Written in clear and straightforward language, this invaluable book introduces the concept of Integrative Medicine--a safe, effective strategy that combines the best of modern medicine with a person's own personal resources for healing.
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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
The director of the California Wellness Medicine Institute and the Wellness Medical Doctor for the QVC home shopping channel, Taub is a proponent of "integrative medicine," an approach that encourages readers to work with their doctors and assume personal responsibility for overall well-being. For Taub, the road to wellness begins with nutrition. The book addresses the physical, emotional and cultural issues underlining poor nutrition and eating behaviors and refutes popular ideas about nutrition (e.g., the USDA's four basic food groups). Readers explore their underlying attitudes about food by completing a series of questionnaires on body image, physical wellness and stress resilience. In lieu of a rigid, calorie-counting diet, Taub's 28-day plan ambitiously aims for "cognitive restructuring," a process that trains readers to overcome habitual food cravings and to eat healthier, more nutritious foods. Advocating a largely vegetarian and carbohydrate-based diet,Taub offers a 12-step "Food Energy Ladder"; its first five rings emphasize fruits, vegetables, pasta-rice-potatoes, whole-grain breads and cereals, and olive oil and nuts, respectively. Recipes, exercises?such as walking and yoga stretches?and a discussion on nutritional supplements appear in the latter half of the book. Seasoned with medical statistics and nutritional facts, the prose alternately cajoles and instructs followers in achieving a permanent lifestyle change.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
Balance is achieved here with a sound diet, a doable exercise program, and stress reduction strategiesall sensible and clearly presented. Taub (a pediatrician and family doctor, currently the ``Wellness Medical Doctor'' for QVC) isn't presenting anything astonishing here, and he isn't immune to bouts of diet-book-ese: ``recent statistics prove . . . six of the ten most common deadly diseases in the United States are known to be influenced by food.'' However, his advice is absolutely sound, and Taub isn't afraid to stand firm on unpopular positions or take on the misleading food marketing giants. Nothing on the market, he rightly asserts, ``can match the nutritional power and nurturing force of breast milknothing.'' Start children out right, plan meals using a nutritional ``ladder'' with fruits, vegetables, starches, and grains on the top rungs (abandon the four basic food groupseven the newer food pyramid is still slightly off base), and examine nutritional studies and advice for marketing and other biases before accepting their results and recommendations. Taub helps readers develop, first, an individual health profile, then a four-week plan for remedial action as needed; this is complete and clearly organized with all the necessary nutritional and exercise information and recipes. Yes, another diet/exercise/lifestyle planbut a sensible, well-based one. ($500,000 ad/promo; TV and radio satellit tour) -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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68 of 73 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A true HEALER.... where were you when I was 20 and foolish?,
By A Customer
This review is from: Balance Your Body, Balance Your Life: Dr. Taub's 28 Day Permanent Weight Loss Plan (Hardcover)
Having seen Dr. Taub speak many many times on QVC I have enormous respect for him as a human being and even more in that he is a Doctor. I can only hope that the trend I see so evident in all his work is catching on with others in the medical profession. I belong to an HMO and they have finally joined the wellness band wagon. Any small step is a step in the right direction.The only reason the book did not receive 5 stars is that it is a bit preachy. The first few chapters Dr. Taub is busy preaching to the choir about the distingretion of the health care industry and the dairy industry. Put that aside the information is all here for you to make the changes to do well. I am somebody that has been reading every book I can get my hands on regarding diet. I don't necessarily follow the advice but just absorb what is being said. I always look for consistent threads in all the books. Dr. Taub's book is well grounded and very much an idea that can be implemented as a way of life for me. I can't stress that everyone is different and what works very well for someone might not work that well for someone else. For instance I lost weight on the Protein Power Plan and managed to keep it off but soon plateaued. Why? Because I am not a person that inherently loves to eat meat. I love vegetables. Salads are a real delight along with a big bowl of beans. So you can imagine me looking at the Protein Power