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As one of the first dependents to be sent overseas at the end of WWII, eight-year old Marilyn Celeste Morris received her very own orders from The War Department.
From Seoul, Korea to Linz, Austria, she traversed the globe from 1938 to 1958 with her Army Officer father, mother and younger brothers. Between assignments in the primitive world of the Far East, to the sublime luxury of exploring castles in Bavaria, the family shuttled between the various Stateside Forts: Bragg, Bliss, Hood and Sill.
Sometimes hilarious, sometimes gut-wrenchingly sad, her narrative is part travelogue, part therapy session. She still cries at "Taps" and stands tall when the colors pass; yet she realizes she carries an odd mixture of pride and resentment over her nomadic way of life.
Her conclusion, however, is that she wouldn't have had it any other way.
Once a Brat, Always a Brat.
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Mind-blowing!.......2007-03-07
I just finished Marilyn Celeste Morris' book, "Once a Brat," and I can't even begin to tell you how empowering that book was to me. As a military brat myself, I devoured the book, but what made it interesting was that if you stop and think about it, Marilyn is one of the last of the military children born to these WWII vets that are dying at 1000 a day. Marilyn's book is a legacy to military brats everywhere, but more than that, it's a legacy to mankind as this was history that we will never recapture again, except in words or in pictures. Marilyn's words paint that picture of what it was like being eight-years-old and having to travel to war-torn countries after given orders from the War Department to join her father and the rest of her family at the end of WWII. I found her story riveting and a fine example of recapturing history from a personal point of view. It's a powerful story that history books would never be able to touch. A must-read not only for military brats everywhere who can relate to Marilyn's story, but an excellent addition to anyone's library shelf!
--Dorothy Thompson, editor, The Writer's Life Ezine
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From One Brat to Another.......2002-12-04
Marilyn's brat book should find its own nitche in the small world of brat related literature. It is non-fiction, but it deals only with Marilyn and her family. Ms. Morris takes us back to the early days of post-World War II and to places were we and Communisim faced each other - Korea and Austria. Her book is well written and well remembered. My only fault is that she appears to repeat herself a couple of times. i still found it a pleasant and informative read and I was happy to compare my experiences with hers.
You've told my story.......2002-12-02
I had tears and nodding smiles as I read this book. It even helped me understand a bit of myself. I always wondered what it was about me that I could walkk away from relationships and not turn back. It makes me see why my marriage has failed so, being married to a drafted vet doesn't make it when you are a Brat. This is a road I am dreading in my life as a life-long Brat. But, it encouraged me as well.
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Beating Diabetes (A Harvard Medical School Book)
David M. Nathan , and
Linda Delahanty
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Dr. David Nathan was one of the lead researchers of the landmark Diabetes Control and Complications Trial sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. It scientifically proved that the right program of nutrition and exercise can prevent diabetes in people on the brink of the disease. The same lessons can have a major effect in those who already have diabetes.
Approximately 800,000 new cases of diabetes are diagnosed each year in the United States, and that number continues to rise sharply. The results of the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial received enormous media attention because this approach to lifestyle change offers real hope to the vast and growing number of people with prediabetes (40 million in the United States alone) and those with type 2 diabetes (16 million).
Now, in Beating Diabetes, Dr. Nathan teams up with fellow Harvard Medical School expert Linda Delahanty to arm people at high risk for developing diabetes and those with type 2 diabetes with the first complete, clinically proven program of its kind. Readers get:
- Step-by-step, proven techniques to help them make real and lasting lifestyle changes by eating better and exercising regularly without becoming a health nut or spending hours in the gym
- Tasty, easy-to-prepare recipes and daily meal plans from the chief dietitian at the Massachusetts General Hospital Diabetes Center
- Guidelines for developing diabetes-busting exercise routines appropriate to all ages and fitness levels
- Help in identifying unhealthy, diabetes-promoting behaviors along with expert guidance on making crucial lifestyle changes and sticking with them
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Dr. David Nathan was one of the lead researchers of the landmark Diabetes Control and Complications Trial sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. It scientifically proved that the right program of nutrition and exercise can prevent diabetes in people on the brink of the disease. The same lessons can have a major effect in those who already have diabetes.
Approximately 800,000 new cases of diabetes are diagnosed each year in the United States, and that number continues to rise sharply. The results of the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial received enormous media attention because this approach to lifestyle change offers real hope to the vast and growing number of people with prediabetes (40 million in the United States alone) and those with type 2 diabetes (16 million).
