My Anecdotal Life

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'Hey, Reiner, you ought to write those things down,' his friends have said. At eighty, Carl Reiner is one of the best raconteurs on the planet. Rather than a full-blown autobio-graphy, he has chosen his favorite form-brief stories that capture the tone of his life. 'Sidney Bechet and His Jazz Band Meet Franz Kafka,' 'The Birth of the 2000 Year Old Man and His Attending Midwives,' 'Mary Tyler Moore Made Me Quake,' 'My First Best Job'-the titles of Reiner's pieces reveal the wit of his stories. His charming memoir will delight anyone who wants a behind-the-scenes look at five decades of Hollywood and television history.

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An Amusing but not Hilarious Memoir.......2006-10-19

Mr. Reiner is undoubtedly a funny man but the full force of his humor is not to be seen in My Anecdotal Life. It is a likable, amusing and easy reading book but the stories are sometimes obscure and the punchlines sometimes don't justify the build-up. The professional period that he is perhaps best known for, the Dick Van Dyke show era, is lightly covered -- much to my disappointment. Another flaw is that there is no index. Books like this name-drop and half the fun is to see who and who isn't mentioned. Sadly, there are no old photos either. As Mr. Reiner intimates, much of the book flows from many years of dinner party repartee. You will like this book but only the most devoted fans will love it.

wonderful, amusing read.......2005-08-02

This is a great book! It is easy reading and wonderfully entertaining. I rarely laugh out loud even with the funniest of books, but I did with this one. Carl Reiner has let quite an interesting life, if you are a fan of him (or even if you aren't) you will love this book. Pick it up if you are just looking for some entertaining stories written by a comic genius. I highly recommend it!

I love Carl Reiner.......2004-08-17

I had an advanced copy and went through it in two days. This book is very much worth it. My wife and I have been huge fans for years.

Mel Brooks was right.......2004-01-10

OK, so I didn't buy this book, I read it standing up at a bookstore (Barnes & Noble on State Street in Chicago), and one, just one, of the anecdotes was so funny that I was laughing so hard that my sides were actually hurting and I thought they were going to throw me out of the store. I'm not going to spoil it for anyone, but let's just call it the "Richard III" anecdote. And if you don't think it's the funniest thing you're ever read, -- well, then you have no sense of humor.

As disappointing as it is brief.......2004-01-08

Seeing that most of the reviews here are disappointing ones, I'm forced to agree. I expected more references to the heyday of classic television. While Carl must have a thousand stories about that era, he has evidently saved them for a different book. As for THESE anecdotes, I don't think I cracked a smile once. But I sure cracked a yawn.

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My Anecdotal Life : A Memoir
Carl Reiner
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OTLLL4

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I trained in this program and it helped tremendously

Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions...

Good resource for seniors

Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions: Self-Management of Heart Disease, Fatigue, Arthritis, Worry, Diabetes, Frustration, Asthma, Pain, Emphysema, and Others
Kate Lorig , Halsted Holman , David Sobel , and Diana Laurent
Manufacturer: Bull Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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Motivational Practice: Promoting Healthy Habits And Self-care Of Chronic Diseases

ASIN: 1933503017

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Filled with hundreds of tips, suggestions, and strategies, this guide offers practical medical solutions in clear language. It explains how to develop and maintain exercise and nutrition programs, manage symptoms, determine when to seek medical help, work effectively with doctors, properly use medications and minimize side effects, find community resources, discuss the illness with family and friends, and tailor social activities for particular conditions. Written by six medical professionals, this book encourages an individual approach to the process, with the ultimate goal being greater self-management. Originally based on a five-year study conducted at Stanford University with hundreds of volunteers, this work has grown to include the feedback of medical professionals and thousands of people with chronic conditions all over the world.

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I trained in this program and it helped tremendously.......2003-12-23

This book started the Self-Management approach to chronic illness. I trained in the Self-Management program and have led groups for years, and have seen people make wonderful changes. This experience and knowledge inspired me to write my book, The Art of Getting Well.

Drs Lorig, Holman, Sobel and the other authors lay out all you need to know to develop your programs of exercise, relaxation, emotional support, and healthy eating. They also teach how to deal successfully with medical systems and treatments.

The book stresses living the best possible life, not just following medical orders or watching everything you eat. It's an excellent complement to my book, which will provide some inspiration to attempt the behavior changes that "Living a Healthy Life" explains so well.

Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions..........2003-12-12

This book does an excellent job of presenting how chronic illness patients are overwhelmed and how they can aggressively
confront the debilitating cycle and successfully manage the lifestyles they must lead. Everyone with a chronic illness is forced to live differently than all others, no matter their age.
The book analyzes and describes the depleting cycle that anyone with a chronic, dibilitating illness encounters, and offers proven solutions on how to break the debilitating cycle and progress outward inspite of the illness.

Good resource for seniors.......2000-07-01

This book, written in a very simple, "self-help" style, seems to be geared to the senior citizen suffering from chronic illness and emphasizes developing and implementing management plans for exercise, diet, and medical care. While much of it is common sense, it does offer bulleted, structured outlines for communicating with medical professionals, managing medicines, planning for the future (and possibly greater physical degeneration), and most of all acknowledges the feelings and depression that often accompany chronic illness.

At Home With Gladys Knight : Her Personal Recipe for Living Well, Eating Right, and Loving Life

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Great Book for Healthy Living!!!
Thank you Mrs. Knight

At Home With Gladys Knight : Her Personal Recipe for Living Well, Eating Right, and Loving Life
Gladys Knight
Manufacturer: American Diabetes Association
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1580400752

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More than a cookbook...an inspirational guide for readers with diabetes!

Gladys Knight doesn't have diabetes, but the disease is never far from her mind. Her mother, Elizabeth Knight, died of complications in 1998 after living successfully with diabetes for 40 years.

Following her mother's death, Gladys started the Elizabeth Knight Fund with the American Diabetes Association to help people living with diabetes. The singing legend has also been eating healthfully and exercising regularly for many years.

At Home With Gladys Knight's is more than a collection of recipes. It's an inspirational guide that people with diabetes can use to lead a full and healthy life with the disease.

More than 100 recipes, including appetizers, desserts, breads, soups, salads and salad dressings, fish, meat, poultry and pasta
Features a healthy living section that outlines a successful exercise plan, self-care tips, and nutrition recommendations
Includes personal anecdotes from Gladys and captures her mother's heartbreaking yet inspiring fight against diabetes

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Great Book for Healthy Living!!!.......2006-04-08

I am an author and a poet and during a leisure trip to Las Vegas, Nevada with my family, we were able to obtain a front row seat at the Gladys Knight Show. It was awesome. What a display of great talent! Reading her book is fascinating. The historical perspective of her story is amazing. She states how she believes diabetes eventually crept upon her, and why. However, she has it under control. The ways in which she blends her songs into her treatment plan is humbling. For example, she uses the heading in one section of the book, "Neither One Of Us Wants to Say Goodbye to the Cheeseburger," where she discusses fatty foods and how to avoid fast foods. The pictures of her family are wonderful. Her philosophy of dealing with positive people, exercising daily, and burning calories is a formula for success. The final section of the book deals with a variety of mouth-watering dishes and recipes. They are all healthy with her special blend of spices, herbs, and juices, with a low fat touch. This is an easy and relaxing book to read. It's a great treat to and for lowering one's blood sugar and staying healthy. I highly recommend it!!!

Thank you Mrs. Knight.......2001-12-24

At Home With Gladys Knight is a wonderful, inspiring book. I bought this book for my parents who both have diabetes. After years of trying to get them to follow doctor recommended diets it is a relief to have a book that inspires my parents to not only care about their diet, but their physical fitness as well.
Mrs. Knight has created a quick and easy read that is full of motivation. This book gets 5 stars in the Murphy household.

My Child Has Diabetes: A Parent's Guide to a Normal Life After Diagnosis

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Practical and helpful support

My Child Has Diabetes: A Parent's Guide to a Normal Life After Diagnosis
Karen Hargrave-Nykaza
Manufacturer: iUniverse, Inc.
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0595388418

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From the moment her son was diagnosed with diabetes, author Karen Hargrave-Nykaza felt lost. Although there was plenty of medical information on the disease, she struggled to find ideas for managing typical, everyday activities. How would she keep her family's life normal while addressing one child's health issues? How much information did her son's school need? Play dates, birthday parties, and her son's developing independence also troubled her.

