Healthy Beauty: Using Nature's Secrets to Look Great and Feel Terrific [Hardcover]

Letha Hadady (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 17, 2003

Learn the secrets to staying radiant, youthful, and beautiful. . . naturally

"The first book of its kind . . . an international beauty recipe of tried-and-true home preparations blended with the most modern, technologically advanced products on the market today . . . truly a celebration of beauty in all its diversity. "
–From the Foreword by Clif deRaita, National Director of Makeup at Georgette Klinger, Inc.

"I very much enjoyed reading Healthy Beauty and I learned a great deal. The timely information and spiritual aspects of the book will be appreciated now more than ever. "
–Michael York, actor, producer, and author

"This book is touched by genius. Letha Hadady has a great sense of beauty in everything she does. "
–Gad Cohen, celebrity stylist featured in Glamour, Vogue, and Cosmopolitan

"Healthy Beauty is fabulous! A must for anyone interested in beauty."
–Marietta Carter-Narcisse, Hollywood makeup expert featured in In Style

"There is a radiance that glows from within: it is the radiance of intent, passion, wholeness, and harmony with life. Letha Hadady lights the spark of that radiance with her book. In Healthy Beauty, we can be confident of finding beauty elixirs to create not only the face we present to the world, but the peace of mind we need in the quiet of our lives."
–Isisara Bey, Vice President of Corporate Affairs, Sony Music Entertainment

Editorial Reviews

From the Inside Flap

We often look to the East for answers to our spiritual and health needs, and many of us seek out European and North American beauty experts, treatments, and products. Now, for the first time, enjoy the best from both East and West: experience your own natural beauty from the inside out with Healthy Beauty.

Based on Letha Hadady’s worldwide search and drawing on and celebrating our rich ethnic and cultural diversity, Healthy Beauty incorporates Asian and Western therapies as well as the world-class wisdom of renowned beauty authorities, ranging from nineteenth-century femme fatale Countess Lola Montez to today’s top celebrity stylists and style gurus. In Healthy Beauty, Hadady helps you create your individual beauty persona. She recommends and gives guidelines for using readily available herbs, diets, homeopathic remedies, stress-reduction techniques, and cruelty-free beauty and health products suitable for both women and men who have any beauty issue such as being overweight, a troubled or aging complexion, hair loss, or prematurely gray hair.

Healthy Beauty will show you how to combine diet and beauty products suited to your particular skin and hair needs, achieve a pleasing voice and personal fragrance, brighten your eyes and eliminate fatigue, improve your posture and reduce backache naturally, and dress and make yourself up for work or dating. Healthy Beauty includes an annotated resource guide featuring a wide variety of mail order and Internet companies to help you locate natural health and beauty products.

A cornucopia of eternal beauty secrets from around the world, Healthy Beauty reveals, among many other fascinating things, that:

• bitter melon tea reduces fat and blemishes–and helps people with diabetes
• ashitaba root clarifies the skin and reduces cholesterol
• pearl powder reduces stress, insomnia, acne, and rosacea
• nettle reduces fatigue, allergies, and gray hair
• Asian medicinal mushrooms boost immunity and provide healthy protein for weight loss
• rose tea cools the complexion and reduces nervousness

Reclaim your beauty and personal power the way nature intended with Healthy Beauty.

About the Author

LETHA HADADY is a health and beauty expert trained in traditional Asian medicine. She teaches Chinese and Ayurvedic herbs through the New York Open Center, 92nd Street Y, the New York Botanical Gardens, and during the annual conference on Botanical Medicine sponsored by the Rosenthal Center at Columbia University and the University of Arizona. She has appeared on many radio and TV programs, including Today and The View. Hadady writes a weekly Internet newsletter for winghopfung.com. She has been featured in Marie Claire, Jane, Shape, SELF, Delicious!, and Allure.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (January 17, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471075345
• ISBN-13: 978-0471075349
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,185,069 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

The San Francisco Chronicle wrote, 'Letha Hadady, one of the nation's leading experts on natural Chinese remedies, is leading a quiet lady-like revolution to bring herbal medicines from the Far East and elsewhere into everyday use in American homes.' Letha, trained in traditional Chinese acupuncture and Asian herbal medicine, is adjunct faculty for New York Open Center, Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, and The Renfield Center for Nursing Education, Beth Israel Medical Center in New York.

Letha has been featured on many national television programs, including Barbara Walters' The View, NBC's Today Show, Donnie and Marie, Extra!, The Learning Channel, The Food Network, CNN, and CBS. She writes regular natural health columns for New Living magazine (USA and online) for award-winning Heal India magazine (Delhi, India) and Healthy You magazine (India, Singapore, and Middle East.) Letha updates her books, articles, and videos at: www.asianhealthsecrets.com. Her natural health and beauty advice is featured on many other global websites and blogs.

