ANXIETY, COLDS, CANCER, DIABETES, HEART,
MEMORY
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"HEALTHY JINGLES FOR THE MIND AND BODY"
by Vernon Quarstein, PhD and Linda J. Dumanowski, RN, is a
memorable and effective book. According to
AuthorsPressRelease.com (John Weaver):
"Books are fun and never grow old; Great books are worth their
weight in Gold. How many
book reviewers get to begin a review with a rhyming
jingle?
This was my first and I have to admit it
was fun and addictive.”
What is a jingle? Webster's dictionary says, "A jingle is a
memorable slogan...An effective jingle is constructed to stay in
one's memory (colloquially, "Ringing a bell"). People often
nostalgically remember a jingle decades later..."
"Healthy Jingles for the Mind and Body" by Vernon A.
Quarstein PhD and Linda J. Dumanowski RN (ISBN-10: 1419641832) This
is a book that takes learning about your health to
another level.”
If college biology books were as entertaining as " Healthy
Jingles for the Mind and Body " I would have made straight A's
and stayed awake more in class. The author, Vernon A.
Quarstein PhD, says "I personally wrote 99% of all jingles.”
“According to Johns Hopkins Health
Alerts research shows that a 10- minute walk can improve your
mood for two hours. Another study demonstrates that 10
minutes of pedaling on a stationery bike is enough to make you feel
better, at least temporarily. Choose activities that are
moderately intense. Find exercises that are continuous and
rhythmic (rather than intermittent). Add a
mind-body element: Activities such as yoga and tai chi rest your
mind and pump up your energy.”
According to AuthorsPressRelease.com: “The idea and concept for a book
like: "Healthy Jingles for the Mind and Body" is so simple it
borders on literary and medical genius. Here's a professional
doctor teaching us about serious subjects like heart disease
and making it lighthearted in an interesting and intelligent form.
"Healthy Jingles.. touches on everything from improving
memory and sleeping better to headaches and
colds. Healthy jingles are also provided to prevent and care for
anxieties, heart disease, strokes, cancer, diabetes,
headaches, colds, memory, and AHD.
" Healthy Jingles for the Mind and Body" was written as a
team as Dr. Quarstein explains, "Linda and I worked well together
... she used her hospital experiences to make the messages
regarding self-help meaningful. Every jingle from this book will
captivate all readers –
According to AuthorsPressRelease.com:
"HEALTHY JINGLES FOR THE MIND AND BODY"
by
Vernon Quarstein, PhD and Linda J. Dumanowski, RN, is a memorable
and effective book. EXAMPLES OF HEALTHY JINGLES:
“THE WELLNESS JINGLE:
The feeling of some improvement,
That stems from doing right things.
By following the jingles advice,
Much joy to us wellness brings.
LEARN TO RELAX, SEEK HELP:
Learn to relax, practice meditation,
Exercise to reduce some of the stress,
Seek help from a really close friend,
Try a professional if it’s still a mess.”
"Healthy Jingles for the Mind and Body is so much fun to
read you instantly envy the author because you know he was having a
jolly and festive time writing the book.
‘The book was indeed fun to write’ the author says, "Once I was
able to struggle through the first two chapters, I used material
from medical schools, medical clinics, hospitals and other
official sources for the information. These were contained in
medical or scientific publications for which I subscribed and
for which I gave full credit throughout the book. Writing the book
was a delight.”
As
reviewed by New York Times best-selling author Ellen
Tanner Marsh:
“An apple a day keeps the doctor away!” Surely everyone
remembers this little bit of poetic wisdom from childhood,
indicative of the medical virtues of apple-eating.
In
Healthy Jingles for the Mind and Body,
Vernon Quarstein and Linda Dumanowski have collected numerous such
jingles—some delightful, all insightful-- to accompany
preventative and curative advice on a myriad of medical
difficulties.
It is also a medical
discussion of various health issues mostly suffered by adults and,
unlike similar works by notables such as Andrew Weil and Don
Colbert, this innovative book boils complicated medical
discussion down into a fun bit of rhyme that is more easily digested
and retained.
The variety of jingles
is astonishing, covering such conditions as heart disease,
cancer, diabetes, stroke, headache, anxiety and stress, even
improving memory and practicing safety on a bicycle.”
Quarstein and Dumanowski have written this book in the hope that
even adults can learn good habits and thus achieve benefit
from a kind of teaching tool normally designed for children.
Healthy Jingles for the Mind and Body
is not merely a collection of jingles, of course. It is also
a medical discussion of various health issues mostly suffered
by adults and, unlike similar works by notables such as Andrew Weil
and Don Colbert, this innovative book boils complicated medical
discussion down into a fun bit of rhyme that is more easily
digested and retained.
This is important because, according to the authors, the typical
reader of books of medical advice is an adult worried about some
major health issue, and their approach is particularly important
for adult patients whose illnesses may mean they are not at their
best, particularly in terms of learning and remembering.
“From a health education standpoint,” Quarstein writes, “the average
adult learns at about a sixth-grade level…and instructions have to
be kept clear and simple. Some patients may be better prepared, but
sick patients are generally overwhelmed by their diagnosis,
denial… and fear.”
Healthy Jingles for
the Mind and Body,
by Vernon Quarstein, PhD and Linda J. Dumanowski, RN, As reviewed by
New York Times best-selling author Ellen Tanner Marsh
“Clearly, jingles such as ‘One, two, coated aspirins don’t chew’
(think, ‘one, two, buckle my shoe’) are more easily retained than
‘Don’t chew coated acetylsalicylic acid tablets.”
Ultimately what Quarstein and Dumanowski have done is given this
type of book a twist of fun without sacrificing the seriousness
of this approach, and they are to be commended for that.
After all, jingles are easier and much more fun—and what doctor
these days would not concede the medical benefits of laughter?
A merry heart, after all, doeth good like a medicine.
To those to be or
already stricken with a disease, jingles express self-help advice
from top nutritional and medical schools and famous clinics
and hospitals in the United States.
Jingle formats are
much more interesting, easier to learn, enjoyable to read, easily
understood, retained longer, and recalled quicker than narrative
formats.
“In
this book healthy jingles are backed up by narrative explanations
wherever needed. Jingle based information is provided for
improving memory, sleeping better, dispelling worries, anxieties,
stress, headaches, and colds.
They provide
self-prevention advice on weight control, exercising, dieting,
bicycling and by developing good habits. Healthy jingles are
also provided to prevent and care for heart disease, strokes,
cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer's diseases.”
Psychological Underpinnings:
Reference: David M. Buss, 2000,
University of Texas, The American Psychologist, American
Psychological Association, Inc., Vol. 55, No. 1, 15-23:
The success of
Healthy Jingles stems from evolutionary underpinnings in humans
for the fulfillment of desire, in this case to become and to remain
fit and healthy. This is a strategy for raising human happiness
which exploits knowledge of evolved desires whose fulfillment brings
deep joy.
The desire exploited
in the book, “Healthy Jingles for the Mind and Body,” is to
know and to follow self prevention and self care advocated by
modern medicine.
According to Bass,
2000, studies of private wishes reveal an evolutionary menu of
motivations designed to achieve goals historically correlated with
fitness. These include desire for health, high-quality food,
personal safety and other success related variables.
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