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Post by Ginnie on Jul 28, 2009 23:16:09 GMT
Just finished the Bad Science (Ben Goldacre) book. I recommend that anyone with a cabinet full of 'health remedies' or considering acupuncture, homeopathy etc should read this book. It'll cost you under a tenner and could just save you a small fortune !!!! I don't know if you're endorsing alternate health remedies or condemning them ..  ... but re: acupuncture My wife treats my panic attacks with acupressure - basically acupuncture without the needles, sort of - and it WORKS. No drugs, no needles, just gentle healing fingers... When in my "panic" mode I feel lightheaded, somewhat dizzy when bending over, nervous, light limbed, weak, fearful and depressed. I can last in various stages for weeks or even months. Of course I don't let it go that long now that I have a treatment. After a treatment sometimes I feel like I can take on the world! |
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Post by penny on Jul 29, 2009 19:14:44 GMT
Its great that acupressure works for you Ginnie, your panic attacks sound dreadful to have to cope with.
At least you can cope better with them now, that must be a great help.
Acupuncture (with the needles) just didn't work for me. I found it very painful and of no help. Haven't been offered any other alternative treatment.
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Post by Mrs Foster on Jul 29, 2009 19:27:20 GMT
I had acupuncture on my back a few years ago, never helped an ounce, never felt a thing either, well maybe a prick, lying there with a backless gown on and my bare arse hanging oot.. ;D
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Post by penny on Jul 29, 2009 19:39:51 GMT
I had acupuncture on my back a few years ago, never helped an ounce, never felt a thing either, well maybe a prick, lying there with a backless gown on and my bare arse hanging oot.. ;D Jeez!!! Thank god it was just my feet I went in for!!! ;D |
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Post by Catherine on Jul 30, 2009 6:20:38 GMT
I had acupuncture on my back a few years ago, never helped an ounce, never felt a thing either, well maybe a prick, lying there with a backless gown on and my bare arse hanging oot.. ;D Oh, dear! Poor Mrs Foster............I WISH I was better with this picture malarky!! (still giggling!! ;D) |
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Post by platterpete on Jul 30, 2009 13:19:43 GMT
I have just started reading Sam Bourne The Last Testament, I read and enjoyed The Righteous Men a few months back so I'm looking forward to this.
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Post by bluesrider on Jul 30, 2009 18:39:03 GMT
Eric Terry Pratchett
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Post by C.Cat on Aug 2, 2009 15:22:40 GMT
I'm reading Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls wilder, and Sax of Gold, the Johnny Roadhouse biography by Wally Lindsay
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Post by C.Cat on Aug 10, 2009 19:28:01 GMT
Day of Reckoning by Jack Higgins
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Post by bluesrider on Aug 10, 2009 19:46:37 GMT
The Last Gospel David Gibbens good idea,lots of historical fact,crappy writing style but Ive paid £7
so I finish it!!
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Post by huntvambo on Aug 10, 2009 21:26:18 GMT
Amongst other things I have mostly been reading loads because I'm on holiday in sunny Norfolk and when the pubs not open there's not much else to do, which suits me fine!
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Post by Ginnie on Aug 10, 2009 22:51:26 GMT
Reading "Comet" by Carl Sagan. Fascinating...seeing that there is one named after me!
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Post by trench on Aug 11, 2009 22:19:09 GMT
I am tryin' to read "no one gets out of here alive" by Danny Sugarman.
Has anyone else read it or is it just me that finds the first few chapters heavy going ??
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Post by penny on Aug 13, 2009 19:31:41 GMT
Jefferey Deaver - Manhattan Is My Beat.
A story set in the 80's that involves an old man being murdered by professional hitmen, his young friend a girl known as Rune, tries to find out not only who killed her friend, but if he really had been about to find himself with a large sum of money. Does it have something to do with a robbery 50 years before?
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Post by caveman on Aug 15, 2009 9:21:02 GMT
Taking Liberties by Chris Atkins, a book about the many changes in the law and the freedoms we have had taken away from us by New Labour before and since 9/11, it is scary reading, we all need to wake up and smell the coffee!!
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Post by Ginnie on Aug 15, 2009 16:49:14 GMT
The World Encyclopedia of Beer.
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Post by bluesrider on Aug 15, 2009 17:24:41 GMT
The World Encyclopedia of Beer. Now thats a feckin book I seriously hope its scratch and sniff |
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Post by C.Cat on Aug 16, 2009 15:10:22 GMT
Toll for the Brave by Jack Higgins
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Post by penny on Aug 16, 2009 19:49:07 GMT
Taking Liberties by Chris Atkins, a book about the many changes in the law and the freedoms we have had taken away from us by New Labour before and since 9/11, it is scary reading, we all need to wake up and smell the coffee!! Sounds good that Cavey. Will try and get a copy tomorrow. |
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Post by C.Cat on Aug 23, 2009 15:41:06 GMT
On Dangerous Ground by Jack Higgins
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Post by bluesrider on Aug 23, 2009 17:39:47 GMT
Runes of the earth Stephen Donaldson book 7 in the(nintet not sure what you call a series
of 9 books)feckin brilliant and Confessions of a Drummer by sarge I honestly never realised!!!!
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Post by CROOK TOWN on Aug 23, 2009 21:59:56 GMT
SUNDAY SPORT.... canny..
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Post by craigiedee on Aug 24, 2009 16:40:12 GMT
Gods Final Witness by Ronald Weinland ..
Its about the end of the world as we know it ... I started reading it ages ago ... but ended up on Happy pills ... I am OK now so i thought i would pick it up again ..
We're DOOMED I tell ye ..... DOOMED
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Post by Ginnie on Aug 25, 2009 20:59:39 GMT
The Atlas of Languages....
" another language in decline is the Gaelic of Cape Breton, a fishing village in Nova Scotia (Canada). Since the 1930's Gaelic has been used less and less and it now used for purposes such as greetings, humour and secrecy"
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Post by peterbarrow on Aug 25, 2009 21:38:01 GMT
Gods Final Witness by Ronald Weinland .. Its about the end of the world as we know it ... I started reading it ages ago ... but ended up on Happy pills ... I am OK now so i thought i would pick it up again .. We're DOOMED I tell ye ..... DOOMED Now if you really want to be scared sh1tless try 'The Revenge of Gaia' by James Lovelock. This is a book by a real scientist predicting the end of the world as we know it and claiming that we may be too late to prevent the Earth from slipping into a new hot state - he notes dryly that we're like tourists on a pleasure boat above Niagara Falls not realising that the engines are about to fail. Sweet dreams ! |
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