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Summary: Bought it, took it back.
Review: All the steps listed in her book are based on common sense, and your ability to cut some foods completely out of your diet. I also noticed that in the limited number of recipies in the back that everything was organic. I live in Colorado where food is expensive to begin with, and orgnic is VERY expensive. I want a plan that I can follow, where I'm not already at a disatvantage.
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Summary: Bravo!!! Well Done Marilu!
Review: I bought this book after seeing Marilu speak about her life transfomation at Pete Wilson's Call To Action Conference for Women in California. In person, Marilu is FULL of Zest, vibrance, energy, stamina and everything she says she is in the book. She looks beautiful- her skin is clear and bright and she's about as big as a minute! This book has been an excellent read. She knows her facts after years of research and applying the principles in her own life. As for the people who asked why would you listen to her...she's just a movie star who probably didn't go to school? She is extremely intelligent, did go to school and in my opinion look at her!!! If someone has what you want, a formula for life, that works wonderful why wouldn't you listen? Her program is not far fetched either! Like anything in life if you want it bad enough there are sacrifices. If you want to be healthy (which is really what the book is all about) and thin there are trade offs. If you always do what you've always done you'll always get what you always got! Try her methods and you'll be surprised at how great the B.E.S.T. you feels!
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Summary: This book inspired me!
Review: I loved this book from the very first page! It's not only informative but entertaining and easy to read. I believe Marilu's style of writing helped me better understand some basic diet concepts that I may have already known (e.g., food combining)--but Marilu drove it home for me! Thanks Marilu!!
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Summary: It works, it's easy.
Review: The first time I've lost weight and felt good at the same time. Thanks Marilu
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Summary: A must for anyone who wants to be healthy and feel it!
Review: Marilu's approach is fresh and full of energy. She is upfront, honest and funny. I haven't eaten red meat for a while now and love veggies anyway, even giving up dairy was easy. There are so many alternatives out there for you to try. She spent 19 years experimenting and now we get to benefit from it! Marilu should be praised, I can not wait until her next book is out, sometime in February 1999. Total Health Makeover is well worth any amount of money, who could put a price on your health or your life for that matter! Try it....you'll be a believer too!!
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Summary: The most unusual, yet BEST health book I've read and lived!
Review: A lot of people say the ten steps would be hard to follow. But if you are truely in it for the long haul on changing your life and habits not only for weight loss, but most importantly for total longevity, this is the book for you. I dove off the cliff about 4 weeks ago, I have implemented all 10 steps in my life in some form or another and my sinus allergies and literally gone away. I have far more energy than when I ever drank coffee. I am gradually dropping weight, too. Those 300 pages are packed with some of the best information I've received all my life and you'll never get the same information from the meat and dairy industries. And just looking at her pictures, before and after, she looks absolutely pristine! It is not a weight-loss book, it's a book that will help you be your absolute best inside and out, the weight-loss is just what would logically follow.
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Summary: Add me to the chorus of praise, I guess...
Review: I admit it, I bought this book because I like Marilu Henner and saw her on tons of talk shows plugging away--I believe the American public has an obligation to support funny, perky, way-too-enthusiastic-about-everything celebs like her who have turned the once-lowly status of "talk-show-guest" into an art form. Plus, I was looking to change my diet and drop a few pounds, so I decided to give it a try (anything had to be better and easier to follow than _The Zone_). To my absolute surprise, it was not only entertaining reading, but it seemed to make sense. So I tried a few (not all--it will be a while before I can give up all sugar) of her suggestions--namely, ditching meat (not too hard) and dairy products (really hard--adios, butter, cheese, sour cream, ice cream. yogurt, etc.)--and suddenly I was losing weight. I had lost a few pounds before I read the book, but had hit some sort of plateau where it seemed impossible to drop any lower (even though I was exercising and watching my diet). For lack of a better phrase, it seems like Marilu's ideas sort of "jump-started" my metabolism again. I'm dropping weight gradually and safely, I always have the energy for daily exercise (even after work), it seems like a layer of fat has disappeared off my face, and my skin looks and feels pretty darn good. So if you're debating whether or not to get this book, I have to say go ahead and do it--it's not the most scientific tome in the world, but it seems to work, and I have to give it big credit just for that. Plus, rice milk--once you track it down in the nether regions of Kroger--isn't THAT bad, for heaven's sake (three words: smoothies, smoothies, and smoothies).
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Summary: Great, general introduction to fundamental food truths
Review: Rather than echo what the 21 people ahead of me have already said, I would just like to add that the recipe section is very disappointing. The recipes are not consistent with her food combining instructions and contain ingredients that are not available in all parts of the country! I agree with the reader who encouraged Marilu to develop a cookbook that can help those of us with good intentions avoid getting sucked back into the protein/starch combinations surrounding us! (For those readers who'd like recipes, "Fit for Life" has some great ones that adhere to food combining principles!)
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Summary: I've tried EVERYTHING, this really changed my life!!!
Review: I just love the way I feel now. My whole life has changed. I've never looked or felt better about myself. My energy level has sky rocketted!! I am Such the ANIMAL that i was meant to be and I LOVE IT!!! Thanks Marilu!! (And I can Skip for 1 mile.)
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Summary: This book can offers a health and attitude makeover.
Review: When I received my book I began by reading the chapter on food combining. I then went on to the recipe and pantry stocking sections. These sections are very doable. Later I completed skipped over chapters. I've been following the program for three weeks, feel very energetic and have not missed any of the fat, sugar ,salt, or dairy that I've eliminated from my eating habits. I'm still working on the caffeine.
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