Help students learn to write while encouraging them to write about topics that interest them. Open-ended activities cover generating ideas, prewriting, sequencing, writing final drafts, and proofreading.

This book started out as a joke. As I wrote it though, over the space of a year and a half, I realized a couple of things. First, I still have issues to work out. Second, a zillion other people are working on the same things. With that in mind, I've put together a collection of anecdotes and advice based on hard-won lessons about alcohol, triggers for over-drinking, building better habits, and success in life. If you think you might benefit from drinking less, this book is for you. Want to drop a subtle hint for a friend who's overdoing it? Leave a copy out on the coffee table or drop it on their desk. I'm sharing parts of my personal story here to give you some context for the book, and to let you know that whatever problems you're facing, whatever you've been through, you're not alone!-Rick Gehrke

This sourcebook contains basic consumer health information about the liver, how it works, and how to keep it healthy through diet, vaccination, and other preventative care measures.

The concepts in this book improve liver disease. How do I know? Because these truths have healed me from ulcerated colitis, fibromyalgia, hypothyroid, and debilitating frequent migraine headaches. Oh, and I dropped two dress sizes during the first few months.My students have also lost weight, and a few have had Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease greatly improve or go into remission. How can all this happen? Because your liver is a crucial part for your over-all health. Why? The Liver cleans all of your blood and is extremely important to your immune system. The liver's health determines how your body deals with calories - burn or store them. Burning calories decides if you are full of energy or have horrible fatigue. You might call your liver the king of your body's health.How will you know the 50 ways are working? Over 90 percent of my students lose weight. Many of them have reported improved liver enzyme test results. According to the World Health Organization, liver disease has had a global increase in the last few years. While you may have a good laugh while reading this book, don't underestimate the improved health results after doing the first way. The small steps are designed to make this plan easy. What's the first way? Drink more water, and it tells you the best water to drink. What's the second way? Add a raw salad for one meal each day, but don't use store-bought dressings. Yes, the recipe is included for the simplest EVOO Salad Dressing on the planet.Other illnesses that have been improved are: Acid Re-flux Disease, Allergies, Diabetes, Chronic Stone Former, Food Cravings with Depression, Heart Arrhythmia, High Cholesterol, Low Thyroid, Lupus, and Obesity.

New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

If you’re approaching that huge milepost with less than your usual birthday enthusiasm, open this book to discover all the ways in which turning fifty might just be the best thing yet. The authors share a wide range of ideas for making this major life transition a time of opportunity, growth, and celebration. As Sheila Key writes in the introduction: “What Peg and I hope you’ll hear among these pages is the irrepressible rustling of joy — joy enough to make you bust out laughing, sure, and the kind that comes from improving your mental outlook and physical habits, even just a little. But also the simple joy of having lived this long, of being able to look back over five full decades and forward to who-knows-how-many more; not to mention...the joy of living more mindfully in the ever-present Now.” Bursting with anecdotes, activities, “things to try at least once,” advice from a savvy doctor, and clever ways to remember it all, this little volume sparkles like a treasure chest. It’s as chock-full of useful and entertaining gems as your life is full of memories, regrets, dreams, and possibilities.

This book has some great tips for good liver health, delicious liver-friendly recipes for liver detox and cleansing, and information that will help you get to know one of your most hardworking and vital organs. The liver performs an amazing 500 different functions. It produces bile, essential for breaking down fat for absorption and extracting vitamins A, D, E and K, stores energy from food until it is needed, and aids our natural immunity by releasing chemicals to fight infection.With so many important jobs to do, your liver is robust enough to carry on even when it is damaged - it can even repair itself. But every organ has its limits and the liver is no exception. We must learn to love our liver. Our liver helps us to recover from all our over indulgences. So learn to give your liver the love it deserves, This book will help you cleanse your liver, detox your liver, show you good liver diets and keep your liver healthy.