Eight Weeks to Optimum Health
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In his new book, Dr. Weil clarifies 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 clarifies 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 point and detailed information on diet, exercise, stress reduction, breathing techniques, vitamins, supplements, herbs, and all the additional components in the eight-week program. He customizes programs for special groups of people: pregnant women, overweight people, recovering alcoholics and drug abusers, persons dealing with or overcoming heart problems, ex- cancer sufferers, people over 65, and a dozen additional categories.
Building on the leap forwards 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 cut the need for medical intervention.
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“Health,” Dr. Andrew Weil writes, “is a dynamic and temporary state of equilibrium destined to break down as conditions change.” In additional words, there’s no such thing as the type of health that allows you to feel equally fantastic every day of your life. As a replacement for, Weil suggests, your goal should be to improve your resilience to disease, and while you’re at it, feel more joy and might.
As to how you should gain this might, joy, and resilience, Weil doesn’t come on with a hard sell to give up every terrible habit or all of the foods you delight in. As a replacement for, he suggests gradual changes: clean your pantry of whatever cooking oils you have there, except lime oil; start taking vitamin C three times a day; walk a few minutes a day; eat some fish and broccoli. The program is so simple and sensible that anyone trying it probably will feel better in a week.
The program then gets progressively more involved–more supplements; more of a shift toward a diet based on whole grains, fruits, and vegetables; more exercise. Besides these steady changes, each week’s program has a focus: In week 2, you start drinking bottled or filtered water; week 3 focuses on organic produce; week 4, on sleep; week 5, using a steam bath or sauna; week 6, trying a “universal shot in the arm” like ginseng; week 7, volunteering in your community; and finally, in week 8, figuring out how to integrate permanently the fundamentals of the program into your life.
Even persons who don’t go for the entire program will probably find something here to like–the recipes, maybe, or the suggestion that you cut back on strenuous types of exercise like running and competitive sports in favor of brisk walks. It’s perfectly useful either way: as a total lifestyle fix, or a series of suggestions, any one or two of which will probably help you feel better. –Lou Schuler
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It is impossible to reach optimum health in 8 weeks.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
My daughter bought this book for me about 6 months ago. I know Dr. Weil is an educated man, but I’m sorry. I just cannot take seriously a man this overweight lecturing on optimum health. Look at the size of this guy. Either he is slipping in triple cheeseburgers and double malteds when no one is looking, or salmon and seaweed are VERY fattening. I would say its probably the ex-. I kept looking for “after” photos but, alas, there are none. This is how he looks.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Because your huge Santa-Clause booty is blocking the light. So Mr. Weil has sold out to the lucrative health industry, and has a fantastic marketing thing going with the pleased go lucky grandaddy image with the huge beard and rotund face and all. But please be informed, genral public, that you have firstly bought into image marketing, and then to the authors money-building recommendations. If Mr. Weil told you what you really needed to do to get healthy and stay healthy, 99% of you would be turned off. After all, who likes wheatgrass juice, fasting, and rejuvelac? Do you? Surely we’d rather go on our jolly ole ways down to Safeway and stock up on Weil favorites, such as nutrasweet and soyburgers.
