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Great Book
Gave this to my neighbor and she has followed it with great results.

Finally - an answer to my ill health
Miryam Williamson's book is well researched, well written and couldn't have come at a better time in my life.I've been suffering for years with unexplained body pain, headaches, blood sugar crashes, IBS ... the list goes on ad infinitum.Not until I read Blood Sugar Blues (in late February 2004) did I finally find answers to the mysteries of my health issuesand can discuss this information with my health care professionals.Her comprehensive book details symptoms of insulin resistance (which I had never heard of) and clearly differentiates between Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.I'm now adhering to a well-balanced, low carb diet and am feeling so much better.Shortly after changing my diet and living a far less driven life, I lost 14 pounds, am sleeping far better and the fatigue and body pain are barely noticeable.I'm convinced that I'm on the right track and will continue to improve.

one of the best low carb books available
This book is for both low carb newcomers and veterans alike. It covers the basics for the new folks while keeping us veterans engaged with lots of new little "nuggets," peices to the puzzle of why this way of eating improves health in so many ways. For me, reading books like this keep me motivated and on track. I probably have 30 low carb books, and this is one of my very favorites.

I'm 44 and I've been low carbing for 21 months.I have lost 80 lbs. through diet and exercise, and have reversed all of the following conditions: acne, leathery skin, overgrowth of moles, high blood pressure, painful legs and feet, anxiety, brain fog, PCOS, IBS, asthma, allergy to pollens and nuts, and heart palpitations. I feel like twenty years have been erased.

Miryam E. Williamson is a very intelligent and caring author as you will discover if you read her book. She is commited to this way of eating because it saved her as it as saved so many of us. Add this book to your library and enjoy.

Right On the Money If Your Problem Is Insulin Resistance
Miryam Williamson's "Blood Sugar Blues" is an excellent book for people who find themselves suffering from a multitude of health problems that are often difficult for mainstream doctors to diagnose.

Although insulin resistance is often the culprit, it is frequently overlooked by traditionally trained internists who, when all common blood and other testing comes back normal, don't understand the condition enough to explore it as the possible answer to their patients' complaints.

Williamson does an excellent job spelling out symptoms caused by insulin resistance-- which makes it easy for the reader to discern if this, in fact, is his or her problem.Her writing shows she has researched this condition thoroughly and understands how it can lead to severe illnesses including heart disease, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and cancer-- and she writes in such a way that her research is easy for the lay person to understand.While the book does provide a good bit of scientific information about disease processes, she has written a book that is highly accessible to most anyone who reads it.

She also clearly presents strategies for altering one's diet and lifestyle to reduce damage caused by systemic dysfunction that leads to the body losing its ability to produce, process, and use insulin the way it is supposed to.She offers concise advice for helping restore the body to its healthier state and offers a comparison of 5 different popular diets in a way that helps the reader choose which one may be best for him/her.

Williamson obviously believes that, with proper information and guidance, many of us can make changes in our lives that will help us feel better and ward off serious disease, and she does an excellent job passing along that hopefulness to her readers.

Finally, she provides lists of 'safe' foods for people suffering from insulin resistance and a number of simple and tasty recipes that incorporate foods in combinations that help relieve symptoms of the disorder."Blood Sugar Blues" is a well-written and easily understood primer for anyone dealing with insulin resistance and the ills it can cause.

Read This Book First!
I feel very fortunate that I read Miryam Williamson's Blood Sugar Blues first on my search for insulin resistance. She was able to put together pieces of the health puzzle that even my doctor did not see. She is able to clearly convey a lot of complex metabolic issues so that everything starts to make sense. One of the best chapters is the one on choosing a low carbohydrate eating plan, in which she reviews five different plans, pros and cons. This saved me a lot of time and experimentation and was therefore successful from the start. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Paul Ehrlich (14 March 1854 - 20 August 1915) was a German scientist in the fields of hematology, immunology, and chemotherapy, and Nobel laureate. He is noted for curing syphilis and for his research in autoimmunity, calling it "horror autotoxicus". He coined the term chemotherapy and popularized the concept of a magic bullet. Paul Ehrlich was born into a Jewish family in Strehlen, in the German Kingdom of Prussia, Province of Silesia, (now in Poland). As a schoolboy and student of medicine he was interested in staining microscopic tissue substances. ... Read more

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Asthma and allergies are at epidemic proportions.It doesn't have to be that way.Two experienced pediatric allergists tell everything a conscientious parent needs to know about these conditions, the best in approved treatments, behavioral changes that can help control them, what families can do to reduce the toll that even severe asthma and allergies take on their lives, the myths and realities of alternative treatments and food allergies, skin allergies, advice for support groups, lists, checklists, and much, much more.

Fun and entertaining, almost every page is enlivened by anecdotes from the authors' decades of practice showing the special rapport that have made them so successful in getting results and keeping patients out of emergency rooms.