Letha is a regular health expert on talk radio, including "Montel Across America" with Montel Williams at airamerica.com in the U.S. and abroad. Her topics range from seasonal health problems--flu, depression, and Asian foods or herbs for beauty issues--to events such as Chinese New Year. Letha's articles have appeared in popular magazines, including GreatLife, Allure, Marie Claire, Self, Fitness, Body and Soul, Natural Health, Let's Live, and Jane. Letha was on the cover and the lead article for Delicious! magazine. She was featured in the November, 2009 issue of Conde Nast Traveler (Spain.) Letha's walking tours of Asian herbal markets in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco are famous. Her natural health and beauty students and readers come from all walks of life.

Letha is the author of personal transformation, natural health and beauty books, including Asian Health Secrets: The Complete Guide to Asian Herbal Medicine (Crown/Three Rivers Press: 1998). This finely illustrated Washington Post best-seller has a foreword by H H. the 14th Dalai Lama. Called a 'treasure' and 'a modern classic in alternative medicine' it has become the bible in its field for medical professionals and individual readers.

Personal Renewal (Harmony/iUniverse:2008) with a foreword by Dr. Bernard Jensen, guides readers, troubled with menopause, divorce, and other life changes, toward a path of healthy self-discovery. The book features a practical "Herbal Calender" to organize herb-use. Personal Renewal has been called "a treasure for the personal self." and "a love song for enlightened maturing."

Healthy Beauty (Wiley 2003; Backinprint and Kindle 2007; with a foreword by Clif deRaita)features easy to use beauty treatments for men and women. It offers help for complexion, hair, posture, voice, and inspires readers to discover their personal beauty. Reaching beyond the usual health or beauty book, it proves that our beauty should not be limited by convention: the social, ethnic, sexual, racial or other prejudices of the popular media.

Feed Your Tiger: The Asian Diet Secret to Permanent Weight Loss and Vibrant Health (2003; coming soon at iUniverse) is filled with delicious slimming international recipes, Asian SuperFoods, and easy, enjoyable ways to lose weight and keep it off. For example, Letha describes how she taught herself swimming for healthy weight management watching Esther Williams movies.

All of Letha's books are beautifully illustrated by Letha's mother, Letha Elizabeth Hadady, who lives in New Mexico and paints flowers.

Letha, raised in New Mexico, sang opera in Europe, and has a Masters in psychology from the University of Paris. She is nationally certified in acupuncture (NCCAOM) after studying at Tri-State Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, New York and the Institute of Acupuncture and Meridian in Shanghai.

MEDIA PRAISE FOR LETHA HADADY

"I can't thank you enough for sharing really useful, practical health information with us."--Montel Williams on Montel Across America

"I used to think I knew something about alternative medicine. When I read Asian Health Secrets I learned something new on every page."--Bill Thompson, AP Radio

"Hadady is an ambassador between curious Americans, trying to overcome their ignorance of alternative medicine, and Chinese herbalists, who are uneasy about opening their customs to the scrutiny of outsiders."--Newsday, L.A. Times syndicate

"The tall, slender herbalist found her calling after a life-threatening illness. . . Her encyclopedic knowledge of health and beauty is evident."--Daily News

"Letha unearths the wisdom of the ancients."--New York

"Letha has all natural ways to change your life. She looks so young!"--Barbara Walters,'The View'

"I am confident that Letha Hadady will bring the ancient knowledge of the great cultures of Asia to a larger public."--Tenzin Gyatso, H.H. the 14th Dalai Lama

"Letha Hadady is a blessing to those she touches. Her contribution is a treasure of knowledge for the personal self."--Dr. Bernard Jensen, doyen of the natural medicine movement

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awsome Book, March 3, 2003

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Joyce E. Francis (New York, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Healthy Beauty: Using Nature's Secrets to Look Great and Feel Terrific (Hardcover)

The main reason I love this book is because of the simple remadies that are offered. There are no over the top complicated advice given here. For example, there is a chapter in the book called Your Flawless Complextion. The author recommends eating laxative, yellow vegatables such as squash, pumkin and carrots to get rid of blemishes. To get rid of dark circles under the eyes, she recommends drinking nettle tea.
I like the fact that she's saying what you eat effects how you look. It's a very entertaining and informative book.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Guy-friendly Beauty Book, June 14, 2007

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Turkish (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Healthy Beauty: Using Nature's Secrets to Look Great and Feel Terrific (Paperback)

WOW what an eye-opener! I am using the herbal stuff the author recommends for growing hair and it works! It took 2 months but I can see the new hair growth on top.

Many of the recommendations work for men and woman and each chapter has a section "For Men Only."
A revelation!

Ten stars.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best thing I have found for my health and beauty, July 14, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Healthy Beauty: Using Nature's Secrets to Look Great and Feel Terrific (Hardcover)

I had such fun reading through Hadady's new book Healthy Beauty! Every chapter had inspiring stories, extremely useful information, and timely advice. I have given the book as gifts for birthdays, Mother's Day, and graduations. My friends have loved it!

The art work in the book is lovely and the message inspiring. I have improved my complexion and hair. You don't have to spend a fortune on cosmetics. I learned about some new natural products that actualy improved my health as well as looks. I have revamped my style and color choice in clothes and makeup. Thank you Healthy Beauty.