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Summary: Top-Notch!
Review: Great content on how to live a healthy lifestyle, excellent nutritional advice, interesting metabolic typing quiz to test for your type, and very good recipes. This is the only cookbook anyone would need.
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Summary: Invest your money in something else.... disappointing
Review: I have been familiar with Dr Mercola's work for many years. I have read many of his articles on his website and also receive his newsletter. Essentially I've found his work to be of value to me. So, when I heard he had a book coming out I thought "hmm... that should be a really valuable book on health".
Some months later I was staying a few months at a friends house. He had the book and I thought "Great... now I get to read this wonderful book". To keep my story brief... I only ever flicked through the book and then put it back on the shelf. My expectations were not met. But putting aside what I had anticipated, I actually tried to find some value in this book and really felt it was just not worth reading.
Why?
Well, if I recall correctly I was left with the impression that it really had nothing particularly new or insightful to say that I hadn't already seen in other far more comprehensive works on natural health and diet etc.; what it did have to say came across as being a bit "stuck" conceptually; it seemed actually quite sparse in terms of useful content; it has heaps of recipes in it which personally I seldom cook from as I take a more spontaneous and creative approach to food (so that alone means this book has a lot of wasted pages in it); I found that the approach to health and diet that Mercola was putting forth in this work was, in my experience, limited and not particularly enlightened.
To be honest I can't completely remember the details of why I felt his book was a waste of paper... but I did.
My advice... if you are looking for books on health and healthy eating please continue to explore... there are many much better books available. I shan't try to list them here as that's not my intention with this review.
My closing statement... I've been exploring, applying and teaching natural health, healing, and nutrition for my entire teen and adult life.... and from that background I'd say DON'T WASTE good money on this book. Invest it elsewhere.
I wish you all the best of health,
Jonathan Evatt
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Summary: Highly Disappointed
Review: I highly regret purchasing this book and plan to return it. If I had reviewed it in a store before making an online purchase, I definitely would never have made the purchase. Rather than being a "Total Health Cookbook and Program" it is simply a cookbook, a rather poor cookbook at that. This book only contains roughly 5% Dr. Mercola's health program. The actual health program is in his book "The No-Grain Diet." "Dr. Mercola's Total Health Cookbook and Program" appears to be motivated by a desire to build upon the success of his earlier book. A more accurate price for this book would have been $12.95.
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Summary: I like this book and program
Review: I like this book for lots of reasons. The main reason is the simplified metabolic typing quiz. I had attempted a more detailed one and it was so involved I couldn't use it. With the simplified version, I have found out just enough so I can eat what is right for me so I have energy, clarity and satifaction with no cravings.
It says in the book that this simple test is a starting place and recommends where to go if you need more clarification for your type. I think he has done a wonderful job of offering a tremendous amount of info to the reader.
I love the fact that the proceeds of this book go to a non-profit organization to help our nation toward disease prevention and wellness care rather than the disease care system we currently have that is skyrocketing daily in both sickness and national debt.
I applaude this book and its program to help us americans become healthier!
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Summary: very dissapointing!!! wish I had not bought
Review: I wish I had not bought this bad book full of garbage. It is just a plain old cookbook NOT A PROGRAM! Do not judge the book by its cover. His other book is actually a program unlike this book. I hope to attempt to return this book. Do not buy it unless it is less then 10 bucks ( not likely ). The other book called NO GRAIN is a lot better than this book of expensive toilet paper. You will be dissapointed if you buy this book!!!
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Summary: Rehash of "No Grain"
Review: If you're only going to add in a couple pages more information to an existing book, release it as a new edition, not an entirely new book.
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Summary: Metabolic Test
Review: The book has some good general info. but the main reason I bought it was to take the test in the book to determine what my metabolic type was. If the test results proved inconclusive as mine did, you are then invited to purchase yet another book with a more detailed test, OR go to mercola.com and take the FULL
clinical test for $179. I wish I had known this before I bought the book.
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Summary: Total Mish Mash
Review: The way Mercola hypes this book on his web site you'd think it was the health bible of all time, so I finally caved in and bought it. And like other readers I wish I hadn't. It's nothing but these totally odd recipes slapped onto a poor copy of No-Grain Diet minus the full program and the much needed instructions on how to overcome carb addiction. His site, which used to be so good, is now one long, desperate whine begging readers to buy this book. He's sending you on a cruise and everything else. It cheapens his credibility. Soon he'll be giving it away for 50 cents, but it still won't be worth it.
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Summary: Better than I thought it would be
Review: This book has much information about healthy diet, lifestyle and medicine. Dr. Mercola pointed out in a recent talk we attended in Philadelphia that the third leading cause of death for Americans was --doctors. Sorry, doc, but iatrogenic (doctor-caused) complications are plentiful. Still, this statistic may be misleading as a lot of doctoring goes on in the expensive, last few months of life for terminally-ill and geriatric patients. So the number of complications due to procedures and drug interactions is possibly skewed here--if you read the medicare reports and read between the lines. STILL, I prefer prevention. Dr. Mercola is a sort of Dr. Weil for the millenium, similar advice, more detail and his own slant on diet and health. Essentially, he advises vegetables, low to no grains--reduces insulin fluctuations, and healthy meats. He insists most people find that they are not served well by a vegan (no milk, meat, egg) diet and actually it could harm them. Yes, some folks are more than well on a vegan diet; it depends on your metabolic type, according to Mercola. For many, meat or fish are important. This is the "Atkins" type diet with an emphasis on healthy choices. We liked a lot of the recipes in this book. Some were even delicious; "zucchini spaghetti" is a boon for the low-carb eater, thin strips of squash serve as a low-carb base for a tasty sauce. And a home-made sausage patty I liked, plus a spicy Jamaican rub for chicken or fish. The recipes in "Total Health" are for the most part, pretty easy. The ingredients are what's more difficult to come by--for example, free range poultry, bison (buffalo), raw milk and Alaskan salmon, tested free of detectible mercury. But even in our rural area, we can order bison and salmon to be shipped in, and the raw milk is available over the border in Amish country. So while not every area in the US can obtain organic veggies and meats by walking to the store, even remote areas can find ways to get these items. If you were to adhere to the Mercola diet, a chest freezer could be helpful to freeze sporadic purchases of organic perishables. How to get in those vegetables for brekkie really stumped us, until we tried the fearsome green shake, consisting of vegetable juice, whey powder, egg and greens powder, with coconut for flavor and its own benefits. This powerful smoothie is a quick pick-me-up for the morning rush and easily assimilated. We liked it, surprised how much so. This diet and lifestyle is not easy, and the guy at home frankly said "No WAY am I eating veggies for a snack, thank YOU very much!" but adding the additional greens and of course healthy choices is doing us good, we are sure. A provocative book, with a great number of resources.
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Summary: Waste of money
Review: This book is a total and complete disappointment.
I ordered it because it claimed it had the metabolic type test, but all it does it to tell where to find the complete test - another book to buy. The test in the book consists of 9 questions. The real test is 60 and can be found in Wolcott's book - "The Metabolic Typing Diet". Of course, if you want, you can call Dr. Mercola's office and they will be happy to perform the real test for you (and the consequential personalized plan) for the amount of $179USD...
This book is like an advertisement of Dr. Mercola's website and his on-line store.
There is noting the book that you can't find on the website or on the Internet - Google "metabolic typing".
Do not buy this book, unless you are ready to spend at least $1000/mo for food (example from the book - grass-fed bison meat- like I did not know that this is a healthy choice?).
Do not pay to read advertisement.
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