"This fun, breezy guide positions the authors as both experts and the reader’s best friends, encouraging, advising, and cheering on." —Publisher's Weekly As a registered dietitian and a health industry expert, Ilyse Schapiro and Hallie Rich are “Dear Abby� meets Sex and the City meets Dr. Oz. They’re realistic in their approach with¬out getting too technical. They know people will cheat on their diets, dine out, consume alcohol, and have (hopefully plenty of) sex. They also know people have questions about it all. (Who doesn’t?) While many people may feel comfortable asking their best friend, they really want expert advice. That’s where this book will help. Based on their twenty-five years of combined experience in the health field, Schapiro and Rich are able to cover the multitude of questions that constantly top the list, including: Is eating a wrap healthier than eating a bagel sandwich? Is it time to get on the gluten-free bandwagon? I have salads for lunch every day, and I’m still not losing weight. What am I doing wrong? I’m tired of feeling tired. What can I do to lose the urge to snooze? I eat well, so what’s the point of a multivitamin? They reveal the secrets of the experts and the tricks of their respective trades. With so much information and so many “rules� out there, this book gives readers the tools to sort through the BS and know what is truly important and actually relevant to their health.

The chapbook of the Third Annual Nazim Hikmet Poetry Festival opens with a paper given by the festival's guest speaker, Murat Nemet-Nejat: "Eda, Intimations from Turkish Poetry." The rest of the chapbook is dedicated to poems submitted by the winners of the poetry competition. The festival and the poetry competition were organized by American Turkish Association of North Carolina. The festival, which took place on April 17, 2011 in Cary, NC was made possible by a major grant from the Turkish Cultural Foundation. The festival organizers were Buket Aydemir, Pelin Bali, Mehmet C. Ozturk and Birgul Tuzlali.