Perfect Weight America: Change Your Diet. Change Your Life. Change Your World [Hardcover]

Jordan S Rubin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 14, 2007

Everyone has a perfect weight. It may not be what you weigh right now. It may not be what your best friend weighs, or what your mother weighs. But somewhere inside, there is a perfectly thin YOU just waiting to be revealed! Join New York Times best-selling author Jordan Rubin as he shows you how to discover your perfect weight and refocus your lifestyle toward attaining that weight.

Based on a landmark study conducted by Rubin in “one of the unhealthiest cities in America,” Perfect Weight America has been created as a 16-week program to help you achieve your perfect weight. With solid medical advice from Bernard Bulwer, MD, an advanced clinical fellow at one of the premier teaching hospitals at Harvard Medical School, this book contains the blueprint for what will become a Perfect Weight movement that will sweep the country.
 

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Rubin (The Maker's Diet) and host of the Christian-based television show Extraordinary Health offers this fairly complicated 16-week diet plan that is heavy on his Garden of Life company's products and general enough for non-Christian readers. Many of the ideas are familiar to health aficionados: the benefits of filtered water and organic, locally grown, in-season fruits and vegetables; the value of high-fiber and high protein foods; warnings against refined carbohydrates, trans fats, artificial sweeteners, diet drinks and—more oddly—microwave ovens. Rubin, founder of the Biblical Health Institute, also offers a Healing Codes exercise involving breathing and meditation to reduce stress and a suggested workout program, which focuses on short, intense bouts of exercise. Eight pages of testimonials, 33 pages of recipes (most include his products) and a 66-page detailed meal-by-meal eating plan round out the text. A Web site, www.PerfectWeightAmerica.com, promises to help readers access more diet tools. For a diet book, this is surprisingly wordy and densely written, but Rubin fans who want a fully detailed eating plan—and don't mind extensive product pitches—probably won't mind its verbosity. (Jan. 2)
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About the Author

Jordan Rubin is the founder and chairman of the successful Garden of Life wellness company. The author of numerous health books, including Patient Heal Thyself, Restoring Your Digestive Health, and the New York Times best seller The Maker's Diet, he has been featured on Good Morning America, NBC Nightly News, Fox and Friends, Inside Edition, USA Today, and Newsweek. He lives in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, with his wife, Nicki, and family. For more information, visit www.TMDiet.com.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 368 pages
• Publisher: Siloam (December 14, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1599792575
• ISBN-13: 978-1599792576
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.5 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #670,673 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jordan S. Rubin is the founder of Garden of Life, a health and wellness company that empowers people to attain extraordinary health. He has earned degrees in naturopathic medicine, nutrition, and natural therapies. Rubin has written three books and has appeared on more than 300 TV and radio programs worldwide. He has also written numerous articles for top nutritional and medical journals.

Customer Reviews

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70 of 81 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Perfect Waste, January 12, 2008

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Kim Hillsman (Tennessee) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Perfect Weight America: Change Your Diet. Change Your Life. Change Your World (Hardcover)

At least Jordan Rubin is consistent, he recommends the same products and foods in The Maker's Diet, Restoring your Digestive Health, and all of his Great Physician's Prescription Books. This book adds Fucothin. A $50 product consisting of a metabolism boosting brown seaweed, Fuoxanthin. He adds in this book some metabolic typing, in which he take Wolcott's Metabolic Typing Diet and transforms the protein, mixed, and carb types into meat people (who need protein) and potato people (who need carbs).

The entire book is nothing more than an advertisement for Garden of Life, Rubin's line. Now, don't get me wrong, the diet is perfectly good to follow, and Garden of Life is a top-notch brand. But if you buy the bars, the shakes, the green powder, cod liver oil, cleanse, and Fucothin, you will have made quite an investment. The entire program is sixteen weeks in length.

There are some success stories in the book, but bear in mind, these people got all of the products free of charge. I like Jordan Rubin, and The Maker's Diet was a wonderful book; but, this book is nothing more than a moneymaker for him. The useful, and new information in this book could have been put into a pamphlet, seriously. I don't recommend it, there are better diet books out there.

24 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars perfect weight america my personal story, February 8, 2008

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Billy D. Segura (lafayette, la USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Perfect Weight America: Change Your Diet. Change Your Life. Change Your World (Hardcover)

The Perfect Weight America Program is a true god send. I know because I won the 16 week Perfect Weight America Program which started in Delray Beach Florida this past june. I was skeptical at first, but I tried the products, and whole food recomendations and stayed focused and on course. In june 2007 I was weighing 240# 5' 7 1/2 inches tall with a 44" waist , (I am an oil field worker in the Gulf of Mexico), by november 2007 I weighed 190#'s with a 36" waist when i completed the 16 week program. Sure, I could have found excuses ,complained and got off course, but my wife stood by me, and Jordan Rubin and the Biblical Health Institue helped me along the way. Today february 2008, I weigh 192#s with a 34" waist and I am very healthy at 54 years young. I have literally rebuilt my body with whole food and whole food supplements, I am off blood pressure and cholesterol medications. Every day I plan my meals with the lessons learned from the Perfect Weight America Program. Jordan Rubin is a Dedicated Coach who walks the walk and talks the talk. His program does not send you pre-packaged and chemically processed foods to your door step. His program advocates awarness, choosing organic, whole foods, and whole food supplemts along with exercise, and all three of these key items work together. You have to ask your self what is your health worth, Jordan Rubin reminded me, I had taken too many things for granted for too long, and I am grateful to the Biblical Health Institue and Jordan Rubin for being there when I needed them.

Bill
Lafayette, Louisiana

26 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Another Advertisement Book, February 19, 2008

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BringDaPain "BringDaPain" (Steaming Hot, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Perfect Weight America: Change Your Diet. Change Your Life. Change Your World (Hardcover)

I got this book for free with a purchase from The Vitamin Shoppe, and boy am I glad I did not pay for this. Mr. Rubin has put together a hodge-posh of different (and some very complicated) dieting techniques and wrapped it into the slick marketing of "something new and groundbreaking!". Well, nothing in here is neither new nor groundbreaking. Most people are aware that the high carb/junk diet of America is sorely lacking in nutritional value. However, he takes it to the extreme at times, overselling his "all natural" products. Some of the recipes are good, but you can make most them by taking a trip to your local Whole Foods or health food store (and spending quite a bit less money)...rather than investing hundreds of dollars that most Americans simply don't have in this economy in his products. Not to mention, he has never had a weight problem! It's always fun to listen to a person who was underweight and had to GAIN weight due to an illness, wax poetic about how much of a loser and excuse-maker the average overweight American is. Spare me, please. We won't even get started on some of the simply non-practical advice that is offered. City-dwellers often don't have easy access to free-range meats and locally grown veggies. And the FDA has no regulation over "organic" products.

So, on with the solution. Well, some better books are "Feeding The Hungry Heart" by Geneen Roth (if you suffer from binging disorder and need help, as I did in the past), and after reading that, try "The Way To Eat" by David Katz, PhD. Do the good old tried and true excercise more and modify your eating habits...and limit your intake of processed foods and "junk", sodas (including diet sodas), and "fake sugar" (nutrasweet, splenda, etc). You don't need to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on Jordan Rubin's supplements when you already have the good common sense that God gave you. Good luck to everyone!