Kick start your life
GO OUT – GIVE UP – GET TALKING
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GO OUT!
Dating for Grown-Ups
by Caroline Doughty
A straightforward and honest book filled with tips and observations for people starting to think about dating again ‘over the age of 40’.
Dating for Grown-ups brings you the lowdown from experts and people who have played the dating game later in life:
- modern methods – internet dating and speed dating
- singles holidays
- social clubs
- traditional ways to meet a new partner
- dating when you have kids
- how to stay safe.
OneUp has three copies to give away! Just email Jenny at editor@oneupmagazine.co.uk with your name and postal address. First come first served.
White Ladder Press, July 2008
ISBN 978 1 905410 34 7
Paperback, 148 pp, £9.99
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GIVE UP!
How to Quit without feeling S**T
by Patrick Holford with David Miller and Dr James Braly
Are you addicted to sugar, caffeine, alcohol, nicotine, illicit or prescription drugs? It is not impossible to quit your addiction without feeling s**t. This book provides a fast, safe and highly effective way to stop cravings, end addiction and recover energy and happiness – without suffering in the process.
There are addictive substances which are culturally acceptable within limits (alcohol, caffeine, cigarettes and sugar), those which are taboo (heroin, cocaine and cannabis), and those which are prescribed (sleeping pills and antidepressants). But irrespective of how we view these substances they affect the brain in much the same way. And it is the brain that is central to beating addiction. So, how does the brain becomes addicted and how can it be safely and naturally ‘unaddicted’? The answer is through a combination of diet, specific supplements and lifestyle factors that help ‘reset’ your brain’s chemistry, depending on your addiction.
Tried and tested
I have read this book from cover to cover and, while I am not a scientist, the explanation about neurotransmitters, their function and how they can be damaged (and, happily, rebuilt) is clear and comprehensible, even for me. And it makes such a lot of sense that I have been following its advice about diet and supplements to help ‘unscramble’ my brain and beat my own particular cravings. I’ve only been doing this for three weeks and, believe me, it’s a long time since I have felt so healthy, clearheaded and focused.
The authors are specialists in nutrition and addiction and boast a 90% success rate with their techniques. See
www.how2quit.co.uk/content.asp?id_Content=2501
Piatkus, September 2008
ISBN 978-0-7499-4022-5
Hardback, 500 pp, £16.99
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GET TALKING!
‘fink’ conversation cards
It’s a simple concept. A pack of prompt cards to get the whole family chatting over a meal. FINK Cards (Family Interaction Nurtures Kids) were designed by a mother to help mealtimes become less chaotic.
The playing-card-like pack asks questions like ‘Who inspires you?’, ‘What is your favourite day of the week?’ and ‘If you could choose a superpower, what would it be?’ The purpose is to get the whole family to share views and ideas, develop listening and communication skills, and gain mutual understanding and respect for each other.
I have brought out the pack a few times with my two boys (aged 17 and 15) and their stepdad. They are maybe a little too old and cynical and respond: ‘Oh, Mum, this is rather contrived.’ However, some of the questions have got them going, especially, ‘If you were Prime Minister, what would you change?’
I suspect they’d go down better with slightly younger children more willing to embrace the concept. For just a fiver, they’re definitely worth a try, as anything that can delay your children from rushing back to the telly or the X-Box as soon as dinner is over has to be a good thing.
Pack of 54 cards: £4.99
Available at www.finkcards.com
