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Title: Dr. Mercola's Total Health Cookbook and Program: 150 Delicious Grain-Free Recipes and the Proven Plan to Prevent Disease, Optimize Weight and Live Longer by Joseph Mercola, Brian Vaszily, Nancy Lee Bentley ISBN: 0-9705574-6-9 Publisher: Optimal Wellness Center Pub. Date: December, 2003 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $31.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Simple and tasty recipes
Comment: This book outlines some of the fundamental eating habits that we all need to integrate into our lives. I have worked in the natural health industry for almost 20 years and have followed many different trends. In my opinion, this program offers a basic, comprehensive and logical approach to eating for today. We need to work together to support sustainable agriculture. Dr. Mercola is clearly aware of the issues surrounding the food industry. Instead of finding excuses, we need to go out of our way to find real food from real farmers.
Although I would have appreciated seeing more resources in the appendix section, the book helps increase your awareness about obtaining the healthiest ingredients possible in order to increase one's own health. The recipes were clearly written to accommodate our fast-paced lives. Not only are the recipes easy to prepare and healthy, they taste great!
Metabolic typing is an interesting method and merits consideration. It is a progressive approach that surpasses other popular programs currently available.
This is a multi-dimensional book which emphasizes emotional, spiritual, environmental, agricultural and physical health.
The authors have done a wonderful job conveying this information in such a concise, clearly written format.
Overall, it is an excellent book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Better than I thought it would be
Comment: This book has much information about healthy diet, lifestyle and medicine. Dr. Mercola pointed out in a recent talk we attended in Philadelphia that the third leading cause of death for Americans was --doctors. Sorry, doc, but iatrogenic (doctor-caused) complications are plentiful. Still, this statistic may be misleading as a lot of doctoring goes on in the expensive, last few months of life for terminally-ill and geriatric patients. So the number of complications due to procedures and drug interactions is possibly skewed here--if you read the medicare reports and read between the lines.
STILL, I prefer prevention. Dr. Mercola is a sort of Dr. Weil for the millenium, similar advice, more detail and his own slant on diet and health. Essentially, he advises vegetables, low to no grains--reduces insulin fluctuations, and healthy meats. He insists most people find that they are not served well by a vegan (no milk, meat, egg) diet and actually it could harm them. Yes, some folks are more than well on a vegan diet; it depends on your metabolic type, according to Mercola. For many, meat or fish are important. This is the "Atkins" type diet with an emphasis on healthy choices.
We liked a lot of the recipes in this book. Some were even delicious; "zucchini spaghetti" is a boon for the low-carb eater, thin strips of squash serve as a low-carb base for a tasty sauce. And a home-made sausage patty I liked, plus a spicy Jamaican rub for chicken or fish.
The recipes in "Total Health" are for the most part, pretty easy. The ingredients are what's more difficult to come by--for example, free range poultry, bison (buffalo), raw milk and Alaskan salmon, tested free of detectible mercury. But even in our rural area, we can order bison and salmon to be shipped in, and the raw milk is available over the border in Amish country. So while not every area in the US can obtain organic veggies and meats by walking to the store, even remote areas can find ways to get these items. If you were to adhere to the Mercola diet, a chest freezer could be helpful to freeze sporadic purchases of organic perishables.
How to get in those vegetables for brekkie really stumped us, until we tried the fearsome green shake, consisting of vegetable juice, whey powder, egg and greens powder, with coconut for flavor and its own benefits. This powerful smoothie is a quick pick-me-up for the morning rush and easily assimilated. We liked it, surprised how much so.
This diet and lifestyle is not easy, and the guy at home frankly said "No WAY am I eating veggies for a snack, thank YOU very much!" but adding the additional greens and of course healthy choices is doing us good, we are sure. A provocative book, with a great number of resources.
Rating: 2
Summary: Not a good as I thought it was going to be
Comment: It's a very simplistic overview of metabolic typing and a cookbook that one needs to be a professional chef and have hours available in order to cook in that manner in order to implement properly. could have been so much more of a resource if done differently. very disappointed. why did he write 2 books on much of the same topics in such a short period of time? makes no sense except revenue generation.
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Title: The Maker's Diet by Jordan Rubin ISBN: 0884199487 Publisher: Siloam Press Pub. Date: April, 2004 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: The No-Grain Diet: Conquer Carbohydrate Addiction and Stay Slim for Life by Joseph Mercola, Alison Rose Levy ISBN: 0525947337 Publisher: E P Dutton Pub. Date: 24 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Metabolic Typing Diet: Customize Your Diet to Your Own Unique Body Chemistry by William Linz Wolcott, Trish Fahey ISBN: 0767905644 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 02 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston A. Price ISBN: 0879838167 Publisher: McGraw Hill - NTC Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Your Body's Many Cries for Water by Fereydoon Batmanghelidj ISBN: 0962994235 Publisher: Global Health Solutions Pub. Date: June, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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