It is encouraging that Dr. Yannios rejects many of the conventional (and incorrect) approaches to heart disease prevention. There have been no studies that conclusively link high blood cholesterol, high dietary cholesterol, high dietary fat, or high blood triglycerides to heart disease. (For more on this, see Dr. Uffe Ravnskov's excellent book "The Cholesterol Myths.") I was pleased particularly pleased to see him mention that many people who have heart disease have normal cholesterol. In fact, nearly half of the patients in the Framingham heart study who died of coronary disease had blood cholesterol under 220!

I am, however, concerned that Dr. Yannios seems to be so concerned with atherosclerosis as a cause of heart disease. As Dr. Ravnsknov's book shows, there is no evidence that atherosclerosis causes heart disease, nor is there any evidence that high blood cholesterol causes atherosclerosis. And without that evidence, it is plainly risky to treat otherwise healthy patients with expensive cholesterol-lowering drugs that may have serious short- and long-term side effects, simply because they have preatherosclerotic streaks in their arteries. Even fetuses have such streaks. Should we give newborns cholesterol lowering drugs? If so, I am going to go sink all my money into pharmaceutical stocks.

I say, read this book, but read it skeptically. Do not go out and ask your doctor to prescribe cholesterol lowering drugs for you, especially if your cholesterol is normal. Go to a good library and read the journal articles on cholesterol and heart disease yourself, including the numbers. (Summaries can and do lie!) Read the clinical trials of cholesterol lowering drugs to discover the side effects of these drugs, and ask yourself whether, if you are currently healthy, you want to live a life riddled with those side effects in the name of your "health." Read a book on statistics so you'll understand what is and is not statitistically significant. And read "The Cholesterol Myths."

I had an MI at the age of 36 (ouch). Since then I've tried to keep up to date on all the real, important research about heart disease causes and prevention. Trust me, you don't want to have a *second* MI.

This book takes all the important stuff you need to know and gives it to you in a form you can understand. Better than that, you can take *action*. Action that is tailored to *YOU*.

Both my GP and my Cardiologist knew less about all the risk factors than I did. We did the super-low-fat diet thing and they wanted to treat my lipids with *only* statins. This book has helped me educate them and given me what I need to advocate for myself. I'm know doing everything I can for my *specific* risk factors.

My diet is now low in carbohydrate. My doctors, of course had put me on an ultra-low-fat diet, which, for me (and for 25% of the U.S. population), was *exactly the wrong thing*. When I went on a high-protein, low carb, moderate fat diet my lipids ***greatly*** improved (oh yah and I lost 30 pounds).

Given my lipids, I know now that Niacin *and* statins are the right choice for my profile (I had an LDL-GGE test recommended in the book).

Hey I just had a thought...maybe *you* should buy this book *before* you have an MI...

After having a heart attack about six years ago at a young age, I resolved to put the disease into remission. I read everything I could find regarding heart disease, books on diet, exercise, cardiac rehabilitation, stress reduction, and cholesterol reduction...It was less than a year ago that I read The Heart Disease Breakthrough by Dr Yannios. The book is a terrific summary of almost everything that I have gleaned from years of reading and consultation. Significant are the descriptions of a number of new important blood tests which go unmentioned in even the current literature and are vital in determining the course of action necessary to combat heart disease in each individual. After reading this book I made an appointment and traveled some distance to have Dr. Yannios review my blood test results and diet and exercise program. He’s tough. I have purchased copies of the book for my children, for my family physician, my cardiologist, and our local hospital’s cardiac rehabilitation library. This book is a must read for anyone with heart disease or a history of heart disease in their family. It’s also a should read for everyone else. Often the first symptom of heart disease is death.

