Healing Heartburn or Ayurveda

Healing Heartburn

Author: Lawrence J Cheskin

Few federal agencies have more extensive ties to the private sector than NASA. NASA's relationships with its many aerospace industry suppliers of rocket engines, computers, electronics, gauges, valves, O-rings, and other materials have often been described as "partnerships." These have produced a few memorable catastrophes, but mostly technical achievements of the highest order. Until now, no one has written extensively about them.

In NASA and the Space Industry, Joan Lisa Bromberg explores how NASA's relationship with the private sector developed and how it works. She outlines the various kinds of expertise public and private sectors brought to the tasks NASA took on, describing how this division of labor changed over time. She explains why NASA sometimes encouraged and sometimes thwarted the privatization of space projects and describes the agency's role in the rise of such new space industries as launch vehicles and communications satellites.

Nicholas Ferrentino

Healing Heartburn is informative, easy to read, and provides an excellent overview of the subject with significant detail of GERD and its related issues. I found the clinical case vignettes to be particularly helpful for the lay person or patient. I think this would be an excellent book to stock in physicians offices to be given to patients as a resource for information regarding this particular disease process.

Booknews

Written for the general reader, this book explains the basics of gastrointestinal reflux disease, identifies its symptoms, and discusses available treatments. It describes diagnostic tests, each step in treatment, the effectiveness of medications, and complications. Patient stories, illustrations, questionnaires, answers to common questions, and a list of resources are provided. The authors are affiliated with Johns Hopkins. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Ayurveda: A Comprehensive Guide to Traditional Indian Medicine for the West

Author: Frank John Ninivaggi

Derived from prehistoric sages living in ancient India some 6,000 years ago, Ayurveda denotes life wisdom. The medical system of India, it is arguably the oldest medical tradition that exists. This book translates the Eastern wisdom into terms and concepts Westerners can understand. Ninivaggi presents the text with both scholarship and compassion. He explains how Ayurveda can promote physical and mental health by targeting threats ranging from acute and chronic stress, to pre-diabetes, metabolic syndrome, obesity, coronary artery disease, and diabetes. Practical, user-friendly nutritional guidelines for maintaining health and addressing health imbalances are given. The center of attention in Ayurveda is the person. The meaningfulness of a quality of life in the world is central. Living a quality life with others and in accord with nature--the environment at large--is emphasized. Health strategies are suggested for specific individual constitutional types, to prevent emotional distress, to treat illness, and to enhance optimal living. Avyureda has been handed down across millennia, virtually intact to the present day. It is a comprehensive way of living whose scope includes proactive health measures as well as integrated healing strategies for body, mind, and spirit.