Detox Handbook (Healing Handbooks) [Paperback]

Jennifer Harper (Author)

Book Description

Series: Healing Handbooks | Publication Date: July 1, 2002

Everything you need to know to rejuvenate your body, increase your mental and physical energy, and reclaim your zest for life. Healing Handbooks: Detox makes it easy to revive your mind, body, and life. Whether you crave a one-day fix or the 28-day ultimate detox, this book provides the skills needed to sharpen your brain, heal your body, and de-stress your life. Includes a catalog of essential detox-superfoods, juices and supplements, as well as an overview of therapies to cleanse the body and clear the mind.

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About the Author

Dr Jennifer Harper is a registered naturopathic doctor and herbalist, as well as a healer and Reiki Master. She is a speaker on both TV and radio, and has presented numerous alternative health programmes on GMTV. Jennifer runs the Body Wisdom Clinic in Surrey, UK and has written many articles for a variety of top health magazines. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: DK ADULT; 1st edition (July 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789484412
• ISBN-13: 978-0789484413
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 4.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,828,788 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Get The Junk Out!, April 18, 2003

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shoutgrace "savedbyhisgrace" (Charleston, WV United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Detox Handbook (Healing Handbooks) (Paperback)

Dr. Jennifer Harper, a registered naturopathic doctor, with a PhD in natural health is an expert to body wisdom. She is a columist & contributor to several magazines on the subject. The Detox Handbook helps you in achieving a healthy body, glowing skin, a clear mind with safe information and detoxing methods, reliable resource of illustrated catalog of detoxing-superfoods, herbs & supplements. It's a guide to a range of programs. The book was written for reason why we need to detox. This program was developed to reduce the impact of toxins that effect our health everyday. And explains why it is neccessary for detoxification.

The best way to use this book is strat from the beginning following every step. It's important to drink plenty of water to help the kidneys flush out toxins. Plus herbal teas and fresh fruit juices. The Liver, Kidneys and Colon are important organs to help in this process. And to keep them healthy it's vital for proper toxin removal. The process is done in 3 Levels: Level I, Level II, Level III. The book goes into detail of the foods and supplements used in each Level. It's completely informative so that you can refer back. It helps you plan a dietary Detox program of healthy nutritional foods such as oatmeal porridge mixed with applesauce, fruit-live yogurt smoothies with fresh enzyme-rich papaya, pineapple, berries, grated apple and pear. And that's just for breakfast! Not only does it have healthful foods but a comprehensive program of Herbs & supplements (i.e. Garlic, Milk Thistle, Glutathione), oil & flower remedies, meditation and exercise to help detox, cleanse and give you energy. Quoting from Thomas Moore-"The Great Malady of the 20th Century, is loss of soul. When the soul is neglected, it doesn't just go away; it appears in obsessions, addictions, violence and loss of meaning. If the soul's capacity for creativity is not honored it will wreck havoc." How true this is! Take a look around us. I'm sure keeping well is starting with taking care of our bodies and getting all the junk out. This book can help.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT LITTLE BOOK!, August 16, 2011

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Wolfee1 (CALIFORN-I-A) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Detox Handbook (Healing Handbooks) (Paperback)

Detox Handbook, A Practical Guide to detoxing your Body, your Mind and your Life. Dr. Jennifer Harper shows you how to do it in this practical handbook packed with easy-to-follow programs. The Dr. tells you why Detoxification is necessary and how to use the Book, there's a Questionnaire and Pages on Naturopathy, Nutritional Medicine, Herbal Medicine, Aromatherapy, Reflexology and Acupressure

There are Three Levels to go through and the Dr. shows you how to get there one by one with many Advice and Suggestions and many Color Pictures. I specially like the Catalogs of Foods where Dr. Jennifer Harper writes in detail the "Superfoods" for Liver Function, Culinary Herbs and Spices, Oils, Cruciferous Vegetables, Fruit and very useful Information, Detoxing the Mind and Emotions, Affirmations, Breathing, Flower Remedies, The Importance of the Soul ...and so much more, you get to learn a lot. It is a very Helpful Book! D.D. Thank You

2.0 out of 5 stars Wasn't what I was looking for..., May 17, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Detox Handbook (Healing Handbooks) (Paperback)

This book was not what I was looking for. The first third of the book rehashes the benefits of natural living and offers information that is of little value to anyone who has even a cursory knowledge of such things. The actual method for detoxing was broken into three levels which would seem easy to follow, but the book is terribly disorganized. There were three types of detox: body, mind, spirit. It would be much more helpful to systematically organize the book using the levels rather than the different types of detox.

I did appreciate some of the advice offered in the "Mind Detox" section, but would not recommend this book.