Get Healthy Now! A Complete Guide to Prevention, Treatment and Healthy Living (Hardcover)

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Null, who has a Ph.D. in human nutrition and public health science, has written more than 50 books and has a syndicated radio program on health. One can only hope that what was omitted to reduce 1000-plus pages to a six-hour recording is not significant information that would affect the results of using any of the therapies or regimens. Oddly the work is not narrated by the author, who as a radio-show host obviously has public-speaking experience; it is competently presented by reader Robert Deyan. Anyone who wants to follow any of Null's advice would probably want the written version for review and reference. Purchase for public libraries where demand warrants.
-Nann Blaine Hilyard, Lake Villa Dist. Lib., IL
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Description

This comprehensive guide to healthy living offers a wide range of alternative approaches to help you stay healthy. These may be approaches your conventionally trained doctor wasn't taught in medical school. Some are supported by thousands of years of use in other societies, some have been discovered or refined in recent years. When used correctly, they may improve your health--or even save your life--as the better alternative to drugs, surgical intervention and other standard Western techniques.

Get Healthy Now! with Gary Null is your ABC of basic and enhanced nutrition, detoxification, prevention, treatment, exercise, beauty, and longevity, with special sections on women's health issues, and health areas of special concern to men. Get Healthy Now! also features more than 200 pages of alphabetical, state-by-state listings of alternative health practitioners nationwide.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 1088 pages
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press; 1 edition (July 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1888363975
• ISBN-13: 978-1888363975
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.6 x 2.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (44 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #356,559 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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98 of 99 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Specificity, December 6, 1999

By A Customer

After seeing Dr. Null discussing this book on PBS two weekends ago, I was anxiously awaiting its arrival. However, I find the book to be somewhat of a let down because it is not as specific as Dr. Null made it out to be on television. For example, there was a clear-cut list on the television that broke down the steps, the time frame, and the products necessary to detoxify the body. (Remember, this television show was Dr. Null's lecture which supposedly correlates with the book, Get Healthy Now.) This recipe was something that I could follow and use. Yet, the book has nothing of the sort; the lists are short and hidden throughout the text in a variety of places. Another example is how Dr. Null, during an interview with a PBS fundraiser, named a lot of ailments that the reader would be able to locate in the index and find the treatement for, yet I cannot find one of the mentioned ailments in particular anywhere in the index after attempting every possibility.

I find that the book makes a lot of statements about what to do and why, but it is not altogether specific as to HOW one should carry out such tasks. I am new to Dr. Null's philosophy/medicine, and I need to have my hand held as I attempt to get healthy. Is it that I need to buy more of his books for specifics? If they are as vague as I find Get Healthy Now to be, then I think I will save my money and pay a nutrition specialist.

76 of 82 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A Former Follower, January 26, 2000

By A Customer

Having seen Gary Null on the PBS show, I thought I would take a look at this book. I had previously been a long time radio listener of Gary Null, but as his behavior and health claims became more bizarre, I could no longer listen to him. That said, I thought his PBS presentation was interesting and I thought perhaps this book would be as well. Unfortunatly, although there are some good points in this book for people who don't know anything about healthy eating habits, this book is mostly opinion, rather than fact. Rather then waste money on this book, I would advise others to look at books written by authors such as Drs. Ornish and Weil. These authors, I believe, are men of integrity whose main goal is the spreading of the message rather than the aggrandizement of the messenger. Good Health.

50 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Shameful Nonsense Masquerading as Science, January 10, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Get Healthy Now: A Complete Guide to Prevention, Treatment and Healthy Living (Audio Cassette)

This book, as well as Null's others on alternative health, are a mixture of truths, partial truths, misleading truths, and falsity. He combines them in an inextricable amalgam that is not only unenlightening but actually dangerous. To give you some idea of this man's professed credentials, you needn't know more than that his Ph.D. is from Union Institute, which offers degrees in what is essentially a mail-order set-up. I know, because about four summers ago, while between jobs and desperate for some cash, I signed up to teach on their faculty (they have satellite "campuses" at various locales). After I attended the orientation meeting and went through an interview, I was offered a position. But after I met with several students to arrange the "tutorials," I decided to quit despite my financial need: It was such a wink-wink bogus arrangement that I just couldn't have lived with my conscience. It was a complete joke. And this is where he gets his degree! My Ph.D. is from Harvard, where we actually had to take classes, conduct experiments, go through rigorous training for years before we could call ourselves "doctor"; but alas, at least our degrees represent intellectual rigor and have substantial meaning. If you decide to read "Dr." Null's book, which I advise against, then at least do so knowing that your expert got his "training" from Union. Surely you have better things to do with your time and money. One other thing. For those of you who lack technical background, Null's reviews of the literature are highly selective "narrative" reviews. Many studies have demonstrated that this kind of review, because of its inherent subjectivity, are far more likely to be biased than are the so-called "meta-analytic" or systemative-quantitative reviews that are regularly published in real science. Covering literatures as large as the ones Null covers, anyone can pick and choose the studies that support your view while ignoring others; and you can do this while neglecting crucial factors such as sample size and other aspects of methodological quality that vary from study to study. In his books, and on his radio show, Null ONLY does the subjective-narrative reviews -- despite the fact that objective meta-analyses have been published on many of the points he addresses. Imposing this filter of his own wants onto the literature, he sifts and pans for what typically is a scewed and highly biased report to the reader. Listen, I am totally sympathetic with his critical attitude toward establishment biases. But let's not replace one bias with another! Let's try to abolish bias entirely. Null doesn't do that.