Your Health, Your Choice: Your Complete Personal Guide to Wellness, Nutrition & Disease Prevention [Paperback]

Jr., M.A. Dr. M. Ted Morter (Author), Ph.D. Robert L. Brown (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 11, 1995

A unique summary of how foods affect how you feel, why some types of everyday foods can lead to disease, and ways to adjust your diet slowly and safely.

Product Details

• Paperback: 276 pages
• Publisher: Lifetime Books (October 11, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0811906671
• ISBN-13: 978-0811906678
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #558,610 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ahead Of Its Time, June 12, 2001

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Paris "parismatch" (AZ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Your Health, Your Choice: Your Complete Personal Guide to Wellness, Nutrition & Disease Prevention (Paperback)

I read this book in the early 90's. Ted Morter, D.C. was way ahead of his time when he released this book to the public. Unfortunately, good health is a person's choice and most people will take very little time to make inquiry into the matter. Also, although this book is reasonable and substantiated from a physiological standpoint, one has to break through the idolatry that exists where medical cures are concerned (i.e. antacids as a cure for stomach ills, argggh!).

I loved Dr. Morters explanation of the digestive process and the pH of each phase from salivation to stomach to duodenum. It is necessary to understand all this to understand what lengths our bodies will go to in order to "save the whole man". The body operates in its wisdom under dire circumstances, but we have a choice and an opportunity to get out of survival mode into health. And the answer is so simple and the logic impeccable.

Cancer and other disease thrive in an acidic environment within the body. Each food we eat leaves a residue of acid or alkalai in our system. Our body will do crazy things to counteract the acid-ash residue left from the SAD diet we are used to (Std. American Diet). Our body will pull calcium from the bones even to neutralize the acid in the system. Drinking more homogenized milk only aggravates the acidity.

Dr. Morter runs under the legs of the medical researchers and unlocks the mysteries...a simple answer to a plaguing problem. Now, ten years after I read the book, researchers are catching up to this book.

It's your health and your choice. If you won't invest the effort to read a little book and see if it compels you to make some basic adjustments, then you deserve the inevitable: poor health and misery---perhaps early exit. This book is great and it changed my life. Too bad it's out of print. It's a CLASSIC! I think that you could find it as a used book even. I still have my copy and don't lend it to anyone. Get it at the library if you must. Sincerely, "[e-mail]"

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A way out for common health problems, June 5, 2000

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JLaw (Hong Kong) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Your Health, Your Choice: Your Complete Personal Guide to Wellness, Nutrition & Disease Prevention (Paperback)

The book gives me a new perspective towards "health" from the traditional "nutrition" way. This pH perspective takes a "total approach" towards health. You will know the real causes of some common illness like asthma, heart diseases, gall stones, mental illness, blood problems......which are actually caused by bad eating habits/choices. Then you will know how to find a way out from those diseases. The book is written in very simple language, an average people can understand it very easily. Having understood the reasons why we choose out food in a 8:2 ratio (8=vege, 2=protein/carbohydrate), it is so easy to apply the priciple in my daily life to stay healthy. It is recommended to read the other books from the author - Dynamic Health, An apple a day and Exercise or Diet.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Read this book! Your life may be in danger., September 28, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Your Health, Your Choice: Your Complete Personal Guide to Wellness, Nutrition & Disease Prevention (Paperback)

If you have any type of health problem, please read this book. You may not know it, but your food may be killing you. Your body can heal, but it may be in survival mode and it just doesnt have the chance. This book is very understandable and funny, yet gets technical enough to be convincing. The most beautiful part is that it is your chioce and your health. You can go as fast or as slow as you want. The section on exercise makes you rethink your exercise program. If you want to be healthy, read this book. If not, pass it up. It's up to you, and only you..