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8 Weeks to Optimum Health

8 Weeks to Optimum Health

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Complete Plan on Well Being
Review: After reading all of the reviews on Dr. Weil's 8 Weeks, I am stunned to find anyone say anything negative. There is no medical question that the program outlined in this book is healthy for all people. Dr. Weil certainly urges people to consult with their own health care provider if they need other help. My best friend and I have been on the program. I feel 100% better both physically and emotionally, as well as spiritually. My friend has lost 30 lbs, her blood pressure has stabilized, and her doctor has taken her off of a blood pressure medication she has been on for 15 years! Reading everything he has written not only inspires me to live healthy, but has inspired me to begin studying naturopathic medicine and it is a pleasure to talk with others about good health. I give this book every chance I get and have probably bought 20 copies thus far. Without hesitation, I recommend this book to anyone, even if you feel you are in good health. Its just good living. Anyone interested in talking more, feel free to contact me.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Reasonable! That's why Dr. Weil's book is selling.
Review: As a health professional and "former" nationally competitiveathelete, I am, by nature, very skeptical of most fitnessand self help books. Despite this, I found myself unusually drawn to this one after seeing Dr. Weil on several TV shows. His success is based in his traditional backround as a Harvard MD (credibility), his non-traditional approach (objectivity), his slightly offbeat appearance and delivery (maketability), and his moderate philosophy (REASONABILITY). It would take a hundred years to test all of his hypotheses but no one will be harmed by his recommendations. Most will be much healthier even if they follow his "reasonable", easy to maintain suggestions only partially. Busy humans need a plan and this is a good one. I really don't care why but I feel better already and so can you.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Read these reviews closely!
Review: Everyone, please pay close attention to the reviews posted for this book. The negative reviews are full of typos, anger and poorly constructed thoughts. This book advocates healthy, compassionate eating. Eat wisely and live lightly on the earth. While some of the ideas put forth by Dr. Weil may be slightly unconventional or to some, even extreme... you certainly do not need to implement them all. Just a handful could change your life. Just give it a try!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Simple, Concise Directions to Health!
Review: Dr. Weil is a Harvard-trained botanist and MD. More importantly, he has branched out into Integrative Medicine [his new name for alternative medicine] and is making the principles understandable to the general public.


He recently started a 2 year Post-Doc program for medical students and already practicing MD's at the University of Arizona teaching integrative medicine and an integrative clinic for practice. That clinic now has a waiting list of over a thousand people!


As the title states, this book breaks down the information into 8 weeks, simplifying the complicated process of changing one's whole life. Weil takes the reader by the hand and takes baby steps instead of huge leaps. [Which is acceptable if there are no current health crises].


One week, he asks you to find out about the water you drink, demonstrates a breathing exercise and asks the reader to go on a "news fast." No newspapers, evening news, or radio for a day.


The following week he asks the reader to research organic produce and requests that flowers be bought for the home environment.


These are tasks that are understandable making the reader feel successful each week. This work is grounded in good data, simply put and achievable over time. Weil "pads" the radical changes in between easy-to-make additions to one's life. One goes away feeling empowered instead of overwhelmed. An essential ingredient for changing one's lifestyle!


This book is a great beginning for the beginner on the path to wellness and prevention!


Dr. Weil is to be commended for breaking away from the myopic thinking of the traditional healthcare practitioner [which is changing!] and incorporating a broader picture of empowering the patient with practical, hands-on information.


This book would have garnered a "10" had Weil moved a bit more to the left. But, as previously noted, this text is a wonderful place to begin!
My hat! is off to him!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Health plans for different age groups
Review: "8 Weeks to Optimum Health" is an excellent informative book with sensible ideas. One of the points that he brings up is keeping the body at homeostasis, the purest and most healthiest period of one's life. It is hard to believe that in eight weeks one can bring his body back to a healthy state. And with Weil's suggestions for mental and physical well being you can continue to improve. Though going through your pantry or fridge and throwing out probably most of what is in it may be hard, it is the first and hardest step to achieving good health. It is also shocking to learn how bad oils and fats are for you. Another very surprising part of the book is about the ways water is bad for you. Clean water is essential for healthy living. One adjustment that may be very hard to make is replacing meat with soy foods, which Weil claims to be healthier. There are many healthy atlernatives to everyday diets and the book is filled with useful information. The most useful, and probably easiest to adjust to is the customized plans that Weil lays out for different genders and age groups. Weil also doesn't just preach healthy living but he gives excellent recipes at the end of the book to help one adjust and start being healthy. It is a good read and a good resource to refer to when your health is in question.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: 8 weeks to optimum health- Menlo college
Review: 8 weeks to optimum health is an excellent book to read, in order to learn more about how to tune up your dieting, and exercising habits. Along with reaching optimum physical health through this 8 week process, Weil also wants you to reach optimum mental health through a series of exercises that offer you suggestions on coping with stress, anger and expressing your feelings.

