Diet Health Books

Dr Plasker shows you, in a very easy to read format, how to live a long, healthy, active lifestyle. This is about looking at the different parts of your life and taking active steps to balance, strengthen, and use those different parts to create a fun life that will keep you healthy, physically, financially, and emotionally for 100 years and beyond. Read the book and have a great life!

I had the opportunity to meet Dr. Plasker at the 1st annual DCS Jam and the book is a must for anyone who wants to be in on the 100 year lifestyle. This is also a great read for your patients!

Dr Erik Plasker's Book is a great read for anyone looking to take stock of their life. The main message revolves around the fact that many of us will live to be 100 and beyond, so we may as well start preparing for this increased longevity that not many of us have planned for.
"What changes would you make today, if you knew you would live to be 100?"
Health, finances, relationships, career, social, and more are looked at in this book.
What will we do with this advanced warning our ancestors didn't get?

This book is life changing! Realizing that we have all this time to accomplish things in life is an awesome feeling. I loved the comparison of cris care vs. self care. If people realized this and started practicing this we would have a healthier nation. I have personally given out over a hundred copies of this book and everyone for Christmas will be getting a copy!

I've given this book to more than 100 people. They are changing their lives from stopping smoking and loosing weight, to starting exercise. The people that take the message of the 100 year lifestyle to heart are playing harder and living a higher quality of life. Thank you Dr. Plasker for allowing me the privilege of helping so many people through your wonderful book.

This book has wonderful easy to do, healthy recipies. You can customize your meal for how you are feeling in your pregnancy. My husband loved the meals I made following the recipies from this book. I highly recommend this book to all people, pregnant or not.

Highly recommended. My wife got this book few weeks ago and we both love it. She for the tips and the other mothers stories and myself for being able to cook meals that suites her fluctuating moods. Its sure does make life easy to know that you there is a solution for every mood. Also like the guidelines on how to stock up so that we never run out of food, this is key. Great book :o)

I really love this book for various reasons. What initially turned me on to it was the recepies and the variations GENIUS.... What's more the recipes are currant and hip and are what I am used to eat when I go out and not recycled. LOVE the tips and the real mothers stories. The Intimacy the author created by sharing herself and the other mothers stories gave such a personal atmosphere I felt very cozy as if this book was written just for my needs.
I am a second time mother and finally there is a book that is written by a Mother to a Mother who knows what it is to be pregnant and not by some professional PHD or some nutritionist, I like that.
On my first child I ate everything I wanted and it took me a some time to get back to my pre weight. Although I am not a big cook, I am this time around going to cook more and watch my weight with moderation and truly feel this book is a good companion.. My daughter LOVED the Jam dot cooies. They were easy to make healthy and she gobbels them up, its a great snack for all of us. My husband was really impressed with me (actually so was I) when I did the herb roasted chiken. Once again It was easy to make, and was delicious. I also did the variation of a few as well, it was great, made me feel that I can actually do this and also that I can cook....
JP

Although cooking has never been my strength being pregnant I question twice what I eat I looked for something that will give me easy recipes I can try making myself. I never imagined that there would be a cook book that will offer me easy recipes that I can adjust to how I feel that day, truly genius! I wish this book was available when I was pregnant with my first daughter. The recipes are easy and they are really delicious. I cant wait to try them all,and of-course all of my pregnant friends are getting a copy
LOVE IT!

While I agree that people should explore different forms of eating, one diet does not suit all. Also I found some of Ehret's comments offensive since I am White and of European decent. He should have left his prejudices in the closet and focused on scientific and unbiased researched opinions. Good health means a good heart as well. Many physicians ignore just how much your outlook can affect your health. Fasting is not a way of life nor should it be. It needs to be monitored and depending on the person or body type not necessarily the best solution. Ridding your diet of processed, refined foods is the first step. Doing this, you will discover in time the foods that you are sensitive to and then can avoid them. Fasting and starvation is not a healthy way to live. You will eventuallly deplete yourself.

To many, many if not all of Ehrets' works are Bibles of Authority.
Tread wisely and lightly.

Arnold Ehret is a true leader and master in his field, but for many his field is a field of misery and misunderstanding.

Use what you can and leave the rest, there is plently to learn from this master and plently to overturn.

His agenda was to get well, and with that in mind you cannot go wrong, but it takes diligent hard work and sacrifice and thats the rub...!

Enjoy!

I follow a relatively strict, vegan eating regime, so his method is not even as strict as mine. If you are trying to make a change from the average american, carnivore way of eating, this is not the book for you. Read it only if you are very serious and dedicated about your diet and nutritional habits.

