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Marilu Henner's Total Health Makeover
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Sales Rank: 115623
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.7045
EAN: 9780060988784
ISBN: 0060988789
Label: Collins Living
Manufacturer: Collins Living
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: January 01, 2001
Publisher: Collins Living
Release Date: December 26, 2000
Sales Rank: 115623
Studio: Collins Living
Editorial Review:Product Description: When Was The Last Time You Felt Really Healthy? Now's the time to create the healthy, balanced life you want -- and become the truly vibrant, happy person you were meant to be. Combining good humor with solid science, Marilu Henner provides essential information on every aspect of health and fitness, including: Detoxing your bodyPreventing or alleviating health conditions from obesity to cancerThe secrets of stress reductionReal food and the organic way to fuel your body
Free yourself forever from diets and disease-causing toxins, boost your energy, lower and maintain your weight -- and change your life.
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Marilu Henner, known as Elaine on TV's Taxi and star of the musical Chicago, was once very overweight, with sallow skin and a weak immune system. She waffled between starving herself and gorging herself. Since cutting dairy products and caffeine out of her diet, adopting a food-combining plan, and following a program that's code-named 'BEST'--for balance, energy, stamina, and toxin-free--she's shaved nearly 100 points off her cholesterol count and 50 pounds off her frame, and she looks younger at 45 than she did at 19. If you don't count her pregnancies, her weight hasn't changed by more than 5 pounds over the past 11 years.
Henner's 10-step health program outlined here is strict, but she offers tips for getting your feet wet. Start by cutting out caffeine one day a week, she advises, instead of going cold turkey, and make just one meal each day dairy-free, so the change doesn't come as a shock to your system. Her 'anti-milk manifesto,' which reveals exactly how milk is produced and how it negatively affects the human body, is quite a stunner. Her plan offers sound advice for becoming more mindful of how you treat your body, how and what you eat and why, and how you react to stress, along with how to make improvements in all these areas. Henner's especially trustworthy because she's been through the wringer: 'After nineteen years of experimenting, a thousand mistakes, over 400 books (read, not written), at least 200 bad diets over my lifetime, five doctors, two physical therapists, three nutritionists, two personal trainers, one therapist, and a partridge in a pear tree, I have found what I believe are the best answers this planet has to offer about living a healthy, happy, and balanced life.' And she holds nothing back as she passes on her hard-earned knowledge about nutrition, digestion, exercise, preventive medicine, detoxification, and stress reduction.
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Rating:  - Re-hash of 'Fit for Life'
If you've ever read Harvey and Marilyn Diamond's bestseller 'Fit for Life' -- then you've already been over this ground. Fit for Life is based on a dietary belief system known as "natural hygiene." Henry Ford was the most famous hygienist -- and there is even a Natural Hygiene Society. Their basic beliefs are the same as Henner's: Ideally, you're a vegetarian, caffeine and alcohol are out, dairy is out, tobacco is definitely out, and food combining -- the proper mixing of proteins and starches -- is the way you eat. Spaghetti with meat sauce? No. A roast beef sandwich? No. You can have one "concentrated food" per meal. Anything that is not a fruit or vegatable is a concentrated food. Additionally, Potatoes and beans are considered concentrated foods. So, if you want to have chicken and rice.....nope. How about toast for breakfast? Nope...only fruit for breakfast. And, you can't combine fruit with other foods. I actually did the Fit for Life/natural hygiene thing for several years, and it works extremely well. I'm not sure it's really sustainable....kind of like Atkins or any other drastic diet. Anyway, I guess I was expecting to read something new -- not just another book on natural hygiene. However, I do have to say that I think Marilu is doing a great service for people looking for a healthier lifestyle.
Rating:  - Changed my life
I saw Marilu on an infomercial late one night in Aug. Then I looked up her info on line. I purchased the book and read it. It was enjoyable and easy to understand. We had been feeling very tired, fat,and just unhealthy.The changes were hard at first but we were so tired of feeling bad. So we stuck with it. My husband and I lost over 20 lbs each. We both feel great. Go ahead buy it and change your life.
Rating: - Easy to read and makes sense
I loved this book, infact I have read all of Marilu's books and enjoyed all of them. After reading it, my family adopted a vegitarian lifestyle for several years. We have recently begun to eat more meat but only organic meat. And we rarely eat dairy products. The information in the book is easy to understand and makes sense to a lay-person. It also give many practical ideas for how to change the way you eat. I have tried every recipe in the book and several are among my families all time favorites.
Rating: - Great Book that makes sense
I really enjoyed her book and it does prefer a meat free life style which I believe is a must. She gives many good advices and the book is easy to read.
Rating: - one star for this book!!!!!!!!!!!!!! please read!!!!
I first read this book a few months ago and gave it a good review. According to Amazon rules I can only give one review per item so I had to edit my old review. I originally gave this book 4 stars bit now I give it 1!!!! Heres my story. First of all, let me just say that I was pretty ok to begin with. The only reason I read this book was to see if it could help with my energy level, and it did- somewhat. I also lost a few pounds, but that was definately due to giving up dairy.
That was the only good thing to come out of this book. I dont want to blame what happened to me comeplety on Marilu, but lets just say that I never had any health problems before this book. It was only after I began following this program that I began to feel ill.
One of the 10 things Marilu wants you to do is to stop drinking when you eat. No liquids are allowed when you eat. Ideally, you should wait 1 hour after eating to drink any water. I have to say that, originally, this made me become more regular. But now, I have G.E.R.D. (look it up if you dont know what it is.) Its like Acid reflux without the burn. A few times a week I have this sensation of throwing up. I feel like I have something stuck in my throat that I cant get rid of. I came to find out that its a back up of acid from my stomach. As I said before, I cannot blame this on Marilu. But I guarentee you that I never had this problem before I read this book!!
I didnt try all of her steps. I wanted to incorporate them one-by-one, but now, I give up. I will continue to go dairy free though. I have even begun considering going vegan.
I'm in the first stages of GERD so I dont know what cures or what relief there is, but I urge everyone considering to buy this book to monitor their health throughout each step.
Good luck!!!
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