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

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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, "paris_match@hotmail.com"

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.

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..

This is a wonderful book for learning the basics of nutrition. Dr. Morter exposes the protein myth and explains quite thoroughly the effects of alkaline verses acid producing foods on the body. He provides a guided tour that goes through all the digestive organs of the body showing how they are affected by an acid diet. I felt this book was presented in a very scientific manner. I used to have regular acid reflux problems. By reading this book I came to understand the implications of that on my overall health, and since reading it over two years ago I have never had indigestion again.

This plus "God's Way to Ultimate Health",Lyman's "Mad Cowboy" started it all for me around January. A good friend recommended to read Malkmus after she beat breast cancer by changing her diet! I knew then I had to understand the link between diet and health. I wasn't satisfied to read just this book but many of the others listed in the bibliography and others on biological medicine and others relating to the acid/alkaline balance within our bodies. Morter's "Your Health, Your Choice" helps us to describe what's happening and clearly spells out what implications diet has on our lives. Armed with this info I've been able to help my mother gain control of her arthritis and hopefully get her off methotrexate for good. I've been able to help my mother in law lower her cholesterol since prior strokes have made this an issue. And my wife and I have lost the weight we couldn't seem to shake and have been able to improve all aspects of our health and physical well being. If you have any loved ones who's quality of life you want help improve this book is a great start.

I have read many, many books on nutrition, and this one combines all the best from all those others in a very easy-to-understand way. Since reading this book I have changed my diet without much effort, and in only a few weeks the sinus headaches and stomach problems have gone away. Much more energy too! A GREAT nutrition book!

My health problems improved immensely along with my weight after reading this book. I buy it as a gift for friends and relatives and continually use mine as a reference. The text is easily read, and it makes you understand how the body functions as a whole. Once you pick it up, you cannot put it down.

It is no easy matter to make a subject like nutrition amuzing and readily understood. Dr. Morter has done an admirable job. This book has profoundly influenced my eating habits.

If you only read ONE book about health, this is it. Understanding that you ARE what you EAT, and why, will give you the insight to make wise choices so that you can live a long and healthy life. I've read hundreds of books on this subject, and this one seems the most rational, logical, and understandable.

Are you tired of being tired? Are you tired of the weight your carrying around, and are serious about losing the extra weight? Get this book! Don't read it if your not ready, let someone else get it who wants real help! It changed my life, and my health has improved greatly!! P.S. It will cut your food bill too!