Relax to the Max or Is Your Thyroid Making You Fat

Relax to the Max: 50 Candles, Soaps, Scents and Potpourri Crafts to Create Your Own Bliss

Author: Marie Browning

Slow down (maybe even stop), and smell the roses--and the jasmine, sandalwood, peppermint, and citrus blends, too. These remarkable fragrant candles, soaps, and potpourris make it simple for overworked, stressed-out women to experience the relaxing pleasures of aromatherapy every day. Each deliciously aromatic item in this lushly illustrated manual uses pure essential oils that promote a sense of health and well being. Whether the oil permeates the air or gets absorbed through the skin, it works its magic. An introduction explains aromatherapy's benefits, and provides hints for purchasing, blending, and storing the oils. With the help of easy-to-follow directions, create a Lifting Lavender Embedded Marble Candle; muscle soothing Relief Bath with juniper, rosemary, lemon, and eucalyptus; Serenity Now soap with patchouli; and Spicy Potpourri.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	6
Chapter 1	Scent Secrets	10
Chapter 2	Candle Diva	20
Chapter 3	Bathing Beauty	58
Chapter 4	Soap Star	78
Chapter 5	Potpourri Princess	114
	Index	140

Interesting textbook: Sake or Enchanted Garden

Is Your Thyroid Making You Fat?: The Doctor's 28-Day Diet That Tests Your Metabolism as You Lose Weight

Author: Sanford Siegal

Are you dieting and exercising-and still gaining weight?

Are you taking vitamins and minerals-and still have dull skin and hair?

Are you sleeping eight hours a night-and still feel tired all day?

If so—you may be one of the hundreds of thousands of people who suffer from hypothyroidism, a thyroid gland malfunction that makes it virtually impossible to lose weight and that can cause a wide range of other conditions. In this book, weight-loss trailblazer Dr. Sanford Siegal gives you a 28-day diet plan that helps most people lose pounds fast-and serves as an important indicator. That's because if you don't lose a lot of weight on the plan, you'll know that you may very well have a sluggish thyroid, a condition that most conventional tests fail to detect. A diet book with a difference, filled with groundbreaking medical insight and case studies, here is a guide to taking control of your weight and your health that finally answers the question... IS YOUR THYROID MAKING YOU FAT?

What People Are Saying

Robert Fried
This book is an absolute must for those who've almost lost faith in weight loss. For the multitude who've slogged through a mountain of weight-loss diet books to no avail: You can stop blaming yourself -- it may be your sluggish thyroid.
— (Robert Fried, Ph.D., co-author of The Arginine Solution)

Alan R. Gaby
From the foreward by Alan R. Gaby, M.D., former president American Holistic Medical Association, and author of The Patient's Book of Natural Healing

My own clinical experience with more than one thousand 'thyroid cases' unequivocally confirms Siegal's observations.

Dennis Gage
Low-dose thyroid supplementation -- even when a patient tests in the normal range of thyroid function -- can be a useful therapy. [This book] brings to light many unappreciated aspects of the dynamic thyroid activity and a number of maladies.
— (Dennis Gage, M.D., F.A.C.P., former acting director, The Obesity Center)

Hodgins
This book is great—I am giving it to my daughters to read, as they have a similar problem as me and are getting fed up with doctors who only go by lab results. Thanks for giving me some hope and having the courage to speak out against the 'establishment.' Wish there were more like Dr. Siegal.

Amy Shellase
If after you've read this book, taken all the tests, filled out the checklists, kept track of your temperature, and tried his 28-day eating test, you don't think you got your money's worth I'd be surprised.... Dr. Siegal also gives strong arguments for the use of natural thyroid supplementation as opposed to the use of synthetics.

S. Hileman
As a doctor of pharmacy candidate and published reviewer of medical literature, I am in constant contact with patients who complain that their doctor dismisses a metabolic problem as the cause of their obesity. While hypothyroidism certainly is not the cause of all obesity, Dr. Siegal makes a very convincing argument that, for many, it may be. ...This book offers hope to those who don't overeat but can't seem to lose weight on any diet.