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The Mayo Clinic Plan: 10 Steps to a Healthier Life for EveryBody!

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The Mayo Clinic Plan is a 10-step program laid out in detail to improve your overall health. In a set of quizzes, you can analyze your health and take steps to make it better

1. Health Assessment, fitness, eating habits and risky behaviors (alcohol, tobacco and risky activities like driving without a seatbelt.)

2. Exercise: basics of aerobic, core and strength training and frexibility are outlined. What to do about injuries.

3. Eating: The Mayo Clinic Healthy Pyramid, how to plan meals.

4. Dieting, basically food portion control and eating from the pyramid.

5. Tobacco--how to get quit of it.

6. An on-course assessment, medical tests to consider.

7. Your spiritual and emotional health, whether religious or attitudinal.

8. Stress--how to manage it.

9. Mind and Body Recharge--insomnia, taking a break

10. How to live safely--seatbelts, responsible drinking, safe sex. chemicals in the home, sunscreen and household safety (remember how many accidents happen at home? A huge percentage.)

Summary: A nicely complete book with many useful charts, quizzes and bits of information. Use this as a roadmap for total health and you won't go far wrong.

Mayo Clinic has produced a book that is a great place to start for learning about a healthy lifestyle. It has helpful quizzes to assess your health in different areas. I wish it had more depth; that is why I can only give it four stars. It lays a good foundation, but leaves you wishing for more details.

doctor recommended this book and I've learned some helpful information on good eating habits and exercise routines

This is a good resource. Mayo Clinic always puts out good information and products. I am in the medical field and consider them a very trusted source. More than just an eating plan. Mayo Clinic gives many helpful ways to change your lifestyle that are manageable for a hectic schedule.

This book presents healthy living as a total life concept. It emphasizes not only eating and exercise but also the importance of staying connected with others, stress, attitude and safe practices such as wearing sunscreen and using a seat belt.

The authors don't just tell us to eat right they tell us how to be motivated to eat right. They give us realistic goals and ways to anticipate problems and keep on despite the inevitable backsliding. We're in this life for life.

Great photos, short, easy-to-read sections and interviews with Mayo Clinic doctors enhance the usability of this book for maintaining good lifestyle habits and choices.

by Christine Prescott, author of Spiritual Nutrition: Healthy Eating for the Christian Heart

This is a very good book. It is full of very good information and even has some recipes It is user friendly and large print. It is so easy to follow.

This book provides very useful information. It is easy to understand and covers every facet of a healthy lifestyle.

After waiting for so long for "the real Mayo Clinic" diet, even ordered the book before it was released, I was very disappointed by its rudimentary same simplistic approach to dieting. Also it lacks sample menus and its so simple on so many levels. Mayo Clinic played it safe and wrote an approach of healthy eating, and you would have to have come from a different planet not to know! I will donate mine to the Port Austin library! They need books!

Haven't had a chance to thoroughly review the book, but it appears to be all that I had expected.

My father gave it to me and I don't like him. It reminds me of him. I don't like it.

Too basic. Too little info.