This book gives a detailed diet for healing through fasting and dietary modification. Far ahead of his time in developing low fat/low carb diets.

The dynamic tension exercises are easy and very helpful, like a quick 'adjustment', but with you in control.

Dr. Ehret's 'new' physiology, with the lungs as the PUMP and the heart as a valve, give new understanding to our physical problems and how the body really works.

His untimely death was a great loss to our world, since his message is capable of redirecting our habits and culture to a much better world of health and longevity.

The basic idea of avoiding certain foods that aren't good for the body is worthwhile. However, the book rambles in information that isn't that helpful. The key is eating more vegetables and fruits and avoiding mucus causing foods. An internet search may give you the quick information of this and you can skip this book. Also, books that deal with getting rid of inflamation in the body will be helpful. It is amazing how many diseases and ailments can be healed by changing what we eat... choose well for a healing fountain of youth!

In only six weeks, you can completely train your back, chest, and shoulders. Learn the correct way to do your weight training.

I have found this book to be very informative. It shows you the right way to do your weight training. It also has a lot of useful programmes that you can do, I am already seeing the results of following the intructions given in this book.

I have read a few body-building books and think this one, along with the other books in the same series (arms, legs, abs, etc), are the best to date.

One reason for this is the insistence upon good form. Like a lot of people, I have in the past gotten carried away with adding more weight and not paying attention to form. This is still a temptation but the message on good form presented in this book is finally starting to stick. I especially was impressed by his argument for paying attention to the negative part of the exercise.

Another STRONG point of the book is that it provides you with lots of routines. After finishing the books 6 week course,
you are supplied with an additional 4 or 5 good routines for future use. As the author states, it is important to change routines often, so that your muscles do not get too used to a given exercise (and you dont get bored). However,
I am very lazy about putting together routines and tend to stick to one. Thanks to this book this is no longer a problem, because it does it for me; I now have complete sets of routines that I can follow and am beginning to see important gains as a result.

The book also does a good job of covering the basics of good nutrition, rest and, for all of you gym rats who would ignore it,
aerobics (ever see those pudgy cro-magnon loking guys in the gym who claim their bloated tummies are muscle)!!!! He doesn't cover supplements though and that is understandable given the controversy and hype surrounding so many of them.

The book delivers what it promises: An Intense Six-week program to completely train your Chest, Shoulders and as a bonus the Back. Yes the book title doesn't mention the Back at all, but the programs include exercises for the "latissimus dorsi" or just "lats" as they are usually call in gym jargon. This alone makes this a complete upper body exercise program, since the "latissimus dorsi" is what gives the upper body its V-shape, and is the largest upper-body muscle, so large that the core training program hits it from three different ways.

But this book is more than just an upper-body workout, it is a small, handy and complete reference with useful information that includes: essential physiology, aerobics, flexibility stretches, and essential principles and techniques.

If you are interested in similarly practical and complete exercises programs for the rest of your body, you may also want to consider "Essential ABS", "Essential Arms", and "The complete Butt and Legs" by the same authors.

This is the 2nd book on weight lifting I've read. The first one being "Muscle Logic" which was both difficult to grasp as a beginner, and also a very unrealistic program to actually accomplish (read it and you'll see why you couldn't do this unless you owned your own gym).

But essential chest and shoulders is not like that at all. It is written for guys like me who knew virtually nothing regarind weight training. It gives excellent introductory material regarding the muscle groups and strategies and general fitness information.

The program that it gives is a 3-day a week program, 2 focusing on chest and shoulders, and the 3rd day on other muscle groups. The program is easy to follow, starts simple and gets more in depth as the time goes. But not overwhelming for beginners.

The program does focus on chest and shoulders, so if you were interested in lower-body, abs, or arms, you may want to look at another book (which the men's health publisher makes virtually identical books for both arms and abs).

Most of the exercises are performed with dumbells. And the book is designed for someone who is just getting started, and can be performed solo if you don't have a partner (its a lot easier to escape dumbell bech presses at an early level than a bar if you don't have a spotter, but its good to have a spotter).

The plan is again, fairly simple and designed for beginners. Experienced weightlifters will not gain anything from this book. If you're looking for a starting point, this is for you.

Well, Dr. Jensen again has to teach a lesson to most of us. If you don't know who Dr. Jensen, you need to find out and do what he says. Really. He was a pioneer in nutrition, alternative therapies and iridology (diagnostic through iris study) - lived for 93 years until 2001. Being saved himself through nutrition from an incurable - at least at that time, in the 20's - lung disease, he turned out to study how foods impact our health. He traveled worldwide, and learned about the food of many nations. Not only that, he saved a lot of lives and taught people about the way we are supposed to eat to have a vibrant health. The first book of Dr. Jensen that I've read - titled "Doctor-Patient Handbook"; I'll post a review some day - is a good introduction to the process of natural healing, about diet, about fasting and about healing that appear when the body is ready to undo old diseases.
This one book starts by presenting the work and principles of Dr. Jensen's two idols: one is the ancient Greek Hippocrates, the creator of the doctors' oath, and the other is Victor G. Rocine, who had Jensen as a student for years. They both had things in common, as you'll see in the book. Quoting Hippocrates: "Let medicine be thy food and food be thy medicine". From the work of Rocine you will learn some very important things about the body chemistry, how the foods contain such chemicals (e..g. sodium, calcium) and how the influence that balance; how the body fights against bad diet (of course by worsening other parts, such as the joints), and so on. It's an eye opener!
Then, in the next chapter, Dr. Jensen talks about his own work, how he improved what he had been taught, applied on his own patients and taught them how to eat. For example, he explains why eating the seeds for most fruits is something that we should be doing. Also, there are table explaining which foods are best for some bodily system (nervous, digestive, respiratory, etc.), and a long table presenting some health facts and tips for many veggies and fruits.
The second part of the book is a fairly long list of section, each being dedicated to one particular fruit or veggie. For each of them, the history is presented (where it is believed to have been originated, when it started being cultivated in Europe and America), about its varieties, where it is grown in the USA, peak months. Also, there is a subsection on therapeutical value, that, food's effect on the body and when it's best to use it or how to cook it. The section ends with a table presenting vitamin and mineral facts for that particular food.
The book's last part - the third - is a recipe collection. You might learn some new tips from there related to how to cook without destroying too much of the nutrients. However, what I liked most from this recipe part is the following excerpt:
"When someone asked what I most like to cook, I was embarrassed to admit that I do no especially like to cook. The reason that I cook is to eat well, feel good, and be healthy."
You wouldn't expect to hear this from a nutrition doctor, would you? He, he really loved his work and helping people.

... Dr. Jensen has compiled a superlative book on foods that heal. Each food profiled is like reading a mystery novel. One needs this information to stay healthy and well in this modern world we live in. Dr. Jensen has placed spiritual, psychological, as well as nutritional principles in his lifelong work to maximize wellness. He also recommends rebounding..

This is an excellent little book. This book offers "foods that heal" and interesting health/food subjects, as well, as a myriad of helpful food factoids and tips to assist the reader on the road to wellness.

Dr. Jensen not only goes into depth about each of the foods he has chosen as the ones that heal, offering a ton of history for each and how each food can best be used, but he also quickly built a foundation about the very basic physiological needs of the body. From there, Dr. Jensen discusses the most common mineral deficiencies in humans and which foods are rich in them.

Among his many helpful offerings, Dr. Jensen provides a small list of common disorders and juice recipe cocktails that can help the conditions. He also has a chart of the 12 major body systems, which vitamins and minerals they require, and from which foods and herbs you can get them from. ANOTHER chart he offers is what he calls a "food remedy troubleshooting chart" which is basically just a quick overview of what is to come. It's a list of all the "chosen" foods, which chemical elements are most prominent, and what the foods are best FOR.

Dr. Jensen also quickly touches upon his food philosophy and beliefs and his suggestions for diet, such as eating 60% raw, 80% alkaline foods, etc.

Overall, this is just an excellent book, chock full of information. There's no way anyone could lose out from owning this awesome book. There is just so much offered here, I can't imagine ANYONE not being satisfied with it.

And just something worth noting, all of the foods in the book, with the exception of two items (lima beans and lentils), are either a fruit or vegetable. And while that is the case, he does mention some other foods that he believes to be wonderful in their healing and nutritive properties.

Love the way this book is organized. If you want to look up a given food, you don't need to look it up in an index, then search thru a lot of text on various pages. Foods are alphabetized and the one thing that stands out with this book is that it doesn't give a food's value, stating "large peach," etc. It will give the weight of the food and value per that weight. Perfect. I call it my food bible.

Bernard Jensen is a brilliant and accredited nutritionist and natural healer. This book is an excellent source of nutritional information for the person who is willing to change their diet to understand that all ailments can be traced back to what we eat. Change your diet change your health. His philosophy is sound and scientifically accurate. You can make a difference in your health by choosing the correct foods. Food is the first medicine and Dr. Jensen describes the therapeutic values of many foods for specific ailments; lists nutrient availability of many foods and adds recipes to boot. This book is a must for anyone who is even contemplating natural healing or seeking preventive measures to ill health. Dr. Jensen is a gifted teacher and I highly recommend all of his published materials.

