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Eight weeks to optimum health : a proven program for taking full advantage of your body's natural healing power
Record details
- ISBN: 0679447156 (alk. paper)
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Physical Description:
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vi, 276 p. ; 25 cm. - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1997.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Subject: | Self-care, Health Alternative medicine Health behavior Health Naturopathy |
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- Baker & Taylor
Provides an eight-week program for improving and maintaining health, illuminating the processes of the body's healing systems and the ways in which we can optimize the power of our individual systems - Baker & Taylor
The best-selling author ofSpontaneous Healing presents a safe and effective eight-week program--incorporating alternative medicine, exercise, stress reduction, and nutritional supplements--designed to improve and maintain health. 300,000 first printing. $300,000 ad/promo. BOMC Alt. Tour. - Blackwell North Amer
The Eight-Week Program sets up a foundation for healthy living that is preventative in the broadest sense. Not only does Dr. Weil provide information with which you can keep your body's inherent healing system in peak working order as you encounter the challenges of day-to-day life; he also shows you how to construct a lifestyle that will protect you from premature illness and disability, and teaches practices and skills that will enable you to prepare for any eventual health crisis you may face.
With clearly explained and authoritatively informed recommendations, Dr. Weil guides you in fine-tuning your current eating habits - to eat less fat and animal protein, more whole grains and other complex carbohydrates, and more fruits and vegetables - so that your diet becomes more nutritious and increasingly beneficial to general health (he also includes simple, flavorful recipes to help you make the dietary changes quickly and easily). He shows how walking and stretching will satisfy all your exercise requirements throughout your life, and provides a gradual plan by which you can make brisk forty-five-minute walks and some simple stretches part of your weekly regimen.
Dr. Weil recommends the addition of four antioxidant supplements - vitamins C and E, selenium, and mixed carotenes - to further protect your healing system. He provides instruction in five basic breathing exercises that can impart both greater relaxation and energy. He discusses the benefits and techniques of visualization. He explains ways to overcome sleeping problems; to test and filter your water supply; to eliminate toxins from your diet; and to avoid environmental hazards such as the sun's ultraviolet rays. He suggests ways to make art, music, and the natural world more important parts of your life.
For those who wish to experiment further, he outlines several projects and activities such as cleansing fasts. There are a dozen additional programs that concentrate on the specific needs of pregnant women, senior citizens, overweight people, and those at risk for cancer, among others. And throughout the book, there are case histories and firsthand accounts that attest to the remarkable success of the plan. - Random House, Inc.
In his new book, Dr. Weil explains how the mechanisms and processes of the body's healing system work. He delineates the ways in which an individual can optimize the functioning of his or her own system, and he explains the effects of the eight-week program, conceived to harness and support the internal healing system of our bodies.
Incorporating alternative medicines and treatments, he gives specific and detailed information on diet, exercise, stress reduction, breathing techniques, vitamins, supplements, herbs, and all the other components in the eight-week program. He customizes programs for special groups of people: pregnant women, overweight people, recovering alcoholics and drug abusers, those dealing with or overcoming heart problems, former cancer sufferers, people over 65, and a dozen other categories.
Building on the breakthrough thinking of Spontaneous Healing and drawing on the experiences of patients who have adopted his program, Dr. Weil's Eight Weeks to Optimum Health provides an invaluable means to maintain health and lessen the need for medical intervention.
