Gary Null's Ultimate Lifetime Diet: A Revolutionary All-Natural Program for Losing Weight and Building a Healthy Body [Hardcover]

Gary Null Ph.D. (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 28, 1999

Slim down the natural way!  America's leading health expert offers a revolutionary, proven program to help you shed those unwanted pounds--forever.

Grapefruit, hormones, blood types, protein.  With so many of today's trendy diets being hailed as the weight-loss solution, it's hard to know what really does work, let alone what's actually good for you.  But what if there was a simple, enjoyable way to lose weight without eliminating food groups or counting calories--one that not only melted away the pounds but dramatically improved other aspects of your life as well?

Leading natural health expert Gary Null has devoted his life to helping people feel better about their bodies, and in this ground-breaking new book he presents a surefire plan to help you lose weight--and keep it off.  Based on Null's research with over a thousand volunteers and more than twenty-five years as a health educator, Gary Null's Ultimate Lifetime Diet explores the science behind weight gain and provides and easy-to-follow weight-loss regimen based on nutrition, exercise and holistic therapies.  Complete with a 31-day eating plan packed with delicious, all-natural, low-fat recipes that can be tailored to your individual needs, Gary Null's Ultimate Lifetime Diet shows you how to jump-start your metabolism and develop healthier, lifelong eating habits.  You will learn how to:

Listen to your body and determine your unique dietary needs
Use detoxification as the key to weight-loss success--safely and effectively
Reduce with juice and blend a variety of slimming, health-enhancing beverages
Use the 125 recipes in the eating plan to prepare appetizing, slenderizing dishes--from breakfast to dessert
Choose vitamins and supplements that will boost your weight-loss efforts
Develop a personalized exercise regimen--and stick with it
Use stress management and self-actualization techniques to set personal goals, improve your body image, and stay positive and energized

Best of all, with Gary Null's Ultimate Lifetime Diet the inches and pounds you lose are secondary to what you gain: a lifetime of confidence, happiness, good eating and good health.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

"This book is designed to be a comprehensive, long-term fix to your weight problem," says Gary Null, author of over 50 books and a well-known manufacturer of vitamins and supplements. Gary Null's Ultimate Lifetime Diet presents an integrative approach combining diet, exercise, supplements, juicing, cleaning up your personal environment, and examining your life choices and values. First, Null offers an interesting discussion of obesity, the hormonal connection, eating disorders, and diets. Then he recommends a mostly vegetarian, long-term dietary plan emphasizing low-glycemic, complex carbohydrates plus fish and juices, and avoiding "dead foods": meat, sugar, and processed carbohydrates. Null gives a 31-day meal plan with recipes. Breakfast might be Raspberry Oat-Soy-Banana Pancakes, Quinoa Mango Delight, or Carob Nut Milk Shake (made with soy milk). Lunch might be Cayenne Swordfish (with a spicy olive oil and tofu sauce), Gary's Vegiball Stew (made with vegetables, herbs, and seitan), or Popeye Loves Olive (can you guess?). Dinner recipes include Almond Chop Suey, Stir-Fried Tempeh with Broccoli and Lemon Threads, and many interesting pastas. Desserts are mostly a variety of puddings made with fruit and tofu. Besides the diet plan, Null describes his recommendations about exercise; juicing; vitamins, minerals, herbs, and amino acids; and techniques for handling chronic stress. He also presents a collection of inspiring success stories. --Joan Price

From Publishers Weekly

In Part One of his new book, talk-show host Null (Gary Null's Ultimate Anti-Aging Program) explains in lengthy detail what he considers to be the negative effects of many diets, including hormonal imbalances and eating disorders. Although some readers will find this amount of information helpful, others may become discouraged by the lengthy explanations and clinical terminology used. In Part Two, Null offers his solution, which combines behavior modification, "detoxifying" one's system with specific foods and liquids instead of dieting and pages of recipes that support a healthier lifestyle. The honest and realistic success stories in Part Three are likely to inspire the reader to take Null's advice. Ultimately, Null asks readers to analyze their relationship to food (whether eating masks depression and anxiety, for example). The extensive appendixes--profiling foods, chemicals and medical terms--are a very helpful reference. Readers already familiar with alternative medicine and/or holistic living will benefit from Null's vision, but, due to its size, the book may overwhelm those addressing their diet and weight issues alone or for the first time. One Spirit BOMC selection.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 720 pages
• Publisher: Crown Archetype (December 28, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0767904737
• ISBN-13: 978-0767904735
• Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1.7 x 9.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #738,318 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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59 of 62 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Longest bibliography in history, February 13, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Gary Null's Ultimate Lifetime Diet: A Revolutionary All-Natural Program for Losing Weight and Building a Healthy Body (Hardcover)

This is the first book I read where the bibliography is half the book. The information given in the book is rehashed from his other books. He is churning out books at a rate of 2 or 3 a year. I guess you can do that when every book has the same information. I like Gary. I have been to many of his lectures and was a member of a support group he had. Unfortunately his books don't live up to his lectures and radio show.

50 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ultimate Lifetime Diet, March 16, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Gary Null's Ultimate Lifetime Diet (Audio Cassette)

This book is so clear and concise. Itdiscusses potential problems and what to do about them. There has been a history of cancer in my family. There is down to earth information as to what foods are harmful and what are healthy foods. It certainly confirmed to me that it is important to change my diet.

Most of all, I'm fancinated by the "thirty day" diet plan along with the specific recepies that are given in the book. I've tried most of them and find them delicious and a terrific way to loose weight in a sensible way.

I highly recommend this book to everyone who is concerned about their health and want to take steps to be in charge of their life.

I take my hat off to another great book by Gary Null.

55 of 58 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Reality Check, July 11, 2000

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This review is from: Gary Null's Ultimate Lifetime Diet: A Revolutionary All-Natural Program for Losing Weight and Building a Healthy Body (Hardcover)

Dr. Null explains in plain yet unobtrusive language why Americans are unhealthy. Approaching all levels, Dr. Null explains why and how to lose weight, strengthen your immune system and decrease your risk of common health problems from our modern diet. I became a vegan as a result of this book and realized the difficulty I faced in an urban society that capitalizes on processed foods. The pros outweigh the cons. Dr. Null promises you will feel more balanced and more cleansed from a vegan diet and it is true. In many ways, Dr. Null has explained a diet very similar to that of society before the dawn of convenient foods - bleached white flour, hydrogenated vegetable oil, white sugar, etc. Through expert sources, Null supports that our body does not have a natural "sensor" to these foods and therefore we do not feel full when eating junk foods until we have literally gorged on them. Dr. Null uses several case studies to support this and all of his theories throughout the book. I recommend this book and to not be overwhelmed by the "complex" nature of it. If you try a few of the steps at a time and integrate them into your lifestyle, you will sure to reap wonderful results.