Your Healthy Brain is a presentation of The Healthy Brain Program(c) which was an innovative approach to addressing brain care and the need for a long and healthy life, first presented to mental health professionals and then to the public, starting in 2000. The concepts were presented at many psychiatric conferences both in Canada and the USA, in a 10-lecture interactive workshop format to colleagues and to the public. They have gained popularity and some Community Mental Health Teams have adopted The Healthy Brain Program(c) as a platform for delivering brain care. After about 350 presentations, many colleagues and participants urged the publication of a book format. The first edition appeared in 2008. This book, Your Healthy Brain, is organized along the same lines as the lecture series, following the same headings, in two parts.

This practical and easy-to-follow guide to raising a healthy family offers advice and support from a mum of three and includes information on wellness and nutrition for growing children.

"Based on cutting-edge nutrition science."

Ellyn Satter's Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family takes a leadership role in the grassroots movement back to the family table. More a cooking primer than a cookbook, this book encourages singles, couples, and families with children to go to the trouble of feeding themselves well. Satter uses simple, delicious recipes as a scaffolding on which to hang cooking lessons, fast tips, night-before suggestions, in-depth background information, ways to involve kids in the kitchen, and guidelines on adapting menus for young children. In chapters about eating, feeding, choosing food, cooking, planning, and shopping, the author entertainingly helps readers have fun with food while not eating unhealthily or too often. She cites current studies and makes a convincing case for lightening up on fat and sodium without endangering ourselves or our children. The book demonstrates Satter's dictum that “your positive feelings about food and eating will do more for your health than adhering to a set of rules about what to eat and what not to eat.”

Includes section "Book reviews".

With A Healthier Family for Life, cooking healthy food that puts a smile on your loved ones' faces has never been easier. This book is not about the latest diet fad or trendy way of eating; it's about creating wholesome, nutritious dishes that delight the whole family without feeling restricted. Whatever diets, health conditions or food intolerances you need to cater for, this book will help your family live a happier, healthier life. Many families today have numerous health conditions and intolerances to consider, making the dinner table something of a minefield. In this gorgeous, practical book, health coach Donna Crous makes dinnertime less daunting and more healthy, with a wide range of delicious and nutritious recipes, including some gluten-free, sugar-free and dairy-free recipes, as well as many dishes incorporating healthy fats. A Healthier Family for Life inspires from the very start of your day with recipes including Breakfast Toad-In-The-Hole and Silver Dollar Pancakes, through to teatime family favourites like Crumbed Chicken Tenders, Kombucha and Miso-Roasted Spare Ribs and Walnut, Kale and Cranberry-Stuffed Butternut. Donna is best known for her grain-free baking and has included recipes for Vegan Christmas Pudding and a showstopping Pear and Coffee Loaf, as well as sweet treats such as Avocado and Almond Truffles and Gut-Healing Gummies. Donna says, 'This book is not only a collection of my family's favourite recipes, it's a nod to beautiful fresh produce and the farmers that grow it. It's a high five to all the parents trying to create interesting and exciting dishes for their family. It's an A* for everyone willing to challenge and question what they are being taught about the standard food pyramid.'

This fascinating book compares progressive and more religiously conservative views and their differing impacts on the health of families. Rejecting the definition of family promulgated by the Religious Right, Healthy American Families: A Progressive Alternative to the Religious Right offers an innovative approach to understanding 21st-century families. Proactive rather than reactive, it explores the ways families have changed over the past 200 years and builds on that to elucidate the larger forces that continue to redefine male and female roles and the shape of the modern family unit. Part one of the book shows that the Religious Right's claim that a Golden Age of Families existed when our country began is fallacious. Instead families have been changing since the days of the Puritans. Part two picks up the threads to show how, in the wake of those changes, most of today's families are "healthier" than families at the time of our country's founding. Healthy families, the book asserts, spring from a blend of "conservative" ideals (responsibility and accountability) and "liberal" ideals (innovation and change). The result is "responsible change" that benefits both the individual and society.