The Essential Green You: Easy Ways to Detox Your Diet, Your Body, and Your Life (Green This!) [Paperback]

Deirdre Imus (Author)

Book Description

Series: Green This! | Publication Date: December 30, 2008

An essential guide to detoxifying your lifestyle and your body, inside and out, from expert and activist Deirdre Imus

In The Essential Green You!, the third volume in the New York Times bestselling Green This! series, Deirdre Imus shares tips on how to "green" the way you take care of yourself, whether with the food you eat or the clothes you wear, or the cosmetics, toiletries, and hair products you use every single day. Deirdre provides detailed, practical advice that includes:

- How to find everything from organic groceries to nontoxic personal care items

- Toxic ingredients to avoid in the products you use every day

- Where to find clothes that are both environment-friendly and fashionable

- Healthy alternatives to commonly used medications

- How to make better eating habits a priority and live more consciously

Living organically doesn't require a drastic overhaul and it doesn't have to be complicated or expensive -- Deirdre Imus shows how easy and important it is for women to "buy green, eat green, and be green."

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Deirdre Imus is the founder and president of the Deirdre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology(R), part of Hackensack University Medical Center (HUMC) in New Jersey. She is also a cofounder and codirector of the Imus Cattle Ranch for Kids with Cancer, and the author of the bestselling book The Imus Ranch: Cooking for Kids and Cowboys.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster; Original edition (December 30, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 141654125X
• ISBN-13: 978-1416541257
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #609,102 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Deirdre Imus is the founder and president of the Deirdre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology(R), part of Hackensack University Medical Center (HUMC) in New Jersey. She is also a cofounder and codirector of the Imus Cattle Ranch for Kids with Cancer, and the author of the bestselling book The Imus Ranch: Cooking for Kids and Cowboys.

Customer Reviews

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An informative book that helps you choose change, January 13, 2009

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This review is from: The Essential Green You: Easy Ways to Detox Your Diet, Your Body, and Your Life (Green This!) (Paperback)

In her third book in this series, Deirdre Imus tackles the "greening" of us as individuals. From cosmetics to soaps to foods..everything has been researched and is well-documented without being overly pushy or completely non-understandable. Her down-to-earth approach at highlighting the influx of chemicals into our daily lives is enough to make even the most steadfast non-believer take another look- a hard look.

Imus advocates natural healing, earth-friendly and chemical-free products and a vegan diet, but she isn't pushy in her viewpoints. She explains in simple text what benefits these things play in her life and how one can take parts and pieces of that to incorporate into their lives. In each chapter, she lists the "worst offenders" and gives suggestions for alternatives (i.e, nix this mascara or this snack food and try this instead). It is easy to skip around in chapters to look something up on the fly, but it is just as simple to read the book cover-to-cover (as I did) and feel like you had a week's work of reading in one sitting. Very informative.

Overall, the entire book is about choosing. We can't do everything. In fact, some of us can only do a little bit due to cost, but we can start making some better decisions in the hope that the government and the companies who make this product will start paying attention.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful book!, February 15, 2009

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This review is from: The Essential Green You: Easy Ways to Detox Your Diet, Your Body, and Your Life (Green This!) (Paperback)

Without being pushy or overwhelming, Dierdre Imus takes readers through a wealth of choices for healthy living. She explains the hazards of choosing food, household and personal care products without first being an informed consumer. In this era of economic belt-tightening and of so many toxins in available products, ignorance is far too costly for all of us.

Ms. Imus has an engaging, personal writing style, as though she is talking to a friend. And she offers lists of the bad choices, giving reasons why they are harmful, as well as lists of better choices in all the areas she covers. And she is thorough! I was glad to find, for example, names of cosmetic companies I hadn't heard of before who offer beautiful products I will enjoy trying.

The whole book is like that --- a fascinating look at the wide and ever-growing group of safe and health-enhancing products that are every bit as good as more familiar commercial products, and are also price competitive.

Interesting to read and invaluable to use as a reference. Highly recommended!

8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Where do you find the good ingredients? Poorly Indexed, March 30, 2009

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This review is from: The Essential Green You: Easy Ways to Detox Your Diet, Your Body, and Your Life (Green This!) (Paperback)

This book was a good idea but poorly indexed. You can find all the bad stuff, names of people and names of diseases, but if you want to find out what vinegar is used for, or baking soda, forget it. This book has the instructions for different cleaning methods and what to use, but they are buried in the book! I was happy to get the info, but disappointed that I had to read all of her politics and stories to get the information. Deirdre, if you read this, please update the index and publish it for free on your website as well as adding it to your book!