Healthy, Sexy, Happy: A Thrilling Journey to the Ultimate You [Hardcover]

Nancy Deville (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 2011

We're living longer, but our quality of life isn't necessarily any better. With equal measure of easy-to-read physiology, wit, and practicality, Healthy, Sexy, Happy veers away from unhealthy conventional dietary and lifestyle wisdoms and shows how to unite the mind, body, and spirit for long-term vitality.

Derived from her extensive research for her book Death by Supermarket, Nancy Deville provides a series of straightforward, no-nonsense guidelines that show you how to take control of your health. This comprehensive program address topics such as accelerated aging and how to avoid it, how to properly care for and nourish your brain, managing insomnia, practicing self-compassion, and the appropriate exercise levels for all ages.

Whether you are a twenty-year-old who can't wake up without four cups of coffee and a cigarette, a depressed thirty-five-year-old with no sex drive, or someone later in life free-falling into old age, Healthy, Sexy, Happy shows you how to redefine your sense of well-being in a toxic world.

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About the Author

Nancy Deville is a real-food advocate, bestselling health book writer, and the author of the expose Death by Supermarket and the novel Karma, a psychological thriller about sex trafficking. She lives in Los Angeles.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 350 pages
• Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Press; 1 edition (June 1, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 160832138X
• ISBN-13: 978-1608321384
• Product Dimensions: 1.2 x 6.3 x 9.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #973,623 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Nancy Deville is fiction and nonfiction writer best known for her bestselling health, fitness, and beauty books. Nancy was one of the first authors to use the term "real food". Her mission is to inspire health and happiness by promoting balance of body, mind and spirit.

Nancy lives in Santa Monica, and is working on her second novel.

You can learn more about Nancy on her website www.nancydeville.com.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A must read! August 20, 2011

By Coneathe C.

Format:Hardcover

I have been fighting this factory food crap for a very long time! My son, who is about to eight this month, was born three months premature weighting in at two pounds and two ounces! The doctors prepared me for the worst of a slew of complications developmentally. I said not if I can help it! We worked with him and fed him a balanced diet! (This how I found Nancy Deville's book, DBSM) as I was on a quest to give him every opportunity to succeed! Today, he is the top of his class entering into second grade and reading at almost a fifth grade level. He is also in the gifted talented pool. It has been a struggle to educate my friends and family getting them to jump on board! Snacks at my house are fruits and veggies. Absolutely no soda's! Homemade lemonade us their favorite!

For those of you who say, I don't have time to put this effort into home cooking meals from scratch, I say bull. I work full time with an hour commute to and from work. I do most of my canning and cooking as I am preparing the evening meal. If I can do it on my limited time schedule then anyone can. No excuses.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Informative Book that Could Save Your Life September 15, 2011

By Michelle

Format:Hardcover

The more articles I read and the more TV segments I see about how the majority of our food is not good for us, and some literally poisoning us, the more disgusted I get. I was happy to come across this book which provides thorough information different from the norm with plenty of resources to back up the facts about how sick some of us actually are and what we can do to change it. While I originally wanted to read Healthy, Sexy, Happy for the information about food and nutrition, it also contains great information about exercise, sleep, and stress. Thanks to Nancy's book, I have more tools in my arsenal to become healthier, sexier and happier.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Healthy, Sexy, Happy Book Review September 13, 2011

By Gina Badalaty

Format:Hardcover

The day I got this book in the mail, I sat down on the couch to take a peak at what was between the covers. In the preface, the author mentioned that she was 60, so I flipped over the book, to check her out. I almost fell off the couch! Staring back at me was a blonde bombshell that looked more like she was in her early 40s. I quickly started to read this book!

Author Nancy Deville's mantra is not "you will live longer" - she is realistic that we all age and make adjustments to self-care and self-image as we do. She does believe, however, that dying a painful death from a prolonged illness living out our golden years in a rapidly decaying body is preventable. Healthy, Sexy, Happy is her formula for how to do that by learning 12 skills, from getting really educated about weight loss and how the body functions, to getting off factory foods, to sleep, to weight-loss.