They make common cause with overworked pediatricians, general practitioners, and other primary care physicians who, because of the way our health care system is organized, are doing more asthma and allergy treatment than ever before.

But wait! There's still more! Asthma Allergies Children, the book, is half of a new approach to providing specialty asthma and allergy care.It is being published simultaneously with the launch of AsthmaAllergiesChildren.com, the new town square where parents and primary care physicians can pick the brains of specialists about their own children or patients. The website has mailbags for parents and doctors, pollen counts, news coverage, review of the latest developments in allergy science, "Tip of the Week" for controlling disease and discomfort, and guest editorials by the most important thinkers in the field.

The authors say that they and their colleagues recognize must do more to leverage their knowledge.The ranks of Allergy specialists are dwindling even as the numbers of asthmatic and allergic patients are rising.The cost is immense.Asthma is the single largest cause of school and work absence.Allergic and asthmatic children lose out on all the things that childhood is supposed to be about.

The book is the mother ship of the Asthma Allergies Children enterprise.Read about the connection between your child's nose and lungs, and how stopping allergy symptoms in the nose can reduce the danger of life-threatening asthma attacks; The hazards from chronic inflammation even when there are no visible symptoms; The damage to a child's body from over-reliance on "rescue" medication, and inadequate "control"; How modern technology can tell you if your child has been "naughty or nice"; The use and misuse of allergy testing, and how false positives can result in malnutrition in small children; The strengths and weaknesses of immunotherapy; The stages of an allergic life; and the most sympathetic and wisest advice ever to worried parents about managing a home where a child has severe allergies.

And because every child is special, go to the website to ask that special question.

Asthma Allergies Children: A Parent's Guide and AsthmaAllergiesChildren.com-a winning combination for helping your child lead a happier, healthier life.

A veritable bible for parents of allergic kids.I enjoyed Asthma Allergies Children tremendously. It is full of the kind of great stories that teach both patients and doctors more than mere facts. The science is explained in language you don't need an MD to follow.This book should be kept right next to the antihistamines and epinephrine, and used even more frequently.

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Important and thoughtful
Anyperson suffering with asthma (um, that would be me) or dealing with someone with asthma in the family, really needs this book.Asthma is at epidemic proportions and this book concisely and thoroughly tells you everything you need to know, and more--including cutting edge treatments and therapies.Even better, it's hooked up with a website. I've had asthma since I was five, and though I might think I am a smarty pants who knows all the answers, this book taught me many new things.I personally feel that illness has its own narrative, and the stories in this book can teach you in ways that drier information simply can't. This is an essential purchase.

Essential Reading for Parents
Recently, we found that our daughter suffers from a severe nut-allergy. Looking at the available literature, we turned to `Asthma Allergies Children' because it seemed to strike a nice balance between three things we felt we needed. First, it provides enough of the scientific and medical background to be genuinely informative without swamping you with needless detail (we had a working knowledge of allergies before, but actually learned a lot from the book). Second, it is quite readable and provides striking real-life anecdotes to underscore theoretical points (nothing puts you in the requisite frame of mind so much as hearing what an anaphylactic shock feels like from the perspective of a child experiencing it). Third, the book is full of useful practical advice for parents of a child with asthma or allergies (get yourself a really nice vacuum cleaner and use it--daily if you can!). What we couldn't have known in advance is the wit and, more importantly, the utter humanity that shines through on every page of the book. It is written not only by professionals in the field but by parents and grandparents with a true understanding of the human cost of asthma and allergies. The book has become a constant reference point for our own evolving understanding of our daughter's affliction. We couldn't recommend it more. ... Read more

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A text designed for use in conjunction with courses in general entomology with laboratory. Biology and classification are treated in depth, and keys are given for the identification of over 400 families. Additional subjects covered are population biology, pest management, and methods for collecting insects. ... Read more

