consumption of fats. Bacon and cheese has a very short shelf life and the Pimas did not have refrigeration. These were very expensive commodities which were NOT given to the Indians in those times. Excessive carbohydrates in the diet was and continues to be their problem. The Pimas were given sugar, white flour and canned goods like highly sweetened fruit in sugar sirup, jams and jellies. Mr. Pool did not even mention the sugar and white flour in the list of foods give to the Pimas.

One can read the truth about the demise of the health of Indians in the book, "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration" by Weston A. Price, D.D.S., ISBN 0879838167. Dr. Price traveled the world in the 1920's and 1930's to compare the health differences between isolated and modernized societies and tribes. He absolutely proved that excessive carbohydrates caused their decline in health while the healthy diet of the isolated groups was very high in fats and animal products. Dr. Price lived in that time period and studied the Indians directly to obtain factual data. Mr. Pool is just making up things to fit his premise.

The best book about fat in the diet is "Know Your Fats" by Mary G. Enig, Ph.D. Dr. Enig correctly describes how dietary fats are necessary for good health and are not the cause of obesity.

Other very good books which accurately describe why people gain weight and how they can loose the weight without harsh low calorie diets are:

Syndrome X by Jack Challem, Burton Berkson, M.D. and Melissa Diane Smith
Protein Power by Dr. Michael R. Eases and Dr. Mary Dan Eades
Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution by Dr. Robert C. Atkins

Don't buy Robert Pool's book unless you enjoy reading fiction.

Robert Pool's Fat: Fighting the Obsesity Epidemic is a very accessible review of research on obesity. He covers the history of obesity research and explains how various research studies have influenced attitudes towards obesity and how to treat it. Contrary to what another review states, this book is not based on the premise that leptin is the cause of obesity. This was merely an illustration of current research that Pool uses to open the book.

Fat is not a guide to weight loss for individuals. The research is very discouraging for anyone currently obese -- most studies show that weight can be lost, but no one knows how to help people keep it off. However, Pool discusses some of the research that investigates why people cannot keep off weight they lose, including studies demonstrating that those who lose wait not only have slightly slower metabolisms, but they also burn fewer calories through fidgeting, etc.

Pool also discusses obesity from a public health perspective. Given that losing weight and keeping it off is so difficult once one becomes obese, he argues that some effort should be paid to keeping the population from becoming obese in the first place. In this discussion, he looks at studies examining when and how various populations became obese. Such studies -- like that of the obesity difference between Pima groups in the US and Mexico -- provide clues for how the current environment could be modified to prevent some obesity.

Why do I have to wait 4 to 6 weeks before my book is in stock? I fear my swimming pool will be assimilated as part of the Florida Everglades by the time I get my book and figure out what to do. Please respond

Charlie Taylor uses cartoons and light, easy prose to make the process of learning swimming pool chemistry and maintenance fun and amusing. He mastered his subject in the 70's and 80's, yet his advice holds remarkably true some 20 years later in an industry that has made huge intellectual and technical progress. This book is for first time pool owners who wish to tend their own pool without floundering in a mire of detail.

This is a self-important chicken-little thriller about a pending biological apocalypse, and is based on the movie with the same title (starring: Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo and Morgan Freeman). The book centers around Motaba, the "deadliest virus that science has ever encountered." It reaches the U.S. thanks to a money, which escapes captivity. It is a adventure where the hero has to work to find a cure to highly virulent virus, find the money and create an antiserum, in spite of the efforts of an evil brigadier general.