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Summary: What can I say, it's changed my life!
Review: The diet approach in this book I think was first popularized by Dr. Barry Sears in his "The Zone" series of books. (Perricone does mention Sears in the book.) Perricone's diet is more focused on looking good (anti-aging) and moderately aggressive on supplementation with vitamins, minerals, amino acids, etc. I personally don't care a wit about the beauty and wrinkling stuff - I don't work in a glamour industry. What attracted me was losing weight, more energy and feeling good.It has worked wonderfully for me. I have eliminated sugar and coffee from my diet, I'm drinking a lot more water and I'm trying the supplementation regime and working agressively to lower the costs of it. I'm eating more fish and enjoying it but I must admit I'm blessed by living in Seattle with our access to so much high quality seafood. I'm fitting better into my clothes and now that I have more energy - I'm going to start working out. Perricone has led me to Barry Sears and to a great path to finding higher physical and mental functioning. I'll always be grateful to him for this alone.
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Summary: They Looked Just The Same!!!
Review: Is it just me, or did all the "after" pictures look exactly like the "before" pictures? Slight change of expression perhaps, or maybe a little lipstick, but they looked like they could have been taken at the same photo shoot. I'm not moved!
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Summary: Horrible diet restrictions and nothing much new......
Review: I bought this book out of curiosity. If you could actually stick with a diet this restrictive, then go for it. I have lost and gained all of my life and his diet isn't new. It's just another low carb diet with lots of salmon. My suggestion would be to buy some glycolic acid for your face and do the Atkins Diet instead of this. Not only will your face look great, but you'll save a ton of money. OK, now let's all attack Dr. Phil....he deserves it more than this bozo.
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Summary: Pseudoscience
Review: Much of the science in this book is questionable. Unfortunately there is also some good useful information in the book so the uninformed reader will have a difficult time separating the wheat from the chafe. But please realize that sugar containing foods do not cause a cellular inflammation throughout the body. Also the supplementation appears to be oriented towards doing no harm. That is good but much of it will not help either. Unfortunately this book appears to appeal to the desperate who are looking for the magic bullet any magic bullet other than good nutrition. Also, almost any book or doctor or health conscious person can tell you that drinking a large volume of water every day will do wonders for your complexion and skin. Eating a healthy diet on top of that will be even better. The use of supplements in addition probably does little or nothing.
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Summary: Fantastic!
Review: I absolutely love this book - It is challenging to think differently about all the rules we have been sold about eating.This book helps you understand the chemical processes your body goes through in response to the food you eat. It also justifies the reason why a lot of us gain weight while we are under stress.(I wish my family doctor would have explained it to me!). I have started making small changes and I already feel great... in only ten days, I have taken off 6 pounds. I feel better, and am not craving sugar as I always have. I am buying this book as a gift for several others!
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Summary: It Really Works!
Review: This diet works....if you want to eat salmon for breakfast, lunch and dinner for the rest of your life.
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Summary: LIFE IS TOO SHORT FOR THIS!
Review: I can't imagine how anyone could stay on this diet, especially if, like me, you are allergic to fish! Also, eating out, which, like it or not, is a part of our culture, is impossible on this diet plan, and the expense for the food, supplements and products is not for someone living on a tight budget. This plan might work for rich Hollywood types who have unlimited time and money, and can afford to hire someone to prepare meals, but not for middle-income folks.
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Summary: Feel better, live longer
Review: Dr. Perricone's diet requires giving up a lot of "comfort foods" like sugars, starches, butter and coffee. But he offers high quality replacements that bring dramatic results in the way one looks and feels. One reviewer criticized all the time it takes to prepare the food, which I don't find to be true at all. Wild salmon is one of the easiest, fastest most versatile foods to cook there is--and can be sauteed or broiled in half the time it takes to prepare fettucini alfredo. Once you experience the profound benefits of adopting Dr. Perricone's suggestions, kicking the foods that are responsible for so many health problems becomes much easier. If you're serious about wanting to look and feel better and live longer, The Perricone Prescription is a must read!
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Summary: First Book to Address my Skin Type
Review: For years I've read all those articles in popular magazines about skin type--unfortunately the prototypes touted in the glossy pages never quite profiled my skin type--I am of Italian American descent, have dark hair and eyes and tan easily with burning only if I am not careful. Dr.Perricone's book--bless him--is the first to present a diet plan for people with my skin type--and it works!
On a more general level, the book features other diets for other skin types and ethnicities. While I can only speak for myself and my own specific needs, I would imagine that his suggestions stand as correct for he seemed to know exactly what my skin needed in terms of nourishment. Yes, his diet does strictly adhere to 'Zone-like' principles--but so what? It works in terms of better looking skin and in over all good health. Another fantastic bonus benefit? Weight loss.
If you can afford them--check out his products. I was lucky enough to receive a few of them last Christmas--and they are wonderful. I was using a popular Shea Butter face cream prior to trying the Perricone grouping, and this was causing black heads and oil build-up. Not so with Dr. Perricone's products. They glide on and offer protection in both dry and cold weather. Along with his food guidelines, they are promoted at the famous Camelback Spa in Phoenix Arizona---used in their facial treatments. As for the supplements, you don't have to buy his--the basic three are packaged in a similar health food supplement blend that you can buy cheaply in your health food store.
His ideas make good sense and contrary to the comments of another reviewer, I think his face looks pretty darn good. Lines in your face also reflect your personality---they aren't synonomous with poor diet or skin care. If you are after a blank page look with absolutely no expression,never mind the diet or the supplements, go to your dermatologist for Botox injections.
I deducted a star for some of Perricone's obviously self-serving rhetoric.
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Summary: Your name has to be Zha Zha to afford this diet!
Review: This book has some good ideas, but you would have to be Zha Zha Gabor to dedicate the money and time necessary to put all the principles into action. I went shopping for the first 3 day diet. And that cost me $75 dollars. That's just for 3 days of the diet. I purchased 1 month of the recommended supplements, that came out to almost $200. I had scoured the internet to get the cheapest prices. That's just for 1 month. And the time that you have to spend preparing the food (cooking the salmon etc.) is incredible. You can spend all your time and money just trying to ward off wrinkles. You have to weigh your priorities. I did feel better after being on the diet. But the supplements are just way overkill. My stomach couldn't even handle all of the supplements. My recommendation would be to stick with the diet, but avoid the supplements or scale them down some how. I came to the conclusion that it was just taking too much time to cook the food, and too much money. Unless you are Bill Gates and have a personal chef that follows you around, I cannot recommend the book.
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