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Kapitel: Robert Koch, Emil Von Behring, Paul Ehrlich, August Von Wassermann, August Bier, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, Friedrich Von Esmarch, Carl Thiersch, Ludwig Traube, Ernst Von Bergmann, Heinrich Adolf Von Bardeleben, Albrecht Von Graefe, Alfred Fiedler, Alfred Bielschowsky, Otto Binswanger, Heinrich Beckurts, Ernst L. Wagner, Eduard Pflüger, Friedrich Grohé, Friedrich Pels Leusden, Friedrich Julius Rosenbach, Oskar Röder, Julius Bernstein, Karl Von Graefe, Heinrich Braun, Carl Weigert, Karl Ernst Albrecht Wagner, Friedrich Schlemm. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch (11 December 1843 - 27 May 1910) was a German physician. He became famous for isolating Bacillus anthracis (1877), the Tuberculosis bacillus (1882) and the Vibrio cholerae (1883) and for his development of Koch's postulates. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his tuberculosis findings in 1905. He is considered one of the founders of microbiology-he inspired such major figures as Paul Ehrlich and Gerhard Domagk. Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch was born in Clausthal, Germany as the son of a mining official. He studied medicine under Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle at the University of Göttingen and graduated in 1866. He then served in the Franco-Prussian War and later became district medical officer, Wollstein (Wolsztyn), Prussian Poland. Working with very limited resources, he became one of the founders of bacteriology, the other major figure being Louis Pasteur. After Casimir Davaine showed the direct transmission of the anthrax bacillus between cows, Koch studied anthrax more closely. He invented methods to purify the bacillus from blood samples and grow pure cultures. He found that, while it could not survive outside a host for long, anthrax built persisting endospores that could last a long time. These endospores, embedded in soil, were the cause of unexplained "spontaneous" outbreaks of anthrax. Koch...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Science and Its Times, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 594 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The histories of science, technology, and mathematics merge with the study of humanities and social science in this interdisciplinary reference work. Essays on people, theories, discoveries, and concepts are combined with overviews, bibliographies of primary documents, and chronological elements to offer students a fascinating way to understand the impact of science on the course of human history and how science affects everyday life. Entries represent people and developments throughout the world, from about 2000 B.C. through the end of the twentieth century. ... Read more

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Kapitel: Langen, Deutsche Flugsicherung, Sag-Gruppe, Koberstadt, Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Tv Langen, Langener Waldsee, Fujitsu Semiconductor Europe, Schloss Wolfsgarten. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Langen is a town of roughly 36,000 in the Offenbach district in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany, between Darmstadt and Frankfurt am Main. Langen is headquarters to Deutsche Flugsicherung, and is also home to the Paul Ehrlich Institute, a Federal serum- and vaccine-making institution. Langen borders in the north and northeast on the town of Dreieich, in the south on the community of Egelsbach and in the west on the town of Mörfelden-Walldorf (Groß-Gerau district). Langen is only subdivided internally. Its Stadtteile are: The earliest community here may have arisen about AD 500 or 600, settled by Frankish migrants. Langen had its first documentary mention in 834 in a donation document from King Ludwig II to the Lorsch Abbey under the name Langungon. In 835, he had the extent of the Mark Langen (a communal area shared by a number of villages) delineated with Drieichlahha, today's Dreieich, as a neighbouring community to the north. To the Dreieich Royal Hunting Forest (Wildbann Dreieich), which in the king's name was governed by the Lords of Hagen (later of Münzenberg) as Vögte, also belonged in the Middle Ages the woodlands around Langen. Two of the Royal Hunting Forest's 30 Wildhuben (farming estates whose owners were charged with guarding the king's hunting rights) lay in Langen. Since the Lorsch Abbey hardly worried very much about their landholdings, the Lords of Hagen-Münzenberg came over the course of time to be the land's effective owners. When the Hagen-Münzenberg family died out in 1255, the place passed to the Lords of Falkenstein. In 1414, the village burnt down in the midst of a dispute between the city of Frankfurt and the then owners of Langen, the Archbishop of Trier, Werner von Falkenstein...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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Paul Ehrlich by Martha Marquardt
This intimate portrait of Paul Ehrlich by his long-time secretary, borders on hagiography but illuminates a fascinating character. Like Pasteur, another 19th century scientific genius, work was his sole activity, and time or dates were of little consequence.
Ehrlich qualified as a medical doctor and early in his professional life became fascinated by the dyes used to stain blood cells under the microscope. He formulated many of these and had the good fortune to be the first to stain the organism that causes tuberculosis.
He hypothesised that chemicals could be found that would attach to various germs and destroy them without harming the tissues of the host. His confidence in this was such that he pursued his goal with relentless energy and effort. Salvarsan, the cure for syphilis before penicillin, was the 606 compound he had formulated and investigated extensively!
He expected his associates to test these agents to his exact specifications and could not tolerate dissent. This meant instant dismissal. Nevertheless he was a generous benefactor and kind to all who consulted him.
Marquardt is convinced that had he lived longer he would have discovered the sulphonimides that could have been used for casualties in World War 1.
Ehrlich was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1908 together with Metchnikoff for their studies in immunity. This work preceeded that on the chemotherapeutic agents.
The young, interested in a career in science, should read this book for it portraits the workings of a discoverer. Like Pasteur and Faraday, Ehrlich used the simplest of tools, a series of dyes, test tubes and blotting paper and who can deny his momentous contributions. He was the founder of chemotherapy
Unfortunately although much is known of his experimental methods there is no inkling how he got his good ideas. This probably applies to all creative personalities.

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Title: The vindication of a public scholar: forty years after the population bomb ignited controversy, Paul Ehrlich continues to stir debate.
Author: Tom Turner
Publication: Earth Island Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2009
Publisher: Earth Island Institute
Volume: 24Issue: 2Page: 50(7)

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