Los Angeles Times
By Shari Roan • May 22, 2000

Everyone knows that exercise is vital to lifelong good health. People with chronic illnesses, however, may believe that they are too ill to exercise or that working out can't help them.

In this book, health writer Carol Krucoff and her cardiologist husband, Mitchell Krucoff, show how physical activity can be a healing force. Using both Western and Eastern exercise philosophies, the Krucoffs explain how activity can prevent or relieve symptoms of disease.

In each of nine chapters, they address a specific body system or characteristic--such as metabolic, orthopedic and mental health disorders--and explain how disease affects that system. For each condition, whether it is depression or premenstrual syndrome or diabetes, they explain how to design an appropriate exercise program, offering a menu of options to suit personal likes and dislikes. The descriptions of how to perform various exercises are easy to understand and follow. And the Krucoffs are careful to state why particular exercises will work for a given condition.

"Healing Moves" is a refreshing change from the emphasis on exercise merely to lose weight or reduce stress. Exercise is much more powerful than that, as the Krucoffs convincingly demonstrate.