Healthspan : Claim Your Birthright to Holistic Health and Happiness from Here to 100 [Paperback]

O. Jack, Jr. Woodard (Author), Genevieve Johnson Woodard (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 4, 1999

Nature has given human beings a fabulous birthright: the ability to live in full health and happiness to the age of 100 years or more. Few people claim this birthright because they do not know how to recognize and overcome five deadly hazards. Healthspan gives evidence for the validity of the birthright, describes the hazards, and prescribes holistic ways to master each one.

Healthspan skillfully interweaves significant scientific breakthroughs in nutrition, psychoneuroimmunology, and energy medicine with historical perspectives on health, disease, and healing, astonishing case histories, one in the patients own words, and stories of the results of applying Healthspan principles in the Woodards own lives during times of both triumph and tragedy.

The essential uniqueness of Healthspan is that it is truly holistic and, at the same time, eminently practical. It describes the approach to the 100-year healthspan on all levels of life: physical, mental, and spiritual. (Nothing less will work.) The genius of the book is that it tells how to do all this while confronted by the realities of our time-urgent, noisy, overscheduled, overstressed, and frantic culture. Then comes the crowning achievement: practical instructions on how to have fun while claiming a fabulous birthright!

Editorial Reviews

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"A truly remarkable book! Clearly written, easy to read. So interesting I couldn't put it down. Comprehensive, yet concise. Will interest--even fascinate--any person who's seeking health, happiness, and a longer, more fulfilling life." -- William G. Crook, M.D., Author, The Yeast Connection Handbook

"Patients and friends of Dr. Jack Woodard and Genevieve Woodard are especially fortunate to have available to them real holistic medicine, in the original and best sense of the term." -- From the Foreword by Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Author, Dr. Wright's Guide to Healing with Nutrition

"Powerful, dynamic, life-changing strategies to benefit every person on this planet. This book is a must-read!" -- Melba Corbett-Moreth, N.D. Naturopath and energy healer

"The Woodards empower each individual to take control of the fabric of his or her life. Applying the principles they set forth, the reader will learn to grasp the essence of their inner fragrance and to rekindle the true gifts of love and forgiveness." -- A.B.Flick M.D. Orthopedic Surgeon

About the Author

Jack Woodard has known since childhood that his life mission is to participate in solving the problem of suffering. His life has been a relentless quest to find more effective ways of accomplishing that purpose. The search has led through medical school, psychiatric residency, Board certification, and postgraduate training in nutritional medicine, environmental medicine, ayurveda, and energy medicine. As he traversed each field, he brought with him the procedures and technology that worked best for his patients, eventually integrating them all into the unique, holistic system that is the subject of this book.

Dr. Woodard has practiced medicine for over 40 years and holistic medicine for the last 22 years. He sees patients in his offices in Atlanta and in Clayton, Georgia. The phone number for both offices is 800-834-4167. He conducts workshops on applications of holistic medicine and appears on talk shows.

Genevieve Johnson Woodard is a teacher by talent and training. After honing her skills in public school classrooms, she began in the 1970's to teach health enhancement and relationship skills. She has post-graduate training in Transactional Analysis and in Family Systems Therapy.

She lectures and conducts workshops on living skills, stress management, cultivation of high quality relationships, and the holistic approach to the 100-year healthspan.

Product Details

• Paperback: 364 pages
• Publisher: Healthspirit Pr (October 4, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0967124700
• ISBN-13: 978-0967124704
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,220,128 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Healthspan, a great book, February 15, 2000

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Dillard Thompson (South Carolina, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Healthspan : Claim Your Birthright to Holistic Health and Happiness from Here to 100 (Paperback)

This book deserves to be on the N.Y. Times bestseller list along with the books of Wayne Dyer and Deepak Chopra.It presents a philosophy of healing which is both uncommon and comprehensive. Read this book before the AMA figures out a way to have it banned.It has the potential to revolutionize the practice of medicine.Humor is mixed in a refreshing way with a depth of knowledge and insight Dr. Woodard has gained from 40 years of medical practice devoted to healing, not just doctoring.If you are dissatisfied with your experience with the medical establishment, read this book.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Healthspan: Birthright to Holistic Health, February 21, 2001

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Willard Foster (Olympia, Wa United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Healthspan : Claim Your Birthright to Holistic Health and Happiness from Here to 100 (Paperback)

Healthspan is not a book in the traditional sense. It is an excellent educational document that will motivate the reader to study and reread. The work and education of Dr. Woodard was in a generation in which the words 'Holistic health' would have brought professional rebuke. Dr. Woodard dared to do the unheard of by keeping an open ear to his patients and studying under far east healers where he found time honored practices lost to the western world. He incorporated this vast knowledge into his psychiatric medical practice. As a purchaser of this book you will be acquiring holistic healing information that goes beyond untested theory.

Willard Foster Director of Counseling Services, Retired Kansas State Department of Education

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Must read and apply, December 18, 2000

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Mary Alston Anderson (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Healthspan : Claim Your Birthright to Holistic Health and Happiness from Here to 100 (Paperback)

This powerful book is a must read and must apply! It's jam packed with interesting tips and unique and effective techniques. Parasites had put me at death's door when I first began using the valuable and wise information in this book. Now, I have incorporated so many of these concepts and actions into my daily life that it has completely changed so much for the better. The best part is, I've enjoyed every moment.