Fit for Eternity: Balanced Living Through Better Nutrition and Spiritual Health

Rating:
Summary: Not for everyone!
Review: Hello, It's me Dr Little (www.rxwellness.com). When the Lord brought this opportunity to write Fit For Eternity, I prayed and asked for His heart for His daughters to be revealed. As I wrote, I prayed and stopped when I felt I was not writing what was on God's heart. The one thing every woman has told me that has read this book is that they saw a little bit of themselves in every chapter. That was my prayer. Of the hundreds of emails I have received, this is the common thread. The facts of weight loss are not that complicated and not every person is at the place where they can bake their own bread. This is one choice. For another person they may only be ready to choose salad at MacDonalds. This I believe is clear in Fit For Eternity. I call it the "grace diet". We have to start where we are. No one can tell someone where they can begin. It's not about the food, it's about intimacy with the Father. It's the "gotta do's" that are more stressful than the "what I dos". As we realize how much He loves us, we will see ourselves as He sees us. Then we can love ourselves and eat well not out of compulsion but out of love. The anxiety must end and love begin.

Rating:
Summary: Not really a how-to book, but good examples
Review: Less of a how-to book than a list of people Dr. Little has helped physically and spiritually, there is little here to help the reader. The most useful aspect of the book is the collection of fit tips that end each chapter and the focus on eating unprocessed foods. The tips include nutritional and spiritual suggestions that help people to improve the health of their entire being.

Healthy eating, natural grains, fruits, decreasing sugar intake, and other basic nutritional topics are explained thoroughly. After reading this book, readers will want to start baking their own bread and throw away the ice cream. All of these are great ideas. God's people should take advantage of the wonderful creation he provided and eat foods more closely related to those eaten by Adam and Eve. Processed and packaged foods lack the fresh taste of garden grown vegetables, orchard fruits, and hormone-free meats.

Each chapter of Fit for Eternity contains a spiritual problem linked to a physical problem, Dr. Little's dietary and spiritual recommendations, and the results. Unfortunately, every human being's situation is unique. The dietary recommendations change for each person, which is great for Dr. Little's clients, but not helpful for the reader. A reader cannot pick an appropriate diet for herself.

The spiritual techniques could be helpful for readers to use if they can discern the root of their own spiritual problems. Dr. Little's patients needed her help to uncover their spiritual problems and many readers will need outside help to locate them as well.

Seeing the whole-body impact of Dr. Little's therapy is encouraging. Hope is out there, but most practitioners of alternative and holistic health techniques are not Christians. Reading this book proves that a combination of proper eating and spiritual health heals the body, but does little to fill the need for nutritional and spiritual Christian advice.

--- reviewed by Terri Pilcher for Christian Bookshelf

Rating:
Summary: An honest, wholistic approach to balanced living
Review: This book is more than excellent, it's a God-send! The book is short, easy to read and interesting. The tips are extremely practical and enlightening. Even for procrastinators, these tips can be put into practice immediately. This book includes not only the author's own personal story and years of professional experience, it offers a wealth of information resulting from solid research complete with references. If you're looking for life-long results, be willing to make lifestyle changes. The subtitle is the reason that I purchased this book: "Balanced Living Through Better Nutrition and Spiritual Health". Finally, a nutritional book that would focus on the underlying causes for compulsive eating. As with all compulsive behaviors, we must look deep inside ourselves and examine what triggers our unhealthy behaviors. What are we trying to forget? Why do we feel fearful or anxious? What do we (really) think of ourselves? Reading the stories of others helps the reader recognize some of their own dis-eases. We must face our demons (sometimes with professional help) and we must love ourselves enough to forgive ourselves. Only then will we be free to make healthy choices. For those who know God or want to know God, this book gives you an even "higher return" on your investment: "...for he that comes to God must first believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him." Hebrews: 11:6.

Rating:
Summary: An honest, wholistic approach to balanced living
Review: This book is more than excellent, it's a God-send! The book is short, easy to read and interesting. The tips are extremely practical and enlightening. Even for procrastinators, these tips can be put into practice immediately. This book includes not only the author's own personal story and years of professional experience, it offers a wealth of information resulting from solid research complete with references. If you're looking for life-long results, be willing to make lifestyle changes. The subtitle is the reason that I purchased this book: "Balanced Living Through Better Nutrition and Spiritual Health". Finally, a nutritional book that would focus on the underlying causes for compulsive eating. As with all compulsive behaviors, we must look deep inside ourselves and examine what triggers our unhealthy behaviors. What are we trying to forget? Why do we feel fearful or anxious? What do we (really) think of ourselves? Reading the stories of others helps the reader recognize some of their own dis-eases. We must face our demons (sometimes with professional help) and we must love ourselves enough to forgive ourselves. Only then will we be free to make healthy choices. For those who know God or want to know God, this book gives you an even "higher return" on your investment: "...for he that comes to God must first believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him." Hebrews: 11:6.

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Summary: Dr. Little-Perrson assists with overall health improvement
Review: What Dr. Little-Perrson is doing is simply miraculous. I am living proof of this. I saw bits and pieces of myself in many of the stories she told in her book, Fit For Eternity. Her comment about our constant chatter with ourselves occurs when our expectations don't meet our performances, brought me to tears. I knew I needed to contact Dr. Little-Perrson for assistance. I was sure that her support would help me to make significant changes needed in my life.

