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“Dr. Mercola’s TOTAL HEALTH Cookbook & Program”
The reason we are recommending you purchase this book, aside from the excellent health information you will receive, is because Dr. Mercola is taking a positive, pro-active, stance in response to the recent signing into law of the new Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit, by creating something called the American Wellness Association. With regards to the creation of this new non-profit association and its future endeavors, Dr. Mercola says, "It is a David against Goliath set-up for certain, but I believe that, like David, God is behind this movement and will provide all the necessary resources to defeat Goliath." For clarity sake, just in case any drug reps are reading this, the pharmaceutical companies collectively are Goliath! Also known as Big Pharma. All procedes of this book's sales are going to be used to fund the new non-profit association he co-founded called (tentatively) the American Wellness Association. Read the following Preface through and you'll get a good idea of everything you’ll get within this new book. And please consider buying yourself a copy, or even one for a friend. By doing so, you'll be helping to fund an organization that in the future may advocate your right to access alternative health care that "does no harm".—HELN Editor] Preface
Yes, that may sound lofty, but my integrity is important to me, and I am committing here in words for you that I am certain of it. How can I be so sure? Let me start by telling you a story... Just a few months ago, I had my first consultation with a wonderful woman named Sally. She was 45 years old, stood 5’1”, weighed 300 pounds, and suffered severe depression, diabetes, anxiety attacks, extensive fatigue, insomnia, and rheumatoid arthritis symptoms -- for starters. She was on an astounding twenty-five different prescription medications via her previous physicians, and had already undergone six major surgeries in her life. With all of this conventional “healthcare,” though, she was still and with increasing momentum heading downhill. Sally became a patient at my clinic for the same reason many chronically ill patients do. She was desperately fed up with the false promises of the Band-Aid approach of conventional medicine, which was obviously doing nothing to address the underlying causes of her conditions, and had heard about my program’s immense success through treating the true cause of health problems and teaching people to make necessary lifestyle changes. Sure enough, within just two months Sally stopped ten of her most dangerous (and unnecessary) prescriptions, she’d already lost ten pounds, and experienced a dramatic decrease of her depression, anxiety, insomnia and fatigue, so that these once debilitating issues were no longer noticeable. Again, this was within the first two months, and Sally’s health continues to improve. So was it some magic pill or complicated surgery I administered? Of course not. It was the program you will find in this book. We determined her metabolic type, recommended the ideal foods for her type, administered the tools to help her overcome emotional barriers, and recommended the few choice supplements and the exercise you’ll find in these pages. She stuck with it, and experienced those dramatic results in a period of time much shorter than she had even dared imagine. Sally is not an exception but the rule with my program. Primarily through the program in Part One of this book, upon which all of the recipes in Part Two are based, my clinical team and I have helped many hundreds of people at even more extreme stages of illness and obesity improve and recover -- many of them cases that conventional healthcare providers considered “lost causes.” Meanwhile, my program has literally helped tens of thousands of people at earlier stages of chronic disease, with weight issues, and with other health conditions recover their health. This is both through The Optimal Wellness Center, my clinic just outside Chicago which is now the largest natural health center in Illinois, and my free e-newsletter and website, Mercola.com, which is currently the most visited natural health site in the world. I am of course proud to have helped so many people already, but more so I am honored, and I thank God everyday for letting me do so. Frankly, I’m often still also amazed with the overweight, diabetes and other chronic disease epidemics raging worldwide, the media spotlight has recently been very strong on my program for it’s particularly high success rate at helping people with those conditions. But there are the thousands more -- those who were experiencing milder conditions, such as fatigue or frequent headaches, those who want to improve their athletic performance, and those who simply had the foresight to seek to prevent disease in the first place -- whose health has also been transformed for the better by the plan. The bottom line is, no matter who you are, this plan will help you, likely even more than you anticipate. If you think it all sounds a bit too “miraculous,” well, I really can’t blame you. Every day we’re bombarded by ridiculous claims from new diets, supplements, pills and programs promising you the sun, stars and eternity but often delivering nothing more than dust. It’s understandable if you’re skeptical. And so you do deserve to know how the plan and all the recipes created specifically for this book will truly improve your health and life. Which takes us right back to my opening point: This book took over twenty years to complete. Not the physical writing of it, of course, but the book’s most important aspect: the dietary and lifestyle plan it is founded on. Beginning in the late 1970s, when I was still in medical school, I had a strong notion that nothing was more essential to health and healing than proper diet. A few years later, as a young physician, I began what would become my life’s passion and mission: to determine through committed investigations and practice the