This proves to be a good book for begginers, like myself, who want to get started on a good path to healthy living. I myself have not yet tried Weil's 8 week steps and methods, but just reading about them invigorates and motivates me to start developing healthy habits and mental stability, as well as being more intouch and connected with nature.

Along with being a very inspiring book it is to great extent a very informative book. It describes some conditions and diseases that the human body develops, and how to avoid them. Diseases that concern people of all ages, and how to take certain measures in your day to day habits that will greatly benefit you at an older age. Weil tells you to appreciate and love yourself and others, and to accept and embrace forgiveness. He offers you a small paragraph of lines to read as an exercise to love and liberate yourself, these types of exercises can be seen in several parts of the book. Along with these emotional exercises Weil also offers breathing exercises to both relax you and speed you up, to get you ready for your day. In fact these types of exercises I did have the chance to try along with some of my friends, and they did in fact have an impact on all of us, expecially the breathing exercises that give you very noticeable and real physical feelings.

This book is filled with many recipes to improve your health and physical appearance, further more it gives you recipes and tells you about certain roots, mushrooms and extracts that will improve your emotional conditions. These herbal extracts have many components that I did not know about like immune-enhancing, anti-cancer, and anti-viral properties that can be found in such mushrooms as the Japanese Maitake mushrooms. There is an entire section dedicated to a variety of muchrooms and extratcs that can be found in your local super market that offer many beneficial side effects for your overall mental and physical health.

Besides Weil's extensive and detailed 8 week program for reaching optimum health, he also focuses on projects to improve mental anbd physical conditions targeted at certain groups. He targets portions of his book on how to aid the frequent traveler, the overweight, certain age groups, for men, for woman, for those at risk of cancer and many more.

This was my first book I ever read by Andrew Weil, I enjoyed his syle of writing and his ability to reach the reader on several levels. I am looking forward to implement many of his methods and suggestions in the future, and I highly recommed this book to anyone who is interested on improving and perfecting both their physical and mental conditions. It is an overall excellent book to have around the house.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: a credibility problem
Review: My daughter purchased this book for me about 6 months ago. I know Dr. Weil is an educated man, but I'm sorry. I just cannot take seriously a man this overweight lecturing on optimum health. Look at the size of this guy. Either he is slipping in triple cheeseburgers and double malteds when no one is looking, or salmon and seaweed are VERY fattening. I would say its probably the former. I kept looking for "after" photos but, alas, there are none. This is how he looks.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Weil is Way Ahead of the Curve
Review: Several years before the tipping point occurred and Americans were alerted in significant numbers to the dangers of trans fats (also known as hydrogenated oils), Weil, in 8 Weeks to Optimum Health, sensibly and clearly laid out the dangers of these kinds of processed fats and warned us of their dangers so emphatically that he made the elimination of them from our diet the first step in his 8-step plan. Weil uses credible science to backup his assertions, never offers fads or extremes, and best of all, he writes in an intelligent, personal voice, using phrases like "I'd like you to . . ." which give the book an intimate feel, as if you were consulting with a personal nutritionist. Further, he has the wisdom to see that improving our health is not based on micromanagement, tweaking one thing or another, but rather is a holistic approach requiring daily walks, bringing beauty into our lives with something as simple as having fresh flowers on the table, and meditating or doing yoga. While I don't embrace everything Weil suggests, I have embraced the gist of his message and, more specifically, have radically changed my diet. No longer eating refined sugar and hydrogenated oils, I have lost 40 pounds in the last five months. A great companion book that is compatible with Weil's philosophy on many levels and which has also helped me is The Philosopher's Diet by Richard Watson.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Full of Great Information
Review: I've been interested in improving my health since my early 20s, so I feel like I am in-tune with today's health issues and up-to-date. However, this book went beyond general knowledge to explain the importance of certain types of food in relation to how to preventing illness and disease, which I found very helpful and informative. I can now understand why five fruits and vegetables a day are so important to keeping my body in good shape, as well as the importance of omega 3 type fats in one's diet.

This book was written with a certain authority that makes you pay attention, yet it easy to read and yet it challenges your views of how to maintain good health.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: we are the edecated
Review: I have to agre with all of the other negitive writings for this book. I am a doctor. You should give your money to me instead of this guy. We are the ones that make the rules that you should follow...because we are edecated and you are knot. You should listen to us and not some santa clause looking fool despensing advice. Sheesh!


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