Faced with such challenges, and having no resource to turn to, Hargrave-Nykaza began her quest to uncover the answers. In a straightforward, supportive manner, My Child Has Diabetes shares Hargrave-Nykaza's knowledge to help other parents in similar situations cope with their child's disease. With checklists, tips, and reassurance, My Child Has Diabetes includes topics such as the following:

· Adjusting to life with diabetes
· Finding support for you and your child
· Supplying your child's school with the necessary information
· Gaining control without obsessing

If you're the parent of a diabetic child, put your mind at ease-learn to create a healthy, happy environment for your children and your family with My Child Has Diabetes. "Karen Hargrave-Nykaza's book is a welcome addition to diabetes literature. It accurately and helpfully brings the practical and emotional aspects of diabetes to light. A must have for anyone dealing with diabetes!"
-Renea Jo Zosel, author Diabetes: An Emotional Journey

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Practical and helpful support.......2006-06-13

Karen Hargrave-Nykaza responded as you'd hope a mother of a child with a chronic illness would, by focusing all her energy on responding to her son's diagnosis of juvenile diabetes. She has collected her experiences into a book that helps parents in her situation get through the day without reinventing the wheel, giving examples of tip sheets, procedures, and her responses to the many crises that occur from the moment you receive a diagnosis. Karen now leads groups counseling new families with how to cope.

Making the Best of Life, Book 2: Learning to Live With Diabetes

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Making the Best of Life, Book 2: Learning to Live With Diabetes
Jed Block
Manufacturer: Jed Block
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Binding: Paperback

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Caitlin is 10. She was struck with diabetes three years ago. Since then, a neighbor girl was diagnosed, and they've become best friends.

Share our story with a child in your life to help deal with human, emotional, family and practical issues of a chronic disease and preadolescence.

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Do you know what to do if your blood sugar gets out of control? Do you know how you can protect your body against vision loss, nerve damage and other effects of diabetes? Do you know the questions (and answers) that will help you feel better, live longer and SAVE YOUR LIFE? Most people feel when they are diagnosed with diabetes that they've been robbed of their right to live a long, healthy life. Taylor Grant shows you how to take charge of your diabetes and protect your health. In The 7 Questions That Will Save Your Life - Living with Diabetes, she will arm you with the power to: Be prepared for emergencies Get the tests, treatments and medicines you need Understand how to keep your diabetes under control Taylor Grant wants you to live the healthiest, longest life you can. It's time now to . . . answer The 7 Questions That Will Save Your Life. softcover; 216 pages

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"Living Life with Diabetes" by John Keeler
New insights!

Living Life with Diabetes
John Keeler
Manufacturer: Wiley
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ASIN: 0470869135

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Diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at the age of four, John Keeler's life has been marked by a determination to make it as fulfilling and rich as possible. In this honest and heart-warming book he describes his journey from childhood to adulthood; from that initial diagnosis, through dealing with pain, fear and ignorance, to his situation today, where he feels in control of his diabetes - it no longer controls him!

At times humorous, at other times raw and blunt, John Keeler highlights the feelings, experiences and the (often overlooked) practical difficulties that people with diabetes often face. Here you will find advice on how to avoid the common pitfalls, honest descriptions of the emotions you may feel, as well reassurance and support.

This book is aimed at fellow sufferers, but also their families, friends, and health care providers, who wish to learn more about how you can live life fully with diabetes.

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Diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at the age of four, John Keeler's life subsequently has been marked by a determination to make it as rich and complete as possible. A wise, personal account of his successful struggles with this life-threatening illness, Living Life with Diabetes details the too often ignored psychological and emotional aspects of the condition. Full of insights for sufferers and their families and friends, Living Life with Diabetes sheds light on relationships with the medical profession and problems often encountered, as well as often overlooked difficulties of living with the disease.

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"Living Life with Diabetes" by John Keeler.......2004-06-02

An excellent book which gives insight into the life of a person with diabetes. It is easy to understand both for people with and without diabetes. The book gives us Johns first hand experiences of coping with the day to day challenges of having diabetes. It is an accurate, well written, down-to-earth, humourous story. The book shows us that diabetes can never be a restriction for living life to the best. One of my first impressions when reading this book was: "Wow, I'm so glad I'm not the only one who feels that way". It contains a lot of practical tips and gives the reader reassurance, hope and a sense of happiness. Instead if asking "why me?" we end up asking ourselves "why not me?".
I would even recommend this book to members of the medical profession who work closely with people who have diabetes.

