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BOOKS Reviewed by Ruth Parnell CHEMICAL FREE KIDS: Raising Healthy Children in a Toxic World by Dr Sarah Lantz, PhD Joshua Books, Qld, Australia, 2008 ISBN 978-0-9805473-2-0 (233pp tpb) Available: www.JoshuaBooks.com ou'd think twice about buying particular personal care products, clothing, toys and and foods if you knew the impact they would have on you and your children. Dr Sarah Lantz, a Brisbane-based mother and a researcher with a background in organic chemistry, public health and sociology, lays the truth on the line in Chemical Free Kids. She firmly believes in conscious, compassionate parenting and is committed to a living, organic lifestyle that will be sustainable over the generations. Dr Lantz tackles such issues as the impact of chemicals on the body, what the cosmetic companies don't want us to know, what's really on our dinner tables, the problems with the pharmaceutical approach to treating "disordered" children, and the toxins that the authorities don't want us to know are in vaccines. She refers to scientific studies and statistics, and slams assumptions about product REVIEWS & REVIEWS safety and regulation. While her research is Australian-oriented, it has implications for people everywhere. She closes with 10 pointers for living in wellness in a toxic world, e.g., making industry responsible for its messes. An empowering book. owner's lack of humour, that reinforce bad behaviour due to the wrong emotional signals being transmitted, and that mirror an owner's ill health. Ranquet works with each owner to make them aware of their animals’ houghts, feelings and needs, both physical and emotional, and gives guidance on appropriate responses including developing the means to ensure domestic peace and harmony. Ranquet has much experience, too, in working with trainers, breeders and animal healthcare practitioners and has inspired them in their work. She has great advice on nutrition as well. One of the secrets is to have an open, compassionate heart and to rust yourself: your pets will respond ikewise and make your encounters all the more rewarding. COMMUNICATION WITH ALL LIFE by Joan Ranquet Hay House, UK, USA, Aust, 2008 ISBN 978-I-4019-1613-8 (248pp tpb) Available: www.hayhouse.co.uk, www. ayhouse.com, www.hayhouse.com.au ie this heart-warming, instructive guidebook, “animal psychic" Joan Ranquet brings a higher dimension o understanding and communicating with our animals, whether they be horses, dogs, cats or birds, and orming stronger relationships. Those of us who have animals in our care already tune in to them, and Ranquet shows by example how to improve our interactions using eelings, images and words in an enhanced telepathic communication. As a facilitator, she shows how people can learn to decode what heir animals are trying to tell them and set up a two-way connection hat's based on tapping into One Mind. Her stories are extraordinary: instances of animals that decry an HOW TO UNDERSTAND AND TALK TO ANIMALS © JOAN RANQUET NEXUS ¢ 69 APRIL - MAY 2009 www.nexusmagazine.com