true “ideal diet” to help people prevent chronic disease and weight issues, and to reach their highest potential living a long life full of energy and free from pain. In the late 1980s through early 90s I experienced some major transformations of my own regarding my perception of the conventional healthcare system -- namely, that its foundation was fatally flawed, as it was almost exclusively centered on treatments and mere patchwork, but not prevention and reliance on the intrinsic healing capacity God gave each and every one of us. This further motivated me as I recognized that people were confused about what the “right” diet was. They had major amounts of conflicting advice about fats and proper nutrition, and were intentionally being misled toward devastating food choices and perceptions of healthcare by the fast food and pharmaceutical industry that had much to gain in the way of money and power from doing so. People deserved the real answer, not information tainted by politics or greed, and I was committed to finding that answer. The history of my dietary plan upon which the recipes in this book are based is filled with many breakthroughs obtained through my investigations and review of the medical literature and, even more so, my clinical experience with patients over the past two decades. But I’ve been asked in interviews many times to name the most important ones, those that profoundly shifted and expanded my understanding and, once I implemented them into patient’s lives, improved their conditions most dramatically. In chronological order, I’d have to say these are the big three:
These “Big Three” are covered in detail for you in Part One of this book, as are all the other tenets of my dietary plan that you need to know in order to use the recipes in Part Two for their healing, preventative, weight loss, performance-enhancing and life-extending abilities. By the time you finish Part One, you will have a true total health plan customized to you in particular. The wonderful thing about the plan is that it’s entirely designed around what’s naturally right for your body, so sticking to it, you will find, will simply be following a diet that your body naturally gravitates toward. Eating according to your metabolic type is not the challenge you may fear it will be and you will be astounded by the results. Part Two contains all the new recipes based on the dietary plan, including the required ingredients, detailed how-to-prepare information, yield, and nutritional values. What’s more, most recipes are really several recipes in one, because you get detailed information on how to “fine-tune” the recipe to make it more appropriate for your metabolic type. You can cook from the recipes in Part Two even if you haven’t read Part one yet, but you’ll find the recipes, and your health, will greatly benefit by reading Part One and learning your metabolic type. Finally, because central tenets of my dietary program include low-to-no grains or added sugars, if you are diabetic or cannot tolerate gluten or grain products, you would obviously benefit from these recipes without even reading Part One -- but don’t make that mistake. Again, by reading Part One you’ll learn how to improve your condition dramatically. Which all leads me to some final words on how this “much-more-than-just-a-cookbook” cookbook will help you transform your life and health. Because it is a major compilation of my twenty-plus years of developing a comprehensive dietary and lifestyle plan that will help you overcome and prevent disease and illness, increase your energy, optimize weight permanently, remain young-looking, live longer and better, and frankly, enjoy many truly delicious meals along the way, my top requirement was to find the premier team to pull it all together for you, and that requirement was definitely fulfilled: Brian Vaszily is the chief editor of my website, Mercola.com, and of my free health e-newsletter. He has been central to improving the quality and scope of the content, and to making it engaging to a wide audience. I regularly seek his counsel as I strive to improve the site and its mission and he has been invaluable in taking our efforts several giant leaps higher. I am delighted that he was able to devote his exceptional literary, editorial and management talents to help create this awesome resource to improve your health. Dr. Kendra Pearsall is a Naturopathic Doctor at my clinic, The Optimal Wellness Center -- and my future wife. Dr. Pearsall specializes in weight loss and endocrine (hormone) problems. Her medical, culinary, and literary talents and her faithful love and support were instrumental in bringing this cookbook to fruition. Finally, Nancy Lee Bentley is a professionally trained chef with a background in metabolic typing, nutrition and whole health principles who has been following my dietary program for some time. You will find the original recipes she has created here are utterly delicious, easy to prepare, highly nutritious, and right in line with my Total Health program. In summary, if you’re already familiar with my dietary and lifestyle plan, whether through my free health e-newsletter at Mercola.com or as a patient of The Optimal Wellness Center, you’ve made a wise choice -- this is the book that finally “pulls it all together” in Part One while providing, in Part Two, delicious and healthy meals and snacks for every day of the year no matter what your condition or type. Furthermore, if you discovered this book because you were searching for low-carb, low-calorie, low-sugar, grain-free recipes that were excellent for weight loss and diabetes, it will provide you all that. But if you adhere to the principles that surround the recipes, you will discover a few special bonuses such as increased energy and focus, the ability for your body to fight and prevent illness and disease, a more youthful appearance, far less reliance on the healthcare system, and a longer and more fulfilling life. With all that in mind, bon appétit!
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