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100 Essential Steps for Healthy Living

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All of Angela Coldwell's books are great gifts. Her photographs match the literature beneath each photo helping to remind you of what is important in life.

This is a great gift book written with simplicity, wisdom and good sense. Unless you are perfect and already implementing all the steps in this book, then it is sure to provide you with the motivation to try harder to look after yourself.

In this book Coldwell lists the top 100 changes you can make to live a healthier lifestyle. She reinforces what many people have already learned but forgotton to do. It may take time to implement everything she prescribes but every small change is a step in the right direction.

I recommend this book highly to anyone wanting to improve their health and quality of life. It provides motivating messages to encourage you to look after your body and mind.

Great Book! Fun read! It contains a number of suggestions that are already known but are good reminders for those of us that forget the most effective changes that we could be making in our lives to be healthier. There are a high proportion of people in this country that could definitely benefit from some helpful healthy ideas that do not have the time to read a lengthy book on the subject; this is the book for them. It is straight to the point with a single message on each page accompanied by an often amusing photo. A great motivator!

I know I didn't pay alot for this book, but I felt that it was a total waste of money. Each page is one sentence and a picture and it certainly did not contain any profound suggestions for healthy living (drink water?).

If I had seen this item in person (in the bookstore), I would never have purchased it. Part of the product description reads: "Practical no nonsense advice and inspiration" -- that is where it falls way short: inspiration (photography), especially; to say nothing of the many dull sentences. I love brevity when it's meaningful, but the ho-hum sentences under many of the pictures were not the least bit inspirational, they were trite, which made them (coupled with the inferior photography) annoying. While the cover is gorgeous, the inside photographs fall way short. They are all black and white and gray, many of them hazy, some aren't in focus, many are vague and pointless as to "inspiration" - and virtually lifeless compared to the catchy cover picture. Furthermore, again, the one-line sentences are stale, not inspirational. My inner-core cried out: 'I want my money back!'

The product description preview chooses the 3 best inside-book photos, leading the would-be buyer to believe there will be more of the same of at least that quality. But there aren't. This book was a complete waste of money for me. The product description further reads: "The illustrations on each page make this book as entertaining as it is thought provoking." For me, I was merely frustrated and severely disappointed that I bought this book sight unseen because I had expected all the photos to be at least as high-quality as the 3 previewed, and I expected some of them to be in color! The product description should emphatically state that ALL the pictures are black and white. Keep in mind, many of them are fuzzy and some of them are not the least bit inspirational or even that pertinent to the one-line sentence below them.

What would have made this book better? At least several COLOR photographs INSIDE the book - (other than merely the cover) - photos that were clear, in focus, and sentences that were relevant and appropriate, denoting enthusiasm, matched with carefully selected quality pictures.

This book makes complete and total sense. It inspired and motivated me to start taking better care of myself.

I really enjoyed reading this book. If we all applied the principles in this book we would all be eating healthy and feeling great! An excellent source of inspiration. Loved the photos too!