©For Your Reading Pleasure
Syndicated feature column
By Valder Beebe
www.photography-by-james.com
What We’re Reading this Summer! Stay Fit with Our Health & Fitness Selections For Your Reading Pleasure
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My Sister’s Keeper by Dr. Jill Waggoner, MD
A WONDERFUL book of practical advice that
you can institute at home. The basic advice of
drinking as much water as you can daily helped
me through a bout with muscle cramps.
(Thanks, Dr. Jill!) Dr. Jill is warm and
personable in relating her basic medical advice
and wisdom through this book. Her inspiring
advice is easy to understand and simple to
follow. Dr. Jill’s guidance in this book can make
a difference in your mind, body and spirit. Good
job, Dr. Jill!
Dr. Jill Waggoner, MD, resides in Dallas, Texas,
and is COO of Southwest Medical Center. She
continues to see patients and is currently on
book tour.


Dr. Gavin's Health Guide for African
Americans: How to Keep Yourself and Your
Children Well
by James R. Gavin - McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
Distributed Products - April 2004
Lisa Price, creator of Carol’s Daughter beauty
and bath products, is the CEO who is willing to
share her life story of the struggles of moving
from credit card debt to having celebrities tout
the wonder of her unique blend of products,
Carol’s Daughter. Price’s story of reliance on
GOD and self-determination is a motivational
read.

The Black Women's Guide to a Healthy
Heart
by Anne Taylor, M.D., Association of Black
Cardiologists - Hilton Publishing - April 2004
Empower yourself to a more healthy heart and
lifestyle. According to health care
professionals, there is a wide gap in health care
for African Americans than other lower
socioeconomic groups. The Black Women’s
Guide to a Healthy Heart is a step in educating
the African American woman about health care,
a heart-healthy lifestyle, seeking proper
medical care and stress reduction, all to
maintain optimum health.

Ro's Ten Secrets to Livin' Healthy : America's
most renowned African American nutritionist
shows you how to look great, feel better, and
live longer by eating and living right,
incorporating body, mind and spirit, by Rovenia
Brock, Ph.D. - Bantam 2003.
African American women today, are moving
beyond the stereotype of an unhealthy statistic
in America. Dr. Ro’s knowledge, wisdom and life
experiences are exceptional to move you
forward into optimum mental, spiritual and
physical health.
Little Bit of Soul Food by Amy Wilson Sanger
Publisher: Tricycle Pr; Board edition (February
2004)
Soul food is a part of our heritage, and anything
in moderation can be done. This quaint little
book, with quilting as a focus and food as a
highlight, is scrumptious. (Remember, in
moderation.)

Blessed Health: The African-American
Woman's Guide to Physical and Spiritual
Well-Being by Melody T. McCloud, Angela
Ebron Publisher: Fireside - February 2003
Dr. Melody T. McCloud is an obstetrician,
gynecologist and surgeon as well as a lecturer
and medical consultant based in Atlanta,
Georgia. Dr. McCloud blends personal health
and spatiality for the African American woman to
know that her physical, spiritual and mental
health is equally important. Every African
American should have a copy of Blessed Health,
because it reinforces having a breast exam, Pap
smear, regular check-up and doctor visits. This
book is truly a blessing to African American
women who understand that they have to take
care of their own health to take care of others..

For Your Reading Pleasure is written by Valder Beebe, CEO of www.photography-by-james.
com, a Dallas newspaper Editor and a syndicated Freelance Writer. “Living the life of her
dreams” with her husband, James and their four kids.
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