I have had such a great success with "Greek and Latin Roots in Everyday Language" published by the Perfection Form Company (not carried by Amazon) and I was looking for something more to supplement my teaching with. Although the information contained in "English Words - From Latin and Greek Elements" is of a high quality, and of the sort that my students would benefit from, the arrangement of the information was not. I have found that the typical student learns best when the directions are clearly and artistically arranaged. The teacher should only have to explain the self-explainitory, in order to help the students that don't understand the self-explainitory, and have the information presented in an enticing way. If there was a committee to revise this book I would love to be on it. I suggest the inventors, two or three practicing teachers, some students, and an artist or two.

I found what I have been looking for! A book who extends your English vocabulary systematically. I strongly recommend this book particularly for English learners. (I'm from Turkey)

With carefully chosen chapters and exercises, I'm sure you will learn a lot of things about Latin and Greek words in English. I memorized many difficult English words with the help of this book. I want to thank to the authors.

Very good book! I read it three times!

As the reviser of this book--not the Photographer (there is not a single picture in the tome)--I must correct a few misimpressions given in the other reviews, while touting the systematic format that separates Dr. Ayers's book from its competitors. To be sure this is a textbook--the best selling text in this subject area--divided into two halves, one dealing with English words derived from Latin, the other dealing with English words derived from Greek. Each lesson has some introductory material; these intros vary: some explain how English builds words from Latin and Greek bases with an explanation of how dictionaries present such information, some are mini-lectures in linguistic processes that characterize English words, some deal with how the form and meaning of words change with time. Each lesson presents a list of bases, prefixes and suffixes for the student to memorize. These are set forth clearly in caps, and there are many examples given for each item. The lesson ends not with quizzes but with words derived from the elements presented in sentences that are written by skilled writers of English. All of the information is well indexed at the end. This systematic approach gives the student control over the most frequently encountered word elements in English coming from Greek and Latin. As a consequence of her studies, such a student will have stored in her brain the keys to about half of the harder words in English including the many thousands of technical words invented each year--especially those medical and biological tongue twisters invented by the biological and medical communities. With the keys in her head and the word in its context before her, the student will often undertand the author without having to look up words that often are not yet even in the most recent dictionary. This is power; but power is not easily gained in any field of endeavor. The book can be used by a diligent person for self-study, but most students will need a structured environment in which to learn its contents. TD Worthen

Although the treatment of many extreme values distributions is rather complete at a theoretical point of view, very few practical considerations with respect to the actual way one should use these various EV models is provided. Unless you already know which class of EV distribution to use in your case, this book will not serve much. An overly important aspect of fitting distributions concerns the family of distribution to use for fitting a particular data, and here i haven't found much insight about practical considerations in this book. This is an important gap in this book because it is due to be practical.

On the other hand, the estimation of particular EV distributions is thoroughly covered, with theoretical (many references) and practical issues (for the estimation only) well described in every section.

Another negative point concerns the distribution of XTREMES provided with the book which is far from complete, and with bugs (changing on-line the values of the parameters of some distributions makes it crash...). I consider this book as a theoretically extended version of the manual of XTREMES, but not a self-sontained statistical book.

In summary, if you are interested in a very specific EV family, then this book can be useful, but not as a textbook. Rather go to Castillo (EV in engineering) for a good textbook on EV distributions.

Especially it is very interesting and advantageous in parts of EVT applicacation in Insurance and Finance!

This book combines common sense with theory as it relates to water distribution networks. The book does an effective job communicating some very complex topics to even the most novice person. It is considered as the bible for water distribution modelers. EPANET (Water distribution system modeling software)list-serv subscribers have listed this book as a good reference book for anything from basic water distribution networks to modeling of complex systems.

Introduction to world of microorganisms. And it is a whole world with more marvels and revelations than the macro world. The book contains a lot of illustrations, but many of the color photographs are artificially colored and certainly not the newest. They had a lot of work to change the book from two to four colors and one can still see this. Maybe, their newest version: "Brock's Biology of Microorganisms", also available at amazon.com, corrects this. Besides it beeing a propper text book, the main highlights come from nature itself which offers such a vast morphological and functional diversity in the micro world. The chapters range from general cell biology through viruses, genetics, industrial microbiology, immunology, medical topics (diagnostics, epidemics, diseaes) to bacteria and archaea. It's nearly too many topics to have them all statisfactorly presented. But since I knew nothing of those topics at all, the book proofed to be quite benifactory to me.

