A Fresh Start: Accelerate Fat Loss and Restore Youthful Vitality [Paperback]

Susan Smith Jones (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 21, 2002

What happens to bodies as they age? How and why does energy dwindle over time? Is it possible to recapture a more youthful, healthful way of life? In A FRESH START, Dr. Susan Smith Jones combines a definitive weight-loss program with the ultimate in health and fitness to create a comprehensive guide to losing weight and creating a more energetic lifestyle. By providing the tools you need to make permanent changes one day at a time, Dr. Smith Jones makes it easy to drop the pounds that accumulate with each passing year and start living more actively. Using a safe, holistic approach that'¬?s grounded in hard science, A FRESH START includes hundreds of healthy, delicious recipes, exercise and fitness tips, ideas for overcoming stress, simple ways to jump-start and maintain an efficient metabolism, insight into the power of the mind, and guides to detoxification, rejuvenation, healing supplements, and revitalization. Make A FRESH START today and fill your tomorrows with vibrant health.‚Ä¢ The baby boomer'¬?s guide to rejuvenation.‚Ä¢ Dr. Susan Smith Jones'¬?s books have sold 70,000 copies.

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From the Publisher

If you wish to:

*Lose 20 to 30 pounds over the next 3 months by eating more, not less;

*Jump-start your metabolism;

*Supercharge your energy;

*Increase your stamina;

*Switch off carb cravings;

*Promote fat burning;

*Heal, detoxify, and rejuvenate;

*Create a toned, fit body with exercises that work;

*Protect yourself from obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and many cancers;

*Release stress, reignite self-esteem, and reconnect with your inner self;

*Meditate your way to inner knowledge, inner power, and inner peace;

then A FRESH START was written just for you!

About the Author

SUSAN SMITH JONES, Ph.D., is one of the ten "Healthy American Fitness Leaders" chosen by the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. Jones lectures around the globe, responding to the desire we all have for the knowledge and understanding necessary for living a more healthy, happy, peaceful, successful, and soul-satisfying life.

Product Details

• Paperback: 486 pages
• Publisher: Celestial Arts (March 21, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0890879966
• ISBN-13: 978-0890879962
• Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1.3 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #646,302 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Susan Smith Jones, MS, PhD, is a leading voice in America and worldwide in the fields of health and fitness, personal growth, optimal nutrition, natural remedies, longevity, balanced living, and human potential. As a much sought-after motivational speaker, wellness consultant, and holistic lifestyle coach extraordinaire, Susan travels throughout North America and internationally as she works with Fortune 500 companies; community, spiritual, and women's groups; corporations and businesses; and with families and special individual clients. She shares her wealth of knowledge and expertise on how to live successfully and create your best life in body, mind, and spirit. Susan is the author of several popular audio programs and 27 books. Her new, bestselling 14-title collection, Renew Your Life, has a worldwide following--a special seminar package designed to enrich and enhance your life. To learn about Susan's renowned work, browse through the pages of this website. Return daily for her uplifting book quotes and affirmations.

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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A vast number of healthy recipes, April 12, 2006

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Amalfi Coast Girl (Mid-Atlantic, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Fresh Start: Accelerate Fat Loss and Restore Youthful Vitality (Paperback)

I purchased this book after embarking on Dr. Fuhrman's "Eat to Live" plan because I desperately needed to change my cooking style. This book is approximately 50% recipes and 50% lifestyle changes and the reasons for those changes. The principles of this plan are also very similar to the book above, and to "Stop the Inflammation Now" by Dr. Fleming. I have reviewed both of those books as well, if you are curious.

The gist of the plan is a vegan diet, adding exercise, eliminating stress and being grateful. Common sense ideas that the author tries to tie together by referencing studies and specific client examples.

The book is full on tidbits of information regarding the health benefits of specific foods as they appear in recipes. If you are well versed in nutrition this information is very basic. However, if you could use a nutrition primer this is a reasonable one.

My biggest criticism of the book is the recurrent emphasis on religion and God. I did not expect a religious tie in to a diet book.

Overall the book is full of information and recipes and serves the purpose that I purchased it for. I give it 5 stars for the recipe content alone. The remainder of the book I would give 4 stars. Since I purchased the book specifically for the recipes the overall rating is a 5.

0 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A Fresh Review, December 18, 2008

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Utahna Tassie "truthseeker777" (Salt Lake City, UT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Fresh Start: Accelerate Fat Loss and Restore Youthful Vitality (Paperback)

I am usually so excited to open the package of books I've found in my mail and immediately scan them. This one didn't excite me. I am just realizing how visually oriented I am. I opened this book and immediately put it in my give away pile. It's paperback with no interesting diagrams or pictures. Why now, at 53 years old, have picture books with slick, beautiful pages become so important to me? The information might be valuable, but the print did not entice me to read it at all. I got the feeling that it was very old and outdated. It's probably just the icky feeling of the paper. I love to underline and highlight my books, but don't like this kind of paper.