Recommended Reading and Viewing

The Crossing: Conquering the Atlantic in the World's Toughest Rowing Race
by JAMES CRACKNELL & BEN FOGLE

My brother gave me this book for my birthday a couple of years ago and told me how much he enjoyed it. It sat in my bookshelf for 18 months while I worked my way the the books that were already in my "to read pile". Wow. Wish I didn't wait so long.

Remotely Controlled: How television is damaging our lives
by ARIC SIGMAN

Aric Sigman, an american psychologist living in Britian, describes the dangers to our physical, mental and social health we are exposed while to watching TV. Most startling was the evidence that TV causes over half of all violent crime! Fortunately, there are some, simple home remedies available to all of us, exercise, talking on the telephone, going to church and gardening, we just have to drag ourselves away from this highly adictive drug.

The Biology Of Belief
by BRUCE LIPTON PH.D

In this book Dr Bruce Lipton describes the biological and chemical links between our thoughts and how we interact with the world. This book will free you from the dogma that you are only what your genes say you are. Chapter 7, Conscious Parenting, gives parents clues as to how there actions will affect their children for the rest of their lives.

Affluenza
by CLIVE HAMILTON

Australians are among the richest people in the world and are three times richer today then in the 1950's. Unfortunately we aren't any happier. Clive Hamilton and Richard Denniss examine this fact, discuss the forces behind consumerism and give ideas on how to escape the rat race.

Highly recommended reading!

The Ethics Of What We Eat
by PETER SINGER & JIM MASON

Peter Singer, the ground-breaking ethicist, has teamed up with Jim Mason, a lawyer, teacher and journalist, to write a book examining the consequences of the food we eat on our health, the environment, animals and people working in the food industry. While Singer is vegan and an influential animal rights advocate, he does make some suprising conclusions. His analysis of topics such as: should we buy local or imported, organic or conventional, vegan, vegetarian or omnivorous diets, is thorough and often unexpexted. This book is a must for anybody wanting to make better decisions about where they get their food from and how it is produced.

Fast Food Nation: What The All American Diet is Doing to the World
by ERIC SCHLOSSER

This is a meticulously reseached book investigating the effect of the fast food industry on America and the rest of the world. It is not an anti-meat, anti-fat, non-dairy attack on the western diet. Nor is it an attack on the fast food giants. Instead Schlosser describes how the industry began and what it has become. Particularly interesting is the description of the lives of the people in the industry. What this book does achieve is it gives you the chance to make a better informed choice about where you get your hamburger and fries.

Chicken Soup For The Chiropractic Soul
by JACK CANEFIELD, MARK VICTOR HANSEN & DR FABRIZIO MANCINI

Jack Canefield and Mark Victor Hansen have brought together information, stories and heartfelt messages from people just like you who consider chiropractic care - then changed their lives by adding chiropractic visits to their healthy, vibrant new lifestyle.
You’ll meet patients who suffered incredible health challenged - then thrived once they experienced chiropractic care. One man, a war veteran, gained newfound mobility after living thirty years crippled by a battlefield injugained injury. Another patient overcome baffling pain to bring home Olympic Glory. Yet another recovered from the near-loss of his legs - a diabetic condition that was relieved with chiropractic care.

The Liver Cleansing Diet
by DR SANDRA CABOT

Does your liver need a check-up? This book gives you a way to kick start your new health regime. Although The Liver Cleanising Diet does require change, often drastic change, it gets results. Within a couple of weeks of following the recommendations in this book you will notice how much better you feel.

Changing Habits Changing Lives
by CYNDI O'MEARA

Cyndi O'Meara provides easy solutions to improving your diet and lifestyle that will enhance your health and wellbeing. Its simple. Read and do one chapter a week so that it becomes a habit. Very soon you will notice extra energy and vitality. Cyndi is an Australian nutritionist, author and speaker. (She is the 1 in 10 nutritionists that doesn't recommend a certain breakfast cereal.)

The Chiropractic Profession
by DAVID CHAPMAN-SMITH

Quite simply this is the best book written on the chiropractic profession for the general public. Written by lawyer David Chapman-Smith this book covers everything from history, education and licensing, how chiropractic works and what it can help, and the current state of the profession. This is an extensively researched and referenced book highly recommended to anyone wanting to know a more about chiropractic.

Super Size Me: A Film of Epic Portions

This documentary follows Morgan Spulock while he sets out to discover what would happen if someone ate nothing but McDonald's for 30 days, breakfast lunch and dinner. This DVD also includes bonus features such as a director's commentary, deleted scenes and interviews. This is highly recommended vewing!

What The Bleep Do We Know!?

WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE KNOW?! is a new type of film. It is part documentary, part story, and part elaborate and inspiring visual effects and animations. Follow our character, Amanda, as she questions the fundemental premises of her life, and listen to esteemed thinkers in the field of quantum phyics and the power of thought. This film will certainly get you thinking.

The Human Body

This DVD set takes us on the journey from conception, through birth, growning up, growning old and dying using amazing techniques. Along the way we learn amazing facts about our bodies. Amazing!