Live Better Longer: The Parcells Center 7-Step Plan For Health and Longlivity [Hardcover]

Joseph Dispenza (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1997

Simple steps for getting well, staying well and gaining vitality for a long and healthy life based on the teachings of legendary healer and pioneering nutritionist Hazel Parcells.

Dr. Hazel Parcells, the revered "grand dame of alternative medicine",who cured herself of "terminal" tuberculosis, inspired several generations of nutritionists and lived to be 107 years old by following a dramatically effective set of straightforward nutritional practices.

In this practical and motivating guide, Parcells' longtime student Joseph Dispenza distills more than sixty-five years of her groundbreaking research on natural health and the chemistry of foods into seven practices that are remarkably easy to integrate into daily routines:

Cleansing Fasts

Therapeutic Baths

A diet of whole foods (including cream, butter, and meat!)

Ample natural light, fresh air, rest and excercise

Creating a natural medicine cabinet

Sharing health wisdom in our communities

A kind of Parcells Method bible, Live Better Longer makes Dr. Parcells' legacy of vigorous good health accessible to all.

Dr. Hazel Parcells (1889-1996) contracted tuberculosis in the 1930s and was diagnosed as terminal. Near death, she turned to her body for wisdom and nursed herseld back to full health by changing her diet. Spurred by the miraculous results she achieved, she embarked on an extraordinary career spent on original research into "kitchen chemistry", nature's self-correcting mechanisms and the underlying causes of the health problems of our time. Along the way, Parcells earned a doctorate in nutrition and advanced degrees in chiropractic, naturopathy, homeopathy and comparative religions; set up the first school of nutrition in higher education; and improved the lives of thousands through her Parcell School of Scientific Nutrition.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Doctors gave Hazel Parcells up for dead when she was diagnosed with tuberculosis in the 1930s. She went on to live 106 years, until 1996, and she did it by manipulating the healing powers of nature. This book details various fasts, therapeutic baths, food-cleaning methods, food combinations, and much more. Most of it isn't scientifically quantifiable--you have to take Parcells's word for it--but her ideas are provocative and make for interesting reading. The section on washing food with Clorox bleach is a real stunner.

About the Author

Joseph Dispenza, Director of Parcells Center for Personal Transformation, is the author of twelve books, including The Way of the Traveler. He is also a frequent contributor to scores of print and online magazines, including Beliefnet, DreamLife, and MyPrimeTime. Joseph is in private practice as a spiritual coach. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Harper San Francisco; 1st edition (May 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0062514229
• ISBN-13: 978-0062514226
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,098,965 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

I lived monastic life for eight years, studying religion and spirituality first-hand. My order was the Congregation of Holy Cross (CSC). The monastery was in a remote part of Indiana. The first year of my monastic experience was a year of total silence. After I left the monastic life, I worked for social change with a number of humanitarian organizations, including The Center for Social Communications in New York and the Institute for Environmental Change in Toronto. I earned an advanced degree in communication and became an educator and writer.

I am the author of fourteen books, including "OlderMan/Younger Man," "God On Your Own: Finding a Spiritual Path Outside Religion" (Jossey-Bass, 2006), "Live Better Longer" (HarperCollins, 1997) and "The Way of the Traveler" (second edition, Avalon, 2002).

My writings on spirituality and natural self-healing have appeared in magazines, newspapers, and websites, including Alternative Medicine, American Way, Beliefnt.com, Eddie Bauer, Free Spirit, Magical Blend, Massage Magazine, Spirituality and Health, Whole Life Times, and To Your Health. Much of my professional life has been spent teaching, as lecturer at American University in Washington, D.C., and as professor at The College of Santa Fe, where I founded an academic program in Moving Image Arts.

I have been in practice as a spiritual counselor for 20 years. I am the co-founder of LifePath Retreats in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where I live.

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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great advice for keeping (or recovering) your health, June 30, 2000

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Kevin M. (Hicksville, N.Y. United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Live Better Longer: The Parcells Center 7-Step Plan For Health and Longlivity (Hardcover)

When I first heard about Hazel Parcell's work on a Gary Null radio broadcast, I was intrigued enough to order the book the next day. I've been studying health and nutrition on my own for the last 12 years, and during that time have found a lot of the information presented by the "experts" contradictory and often confusing. With so many different theories regarding diet and lifestyle changes circulating it became difficult to know who to believe. This book is a refeshing change from all that. In the book, Hazel explains that one diet does not fit all, and that you have to experiment a bit and see what works for you, something I myself have been doing for many years. In addition, she gives lots of valuable information on water purification (her recommendation came as a bit of a surprize to me-it was the first time I had ever heard that theory), special baths for detoxification, the harmful effects of pollution in our enviornment, and cleaning your fruits, veggies, and even meats of toxins and pesticides. She even gives you a detox protocol if you've been exposed to X-rays. I highly recommend this book to anyone seeking to either improve or maintain their health, especially the beginner. It is filled with some of the most sensible health advice I've ever read. Thanks Hazel and Joseph.

29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Healer's Healer, June 26, 2005

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Kaayla T. Daniel "The Naughty Nutritionist" (Albuquerque, NM United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live Better Longer: The Parcells Center 7-Step Plan For Health and Longlivity (Hardcover)

Dr. Hazel Parcells was a total original with an astonishing ability to cut through nutritional dogma. She had little patience with most health experts, saying that they were unteachable because their cups were already full. She broke all the rules of establishment nutrition by recommending red meat, raw milk, butter, no soy and no margarine. And she understood body/mind/spirit medicine long before it became popular. Most importantly, Dr. Parcells was a living, breathing success story -- a woman who had been terminally ill at 39, who healed herself and went on to 65 vigorous years of pioneering discoveries in nutrition before her death at 106 years young in 1996. Dr. Parcells liked to say that "If you want to be healthy, you need to trade your wishbone for a backbone and get to work." I took her advice and became healthy. I noted that she earned several advanced degrees after the age of 50 and went for my own PhD. I was so intrigued by her findings about the health problems caused by soy protein and soy margarine that I researched and wrote "The Whole Soy Story: The Dark Side of America's Favorite Health Food." It confirms what she -- in her brilliance -- knew back in the 1950s! Joseph Dispenza's beautifully written book is a tribute to the life, love, laughter and wise teachings of this extraordinary woman. I recommend it highly to everyone who wants to remain joyous, vital and productive into great old age.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book changed the way I look at health., June 23, 1999

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This review is from: Live Better Longer: The Parcells Center 7-Step Plan For Health and Longlivity (Hardcover)

I am a massage therapist -- and I thought I had read and learned just about everything important in the field of health and wellness. But this book opened my eyes! I particularly enjoyed the philosophy of healing that it espouses. We are not just physical beings, but we also have emotional, mental, and spiritual bodies -- and all of them (they are all one, of course) need to be healthy. This book taught me, through the example of Hazel Parcells, that we all have to take responsibility for our health. But the great thing is that we really can do it! This book should be sent to every health professional in the country. I've already sent it to a lot of fellow massage therapists. Great book!