Bob Greenes Total Body Makeover or Transforming Emotions with Chinese Medicine

Bob Greene's Total Body Makeover: An Accelerated Program of Exercise and Nutrition for Maximum Results in Minimum Time

Author: Bob Green

From Bob Greene, bestselling author of Get With the Program!, comes a comprehensive, innovative twelve-week plan for transforming your body inside and out. With Bob Greene's Total Body Makeover, you'll achieve maximum results in a minimum amount of time!

Knowing that great health and fitness begin with the right state of mind, Greene addresses the important emotional issues behind poor exercise and eating patterns and provides the motivational tools needed to achieve your fitness goals, as well as develop practical and beneficial habits for lasting results. You'll be inspired and moved by reading the compelling true-life success stories of real people who have taken the challenge and who have changed their bodies -- and lives -- in ways they never dreamed possible! Whether you're struggling to lose that last ten pounds or searching for a radical weight-loss solution, the twelve-week makeover challenge is the answer to your fitness goals.

After committing to the program, you'll find illustrated step-by-step workout guides for all fitness levels, combining progressive cardiovascular and intensive strength training exercises designed to revitalize your metabolism and get noticeable results fast. Each of the accelerated workouts has been created to energize and invigorate your body and mind while you have fun and trim down in the process! In addition, Greene takes a fresh approach to the question of diets by providing key nutritional guidelines that work in conjunction with any healthy eating plan, and he explains many of the popular diets on the market today to help you choose the one that's right for you.

Finally, there is helpful advice on making the transitionback to your everyday life: how to avoid regaining the weight you've lost, and how to maintain healthy exercise and eating habits for life. While many books leave you wondering what to do next, Bob Greene's Total Body Makeover offers enthusiastic and informative hands-on advice and tips beyond eating and exercise, and teaches you how to make your own happiness and well-being the foundation of an active and healthy life.

Library Journal

Trainer Greene helped Oprah stop her yo-yo cycle of dieting and finally keep off the weight she had lost. Here he presents a 12-week accelerated version of his best-selling Get with the Program! exercise plan, which can easily be used with such currently popular diets as Atkins, South Beach, and The Zone. Greene's focus is on motivation-a good thing given the advanced nature of the workouts. He does clearly explain what exercisers should be feeling if they are doing the routines correctly. Although this fitness program is pretty tough, especially for beginners, the book will probably be in demand. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

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Transforming Emotions with Chinese Medicine: An Ethnographic Account from Contemporary China

Author: Yanhua Zhang

Chinese medicine approaches emotions and emotional disorders differently than the Western biomedical model. Transforming Emotions with Chinese Medicine offers an ethnographic account of emotion-related disorders as they are conceived, talked about, experienced, and treated in clinics of Chinese medicine in contemporary China. While Chinese medicine (zhongyi) has been predominantly categorized as herbal therapy that treats physical disorders, it is also well known that Chinese patients routinely go to zhongyi clinics for treatment of illness that might be diagnosed as psychological or emotional in the West. Through participant observation, interviews, case studies, and zhongyi publications, both classic and modern, the author explores the Chinese notion of "body-person," unravels cultural constructions of emotion, and examines the way Chinese medicine manipulates body-mind connections.

About the Author:
Yanhua Zhang is Assistant Professor of Chinese at Clemson University

Table of Contents:

Tables     ix
Illustrations     xi
Acknowledgments     xiii
Introduction     1
Chinese Medicine: Continuity and Modern Transformations     17
The Chinese World of Shenti (Body-Person)     31
Contextualizing Qingzhi [Characters not reproducible] (Emotions)     53
Understanding Zhongyi Clinical Classification     75
Manifestations of Yu (Stagnations)     87
Clinical Process of Tiao (Attuning)     105
Conclusion     139
Transcription Conventions     145
Notes     147
Bibliography     169
Index     187