New insights!.......2004-04-23

I just recently finished reading this new book called "Living Life With Diabetes", by John Keeler. What an amazing book he wrote. My husband is a diabetic and afterreading this I understand so much more about him. I was brought into his world for just bit, but enough that I learned so much. I highly reccommend this book for anyone who is a diabetic, is married to a diabetic, have children who are diabetic or even if you just know anyone who does. Thank you John and Good Luck.

Women and Diabetes: Life Planning for Health and Wellness

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Women and Diabetes:Staying Healthy in Body, Mind and Spirit
I thought this book was great for every woman with diabetes.

Women and Diabetes: Life Planning for Health and Wellness
Laurinda M. Poirier , and Katherine M. Coburn
Manufacturer: Bantam
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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ASIN: 0553579460

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What is the impact of menstruation, menopause, or PMS on your glucose levels? If you are juggling career and family, where does diabetes fit in your busy schedule? How do you motivate yourself to lose weight--without blaming yourself? When do you tell a potential life partner you have diabetes? How do you factor diabetes into your fertility or contraceptive concerns?

Here is the first book to address the unique challenges faced by women with diabetes.

This compassionate guide was created to help women deal with the emotional issues and practical concerns that accompany diabetes. The authors, a diabetes nurse educator and a type 1 diabetic, have real-life experience with the special challenges, risks, and fears that women face. Their wise and inspiring guide will help you:

Develop a support system that works
Confront fears that can make self-care difficult
Pay attention to your body's wisdom
Establish routines for rest, stress reduction, and self-renewal
Live more fully and happily every day

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Women and Diabetes:Staying Healthy in Body, Mind and Spirit.......2001-10-09

This book is not just about the nuts and bolts of diabetic management (blood sugar testing, diet, exercise). It deals with the emotional impact that diabetes has on the life of a woman. Because there are stories from women who have already "walked in my shoes", I felt less alone in dealing with this disease. There are "fill-in-the-blank" pages to help you identify people who can help you; to let you see where you are on the road to acceptance of being a diabetic. Diabetes affects all aspects of life and tight management is crucial to preventing or minimizing complications later. I highly recommend this book to any diabetic woman, whether she is newly diagnosed, or has been dealing with it for years. I would also recommend sharing this book with family and friends.

I thought this book was great for every woman with diabetes........1999-10-12

This is the first book I have read that totally and thoroughly goes over the different aspects of diabetes that only women face. The needs of men and women are totally different with regards to health issues--especially diabetes. I highly recommend this to every woman with diabetes--whether newly diagnosed or someone who has had the disease for years. It is informative and very informational, too.

FitKid7- 7 Simple Steps for a Fit & Healthy Child!

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6 stars

FitKid7- 7 Simple Steps for a Fit & Healthy Child!
Nutritional Consultant Sirkka Wolke
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FitKid7 is guaranteed to help children lose weight and/or get fit! The bonus is that children who live healthily tend to sleep better, have fewer behavior problems, experience less illness and are able to concentrate better in school! The FitKid7 book contains- 7 Simple Steps for a Fit & Healthy Child. Looks into reasons of why kids are unfit &/or overweight. How to get our kids on board to make the positive changes. Harmful Food Additives List. Shopping List. Great Ideas for Meals & Snacks. Recipes. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.

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6 stars.......2007-08-22

Fitkid7 is a great book on childhood fitness & health. It covers the issues of exercising, healthy eating and much much more.

I found it was easy to read (unlike a few others I've tried).

I love all the sections on Recipies, Shopping lists, meal ideas etc.

I would recommend FitKid7 to anyone looking for a book on kid's health. Your kids would love to read it just as I have.

Sirkka Wolke has done a great job on this one.****** 6 stars from me!

Living with insulin-dependent diabetes: life can still be sweet.: An article from: Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin

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Living with insulin-dependent diabetes: life can still be sweet.: An article from: Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin
Erin Martz
Manufacturer: Pro-Ed
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, published by Pro-Ed on September 22, 2003. The length of the article is 5611 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Living with insulin-dependent diabetes: life can still be sweet.
Author: Erin Martz
Publication: Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2003
Publisher: Pro-Ed
Volume: 47 Issue: 1 Page: 51(7)

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