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Recently in the Media

Looking for books featured on the morning news and talk shows? Here are a few titles recently in the media that are available at the Community Library (click the book covers or titles to place them on hold):

Slow Dancing With a Stranger: Lost and Found in the Age of Alzheimer's by Meryl Comer

Off the Sidelines: Raise Your Voice, Change the World by Kristen Gillibrand

Slow Dancing With a Stranger: Lost and Found in the Age of Alzheimer's by Meryl Comer:

From Emmy award-winning broadcast journalist and Alzheimer's advocate Meryl Comer comes a profoundly intimate and unflinching account of her husband's battle with Alzheimer's disease, one of today's most pressing and least-understood health epidemics.

Off the Sidelines: Raise Your Voice, Change the World by Kristen Gillibrand:

Kirsten Gillibrand, senator, wife, and mother of two, recounts her personal journey in public service and galvanizes women to reach beyond their busy lives and make a meaningful difference in the world around them in her new memoir Off the Sidelines.

The Hungry Girl Diet by Lisa Lillien:

The bestselling author of the Hungry Girl cookbooks now delivers the first-ever meal plan based on her super-sizing techniques, diet philosophies, and recipes, and she's put them into a four-week jump-start plan to help you lose weight.

Blue Mind by Wallace J. Nichols:

Discusses the importance of humans' connection to water and how people are drawn to being in, on, or around oceans, rivers, and lakes and points to recent findings in neuroscience that indicate that proximity to water can improve mood, performance, health, and success

Getting Fit 2014

Happy New Year!

Are you looking for some resources to help you keep your New Year's resolution to lose weight and get fit? If so here are a few new titles that can help you get started. Place your holds today!

The Doctor's Diet : Dr. Travis Stork's STAT Program to Help You Lose Weight, Restore Optimal Health, Prevent Disease, and Add Years to Your Life by Travis Stork, M.D. Travis Stork, M.D., one of the doctors on "The Doctors" TV show has created a flexible and workable diet plan that will help readers lose weight, restore health, prevent disease and ultimately add years to their lives. Click here to place your hold for this book.

The 3-1-2-1 Diet: Eat and Cheat Your Way to Weight Loss--Up to 10 Pounds in 21 Days by Dolvett Quince. Fitness guru and trainer from the TV show The Biggest Loser, Dolvett Quince, explains his diet and fitness program which combines eating plans that allow for cheat days and meals with fast workouts to help you lose weight and transform yourself. Click here to place your hold.

Eat to Live Cookbook: 200 Delicious Nutrient-Rich Recipes for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss, Reversing Disease, and Lifelong Health by Joel Fuhrman. A cookbook companion to the Eat to Live diet includes the latest nutritional science, success stories and meals for every occasion. Click here to place your hold.

Responding to 'The Omnivore's Dilemma'

Eating organic, locally-grown food is popular nowadays, but in the new book The Locavore's Dilemma, author Pierre Desrochers defends the globalization of the food chain. Each chapter debunks the arguments that are put forth in books like Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma, for example that "locavorism nurtures social capital." Whether or not you agree with these views, this new book definitely provides food for thought! Reserve your copy today at Mastics-Moriches-Shirley Community Library.

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

Genre: Adult Non-Fiction
Rating: 5 out of 5

"Being Mortal is about the limitations of what modern medicine can provide for people as their lives draw to a close. Gawande argues that the objective of medicine should not merely be treatment and survival; medical care should also ensure dignity in death and having control over one's final moments. He argues that instead of aggressively fighting the inescapable realities of aging, we should ask the hard questions of ourselves and our loved ones -- What makes life worth living? When should we try to extend our lives, and when should we choose a better quality of our remaining days over extending their quantity?

This book is difficult to read. Not because of the way Gawande writes -- his style is highly engaging, and he never lapses into excessively scientific jargon or overly simplistic explanations -- but because of the tough subject matter. Gawande draws on his own experiences as a doctor and peppers his book with honest and humane stories of his patients, friends, and family; the stories he tells make the book more accessible, and also more heartbreaking. (And that's not a bad thing.)

No one likes to think about their loved ones', or their own, impending mortality. But it's important to have these hard conversations, because as Gawande says, "endings matter." - Amanda