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BOOK OF THE WEEK with Linda Jennings. The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet: Lose Weight Fast And Reprogramme Your Body, Michael Mosley, ISBN 9781780722405 (Short Books) BD5 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
For the month of January we are featuring books to help you diet and get back on track, health-wise for 2016.
To that end, this week we are featuring both the Number One best-seller on the Medical Sciences chart as well as a wonderful book on Mindfulness from Ruby Wax.
Dr Michael Mosley, author of the bestselling 5:2 Fast Diet, reveals a game-changing approach to one of the greatest silent epidemics of our time – raised blood sugar levels.
The food we eat today, high in sugar and easily digestible carbohydrates, is not only making us fat, but is putting us at risk of Type 2 diabetes, strokes, dementia, cancer and a lifetime on medication. More than a third of adults in the UK, for example, now have raised blood sugar levels and most don’t know it.
In this timely book, Dr Mosley explains why we pile on dangerous abdominal fat and shows us how to shed it, fast. He demolishes common myths, such as the claim that steady weight loss is always better than rapid weight loss and that those who lose weight rapidly will inevitably put it back on.
This is a book not just for those at highest risk but for anyone who has struggled with their weight and wants to regain control of their health.
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The Bones Of You, Debbie Howells, ISBN 9781447276036 (Pan), BD4.500 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
The Bones of You is a gripping psychological thriller from author Debbie Howells, a story of full of dark secrets, obsession and suspense.
‘I have a gardener’s inherent belief in the natural order of things. Soft-petalled flowers that go to seed. The resolute passage of the seasons. Swallows that fly thousands of miles to follow the eternal summer.
Children who don’t die before their parents’.
When 18-year-old Rosie Anderson disappears, the idyllic village where she lived will never be the same again. Local gardener Kate is struck with guilt. She’d come to know Rosie well, and thought she understood her – perhaps better even than Rosie’s own mother.
Rosie was beautiful, kind and gentle. She came from a loving family and she had her whole life ahead of her. Who could possibly want to harm her? And why?
Kate is convinced the police are missing something. She’s certain that someone in the village knows more than they’re letting on. As the investigation deepens, so does Kate’s obsession with solving the mystery of what happened to Rosie.
This is a memorable debut from a new author – one to keep an eye on in the future if this novel is anything to go on!
My favourite read of the week
A Mindfulness Guide For The Frazzled, Ruby Wax, ISBN 9780241186480 (Penguin), BD8.400for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
500 years ago no-one died of stress: we invented this concept and now we let it rule us.
We might have evolved to be able to miraculously balance on seven-inch heels, but as far as our emotional development is concerned we’re still swimming with the pond scum.
If we don’t advance our more human qualities then we’re doomed evolution-wise to become cyborgs with an imprint of an ‘Apple’ where our hearts used to be.
In this book, Ruby Wax shows us a scientific solution to these modern problems: mindfulness.
“I know what you’re thinking – what if I don’t want to stare at a butterfly wing or hear the single ting of a wind chime? My definition of mindfulness isn’t about sitting erect on a hillock, legs in a knot, humming a mantra that’s probably the phone book sung backwards, it’s something that can help us all: learning to notice your thoughts and feelings so you can truly experience life.”
Outrageously witty, smart and accessible, Ruby Wax shows ordinary people how and why to change for good. With mindfulness advice for relationships, for parents, for children and for teenagers, and a six-week course based on her studies of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy with Mark Williams at Oxford University, A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled is the only guide you need for a healthier, happier life.
