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The Immune Advantage: The Single Most Important Thing You Can Do for Your Health

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Part One of this detailed study deals with the structure of the immune system, the immunity-aging connection and the balance of the system.

Part Two provides the keys to a strong immune system. These include techniques for enhancing immunity with mind power. The top 5 of the authors' Top 20 Immune Boosters consist of: 1.Eating 9 to 10 fruit and vegetable servings per day; 2.Taking supplements regularly; 3. Working out; 4. Getting 8 hours' sleep every day; 5. Ensuring psychological health via balanced emotions.

Part Three deals with the prevention and treatment of immune-related diseases like colds and flu, allergies, cancer, HIV & AIDS, infectious diseases and auto-immune diseases.

The MaxImmune Plan is given in Part Four; it consists of diet, supplementation, exercise and stress relief techniques.

Part Five, Immune Resources, includes 50 delicious recipes, discusses super-immunity ingredients and foods to avoid and provides safe use guidelines or supplements, essential oils and herbs.

There are black and white illustrations in the exercise section and the book includes an index and a list of resources with the details of relevant organisations and their websites.

Great format, great info, very readable. I've been doing my own personal health research for a year or two now, and this book seems to incorporate the best of everything I've come across. It gives equal weight to diet, exercise, complementary/alternative medicine, stress reduction, etc. It even has a section of recipes. This will be a book I refer back to for many years to come.

"The Immune Advantage" should be required reading for anyone embarking on a diet or lifestyle change. The information is presented in an easily readable, conversational format and stresses commonsense knowledge we often ignore in our fast-paced world: good foods are often the simplest foods; sleep heals; exercise sharpens not only our bodies but our brains.
Ellen Mazo's information is solidly researched and well organized. And the recipes are a major plus!

I bought this book with a lot of eagerness to learn new and exciting secrets to boost the immune system, however, all I found was the same basic information that has been touted by millions and millions of doctors (and quasi-doctors) for many years; namely: eat right (fruits, veggies, whole wheat, more fish, less bad fats, more good fats, etc.,)exercise, and live a happy, stress-free life. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, I mean, if there had been any new, fascinating advances in this area, I'm sure it would have been all over the news, so why I expected to find anything but recycled advice is beyond me. Quite frankly, I catolog these among my light and fluffly collection. Not much depth to it at all!