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The
Feng Shui Cookbook
Creating
Health and Harmony in Your Kitchen
by
Elizabeth Miles
Chinese philosophy states that
the body, mind, and environment constantly influence each other—and
that in order to achieve health and prosperity, you must create an
environment of clean air and abundant, nourishing food, then internalize
that essential energy with every breath and bite.
“If
you think your cooking would improve if only your kitchen faced east,
Elizabeth Miles’ The Feng Shui
Cookbook can help.”
-Self
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Elizabeth
Miles reunites the Chinese art of feng shui with its ancient partner,
nutritional medicine, to help you eat for optimal qi, or life force.
Based on the same principles of yin-yang balance as the popular design
practice, The Feng Shui Cookbook gives you the knowledge and recipes you need
to enhance your essential energy with every meal.
Enjoy
64 recipes organized into Yin, Yang, and Balanced categories, along
with the tools to put feng shui principles to work in the kitchen and your
life, including:
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A
Yin-Yang Self-Assessment
that identifies your energy
tendencies—either fundamental traits or the way you feel today—so
that you can choose the right foods to rebalance.
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The
Feng Shui Kitchen Ba Gua,
the same octagon used by feng shui
masters adapted here to help you arrange your kitchen and dining room,
plan your meals, and balance your life.
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Tips
and charts revealing the yin and yang nature of favorite foods,
the powers of the Five Elements and Flavors, and the best cooking
methods for specific energy goals.
- Notes
to each recipe that detail the dish’s impact on qi, shortcut
options, vegetarian alternatives, and how to present the food on the
plate for proper feng shui alignment.
Try
Fire-Roasted Filet Mignon with Wild Mushroom-Red Wine Sauce when
you seek yang for peak performance, or fight burnout with the yin energy
of cool Gingered Sweet Potato Soup. Sushi-Style Salmon Tartare is
as heart-healthy as it is stress-busting, and Hot & Sour Mangoes
provide a potent dose of antioxidants along with the perfect balance of
sweet, spicy, and sour. Serve Green Tea Tofu Flan as a calming,
lowfat finish to any meal—or follow the variation to create Yin-Yang
Butterfly Dessert, a confluence of male and female energy with
aphrodisiac properties to enhance your erotic potential. |
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The 6-point plan to discover your
Longevity Quotient—and change it.
AgeLess
Take Control of Your Age
and Stay Youthful for Life
by Edward Schneider and Elizabeth Miles
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As
Gail Sheehy says, "The truth at last!" Pick up AgeLess
and discover the New Rules of Aging Less. Some of them may surprise you.
- New
Weight Rule #1: Those few extra pounds may save your life
- New
Nutrition Rule #1: Toss your multivitamin
and
many more.
Flip
through the pages of AgeLess and learn all the New Rules, based on the
latest and best research findings on each of the key areas known to affect
your healthspan, while testing how young you currently are in each
dimension. Whether you're 18, 80, or somewhere in between, you can
control your age—and
it's never to soon to start aging less.
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Looking
for a way to be less stressed and more productive at work, home and play?
Get
a jump on success with
Organizing For Dummies®
by
Eileen Roth and Elizabeth Miles
A
Reference Book for Real Life
"Organization
isn't hereditary; it's learned. I was a secret organizing dummy myself
until I had the pleasure of co-authoring this book. Now all my piles have
turned into files!"
-Elizabeth Miles
Plus an edition just for parents...
The
Parents' Success Guide to Organizing
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Okay, so 81% of you say you
consider yourself organized, and yet 83% list getting organized among your
goals. See the disconnect here? Stop with the wishful thinking and start
cutting through the clutter of everyday life with simple systems
designed to easily turn you into an organizational savant.
Organizing
For Dummies offers a user-friendly approach to help people from all
walks of life, from homemakers to business professionals, learn how to put
everything in its place. The rundown of chaos-relieving resources includes:
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Basic
Organizational Tools and Tenets:
Who, what, where, why, when and how to get organized, including the
Seven Organizing Secrets you don't want to live without.
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Getting Organized at Home:
Arrange your space for gracious living with a welcoming entryway,
stylish living and dining rooms, easy-access kitchen, blissful
bedrooms, beautiful bathrooms, practical playrooms, and clean closets.
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Organizing Storage Spaces
and Other Secret Places:
Managing the basement, attic, laundry room, garage, patio, and shed
can help lighten the load so that storage is no longer synonymous with
stress.
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Professionally
Organized – Your Office:
Impress
the boss, improve client relations, influence colleagues, inspire
staff and finally see the surface of your desk.
From your paper flow to your file cabinet, e-mails, phone
calls, and disk space, Roth and Miles give tips for more effective and
efficient work.
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Time Management Strategies
for Home, Office, and Travel: Time management techniques to
help you make more of every moment, including planning your day,
maximizing your personal time, controlling your commute and taking
trips for business or pleasure.
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The Part of Tens:
Ten-point lists to make your life easier help you squeeze more storage
into a small space, make a move, give a great garage sale, care for
pets, and use organization to prevent and cope with emergencies.
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Wondering why we're gaining
weight at epidemic rates? PORTION SAVVY provides the answer—and the
antidote.
Portion
Savvy
The
30-Day Smart Plan for Eating Well
by Carrie Wiatt
with Elizabeth Miles
"Offers tips you'll
use for years... Sets out tasty meal plans keyed to your energy
needs."
-Health
Magazine
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In the book that dares to buck trendy diet tricks, celebrity nutritionist
Carrie Wiatt partners with personal achievement author Elizabeth Miles to explain that the widespread
national weight problem boils down to one primary and proven scientific
factor: mismatched portions. Rebalance your energy equation with Portion
Savvy.
Our surroundings convey the mistaken message that more food
is better, and the result is that many of us are programmed to eat more
than we need. But that's no reason to submit to the pattern of
sabotage. With the help of a psychologically proven approach to
"clicking in" to your personal portion size, anyone can regain
quantity control to establish a healthy relationship with food.
Pick up a copy of Portion
Savvy and learn how to:
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Calculate
your personal energy equation and determine your Portion Savvy (PS) level for how many
calories you need each day in order to lose weight with optimal
efficiency.
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Serve and
eat the right portion sizes every time with a 30-day training program to redesign the food
blueprint in your mind.
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Cook and
portion delicious lowfat dishes that will please any palate and fuel a healthy body.
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Exercise for effective, lasting weight loss and increased daily energy.
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Surmount your personal obstacles to healthy eating
with psychological strategies for thinking fit.
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Visualize
your right-size servings anytime, anywhere, with the exclusive Portion Savvy
"pop-outs."
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| Great tips for tapping children's
"multiple intelligences," including music.
Multiple
Intelligences
Activating Young Minds
by James E. Powell, Ed.D.
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Howard Gardner's multiple intelligence theory
changed the way many people think about how we learn. Now teachers,
parents, and caregivers have a lively and interactive resource for unleashing
the full intelligence of children 0 to 5.
Multiple
Intelligences: Activating Young Minds is a one-stop guide to
multidimensional learning in the classroom or at home. Pick up this practical, holistic book from the
nation's leading childhood educational publisher and discover:
- The basics of musical intelligence, including
a foreword, chronology of musical stages for ages 0-10, and daily
classroom music strategy by Elizabeth Miles.
- The full range of multiple intelligences—intrapersonal,
interpersonal, verbal-linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial,
musical, bodily-kinesthetic, and naturalist ways to understand and
learn.
- Guidelines, activities, and resources to
put each intelligence dimension into play in the learning process.
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