Natural Weight Loss Miracles [Paperback]

Maggie Greenwood-Robinson (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 254 pages
• Publisher: Perigee Trade; 1st edition (March 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0399524797
• ISBN-13: 978-0399524790
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,678,797 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Maggie Greenwood-Robinson, Ph.D., is one of the country's top health and medical authors. She has written numerous books on a wide range of topics: nutrition, diet and weight loss, exercise, diabetes, and more. Her articles have appeared in Let's Live, Physical Magazine, Great Life, Shape, and many other publications. She is a member of the Advisory Board of Physical Magazine and has a doctorate in nutrition counseling.

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40 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not entirely honest..., August 2, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Natural Weight Loss Miracles (Paperback)

The title of this book should be, "Weight Loss Gimmicks That Could Be Miracles If You Had Unlimeted Time And Money". Ms. Greenwood-Robinson presents these products as the answers to everyone's problems: just pop a pill and you're on your way to a healthy body. But she only briefly addresses the fact that in most of the research she cites, the subjects took doses that are probably just not feasible. For example, in her chapter on pyruvate, she mentions that the subjects in the research studies took doses in the range of 8-36 grams. Most pyruvate supplements come in doses of 500-750 MILLIGRAMS per tablet! So to supplement your diet with this stuff would cost you a LOT of money. Some of the supplements in this book would indeed be good additions to a healthy lifestyle, but if you're looking for an easy way out, this isn't it. Unfortunately, there's still no substitute for good old-fashioned exercise and a balanced diet.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars balance where you direct your money, August 18, 2000

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Joyce Nakamura (Colorado) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Natural Weight Loss Miracles (Paperback)

...Several of [the] supplements Ms. Greenwood-Robinson refers to in
her book are not that expensive when you realize that they also have
many other positive effects other than just promoting weight loss.
They re-build. They fight the effects of aging. They preserve the
precious functioning of out brains and organs. Ms.
Greenwood-Robinson's book has good information for wholeness of our
whole body, not just weightloss "pills."