Reviews for Salud Total en 8 Semanas: Un Programa Probado para Aprovechar al Maximo el Poder Curativo Natural de su Cuerpo

The average rating for Salud Total en 8 Semanas: Un Programa Probado para Aprovechar al Maximo el Poder Curativo Natural de su Cuerpo based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-12-19 00:00:00 Tacara Baumler I have learned firsthand how the body can change drastically depending on what it's given for fuel, and this book is the primary source of that knowledge/experience. One December more than a decade ago, after a twelve-hour drive from Virginia to Alabama, and a steady diet of French fries and cheeseburgers and sodas along the way, I pulled off the highway and into one of Tuscaloosa's sundry strip malls to buy a book at a mega-bookstore. (Books are ' I think I may have mentioned this ' a salve for me.) I ended up buying two: the very first Harry Potter book and Eating Well for Optimum Health. I can't remember precisely why I chose to pick the book up in the first place, but it must have had something to do with the queasy feeling in my stomach, the concomitant throbbing headache I had been nursing since northeast Georgia. I just didn't feel right and I blamed it (not erroneously) on the food I'd eaten that day. After sitting on the floor of the aisle where it was shelved and reading the first chapter, I bought the book and immediately forswore processed food. The next day I began shopping the fringes of the supermarket ' the outer rim being where the less processed foods, like fish and vegetables, are kept. I started making weekly forays to the whole foods store for things like whole grain breads, soy waffles, and almond butter. (This was before these things started creeping into the larger supermarket chains, before "Wholefoods" was an actual brand.) I started exercising too. Swimming. Jogging. Lifting weights. It sounds kind of obtuse to say it now, but I didn't expect the appearance of my body to change noticeably ' I didn't really think about that one way or another, which is strange because I'm pretty vain. I have to say that, eventually, my main focus with the change in my eating and exercise habits was my emotional health. I've always been a moody person, capable of pretty intense emotion one way or another. Mostly I'm fine with that, but at the time my personal life was really in flux and so my emotions were that much more intense. I chose to subscribe to the theory that eating well and exercising would help my mood level out over time. I would be calmer, less anxious and/or sad, more able to cope with the stresses of my so-called adult life in the Western world. Looking back, I'm pretty sure I had already read Walt Stoll's Saving Yourself from the Disease Care Crisis, but for some reason I hadn't had the gumption yet to take him up on his ideas. They're ostensibly the same ones in Weil's book, but Stoll didn't really present a systematized approach. Weil does. There was also something about the rhetoric and packaging, I must admit. Stoll was a truth-telling crackpot, a la that locust-eating loony, John the Baptist. But something about Weil ' maybe (let's be honest) that I'd seen him on Larry King? ' made him seem less a far-out/cranky voice in the wilderness and more a mainstream Nazarene. At any rate, I don't remember how much my moods changed for the better. I'd like to think they did. I'd like to think I at least understood them a little bit better, but I know they still fluctuated. I'm not sure moods are supposed to do anything else, actually. Mine aren't, anyway. Another thing happened, though: I lost twenty-five pounds in about three months. It was twenty-five pounds I didn't really think I had to lose, but I did feel better. I slept better. I was stronger. There was a spring in my step. Etc. I felt like I was managing my life better by managing what I put into my body. I have tried to use this metaphor to better understand all kinds of consumption: TV, relationships, work. What you put into your body, mind, life can consume you. What you eat can also eat you. It doesn't have to, but it will if you're not careful. Something else was instructive. People around me reacted with great interest to my body's transformation. Some were impressed, but I have to say a great many of them seemed uncomfortable with it. Even (or especially) the ones who were most impressed. I was bombarded with questions about my eating habits. Do you eat this? Would you eat that? I eat this ' I know you don't eat that! You eat chocolate! How does that fit into your diet? How much do you exercise? People would ask me whether I could eat what they were serving, or if I could go to a certain restaurant. While there was certainly a level of courtesy they were trying to extend, it often felt strange to me ' or maybe it made me feel strange, weird, Other. Instead of leaving me to manage my own eating, my eating became a topic of public discussion, maybe even when I wasn't there, to the point where I consciously decided to go back to eating more like I had before. There were other factors in that decision, to be sure: I was kind of worried that I had lost so much weight so quickly, without even trying. I also worried that I was starting to feel guilty if I ate a not-so-unhealthy chicken gyro from my favorite "fast food" Mediterranean restaurant. But mainly I just wanted to shut people up about what I ate. It took a long time ' people would watch me eat a cheeseburger and fries one day, and the next, they'd wonder if barbecue fit into "my diet." Over the course of a couple of years, I went back to my original weight, and maybe even added a few pounds to it. Only a routine physical exam that showed I had high cholesterol scared me back into eating "cleaner" again. As before, there was the precipitous weight loss. As before, there was the hubbub around me, my waist size, what I would or wouldn't eat, whether or not I was sick. This time I tuned it out, focusing instead on the cautionary tale of my father's massive heart attack at age 54. In the whole process, I learned that food is not just food. It is psychological, interpersonal, communal, metaphorical, spiritual, and probably a bunch of other things that either A) I'm forgetting or B) I don't yet know. What we eat and who we eat it with (and when and where and why, for that matter) is as complicated as it is vitally important to who we are.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-06-19 00:00:00 Nikki Freedfr When it comes to personal health and wellness, I'm a supporter of integrating both Western and Eastern medicine into my lifestyle. Dr. Andrew Weil, a Harvard Medical trained physician, and advocate of alternative medicine is a good combination of the two (and forgive my saying this, not too crunchy birkenstock, which is often my worry with seeking alternate remedies for my health issues). In this (not quite diet/ mostly lifestyle) manual for health, Dr. Weil explores the adoption of healthy habits into everyday living, including walking, drinking water, and the addition of vegetables, etc. into a balanced diet. The book is broken down into different sections in a step by step approach, although is easily readable and adopted in less than eight weeks, although, I think for most people, slowly adopting habits is the way to make them stick. Most of the stuff in this book I already knew, but Dr. Weil frames the issue in an informative and inspirational way. I'd recommend this to most people I know, just to take another look at how they are living, and what they can do to achieve optimum health.