Now, in Beating Diabetes, Dr. Nathan teams up with fellow Harvard Medical School expert Linda Delahanty to arm people at high risk for developing diabetes and those with type 2 di...
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Nothing I have not read before.......2007-01-13
Poor book with obvious content. Took 10m minutes to breeze through it. More available on just about any web site.
Great book!.......2006-10-08
Dr. Nathan really knows his stuff and is one of the researchers who might just turn the epidemic of Type 2 diabetes in this country around.
Nearly worthless.......2006-06-04
I dissagree with the previous reviewer in one aspect: the book is of no use to you if you already have type II diabetes.
The title is deceptive. If you have Diabetes already, this book will not help you "beat it." The main point of the book is how to "prevent it." The basis for the recommendations provide here are supposedly based on success of the "ground-breaking" Diabetes Prevention Program. Unfortunately, if you want to assess on your own the results of that study, or even a small portion thereof, you are out of luck reading this book; just go to the primary literature.
In short, although the author (Ms Delahanty)does not highly recommend any diet, and reviews a few diets for the reader, the high carb, low fat diet approach appears to be by default the diet of choice. Unfortunately, for us (metabolic syndrome (X-ers)), thrifty gene-types, the low fat/high carb approach has lead us down the path to diabetes. And it is not the "It's the calories, stupid," either, Ms Delahanty. We handle all energy sources uniquely. As many low carb dieters can document, they can easily exceed the caloric intake of your low fat dieters and still loose weight, and most importantly of all, keep their blood sugars low.
For you with diabetes, save your money and check out a number of low -carb diet books on the market, particularly Drs. Bernstein and Atkins, and you will have a much better chance of "Beating Diabetes."
Only pure Type 2 Need Read This Book.......2006-03-16
I was very disappointed when I opened the book and read various areas seeking current information on insulin production, injection, pumping and diabetic classifications since the changes of 2003. I am now 53 years old. I was diagnosed with diabetes at 38. Due to medical ignorance, rather than adaguate testing, the Adult Onset of high Blood Glucose was treated with oral medication for 5 months. I had no pointers currently recognised for Type 2. Finally it was suggested I might want to consult a specialist familiar with using insulin. He looked at my Log Book and with and overall dailey use of 24 units had me under 150mg/dL as an average reading the same week. This book is very simple, written at a grade school level (at least it used to be grade school) and only treatment of Type 2 with Diet, Exercise, and Oral Medication is set forth with any detail. The general title is deceptive. Barry J. Shiffert
Book review of Beating Diabetes by Dr. David Demko.......2005-05-23
STOP. Do not read one more thing. Not a newspaper, magazine, or even the back of your cereal box ... until you first read this life-changing book. Hey, the title says, "Diabetes" and you're saying, "well that's not for me." Do yourself a favor and think again. Every household should own this book as a desk-reference for living a longer and (more importantly) healthier life.
Modern medicine is in the throws of a death-grip struggle with the most formidable health crisis in recent history, diabetes. The Center for Disease Control pegs the health costs of America's careless lifestyle habits (poor diet, obesity, lack of exercise) at $176 billion annually. As as result, diabetes is fast becoming your greatest health risk.
Ironically, the more science understands about diabetes, the less and less Americans are applying that knowledge to improving their lifestyle. Nearly 70 percent of adults suffering from adult onset diabetes now risk early death from stroke, heart attack, and kidney failure, say the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists and the American College of Endocrinologists.
The good news is that modern medicine has assembled a formidable resource for combating America's formidable health crisis. That resource is a new book from McGraw-Hill. My review found the book to be the definitive source on diabetes prevention and treatment. Why? The authors employ scientific knowledge in the best way possible. Empowering consumers to take personal responsibility for their wellness by applying the advances of medical science to their everyday lifestyles.
Readers will be delighted to find complex concepts and processes explained in easily understood language enhancing the likelihood for application to daily lifestyle routines. Are you confused about all those diet programs? Excellent reviews of the most popular programs are offered for the reader's consideration. For example, Dr. Phil's "Ultimate Weight Loss Solution Diet" earned high praise, which makes perfect sense because the weight gain on your bottom originates from your top (how you think about food). Additionally, the book's explanation of the difference between "activity" and "exercise" is positively brilliant. A real eye-opener for those who may have been unsuccessful in previous attempts at weight loss and maintenance.
My opinion, the book's greatest value is its central theme. Again and again, the authors empower readers with scientific knowledge, enabling them to make immediate, health-enhancing changes in their lifestyles. Toward that end, here's a list of what I found very useful in the book.