Plan and trying to count the maximum carbohydrates in a day so I could eat my beloved vegetables. I knew before I even began the diet that I could not maintain such a lifestyle. I was too prone to having fruit attacks. What I have learned in Dr. Taub's book is that it is more like me and the way I am naturally. Although I know he would like for us to give up eating anything with a face, that I can not do. I love a good steak or salmon fillet about once a week. If nothing else you should come away with the notion that everything is in moderation, even moderation. Dr. Taub tells the story of his 'chocolate attack' while writing this book. He ate his chocolate but went further to understand why he was having the craving and to subsequently deal with it. I have been practicing yoga for about 4 months now and for all you non believers. Start believing. I had two abdominal surgeries and never thought I could tone my abdomen. Yoga is doing it. I am just starting to see indentations in my rib cage... how exciting and all I am doing is yoga via video tapes. You will feel 100% better, just try it and stick with it. Your body won't be used to the stretching but follow the philosophy... go at your own pace and you will do well. I also do aerobics but that's my cardiovascular workout. I have taken aerobics for years and have great lungs and a super heart but it didn't help me slim down. This man is sincere, dedicated and very well grounded in science. Check him out on QVC if you want to hear him speak about his philosophy and see some of the products he endorses. His multivitamins are fantastic.... he saved my hair and fingernails but that's another story.
23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Textbook For Nutrition And Health For The 21st Century.,
By Brenda Sklare (Alpharetta, GA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Balance Your Body, Balance Your Life: Dr. Taub's 28 Day Permanent Weight Loss Plan (Hardcover)
With all of the complicated, controversial and misleading information that has been written on this subject, it is a pleasure to read such a profoundly simple, complete and common sense approach to weight management. Dr. Taub's writing style makes it an easy read that is full of life enhancing information. Dr. Taub states in his book that "Your thoughts are the driving force behind what you eat". Reading this book will change your thinking. 'Balance Your Body, Balance Your Life' is a must read for all who struggle with weight control. Thank you, Dr. Taub, for providing such a sensible and scientifically sound book that I can enthusiastically recommend. Dr. John H. Sklare/The Inner Diet
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Most honest, best researched book on permanent weight loss,
By A Customer
This review is from: Balance Your Body, Balance Your Life: Dr. Taub's 28 Day Permanent Weight Loss Plan (Hardcover)
"Balance Your Body, Balance Your Life" is simply the most honest and best researched book on permanent weight loss that has ever been written! The author, an esteemed medical doctor and wellness pioneer takes the idea of dieting away from the fad market and places it firmly in our own hands with plenty of scientifcally based easy-to-follow guidelines. As a registered physical therapist, I see an astonishing number of chronic health problems related to being overweight including shortness of breath, chronic fatigue, backache, neckache, headache, arthritis, (especially of the hips and knees), varicose veins.. and even worse.. strokes, heart attacks, and cancer. All of these patients can benefit from Dr. Taub's book. Dr. Taub clearly explains how a faulty food mindset, which makes permanent weight loss so difficult, evolves from infancy. Questionaires help identify specific nutritional/lifestyle problems. Psychological and journaling exercises build a bridge to a new healthy attitude toward permanent health. As a pediatrician, Dr. Taub provides essential reading for anyone who wants to establish life-long health habits for their children. Anyone who follows these guidelines to help their children cannot help but benefit themselves. I bought this book because of the Kirkus Associates Review on this site, which said that this medical doctor's advice is "absolutely sound, and he isn't afraid to stand firm on unpopular positions or take on the misleading food marketing giants". Dr. Taub helps us set very realistic goals that result in weight-loss success year after year rather than promising fantastic results in days. This common-sense approach takes the deprivation out of dieting by providing such sound nutrional principles accompanied by delcious, healthy recipes, that we can actually eat less and feel more nourished. The fact that the author has been a family doctor for 35 years shines through in the simplicity and practicality of this gem of a book, and I believe that just reading it will inspire people to lose wieght forever...and it could save their lives.
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