HEALTHTALK: Health Awareness & English Conversation Publisher: MacMillan Language House
This was first written as The Healthy English Book in 1991. I self-published it, marketed it, and sold it myself—the whole ball of wax. Later, Macmillan Language House discovered it and asked to buy the copyright. As I wanted to get the book’s health message to a wider audience, I was more than agreeable to them taking it over. Healthtalk has been a long seller and is now in its THIRD edition; it has sold over sixty thousand copies in Japan. It is my longest text at 166 pages. I think it is the thickest text in on the market; since texts are for one semester use in Japan (15 weeks) most are 100-120 pages. Most importantly, I believe it has met the goal for which it was written: To teach good health habits to university-age Japanese through the medium of English conversation. It makes me proud to think that I have made this small contribution to the betterment of Japanese society.
Read about why and how I wrote Healthtalk here: http://www.eltnews.com/features/interviews/031_bert_mcbean.shtml
Read a book review here: http://www.jalt-publications.org/tlt/reviews/show_br.php?id=76
Read Macmillan’s catalogue entry on Healthtalk here: http://www.mlh.co.jp/catalog/product.php?la=en&i=128&openedtag=0
 Original self-published version. Those are my two kids and
house on the front cover. 1995
 An article in the local newspaper about HealthTalk. 2004
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| This is the NEW THIRD EDITION for 2014.  It now has 166 pages and two new lessons: Environment & Health and Depression. You can read about the revised edition at this site:
 HealthTalk, Front Cover, 2nd Edition
 HealthTalk, Back Cover, 2nd Edition
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