1.How our lifestyle can endanger our health
2.Weight gain myths and realities
3.Reviews of the most popular diet programs, weight-loss plans, and exercise programs
4.Illustrations of therapeutic nutrients composition, and Body Mass Index chart
5.How to get ready to change your lifestyle for the better
6.Appendices of meal plans, recipes, and healthy snacks
By far the best source for healthy lifestyle that I've read in years. Read it, and reap.
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Understanding, treating, and preventing hypoglycemia
The prevention and treatment of low blood sugar is a key factor in living a healthy life with diabetes and avoiding diabetes-related complications. The authors, both of whom have had type I diabetes for more than 50 years, give a thorough and complete guide to understanding, preventing, and treating hypoglycemia. Interspersed throughout Beating the Blood Sugar Blues are personal stories from doctors and patients.
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not worth the paper it's written on..........2004-03-24
I would NOT recommend this book to anyone for any reason. It is not worth the paper it's printed on. Let me explain: I bought this book along with several others to try to get as much information as I can about the illness of hypoglycemia - Severe Reactive Hypoglycemia to be exact. While the book is specifically written for those with diabetes, it should be of great benefit to those without diabetes, but having hypoglycemia. However, the authors believe (according to pages 8-9 and many others) that if a person is suffering from the symptoms of hypoglycemia and they do not have diabetes, they are delussional, psychotic and need couseling!! Couseling is NOT what will help the person with hypoglycemia - with Diabetes or not. The tone and manner of the book is very sarcastic, the authors seem to be talking down to the readers and are patronizing in the way they explain things. The content of the book is otherwise shallow. Besides being continually insulted by the authors, I found their constant insistence that they are experts on this subject just because they are older and have had diabetes for a while, to be insignificant and repulsive.
Instead of this book, I would highly recommend The Dos and Don'ts of Hypoglycemia by Roberta Ruggiero, or Hypoglycemia,The Classic Healthcare Handbook by Jeraldine Saunders and Dr Harvey M. Ross or even Living Low-Carb by Fran McCullough and finally Lick the Sugar Habit by Nancy Appleton. These books are full of helpful information and do not tend to make the reader feel like a failure and a mental case. The authors of these books believe and prove that there is a treatment that will work for hypoglycemics...and they show you exactly what to do. I have read and followed their advice and have seen a tremendous improvement in my blood sugar problems. Please try these booksi nstead of the featured book.
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Two books in one. One is the story of a boy who learns that he has diabetes and how to live with it. The other, gives detailed facts about children living with diabetes.
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This digital document is an article from Child Life, published by Benjamin Franklin Literary & Medical Society, Inc. on April 1, 2002. The length of the article is 430 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. 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.
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Title: Beating diabetes with the Web.
Author: Michelle Laliberte
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Date: April 1, 2002
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Volume: 81
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This digital document is an article from Family Practice News, published by International Medical News Group on August 1, 2004. The length of the article is 1148 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. 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.
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Title: Beating psychological insulin resistance.(Diabetes)
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This digital document is an article from Wind Speaker, published by Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta (AMMSA) on July 1, 1998. The length of the article is 542 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. 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.
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Title: Prevention, education key to beating diabetes.
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Beating Diabetes
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Daniel Boulud, renowned French chef and a longtime favorite Elle Decor contributor, introduces a new and exciting cookbook, Daniel's Dish.Enticing photographs of succulent dishes are accompanied by recipes straightforward enough for anyone to make.These delectable Boulud delights, which have graced Elle Decor's pages issue after issue since 1995, are compiled here for the first time in a deluxe hardcover cookbook, along with new recipes created just for this book.Designed with Elle Decor's signature simplicity and elegance, consider this book a personal cooking lesson from Daniel in your very own kitchen.The images are sure to delight, and the outcome of the recipes will boost your culinary confidence to new heights. Daniel's Dish is an ideal cookbook for anyone who loves to cook-and to eat!
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Good Entertaining Recipes for Skilled Cooks. Recommended.......2004-06-20
Celebrity chefs write books oriented towards teaching you important elements of cooking, as with Paul Bertoli's `Cooking by Hand' or Tom Colicchio's `How to Think Like a Chef'; giving you interesting, simple recipes for home cooking as with `Charlie Trotter Cooks at Home' or Guy Savoy's `Simple French Recipes for the Home Cook'; or, like this cookbook by Daniel Boulud, it offers fancy, unusual recipes which can be done at home when entertaining family or friends.