What I like well in this book is the numerous tables, the questionnaires and the lists that summarize the essential data in each chapter.
What I like most in this book is the emphasis on clinical signs and symptoms for the diagnosis of hormonal imbalance rather than the usual relying on lab test only.

The author is from the fourth generation in a family of physician specializing in hormones well before the term "Endocrinology" had been invented. His great-grandfather, Dr. Eugene Hertoghe has given his name to the "Sign of Hertoghe", the shorter eyebrows of people with hypothyroidy and his father, Dr. Jacques Hertoghe has introduced the now widely used 24 hours thyroid hormone test. The test much better correlates with the signs, symptoms and complaints of thyroid hormone utilization than the usual thyroid hormone blood tests.
With his seminars and publications the author is well in line with the tradition of his family.
This book is a major contribution to our understanding of hormonal processes. I recommend this book to every person (inclusive physicians) interested in learning more about the way hormones affect us in all the aspects of our existence.

I love how this book was written. Originally I set out to just do some learning on Bio-identical Hormones for a friend and found out that I may have issues with my own hormones.

He talks about what can happen to our bodies when our hormones are not balanced, and over the long-term, can lead to diseases.

The book is broken down into 4 major areas:
1. Hormones
2. Body
3. Mind
4. Hormone Solution

In Chapter 2 (which is a part of #1), he gives a quiz (Part I) on each of the 15 hormones he talks about in his book and the symptoms of deficiency. The hormones would be ACTH, Aldosterone, Calcitonin, Cortisol, DHEA, EPO, Estrogen, Growth Hormone, Insulin, Melatonin, Pregnenolone, Progesterone, Testosterone, Thyroid Hormones, and Vasopressin.

In Part II of the quiz, he quizzes your Energy, Sex, Sleep, Skin/Hair, Weight Control, Stress, Mood, Circulation (Heart & STroke), Joints, Bones, and Immune System.

It takes a bit to complete the full quiz, but well worth it. With the Part II stuff, he goes into further details about each of these.

In each of those sections, he'll talk about detecting & decoding one's deficiencies, how to eat to heal, the nutrients needed, supplementation, scientific evidence/studies, and concludes with summary of each of the 15 hormones that may impact that particular issue (i.e., weight issue).

For the Hormone Solution, he breaks this down into:
1. The hormone
2. Treatment
3. Recommended dosage & frequency
4. What they may be associated to in terms of impact with other hormones.

He has a couple pages for resources and 59 pages of references. WOW!!!

This book was very informative and the first book I read on hormones. I've since read several other books, but still like this one the best.

A good compliment to this book is Natural Hormone Balance for Women by Dr. Uzzi Reiss, who is a ob-gyn in Beverly Hills. He covers some other things Dr. Hertoghe doesn't.

Something I'd like to mention is I did go get a 24-hr urine analysis that looked at a number of the hormones mentioned in this book. His quiz made it fairly easy for me to have my doctor test for certain things and they were fairly close to being correct.

My naturopath has now given me some BIHs to help me rebalance those hormones I was deficient in. Am feeling so much better and this was about 3.5 weeks ago.

Comprehensive. Includes suggestions for communication with your doctor to request appropriate labs and prescriptions for bioidentical hormones to improve health, longevity and well being. Also includes dietary modifications to support a bioidentical hormone replacement protocol. Written by the top endocrinologist in the world. Very insightful, cutting edge knowledge.

This book was required reading from an endocrinologist I was seeing and I'm so very glad that I read it cover to cover. I learned SO much about my hormone issues and was able to help figure out what was going on with my husband and his hormone issues. It made the remainder of his life bearable. I keep this book for reference and use it often. I bought and gave one to my primary care doctor and he said it has enlightened him on hormone issues with patients. We are so blessed that Dr. Thierry Hertoghe chose to share his knowledge with us to help as many people as possible to feel better and have quality of life. Best hormone book I have ever read!!

This book is clearly written. The author makes it possible for everyone to get a clue about which hormones might be missing in his/her body before visiting a health professional. Many health issues are covered with the specific hormonal deficienties. I found it very clarifying and it brought me a step forwards in my search for my lost health. I have read also the books of John R. Lee. The book of Thierry Hertoghe gives not so much information about what one can do self in comparison with the books of Lee on female issues.
in the meantime i go to his sister dr.Therese Hertoge for treatment,and i got much better.

