Book Review: Living Jonathans Life: A Doctors Descent Into Darkness & Addiction

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This book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Substance Abuse. Substance Abuse is a long-term, pathological use of alcohol or drugs, characterized by daily intoxication, inability to reduce consumption, and impairment in social or occupational functioning. Scott M. Davis is the Official Guide to Substance Abuse. Living Jonathans Life: A Doctors Descent Into Darkness & Addiction, by Scott M. Davis, is a valuable resource for people interested in Substance Abuse and it is available through Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
A true story of identical twin brothers, each fighting similar physical and emotional battles. One would lose his life; the other would nearly self-destruct.
The day I watched my identical twin brother die before my eyes, I experienced a loss that was devastating and without comparison. With his passing, I lost much more than a best friend, a confidante, and a brother; I lost a human mirror, a reflection into which I had always been able to look and from which I could gain strength. When Jonathan died, that once-radiant mirror turned black as stone. I could no longer see myself as I did before, let alone see myself living without him. His disease had claimed me, too.
Wracked with guilt that he, an aspiring medical student, couldn't save his brother and plagued with nagging questions about the twin he thought he knew, Scott Davis, M. D. , turned to what he knew could cure all: a pill. And then another, and another, until even they couldn't numb the pain--the same kind of pains in the same places that his brother, Jonathan, experienced as he was dying. The phantom pains baffled medical experts, who tried surgery and morphine to no avail. When Dr. Davis began writing prescriptions for himself, it was only a matter of time before he was discovered and his world came crashing down. Ironically, it was his brother's words--in a stack of hidden poems stashed away--that showed Scott the way back to the life he knew and the brother he hadn't.
Living Jonathan's Life is a riveting, heartfelt tapestry of brotherly love and bonds, of family ties and self-renewal, that will strike a chord with anyone who has loved and lost.
In a charged, honest memoir, physician Davis relates his struggle with addiction and recovery following the 1993 loss of his twin brother, Jonathan, to AIDS. Hopscotching through their lives together and apart, Davis tells twin stories of disease-his an addiction to pain medication-that take the author through grim, desperate times, but culminate in a hopeful breakthrough. Almost as long as the narrative are the appendices, which include a directory of treatment programs, intervention resources and the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. Sentimental touches-like liberal use of poems from Jonathan's found journal-may not be to everyone's taste, but this brief memoir makes a detailed primer on the struggles of the addicted, and a fine resource for anyone facing a substance abuse problem, their own or that of a loved one.
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Battling Children's Addiction to Sugar and Bad Eating Habits In and Out of School

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Just take a quick look around the playgrounds in and around schools these days and you will see fewer kids playing sports, and more either gaming or texting. In addition to the loss of activity, their bad eating habits in school as well as at home are increasing our children's waistlines. With 20 percent of the nation's children obese, the United States Department of Agriculture has proposed new standards for federally subsidized school meals that call for more balanced meals and, for the first time, a limit on calories. The current standard specifies only a minimum calorie count, which some schools meet by adding sweet foods.
Earlier this year, when Michelle Obama, as part of her campaign against childhood obesity, announced that Wal-Mart would reduce salt and sugar in its packaged foods, she said, "We're beginning to see the ripple effects on the choices folks are making about how they feed their kids."
But this effort is up against an array of powerful forces, from economics to biology. One city, Philadelphia, where the obesity rate is among the nation's highest, is at a tug of war over the cravings of its kids.
Amelia Brown, a school principal of a Philadelphia kindergarten through eighth grade school, said that deplorable diets caused headaches and stomachaches that undermine academic achievement, and that older students showed a steady progression of flab. So inside the school, the nutrition bug is rampant.
A gym teacher, Beverly Griffin, teaches healthy eating using a toy model of the federal food pyramid and rewritten children's songs. "And on his farm he had some carrots," Tatyana, a first grader, belted out one recent morning, skipping around the gym with her classmates.
Schools throughout the nation have begun to expel soda and sweet snacks. Instead of high-calorie fruit juices, water is highly suggested.
The Agriculture Department wants to change the content of federally subsidized school meals

7 Hard Core Ways to Break the Sugar and Fat Addiction

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Sugar and fat addictions are out of control in the U.S. Sugar and processed foods such as pasta and white bread are a great way to pack on the pounds and damage your health. The bad fats, saturated and hydrogenated fats, are causing serious health problems such as high blood pressure and heart disease. It's time to put a stop to these addictions today.
Sugar and processed carbs such as pasta and white bread are a great way to pack on the pounds and damage your health. We are usually talking about sweets, pastries, cookies and cakes when talking about sugar. The rest of the munchies such as potato chips, crackers and pretzels are also processed foods. By the way, sugar is also a carbohydrate.
The other big source of disease and illness is the over-consumption of saturated and hydrogenated fats. Let's go ahead and tackle the fat consumption as well. Make sure you are getting enough of the good fats from sources such as olive oil or from almonds or walnuts.
We'll let Jack LaLanne tells us how to eat,
"If man made it, don't eat it." and "If it tastes good, spit it out."
1. Stop eating all sweets and processed foods
The withdrawal symptoms may be headaches, body aches and irritability. These are all clear signs that you were addicted. After about a week or two the cravings should be out of your system and you may notice some increased energy and alertness. This will also help your pocket book.
2. Start buying and consuming plant-based foods.
Your shopping list is now void of processed foods. You need to replace it with unprocessed foods of a plant-based nature. That's pretty easy. Now you're shopping for fruits and vegetables as well as starchy carbs such as brown rice and sweet potatoes.
3. Reduce or eliminate caffeine.
Too much caffeine in the body causes inflammation. If you are a regular coffee drinker, you are addicted. If you stop you will go through withdrawal symptoms for about a week (headaches and maybe body aches). After that, you will wonder why you even had the craving for coffee. As with the elimination of sugar, you may feel more alert and have more energy.
4. Stop consuming cheese and milk.
If you are a regular consumer of cheese and milk, you need to stop eating it because you are probably eating too much. It is the American way to over-consume and you are taking in too much saturated fat which causes high blood pressure and high (bad) cholesterol.
5. Reduce or eliminate meat.
Meat is another big source of saturated fat and, unfortunately, lots of other hormones and chemicals which are clearly not good for you. It's the saturated fat that makes meat taste so good. If you are a regular consumer of meat, you are probably eating too much (portion sizes) and you are probably addicted to the fat. You will get all the protein you need from plant-based products and you will feel better.
6. Eliminate the other sweeteners.
There are all kinds of other sweeteners from artificial to natural. They will only cause you to remain addicted to sweets, both physically and psychologically. You don't need them.
7. The most hard core way is to start right now. Nothing else works.
It doesn't do any good to educate yourself on how to eat healthy. That's just an academic experience and I know you're not reading this to be academically entertained. How does it start? Take action right now. It starts with your trip to the grocer or eating out. It starts with going to the kitchen and removing those foods on the elimination list and getting them out of the house. I think you get the picture. If you're into tracking your progress and calorie intake and food and fitness journal that also has entries for exercise will do the trick.
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