Product Description

From the best-selling author of SPONTANEOUS HEALING, a brilliantly conceived, safe and effective eight-week programme for improving and maintaining health. Dr Weil first explains, then shows how, week by week, gradual changes can lead to long-term benefits such as greater vitality, weight loss and a body which heals itself. Incorporating alternative medicines and treatments, he provides specific and detailed information on diet (with 50 recipes), exercise, stress reduction techniques, and vitamins and supplements. He also customizes programmes for a dozen categories, such as pregnant women, people at risk of cancer, overweight people, and senior citizens. Building on the breakthrough thinking of SPONTANEOUS HEALING, Dr Weil provides an invaluable means to maintain health and lessen the need for medical intervention.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #168856 in Books
• Published on: 1998-01-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 286 pages

Review
'Warning: this man can seriously affect your health. For the better' - GUARDIAN 'The most significant book published this month' - Rob Cassy, BOOKSELLER 'Practical and persuasive, and his plan is extremely easy to follow' - IDEAL HOME

About the Author
Andrew Weil, a graduate of Harvard Medical School, is Associate Director of the Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona in Tucson. He also has a private medical practice. A great populariser, his work has appeared in national publicat

Customer Reviews

Almost seems too good to be true.....
After reading this book, I felt that all I needed to do was to follow the Doctor's advice and I would be invincible to all health problems. I'm sure it's not that simple, but I bet that if I did follow his advice I would be pretty damn healthy. This book is written in an easy to follow style and is peppered with examples of people who have been cured by adopting a more sensible lifestyle.

The best thing about this book is the philosophy that it is better to be healthy than to be cured by a doctor and that we should be using the body's own healing powers to stay on top of things. This is a philosophy that I think is becoming more popular in the 21st century (but maybe more as a way of thinking than a way of acting - if the habits of the people I know are anything to go by). But more and more people who suffer from chronic conditions that do not seem to be curable by conventional means would do well to take a look at this book. The advice may not always work, but none of it is radical enough to do you any harm.

Just after Christmas is a great time to be reading this - it is bound to help supoort some of those New Year Resolutions to adopt a healthier lifestyle. This is definitely worth reading - it could change your life forever.

This book is a compelling argument for better living.
Dr. Weil draws the reader into a program that is easy to follow, gradually introduced, and convincingly worth doing. The research behind his various philiosophies is thorough and interesting, and the benefits to the program speak for themselves. One of the best better eating and living guides available.

I feel GREAT !
This book is well written and simple to follow. It builds in useful lifestyle elements slowly and painlessly. You are told what to do to be healthy not that you can't do things. I feel a whole new lease of life after following this 8 week programme.