Following along with the more physical subjects, SuperFoods HealthStyle by Steven G. Pratt, MD and Kathy Matthews is an up-to-date and futuristic book of strategies to improve lifelong health. It is both proactive and preventative, as well as scientific and earthy. This book makes you feel like you can make a difference in your entire family's health and well-being, specifically telling you how to do just that.

Last, but not least, the descriptions of current self-help books would not be complete without A Perfect Mess by Eric Abrahamson and David H. Freeman. Their creative analysis of the chaotic tendencies which we all have (not the physics Chaos Theory, which actually has some order to it) is somehow reassuring and motivating. We can celebrate who we are, our human mess, and still be productive, creative and happy. This is contrary to all of our conditioning and the current social mores, but perhaps it's a slower path back to the natural, the simpler and older ways of evolving as healthy, normal people.