Product Description

Forget cholesterol counts. Forget calories and fat grams. If you want to lose weight, follow the guidelines in The pH Miracle. Dr Robert Young and his wife, Shelley Redford Young, reveal a revolutionary diet and lifestyle program that unlocks the secrets of pH balance as a means to weight loss. They offer a simple 7-step lifestyle program to balance your body chemistry, change your shape and get you to your ideal weight - and keep you there. From the science behind the plan to recipes and a detailed exercise plan, this book lays the groundwork for success.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #282260 in Books
• Published on: 2006-06-29
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Review
'In The pH Miracle, Dr Young may have discovered the true key to long life and health. It is simple and even spiritual in its approach and is founded on the truth your mother tried to give you: eat your vegetables!' James Redfield, author of The Celestine Prophecy

About the Author
Robert O. Young, Ph.D, D.Sc, is a world-renowned microbiologist and nutritionist. He is head of the InnerLight Biological Research Center in the USA, and has gained recognition for his research on cancer, diabetes, leukemia and AIDS. He speaks around the world on health and wellness issues.

Customer Reviews

A is for Alkali
Young's thesis is that the food we eat is too biased towards the acidic end of the spectrum. Faced with a net acidic balance the body suffers the effects of gastric acid disorders, but it also stores the excess acid in fat. He therefore recommends that one reverses the process, go alkaline and flush the acid out of your body. After this your body will no longer need to store fat. Since the foods on the acidic list contain a number of foods that I commonly overeat I cannot see following the approach moderately will hurt. The switch to making water alkaline has certainly relaxed my stomach and a minimum of effort.

This approach is in line with other writers like Christopher Vasey (no relation) and Gudron Jonsson.

I AM MOTIVATED
The opening paragraph of this book is so motivating...

"Lets start with a little maths. How many pounds do you need to shed before you reach your ideal healthy weight? 10? 30? 100?

Whatever your answer, multiply it by 2.

You are now looking at the maximum number of days it will take you to reach that ideal weight, if you follow the pH miracle living plan."

Sound great to me! Im totally up for this!

If you want to follow this diet you will need to like drinking water and eating lots of veg! Cos thats a lot of what you do, but there are loads of receipes in the back of the book which look good.

Way too extreme!
To start with the positive, the book is certainly an interesting read and Dr Young backs up his assertions with his own scientific research. There is no doubt, that followed properly you can lose weight and the results are impressive BUT back in the real world, this diet is much too extreme to ever follow on a long term basis.
Firstly, you will have to drink 1 ltr of water for every 13 kg of weight you have, so for me 5 ltrs or so a day. There is no way I could stomach drinking that amount, and it can't just be your plain old ordinary mineral water, no it should be 'ph Miracle water', filtered just correctly with a special fitted filter and 'alkalanised'. Then they are the supplements which number upwards of 30, I couldn't count them all that you are supposed to take, 'basic supplements'. Dr Young reccommends 1/2 to a cup of 'good' oil (omega oils), per day. This is along with a myriad others supplements. Then the diet itself is basically vegan, as all meat and dairy is acid forming, and this is the diet you are supposed to follow for the rest of your life....so this diet is expensive to maintain and requires considerable commitment. There is now way I could follow such an extreme diet, I want to be able to eat out sometimes and also to enjoy food socially. I reccommend taking aspects of this diet and incorporating it into you daily life, such as more green veggies for example, and the rebounding exercises.