Joan Lunden's Healthy Living: A Practical, Inspirational Guide to Creating Balance in Your Life [Paperback]

Joan Lunden (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 7, 1998

In Joan Lunden's Healthy Living, Joan shares her discovery of the mind-body connection and explains how an understanding this connection can help to promote better health -- physically and emotionally -- and create a feeling of overall satisfaction in life.

Joan Lunden explains, "Not that long ago I was unfit, unhealthy, and not at all happy about it.  Now I feel as alive and energetic as I ever have. Each of us can make a choice to turn our lives around."

Lunden talks about the difference between wanting one's life to change and actually taking action to make it happen. Readers will learn how to ride the waves of change instead of becoming overwhelmed by them. They will find out how to become witnesses to their own lives, able to take honest looks at themselves. They'll learn how their attitudes and outlooks have tremendous effects on how their bodies function and on how they react to the world around them.


From the Hardcover edition.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Joan Lunden, familiar to all as a cohost of Good Morning America and author of Joan Lunden's Healthy Cooking, shares her lessons about feeling great in a stressed-out world. Using her own life as an example, Lunden emphasizes the necessity of eating right, exercising, and learning to relax in order to lead a happier life. Lunden knows stress: she went through a very public divorce while battling her weight and trying to balance her career with her home life, which includes raising her three independent-minded daughters.

This picture-laden book shows a new, trim, contented Lunden, and she doles out the sage guidance that got her there--things she's learned from the people in her life, including her mother, Deepak Chopra, her personal trainer, GMA's Nancy Snyderman, and meditation master Jon Kabat-Zinn.

This book is more for the novice who wants to lead a healthier lifestyle than for those already immersed in a workout program and knowledgeable about healthy diets. Occasionally the advice may seem a little sparse, and the methods pricey(Lunden and coauthor Laura Morton train for an expedition to the Grand Tetons by working out an exclusive New York gym), but Lunden's perky tone ("Tan fat looks better than white fat") can't help but inspire even the least-motivated of individuals to get off the couch and try to live a fuller life. --Jenny Brown

From Library Journal

The best-selling author of Joan Lunden's Healthy Cooking (LJ 12/95), Lunden is also an inspiration to the 25 million viewers of Good Morning America. Her enthusiasm bubbles over to her staff as well as her TV audience, and women identify with her life changes, from having children, through weight gain and loss, to divorce and dating. Lunden here presents her recipe for seizing all of life's opportunities. Staying fit in mind and body through meditation, relaxation techniques, exercise, and healthy eating are all part of the plan. Lunden concludes that a healthy body helps empower and that a healthy attitude makes a rich, fulfilling life possible. This is sure to be popular with the inspirational set.
-?Lisa S. Wise, Broome Cty. P.L., Binghamton, N.Y.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Clarkson Potter (April 7, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0609802054
• ISBN-13: 978-0609802052
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 6.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,502,652 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars So inspirational, January 30, 2000

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Barbara (New Hampshire) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Joan Lunden's Healthy Living: A Practical, Inspirational Guide to Creating Balance in Your Life (Paperback)

I have always admired Joan Lunden and followed her on GMA since the birth of her first child. She seemed to be pregnant everytime I was. First my daughter than son than another daughter were born around the same time as her children. I was going through a very low point in my life when I picked up her book in the library. I finished it in a day. I felt so uplifted and have been trying for a long time to make changes in my life also. I am just 50 and it's so hard to find the courage to do things different. My life has been in turmoil for about 5 years now and I have just started to get into inspirational readings and tapes. This book hit such a nerve and I am going to as a result of this read her other books. One of my things was getting back in shape and loosing 20 lbs that has been bothering me for years. I have confirmed my feelings of her being now my hero. I will not climb the titans but I sure will reach my goal of just feeling better about my self. Thank you Joan I have given birth with you, cried with you, laughed with you and this book makes me feel so good about my self again. Barbara

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Found the tapes inspirational and a great reminder!, April 22, 1999

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This review is from: Joan Lunden's Healthy Living: A Practical, Inspirational Guide to Creating Balance in Your Life (Audio Cassette)

The information on the tapes is presented in a manner that is easy to listen to as I walk. I listened to the tapes for the first time at home and now I take them out with me as I walk. The reminders that are presented throughout the tapes are great! She does a great job of wrapping interesting stories around some basic facts which stress the importance of total fitness. I recommend it to anyone that wants to get focused on some basic approaches to a better life.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A lot of wasted tape space for a few goodies!, March 18, 2003

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Dennis VanWagner (Oklahoma) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Joan Lunden's Healthy Living: A Practical, Inspirational Guide to Creating Balance in Your Life (Paperback)

I listen to a lot of tapes about living a healthy life style. I think this one is the most disapointing. She rambles on & on providing only a few usable insights. It wouldn't be so bad if the path she took was inspirational to the average person. Most people can't aford personal trainers, health spas, & expensive fittness centers for the affluent. Those things aren't bad, & they are what helped her. I do a lot of counceling on fittness & nutrition, & the average person that I work with wouldn't relate to making those type of expenditures to live healthy lifestyle. The few things that are applicable to the average person are few & far inbetween.