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Summary: Beauty Inside and Out
Review: Thank you, Marilu, for taking the time and effort in putting this book together. I am off sugar and dairy products and am starting to feel "together" like I did as a child.As a beauty consultant, I am very aware of products that make a person healthy naturally, but as I study and apply nutrition, I am becoming a true believer that if it's not healthy inside, it's not the best outside either. Best wishes on your efforts of educating the American public. You have a vast audience to work with! Pat
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Summary: Total Health Makeover- Yes!
Review: This way of life is wonderful for those of us who have a weight problem and can't figure out why. I don't have an "over eating problem" and I exercise. I've been on EVERY diet there is and none were practical for a lifestyle. Until I read this book. What's nice is, although she's a vegitarian, she doesn't preach that all readers should not eat meat. I liked that. In addition, her easy to understand explainations of what is truly wrong with chemicals & food processing today was so helpful. I've been food combining for 2 years now and have finally found a way to eat my favorite foods (all of them) and keep my weight maintained. I also recommend you read about a similar eating plan: Suzanne Somer's Eat Great & Lose Weight and the sequal- Get Skinny on Fabulous Foods, for those who enjoy dairy products & gourmet cuisine; like me. Or, if you'd like to explore the wonderful world of vegetarian food combining, read Fit for Life by Dr. & Mrs Diamond.
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Summary: I wish I could give this book more than five stars!
Review: I've been doing the program for over six months, and I agree that the most compelling evidence is Marilu's own transformation. She explores a new path to health; this isn't a fad, it's a permanent approach to the way we eat and how we live.Even doing just one step or two of her program will recharge your energy and take off the pounds. I swore I could never give up red meat, but it's gone from my life. I never in a million years thought I could say no to dairy -- also gone. I'm fighting right now to get off sugar, and it's shocking how poisoned the foods are at the supermarket with the stuff. I've lost 23 pounds so far, and my skin looks fabulous. My allergies are not as severe and I rarely get sick. (I used to be chronically ill with colds and bronchial problems) Through Marilu's book, I'm now reading a lot of material by Michio Kushi. Again, it's a life changing process, and you have to be committed to make it work. And given the poor health that Americans are in today with obesity, respitory and circulatory problems, it's about time somebody spoke up and kept speaking up until the message was heard.Thank you Marilu!
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Summary: Marilu is fabulous...
Review: This book spoke to me right away--I couldn't put it down for three days. Marilu seemed to talk about everything I'd been questioning in my own diet...and much more! I have been using it as a guide for a month now, taking some of her tips on body care, exercise, etc as well, and I feel much better. After many failed fad diets, just reading this one book made me much more conscious about eating and grocery shopping. And unlike those diets, which count on short-term commitment, this book explains nutritional needs and eating habits in a way that makes you WANT to permanently adjust your lifestyle. A must read, even if you don't want to make a change and just want some info!
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Summary: powerfully motivating.
Review: Thanks to you Marilu I feel as though I'm on my way. This book speaks a language I can understand,and makes me beleive I can do it. Everyday I look forward to reading this book, and look forward to learning something about myself that I can use. I also look forward to reading the 30 day makeover.
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Summary: This book changed my life!
Review: I live in a tiny Eskimo village in Alaska, and I have been able to follow Marilu's advice. It's not that difficult to find soy products, if you take the time to look for them. If you are ready for a change, read this book. Start slow, and you will feel good enough to dedicate your life to her program. Don't give up and don't scoff. Once you stop eating read meat, you don't even want it. I can't even look at rare beef anymore, and it used to be my favorite meal!
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Summary: Give me a Break!!!
Review: First of all, I love Marilu Henner, but this book is a joke for us "normal people" who have to go to normal grocery stores and don't have cooks to prepare everything for us. When I read the "what to stock your pantry with" I just laughed. Wheat-free bread, Free-range chicken, non-dairy pudding, rice, cheese, lentel rice loaf, the ridiculous list goes on and on. Even if I could find these items, which I can't, I am not going to pay 3 times the money for it to taste like the chapter on poop. If you don't have a job and have nothing better to do than fly around the country trying to find everything you can eat, this book is for you, but if you're a normal person who doesn't have time to mess around, don't waste your money.
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Summary: The woman is PASSIONATE about this!
Review: I had seen the hardcover version of the book for months but hesitated to buy it due to the cost and because I have recently purchased the Zone books, but low and behold there it was in paperback last week! Eureka, I bought it. I read it in about 2.5 hours and must say I skipped her tirades on smoking and various other sections that didn't apply to me. We have heard alot of this before, but Marilu has repackaged it and reframed from her point of view and she's done quite a good job of getting her point across, dammit! However, it first struck me that alot of this ranting and raving is subjective, and I don't know how many times this appears in the book "I read somewhere...". Not exactly scientific evidence. I must admit, that started to turn me off. When you are talking about the effect food has on the body, you're into an area that really needs some data to back it up and that really isn't there in this book. By strictly looking at her image and the changes she has made to her own body and mind over the past twenty years, (photographs of herself) that is evidence that she IS doing something right - but she is in an industry where youth, energy, vitality and physical beauty is a prerequisite for survival, so she has to live it. Unfortunately, I think for most of us, if we can make a few changes she suggests here and are aware of some of the food industry realities, that's worth the price of the book. ie. I never knew that Hydrolyzed Plant Protein is really MSG in disguise! And her "dissertations" on slaughterhouses and the dairy industry are really sensational and designed to make you look differently at what is placed in front of you at the dinner table - the sad and brutal truth, so she says (but again, she doesn't list the source of this information and I don't think she has been over to a slaughterhouse lately somehow). I tend to BELIEVE myself that dairy is probably not a health food, but even I must admit that soy cheese just doesn't TASTE as good as dairy cheese. Darn. I found her opinion that man was never meant to eat meat in sharp contrast to some of the other reading I have done lately (Neolithic Diet and the Zone, for instance) to those who say the opposite. I may glean a few jems from this book, but as a wholesale program for my own life? Not likely.
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Summary: A WONDERFUL book!!
Review: This book is written for the average person to read!! It is not a book of facts and boring statistics, but a personal life story that is far more interesting than reading a boring nutritional science book! A person can't go wrong by eliminating chemicals and pesticides from their body. If there were two equally priced products side by side, one grown with pesticides and the other grown organically, which one would go untouched? Who would want to knowingly poison their body? Much of the food sold is not safe and people need to wake up and start realizing that. Start buying organic and the prices will come down!
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Summary: If you're ready for A CHANGE this book's for you!
Review: My wife and I started about a month ago and feel great. Now we find ourselves reading labels and realize what we were putting in our bodies. I've been on the Atkin's Diet and lost 25 lbs but found it hard to do without carbs for the long term. We find it easy to plan meals and find most of what we need in the health food section of our local supermarket. Even in our small town of 1,500 they sell soy cheese!
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