An excellent, concise review of many outpatient diagnoses encountered by the medical professional during rotations. A must for residents, PA's or nurse practitioners.

I bought this book thinking that it would be fascinating! I read online reviews that made it seem credible. Unfortunately, many of these reviewers did not have a background in psychology but I do. I was disappointed with this author's ludicrous claims and sloppy scholarship. Some claims are loosely supported by actual studies with some validity while other claims have no valid or reliable experiments/studies to back them up. For example, Verny claims that babies that are induced are more prone to sexual sadism and masochistic behavior! He cites no study to back up this ridiculous claim! Also, Verny equates emotional health with the personality traits of openness and extroversion. To suggest that a child who is shy and introverted is maladjusted is bad psychology. Personality theory has proven that these can be innate and inborn traits. My complaints go on... PLEASE, DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS BOOK. It's muddy...some valid claims mixed with very stupid ones. It's an example of how someone with "M.D" at the end of his/her name can sell a book that the layperson believes due to the author's credentials. However, I can assure you that my graduate school professors would have given this research writer a D.

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I am amazed buy the people who dont love this book, personaly I love it perhaps it lacks more proof and more studies but the information can change the life of your children I folowed all their advice for I had no maternal instinct during my pregnacy
so I did everithing the book said to bond with my child, and I can tell it is the best thing I have ever done my daughter and I have a wonderfull bond and I am rereading it again for muy second pregnacy, congradulations to the authers.

As an OB/GYN, this book is required reading for all of my pregnant patients as well as for those thinking of starting a family. Any physician who is up to date with current peer-reviewed literature in the realm of prenatal psychology would know the value of Dr. Verny's book and his work. ...

How disappointed I was by this book. It contains absolutely no news. The tattoo masters in this book do not meet in any way the high standard of irezumi that I am used to. For all you buyers who really want to learn about Japanese tattoos, read the book by Richie and Buruma, very informative. For photo's who are less blurry than in this book, just check the net or invest many dollars more for a proper book. ... . This book is a nice introduction for some common knowledge about Japanese tattoo art, but does not provide any new insights or ideas.

I was disappointed with how the illustrations were presented. The explanations were done clearly, but not a book for those who are looking for ideas for new ink.

Imagine life-size Polaroid photographs. Imagine traditional, Japanese, full-body tattooing. Imagine a book of life-size Polaroids taken of traditional, full-body, Japanese tattoos.... this IS that book! Sandi Fellman got the proper introductions and a great toy (a Polaroid that really takes life-size plates) when she went to Japan and set out to document the hidden world of the irezumi, the tattoo underground. This collection is almost all traditional hand-executed tattooing. The details are unparallelled, and you get to see all kinds of shading you might not notice at a distance. This type of body modification still is a secret, private practice in Japan and to view images of this quality is rare.

This book is an excellent, comprehensive, INTRODUCTION to relational database theory. The book clearly explains what are usually the most frustrating, yet critical, concepts for those new to database design and implementation - entity-relationship modeling, normalization, and transaction management - through the use of illustrated examples, diagrams, and comprehensible text. Of course, the book also thoroughly covers the essential concepts of SQL, ODBC, security, and data integrity.

Database Systems also offers some treatment of more advanced database topics like Web connectivity (JDBC, ASP, XML), OLAP, data warehousing, object-oriented databases, and object-relational databases.

The book is well organized and logical in sequence, and thus makes a good reference book as well.

Notes: This is NOT A "COMPLETE REFERENCE" for all database systems. The book does not offer "complete" coverage of specialized database concepts/issues like database performance tuning, OLAP, or data warehousing, though these subjects are examined in the book to some extent. These subjects are complex enough to warrant separate texts. Also, the book does not exclusively embrace any relational database software title (Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, etc.) Since any one of these products is extremely complex, do not buy this book in expectation of becoming a vendor-specific DBA. Again, separate texts would be required to realize such an achievement.