Unlike Guy Savoy's book, Boulud makes no pretense that these dishes are simple, and they are not. They are quite as complicated, on average, as the recipes in `Café Boulud Cookbook'. On the other hand, true to it's `at home' orientation, it avoids the more extreme recipes in a book such as `Chef Daniel Boulud: Cooking In New York City'.
In the introduction, Boulud makes a small claim to have branched out beyond his roots in French cuisine, but he has not branched very far. Almost all recipes have a French, or at very least, a European style.
Since this is a book about entertaining, it is quite appropriate that Boulud includes beverage recommendations from his expert restaurant sommelier Jean Luc Le Du. Credit to Jean Luc for not limiting his suggestions to wines. He is quite willing to recommend beer where it is appropriate, for an accompaniment to hamburgers, for example.
Also appropriate to a book on entertaining, the first chapter is devoted to mixed drinks and appetizers. There are five mixed drinks, one of which is non-alcoholic, and all of which appear to be specialities of Boulud's restaurants. If your crowd sticks to Jack Daniels and Scotch, these are a waste of space.
I have mixed feelings about the appetizer recipes, as they all require a long to very long list of ingredients, prep time or cooking time. As someone who has made both, blinis and latkes may seem like simple dishes, but they are not something you want to do for a party of eight when you are the only cook. The four tarts appear to require more ingredients, but they have the more novelty value and they are easier to make for six to eight portions than the blinis and latkes, especially if you have a way with piecrust. The carrot and custard tart is especially unusual. If your crowd is packed with foodies, make the artichoke and radicchio clafoutis. The notion of clafoutis alone will fuel conversation for at least an hour, as the name originally applied only to a fruit flan with black cherries. Boulud extends the notion to a sort of savory vegetable tart sans crust. One of the most valuable recipes in the book is the omnibus recipe for four different ways of preparing asparagus. Boulud repeats this technique with other recipes such as his four different ways of making hamburgers. Monsieur Le Duc makes wine recommendations for both artichokes and asparagus without missing a beat. The starters chapter has more recipes than any of the other chapters, and most of the starter dishes could easily serve as a vegetable or starch side to a protein main dish.
The chapter of thirteen (13) fish recipes is a very nice mix of relatively simple dishes with cod and sea bass to eye catchers like fancy lobster rolls and Vietnamese spring rolls. The vocabulary word in this chapter is mariniere, usually applied to cooking mussels. Boulud bends the dictionary again by applying the white wine technique to clams, tuna and potatoes.
The oddly short chapter on meat, poultry, and side dishes, with a bare seventeen (17) recipes gives some unusual dishes such as Guinea Hen casserole, but almost all of the recipes are souped up versions of well known dishes such as cassolet, lamb stew, duck a la orange, pork tenderloin, and roasted turkey breast. The most interesting recipe in this section is for roasted venison, where making the spice mixture; the marinade, the date sauce, and the garnish together take a lot longer than roasting, then broiling the meat. I would not make this dish for anyone who was not very interested in his or her food.
True to the entertaining theme of the book, the dessert chapter has twenty-one (21) recipes, most of that are unusual and challenging, but only two three of which involve yeast doughs. The word for this chapter is chamonix, which is so arcane, it doesn't even appear in my Larousse Gastronomique. Boulud's version is a muffin with lots of `cookie spices' and an orange sauce. Many of the recipes have simple names, such as phyllo apple tart, chocolate cakes, frozen strawberry souffle and chocolate mousse. Trust Boulud to turn each simple idea into a conversation piece. Some familiar desserts are really taken to an entirely different place as with the chocolate and pistachio crepes Suzette. You will be happy to find a very traditional clafoutis recipe with black cherries and hazelnuts.
Many recipes are interesting variations on well-known standards. So, like the clafoutis, many dishes will spark a lot of interest if your guests get into talking about the food. Not every dish has a photograph, but those that are photographed are competent and lend some value to understanding the dish. Unfortunately, I suspect some lapse of honesty with some of the photographs, as they do not seem to match the dishes. The kiwi pate photo lacks all trace of the characteristic kiwi green color.
Appendices give sources for both unusual foods and cookware. They also include menus for entertaining and seasonal menus. It is beyond me why Boulud could not do `seasonal menus for entertaining', but there you are.
If you entertain for people who really appreciate their food and wine, and you are competent in the kitchen, this book is a great resource. Almost all of the recipes require long ingredient list, lots of prep work, and good skills with sauces and custards.