You will see how many negative ‘did this review help you’ counts I get, because the type of people (maybe you, sorry to say) who have been suckered into Mr. Weils diet (and pocket-book) are unwaveringly worried of anything that threatens their simple ‘health’ plot. Please read Ann Wigmore’s ‘Hippocrates Diet’ if you are truly concerned about your health.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
The longer I have this book, the less I reflect of it. Didn’t like soyburgers enough to go on eathing them. He’s just incorrect about the value of artificial sweetners since they have practially no calories and every level teaspoon of sugar has 15 calories (over time this adds up to whatever it adds up depending on how many teaspoons of sugar you consume on the average per day–one pound of bodyfat is 3500 calories)–and each and every one of them is a calorie I don’t need (I usually need sweetnener in coffee, green tea and cereal). I drink soymilk (lowfat) and it tastes fine but I’ve read credibly elsewhere that it has developed that less calcium is asorbed by the human body from having drunk a cup of calcium fortified soymilk than from an eaual amount of cow’s milk containing the same amouint of calcium. I drink more (stout free) cows milk and less soymilk than I did when I first ongoing drinking it. His advice that is worth taking take can be had elsewhere for free on the internet or in better form and in better books (The Omega Diet, and Judith Wills’ The Food Bible, both avaiable at this website) which I recommend over this one. Furthermore, while it’s not a terrible thought at all to take two baby aspirin a day (162 mg. a day ) to lower one’s risk for heart attacks and colon cancer, it is also right that the website of The Harvard School of Public Health has a free cancer quiz ( risk assessment) for various types of cancer including colon cancer and what they recommend to lower one’s risk ( only after you talk to your doctor) is one full might aspirin (325 mg.) 4-6 times a week. Also, in his discussion of the raw foods diet which he doesn’t recommend (and he’s right) although he does say that people shouldn’t eat raw sprouts (I THINK because they contain natural toxins), he doesn’t say that that since 1999 (starting before that in 1998) the FDA has had an advisory in effect that people should not eat ANY raw sprouts because of the food borne illnesses they cause because they’re contaminated. Where the bacteria are most present when they are present is in the seeds and in the beans–and what is present, if present, is the most harmful strain of E Coli that exists which cannot be removed by washing but causes no harm in painstakingly cooked sprouts. Also, this book is chock full of testmonials which seriously detract from it. Additional reviewers have commented about the fact that at the end there’s something about the possiblity of extant lacking food. I don’t reflect this belongs in a book of this type at all and of course it’s absurd. As to pesticides: they wash off even strawberries. He says organic strawberries taste better: after trying his recipe for marinara sauce (see my comment not more than), I doubt that he has any taste buds. Some of his recipes, you could not pay me to try ( such as mayonnaise and tartar sauce made with silken tofu). Also, I do eat meat and poultry (not oganic– I reflect people should save their money and not take this advice). As to his his marinara sauce, had I followed his recipe to the letter, I don’t see how I could have eaten it. He’s got a large can (28 oz) of crushed tomatoes (I used a 15 oz can of crushed tomatoes and a 15 oz can of diced tomatoes and I’m glad I did), and, if anyone can judge it, a 15 oz (!) can of tomato paste and no water (and also red pepper flakes which I dislike which I therefore omitted). The diced tomatoes saved the sauce. (It would have been dreary lacking them). I did have to add a can (28 oz) of water. As to all that tomato paste, I don’t know how anyone could stand to place that in the sauce, let alone eat it. That is way too much. I used a 3 oz can of it and that is, I reflect the most anyone should use because its so strong (If I make it again it will be with two tablespoons of it because that’s enough). I’ve chose that I’m not going to try any more of his recipes. As I said earlier, his lentil salad was dismal. I recommed both of the books mentioned above over this one. I’d pass on this one if I were you.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Dr. Weil seems nice enough but his recommendations are generally pretty terrible for right health. Eating salmon and getting rid of transfat foods are a excellent thought but his recommendations for soy products which are full of antinutrients (not just phytates) and his recommendations against animal products or a lowering of their use and lowering stout intake and his recommendations for increase grain consumption will make you stout and give you type 2 diabetes in the long run if not something much worse. His spiel about complex carbohydrates over simple or refined carbohydrates is nonsense. Too much carbohydrates is the problem. While simple carbs are pretty terrible, complex carbs the way he recommends them are just as terrible if not worse because of the amount he recommends.
The guy basically pushes vitamins and herbal supplements. There are many studies happening now that will soon place his message (and many others) to a long deserved rest. High carbohydrate diets are very terrible for health. Animal products are necessary for excellent health. Saturated stout is very vital in the diet. All studies done in this area show that meat and stout protect against heart disease. High carbohydrate diets play havoc with hormones causing every disease in the book.
This will soon be common knowledge as studies start impact this out, ending untold suffering for so many people.
If you want a excellent book based on science (not guru worship), read Life Lacking bread.
The whole low stout/high carbohydrate diet is a fraud and any honest look at the studies already done will bear this out. New studies are being done now but this time it will be in the context of “is stout terrible?” as a replacement for of “stout is terrible – lets prove it”.
And I don’t know if I’m ready to accept [the], “but that’s what we were taught” excuse when the studies come back condeming the nonsense they spew.
Back to Weil, the guy is overweight, bald and pushes vitamins. He shrugs off studies showing vitamin c toxicity or soy toxicity. Eventually, even he probably won’t be able to shrug off the evidence that his diet is worse than terrible for health.
Avoid.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5