And while all these skills will sound familiar, Ms. Deville's take on it is interesting. For example, the chapter on sleep is a must-read of tips of how she conquered her own insomnia, long after getting food-healthy. There is a lot of information about the biomedical processes, something you know I'm interested to help my children. Healthy, Sexy, Happy, however, gives very similar information for the grownup who wants to improve, inside and out. I already knew about the dangers of pasteurized milk, but she explains it very well and advocates for raw milk. I felt more comfortable reading the chapter, "Ultimate Skill No. 2: Stop Eating All Factory-produced Food", after my experience this summer watching a little overweight girl "pet" a bottle soda on display at "BadFoodMart".... I felt personally convicted when she trashed my beloved drug, coffee, and vindicated when she vilified all those "health" reports telling you coffee is so good for you. (Come on, admit it, deep down you also knew it was BS, didn't you?)

Now, I'm not going to tell you that this is an easy book, because if you did ALL 12 things, well the average American would have to give up just about everything they ingest- yes, me too, with our modified diets. That said, this is a great handbook, and I did enjoy reading it. Personally, for me it will take most likely a one-year plan, but realize that all the nuggets of info in this book are wisdom Ms. Deville learned from a life of experience with food, detoxing, sleep, supplements, exercise and more. As she shares how she's handled various skills, the reader can learn a lot from Ms. Deville's personal experiences.

I only had two complaints, in fact. First, there is a section on water purification, where she says she has info on her website. I only found one entry regarding water purification, and it was a "private" video, so I could not view. Since we will soon be in the market for a new water system, I wanted to know!

The second one is big. She touches on chelation. Chelation is the process by which you can remove heavy metals - like lead, aluminum, mercury - from your body. This is a big deal in the autism world, and it's something I've read a little on, and worried a lot about. Because chelation detaches the heavy molecules of a poison like mercury from where it now resides, it can free float in your body, effectively poisoning you, IF you don't adhere to some very strict guidelines. THAT is as I understand it, reader, please feel free to correct me. So when Ms. Deville talks about herbs that chelate, I got really nervous. She had a casual attitude towards this process, which I've been led to believe can be dangerous. So, read the whole book, and take what you like, but do your homework on chelation before taking those herbs. Read more ›

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars A good reminder to take care of ourselves September 11, 2011

By Ashley

Format:Hardcover

A while ago, I posted about my goal to lose my last ten pounds before the end of October. So far, I've lost three of those ten pounds and could not be more excited. Which is a big part of why I was really excited to read Healthy Sexy Happy by Nancy Deville.

Nancy starts out by discussing her upbringing and how unhealthy the food that was put on the table was during her childhood. Throughout the book, you can see the transformations that she made once she was out on her own with the help of her Grandmother. Nancy goes on to talk about how poor the food industry is now and why children are more unhealthy today than they were years ago, mostly due to the kinds of foods they are consuming.

There are basically twelve commandments that Nancy suggests following that range from understanding weight loss and accelerated aging, eating a proper diet while exercising enough, detoxing your entire life, and so much more. While some of her methods may be considered to be controversial, she provides an insightful look on steps that can be taken to ensure that you live the life you want to live and die peacefully.

This book provides a good reminder to take care of ourselves in multiple ways, including what we consume and to think about how we want to live out the rest of our days on a daily basis.

5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT BOOK! June 15, 2013

By N. Tippett

Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase

Very informative. If you are looking for a book that takes you from so so health to great health with a few changes in how you do things, this is it. I am giving as gifts.

5.0 out of 5 stars Nice book June 22, 2012

By Cynthia Hall

Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase

This was a follow up read to " Death by Supermarket" by the same author- Both really great books. A must read for all. I grew up with s single working Mom, and TV dinners was a main stay along with new fast food!!!

I really have embraced her knowledge- and have acually stopped eating so much "factory food" I have joined a Farmers Co- op-for fresh organic healthy food, and can report my cholesterol is down from 212 to 188- over all heath much better ...:)