Gourmet Home Cooking.......2003-11-02
This is a beautifully designed and well laid out cookbook. "Daniel's Dish" contains about 70 recipes, many of which were first published in Elle magazine, and others which were written especially for the book. The dishes are varied, with French, Mediterranean, Asian and American influences. If you are the sort of vegetarian who eats eggs and dairy there are quite a few things in this book you can eat, and even more if you eat seafood.
This book is recommended for:
1. "Foodies" who love food, love to cook, have appreciative guests and are prepared to spend some time in the kitchen.
2. Cookbook collectors.
3. Those who are interested in gourmet cooking & famous chefs.
This is the food that a world class French chef makes at home when he is entertaining. If you are a novice cook or wanting some quick and easy down home cooking, this book probably isn't for you. A few recipes are simple, some are elaborate, some are classics and others are up-market versions of popular home dishes such as stews and roasts. I've made several recipes from this book and they were all delicious - the flavors are exquisitely balanced and our guests were suitably impressed. (Incidentally, I've eaten at his restaurant Daniel and the food there is absolutely wonderful). To me, what makes the book worth owning is that the dishes I've made from it have been so outstanding.
The layout is excellent, with each recipe taking up a double page, so that you don't have to turn the page in the middle of cooking. Each recipe is accompanied by a color photo of the completed dish. Many photos are full page and all of them give you a good close-up of the food without any arty effects or distractions. The food is presented nicely in a manner that can be done at home, not in grand restaurant style. The cooking instructions are clear and well set out. Each recipe comes with a colored text box containing wine recommendations. The wine list is also indexed at the back so that you can choose a meal to go with the wine you have at hand, as well as the other way around.
Three quarters of the recipes call for items you can find in a good supermarket or deli, but about one quarter call for more exotic items such as caviar, lobster, venison, praline paste, quail eggs, swordfish, fresh sorrel and savory. Some people enjoy using these ingredients, others do not. Some of these items are not easily available, unless you live in a major city with speciality gourmet stores. Personally, I'm not going to be making many of the higher end recipes, but I still found enough other things in the book to make me happy that I bought it.
The recipes are divided into four large chapters:
Cocktails, Small Bites and Starters
Fish and Shellfish
Meat, Poultry and Side Dishes
Breads and Desserts
Other chapters include suggested menu plans, pantry basics, kitchen equipment, food sources and even a source guide for the tableware used in each photo, which is useful if you want to duplicate the presentation.
The level of difficulty in these recipes is similar to those found in Gourmet or Bon Appetit magazine. If you can make a tart or know how to roast and fry, you will have no problems. However, the recipes look harder at first glance than they actually are, and this may put some people off. This is because:
1. The recipes for fish, meat and poultry take several pages. This is not because they are tricky, its because they are actually complete main courses. Most of them include salad or vegetables plus sauce or garnish.
2. Some recipes call for a list of ingredients that looks horrendously long at first glance, but many of them turn out to be condiments or chopped vegetables that are added all at the same time. For example, there are 23 ingredients listed for the Shrimp Cakes. Which looks very scary, until you realize that you mix together 20 of them together at the same time, then dip in flour (21), egg (22) and fry in oil (23). The accompanying Goat Cheese Sauce has 10 ingredients, but all you do is put them all in a bowl at the same time and stir. So rather than doing anything too difficult, its mostly chopping up odds and ends.
The upside - great flavor. The downside - it takes time to do the shopping and chopping. Even if the items are inexpensive, there are so many of them that this can make your grocery bill add up quickly if you don't have all of them on hand.
Sample Recipes:
Caramelized Bay Scallops with Clementines and Cauliflower
Carrot Mirror Tart
Seed Crusted Rack of Pork
Parmesan Baskets with Herbed Goat Cheese
Saffron Infused Mussel Veloute with Mussels Gratins
Classic Hamburger and Three Variations
Vietnamese Crab Spring Rolls
Stuffed Artichokes with Dungeness Crab and Chanterelles
Roasted Turkey Breast with Endive, Apple and Walnuts
Lamb Stew with Rosemary and Orange
Kiwi Pate de Fruits
Chocolate Ginger Pound Cake
Squash (pumpkin) Panna Cotta with Cranberry Compote & Walnut Tuiles
Some criticisms:
1. It would have been a good idea to add a glossary of ingredients for items which not everyone may be familiar with.
2. In recipes calling for ingredients which may not be readily available to everyone, its a good idea to recommend a substitute. What should I use if I can't buy Reblochon cheese locally?
3. The recipe for Mini Baguettes and Butter Balls needs a picture to illustrate the dough folds.
4. One or two photos (eg Creme Boulud) had minor presentation features that were not included in the recipe.
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