My issues were never ones of weight, but of poor digestion, irritable bowel, low blood sugar, adrenal exhaustion, gall bladder and liver dysfunction, and poor sleep. Dr. Little-Perrson is a brilliant, Godly woman. Period. Her very thorough evaluations bring tremenndous results. Knowing that healing takes time, we are addressing one goal at a time. Nutritional deficiences are being replaced and organ and system dysfunctions are being repaired.

Dr. Little-Perrson's book gave me the confidence to contact her. I could see how she was helping so many people in so many ways. Her book helped me to see that it was I who needed to be more disciplined with my overall health habits. I have done substantial reading this past decade about women's health issues, but had never found any doctor who could help me put the puzzle pieces all together. I was on a downward spiral to a major health diseaster. It is Dr. Little-Perrson who has turned this all around.

At the very essence of living a balanced life is daily time and a daily walk with God. As Dr. Little-Perrson said in her book, we all need heart transplants in our lives---hopefully of the emotional kind. I hope this book does for you what it did for me. My prayers were answered in finding Dr. Little-Perrson. She is simply the vessel offering us the support that we need to our overall health improvement. The end result is a vibrant, healthy, balanced life---total wholeness in spirit, soul, and body. The choice is all ours.

Rating:
Summary: Dr. Little-Perrson assists with overall health improvement
Review: What Dr. Little-Perrson is doing is simply miraculous. I am living proof of this. I saw bits and pieces of myself in many of the stories she told in her book, Fit For Eternity. Her comment about our constant chatter with ourselves occurs when our expectations don't meet our performances, brought me to tears. I knew I needed to contact Dr. Little-Perrson for assistance. I was sure that her support would help me to make significant changes needed in my life.

My issues were never ones of weight, but of poor digestion, irritable bowel, low blood sugar, adrenal exhaustion, gall bladder and liver dysfunction, and poor sleep. Dr. Little-Perrson is a brilliant, Godly woman. Period. Her very thorough evaluations bring tremenndous results. Knowing that healing takes time, we are addressing one goal at a time. Nutritional deficiences are being replaced and organ and system dysfunctions are being repaired.

Dr. Little-Perrson's book gave me the confidence to contact her. I could see how she was helping so many people in so many ways. Her book helped me to see that it was I who needed to be more disciplined with my overall health habits. I have done substantial reading this past decade about women's health issues, but had never found any doctor who could help me put the puzzle pieces all together. I was on a downward spiral to a major health diseaster. It is Dr. Little-Perrson who has turned this all around.

At the very essence of living a balanced life is daily time and a daily walk with God. As Dr. Little-Perrson said in her book, we all need heart transplants in our lives---hopefully of the emotional kind. I hope this book does for you what it did for me. My prayers were answered in finding Dr. Little-Perrson. She is simply the vessel offering us the support that we need to our overall health improvement. The end result is a vibrant, healthy, balanced life---total wholeness in spirit, soul, and body. The choice is all ours.

Rating:
Summary: A Healthier Look At Weight Loss
Review: You can't turn on the television without seeing a commercial for one. You can't read a magazine without coming across an ad for one. Everyone knows at least one person who has tried several in a lifetime. You may be that very person. What is the secret word? The word is...Diet! Americans, specifically women, are obsessed with winning the battle of the bulge. Women are bombarded by societal images that tell us if we don't fit into a perfect size six (or less), we are not beautiful, smart, desirable, successful or lovable. We, therefore, spend billions a year on diet aides, foods, supplements, exercise equipment and gym memberships. Yet, we are more overweight than ever before. The average American woman wears a size sixteen. Why do we continue to fail in the pursuit of weight lost? Dr. Deidre Little, a certified clinical nutritionist, attempts to answer that question in FIT FOR ETERNITY: BALANCED LIVING THROUGH BETTER NUTRITION AND SPIRITUAL HEALTH.

According to Dr. Little, before we can properly nourish the body we must first nourish the soul. Many people are overweight and suffer from eating disorders because of a lack of emotional and spiritual balance. Weight loss should be the result, not the goal of a well-balanced life, states Dr. Little. She shows by her own life's examples, and those of several patients, how you can leave the diet madness behind, and maintain a healthier lifestyle by embracing God and self first. FIT FOR ETERNITY: BALANCED LIVING THROUGH BETTER NUTRITION AND SPIRITUAL HEALTH goes beyond the mundane nutritional guide, by providing motivational scripture and prayer throughout. At the closing of each chapter, you are provided a "Fit Tip", a tip to help motivate and put you on the path to spiritual and physical renewal.

I was pleased at how much information was packed into 160 pages. Dr. Little included everything from proper exercise goals to safe and effective meal planning. I found a little of myself in every client discussed, I therefore, became encouraged by their success. FIT FOR ETERNITY: BALANCED LIVING THROUGH BETTER NUTRITION AND SPIRITUAL HEALTH is a must have for any woman fed up with the diet craze, but still on that road to proper weight loss. Dr. Deidre Little starts where no other diet or nutritionist has gone before, the spiritual being within.

Reviewed by L. Raven James
of The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers