Tao of Balanced Diet: Secrets of a Thin and Healthy Body [Hardcover]

Stephen Thomas Chang (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0942196058 | ISBN-13: 978-0942196054 | Publication Date: March 1987

Tao encompasses a bit of everything: diet,recipes, balanced mind, opened meridians, chi gong, stretching, movement, ancient teachings, and more.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 200 pages
• Publisher: Tao Longevity (March 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0942196058
• ISBN-13: 978-0942196054
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #159,631 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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33 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent book for improving your health, August 26, 1999

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David M. Kramer (Las Vegas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tao of Balanced Diet: Secrets of a Thin and Healthy Body (Hardcover)

I used this book while recovering from a serious illness in my digestive tract,,, The MD I was seeing was amazed and so was I, A MUST READ

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Balance Is The Key, July 3, 2011

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Antigone Walsh - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tao of Balanced Diet: Secrets of a Thin and Healthy Body (Hardcover)

Balance is key to both a healthy body and a happy life. That balance can be attained by studying the chinese five element theory, the characteristics of foods and simple massage and accupressure techniques.

Dr. Stephen Chang outlines the basics in an easily understandable manner. There are diagrams of the exercises, really simple massage techniques and the accupressure points. He includes his dietary plan with a fairly large selection of recipes.

I applaud his approach to diet. Exclusionary diets are almost certainly designed to fail. His position that even small quantities of junk food are good because they stimulate the liver makes sense. The internal organ massage exerices are amazing and effiective. I use the stomach massage for any digestive upset and thrilled with the results. The exercises are quite simple and take very little time.

However there are some points that I am not totally sold on. He advocates a strict adherence to a three meal a day plan with no snacks or none of the little mini meals that are so popular today. He insists that if you stick tojust the three meals a day, you will lose weight. My experience has been to the contrary. I am one of the many who are ravenous at three and find a healthy snack at that time staves off later overeating or binges.

He also limits the amount of water one is to drink to six cups a day. He claims that excess water leads to cellulite and excess weight. Prevailing thought is that excess water cannot hurt you; it is just excreted. Dehydration is the current hobgoblin of contemporary health concerns. Again,I think that balance is key and limitation is as hazardous as excess.

This is an interesting book,nicely written with some excellent points. It is a good introduction taoist theory and the internal organ exercises are well worth the purchase price price.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Tao of Balanced diet, November 27, 2010

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marni - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Tao of Balanced Diet: Secrets of a Thin and Healthy Body (Hardcover)

My friend and I both have a copy, so we can work through it together. We both love it. Its practical, easy to understand and non-judgemental e.g. I am a vegan and my friend is a carnivour and the book is perfect for both of us as it is so inclusive. Personally I dont like the use of the word 'thin' in the subtitle, I want a healthy body and I dont need to lose weight, but I did want to use Taoist principles to be healthy and I am improving my health with this book and Dr Chang's book on Internal Exercises. Some information is repeated in both books, but thats okay, it bears repeating.