This book shares a lot of good information in lay man's terms and simple explanations. I purchased additional books to give away to relatives.

I gave it as a gift. My bother-in-law just have 5 by-pass surgery. My sister requested this title by name.

Take A Load Off Your Heart by cardiac health expert Joseph C. Piscatella (President of the Institute for Fitness & Health, Gig Harbor, Washington) and Barry A. Franklin (Director of the Cardiac Rehabilitation Program and Exercise Laboratories at William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan) is a very practical and "user friendly" guide to for the non-specialist general reader seeking to improving their cardiovascular system. A little extra effort in looking after oneself now can save an immense amount of money, pain and grief in the future. Take A Load Off Your Heart features 109 easy-to-follow tips ranging from walking briskly, to drinking black tea, to improving the daily diet, to making exercise a regular habit. Written especially for those seeking to improve their daily lifestyle routines, Take A Load Off Your Heart is a "must-read" for all in these heart health conscious times.

While going through cardiac rehab after my heart attack, I picked up this book and began reading it on the treadmill at the hospital. That's how desparate I was! The authors give a thorough review of the current information on cardiac health and how to maintain it. No surprises, just a low-fat, low-salt diet, exercise, reduce stress, and take your meds. They describe all the meds and their purposes.
This is the best book to give to anyone in danger of heart problems. I have given several copies to family members and friends.

After having 5 stents placed in heart veins, Mayo Clinic-Scottsdale, AZ center recommended this book. The author is straight forward about all important details and extremely knowledable. It is fun and easy to read. Most of all it is a real life changing book..This book is not just for people who want to maintain a healthy heart but who desire to live a healthy and long life with or without heart disease.

I was surprised at how readable this was. I anticipated a very dry presentation, but was pleasantly surprised. I was so surprised, in fact, that I read the whole book in less than 48 hours. I could not put this book down. (Keep in mind though that the last 1/3 of the book is filled with recipes and references, etc.)
In spite of enjoying this book, I think that the section on functional fitness could be greatly improved upon. It's great for someone like my mother who does great if she can walk for 15 minutes at a time, but I think it is much too elementary for anyone who has even a remote resemblance of an exercise program already in use. Like I said, it would be great to start with but it doesn't tell you where to go from there.
I also think that some of what he promotes is a little unjustified scientifically and I would like to see more backup before I would accept his ideas. For example; he recommends against eating pigs because of the dietary laws that God gave the Israelites and then proceeds to tell a story about a farmer that stacked 10 pigs in wire crates, only feeding the one on top and letting the ones below him eat the dung that dropped down. They all survived. That's all well and good, and while I wouldn't want to eat those particular pigs, pigs are not generally raised in situations even remotely like that. Pigs, when given the opportunity, are very picky about keeping their toileting area separate (on the opposite side of the pen in my experience) from their feeding area. Just because it is possible for pigs to survive in less than ideal situations doesn't make it favorable for them to do so, nor does it make them any less edible. To summarize, don't eat pigs because 1) God said so, 2) Something about toxicity (that again he didn't backup) and, 3) They can survive in crappy situations.
Oh, and you're not supposed to eat rabbits either. This with no explanation except the ever present "because God said so."
While abiding by God's original dietary laws may very well be the optimal choice for health, I would personally like to see some other support of this plan besides the book of Leviticus.
There are a couple other things that he brought up that I would beg for more evidence of than was presented, but that being said it was definitely a worthwhile read.

My son has Crohns disease and has been to 4 different Doctors and has taken countless harsh drugs ,all to no avail . We were recommended to the makers diet book and since tried it, I am hear to tell you its amazing the difference it has made in my sons life. Jordon Rubin has given my sons life back to him.

This book changed my eating habits and provided awesome aternatives that fed and nourished my entire body soul and spirit.

This was accomplished by the use of sound, Biblical principles that have been thoroughly researched and put into a can do format.

Jordan Rubin has produced an insired work that can bring health and wellness to all.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who desires definite results, no matter where they are in questing excellent health.

Anyone looking to have a better quality of life should pick up this book without hesitation. The book is full of common sense and not so common sense advice on how to improve your health in a variety of ways.

We've already added a water filter to our shower head and could tell a difference on the first use: chlorine is BAD for you and your skin.

Well worth it.

Buy this book and any others by Jordin Rubin. See my review of The Maker's Diet about my husband's cholesterol, dropped 99 points in 8 weeks with The Maker's Diet and the principles from The Great Physician. Use the shopping guide to assist in grocery buying the first few weeks. If you want to get healthy, read his books!