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Summary: It's all here!
Review: Detox diets and cleanses, dry skin brushing, dental tips, green cleaning, feng shui, meditation and much, much more. Mr. Leviton covers every aspect of your life in this guide. He includes good instructions on how to do everything along with recipes and where to buy the things you need for the various detoxes. I bought this book after a very disappointing experience with a different detox book. This one is hands down GREAT!
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Summary: Overwhelming, but essential guide
Review: Far more common household and personal care products contain toxic substances than many of us realize. Those toxins affect our bodies and may lead to serious illness. At the least, they can reduce the quality of life by making us feel less than vibrant and healthy. Richard Leviton is a health journalist and author with more than twenty-five years experience. The Healthy Living Space is his eighth book. In it, he offers "70 practical steps on how to use safe, proven, nontoxic, self-care methods drawn from the fields of natural and alternative medicine." Leviton not only explains how to detoxify, he also explains why. He also emphasizes that it's important to detoxify both home and body, as the poisons accumulated in both can make you sick. He begins with an eye-opening inventory of substances most of us are exposed to every day. He then describes some of the health symptoms people suffer. Many of these symptoms can be vague or subtle, leading health-care professionals to either mis-diagnose or label sufferers as hypochondriacs. Instead they need to be treated as early-warning signals of what may become severe health problems. Leviton says "the truth is that we are being slowly poisoned, because although the toxins are potent, we are rarely exposed to a lethal or even sub-lethal, but dangerous, dose. We are instead routinely exposed to very small doses of many toxic chemicals, which together overwhelm our body's natural detoxification system." He says the key is to recognize that toxicity is occurring so slowly that most of us don't realize it until too late. Because few of us can entirely avoid all toxic substances, Leviton explains how we can reduce our exposure, while at the same time strengthening our body's ability to resist damage from the elements we are exposed to. He includes chapters on emotional and spiritual detoxification as well as extensive information on physical detoxification. The chapters on detoxifying homes describe how to remove common pollutants, as well as utilize the more esoteric techniques like feng shui. Whether we realize it or not, all of us know what it feels like to live in a toxic environment. The Healthy Living Space provides readers with the practical information and tools they need to create healthy bodies and homes.
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Summary: The Healthy Living Space
Review: Far more common household and personal care products contain toxic substances than many of us realize. Those toxins affect our bodies and may lead to serious illness. At the least, they can reduce the quality of life by making us feel less than vibrant and healthy. Richard Leviton is a health journalist and author with more than twenty-five years experience. The Healthy Living Space is his eighth book. In it, he offers "70 practical steps on how to use safe, proven, nontoxic, self-care methods drawn from the fields of natural and alternative medicine." Leviton not only explains how to detoxify, he also explains why. He also emphasizes that it's important to detoxify both home and body, as the poisons accumulated in both can make you sick. He begins with an eye-opening inventory of substances most of us are exposed to every day. He then describes some of the health symptoms people suffer. Many of these symptoms can be vague or subtle, leading health-care professionals to either mis-diagnose or label sufferers as hypochondriacs. Instead they need to be treated as early-warning signals of what may become severe health problems. Leviton says "the truth is that we are being slowly poisoned, because although the toxins are potent, we are rarely exposed to a lethal or even sub-lethal, but dangerous, dose. We are instead routinely exposed to very small doses of many toxic chemicals, which together overwhelm our body's natural detoxification system." He says the key is to recognize that toxicity is occurring so slowly that most of us don't realize it until too late. Because few of us can entirely avoid all toxic substances, Leviton explains how we can reduce our exposure, while at the same time strengthening our body's ability to resist damage from the elements we are exposed to. He includes chapters on emotional and spiritual detoxification as well as extensive information on physical detoxification. The chapters on detoxifying homes describe how to remove common pollutants, as well as utilize the more esoteric techniques like feng shui. Whether we realize it or not, all of us know what it feels like to live in a toxic environment. The Healthy Living Space provides readers with the practical information and tools they need to create healthy bodies and homes.
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Summary: Overwhelming, but essential guide
Review: Readable and important. Excellent for both the initiated and uninitiated. I thought I was thoroughly initiated, and was overwhelmed with information anyway. I'm glad somebody's attempting to put all this stuff together, from science to conjecture. It's like several books rolled into one, well worth the time and money.
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