This book will take you from the basics to advanced. Covers tons of stuff (actual page count is over 1000 pp): basic and adv SQL, query tuning, database design, security, ODBC, object oriented databases, distributed systems, relational algebra, security, OLAP and datawarehousing. Its coverage is not skimpy or superficial either. The design chapters are excellent - especially if you're a professional and don't just hack together databases. Also, I found this book easy to read. You won't have to reread stuff because it's poorly written.

As an experienced developer I found this book very useful.

I was looking for a book to dive into the topic of databases, especially relational databases. I found this book as a good comprehensive introductory book. It covers a lot of different topics, Entity-Relation, Normalization, indexing, hashing, transactions and even some notes on object-oriented databases and recent trends.

Prior to this book, I had read several books on relational-databases, though they were mostly product-specific books and I needed a general book like this one.

This book is not a modeling book, so you have find some other book on the topic.

The Glucose Revolution offers sound advice on the metabolism of carbohydrates. Understanding the glycemic index of the carbohydrates we consume can have significant benefits on our health. This book is based on a an important premise and explains the effects of various foods on our blood glucose levels in an easy-to-understand way. My contention, however, is the lack of distinction between healthy and unhealthy foods. As an example, the authors' state, "soft drinks, candy, honey, sugar, flavored milk and ice cream are actually very concentrated sources of carbohydrate that can be used to supplement your diet." This is absurd, especially considering the authors' supposed credentials. The authors' give sanction to the junk food eaters. The idea that non-nutritive foods can be used to supplement the diet is ludicrous! Instead of citing examples of healthy alternatives they succumb to presenting the benefits of eating white bread and candy. While its important to understand the relative position of the carbohydrates we consume within the glycemic index, and when to utilize high and low glycemic foods, the notion to utilize non-nutritive junk as a supplement is never justified. The authors', all of whom tout impressive credentials, should be ashamed to put their names on this book. They took an important subject and catered it to the masses who need further sanction to indulge in an unhealthy lifestyle.

The information contained in this book can give you the will power to stay on your current diet, by eliminating between meal hunger. A great companion book to weight watchers 1-2-3 program or for those who think they are addicted to carbohydrates. After reading this book, you'll find that it isn't carbohydrates that are causing you to over-eat, but rather the type of carbohydrate you are choosing. By choosing foods with a low glycemic instead of those that are high, your blood sugar remains stable. For example, grapes have a G.I. index of 46 where, cantalope has a G.I. index of 65. By eating the grapes instead of the cantalope, you're stomach empties slower... your blood sugar level remains stable... and you last longer without needing food. After adding the information I learned in this book to my weight watchers program, I've lost more weight in the past six months than I did in the prior two years on the program. It feels more natural, I don't feel deprived and I don't struggle between meals. The information in "The Glucose Revolution" virtually eliminated my hunger pains.I highly recommend this book!

I found this to be an excellent, well-written book that explains the very sensible notion of the glycmic index (GI) -- a measure how much sugar a given food adds to your blood in a gievn time. By knowing the GIs of the foods you eat, you can gain better control over your desire for food and have better control over your appetite and energy level. The concept is very well explained in the book and there is lots of information in the book (including recipes) of how to specific foods that will have a low (and healthy) GI index.

A good thing about this book is that it is easy to understand and does not take a lot of effort to implement. It is easy to identify what types of food are better than others (e.g., most vegeatbles rather than bread) and the only effort is to include more of these foods in your diet. If weight loss (and maintenance) is your goal, then lower fat foods should be included in your diet. A good thing aboue this approach is that you don't need to give up "bad" foods, just combine them in moderation with other foods to average things out.

In summary, the book is a very good reference for understanding the concept of GI and making permanant changes in diet. A definite buy!