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Dr. Mercola's Total Health Cookbook & Program
How you can heal yourself — and the entire healthcare system
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Dr Mercola's Total Health Cookbook & Program |
When introducing this new book, Dr. Joseph Mercola said:
I am going to guarantee that within a few weeks to a few months, you will look back on this … as a major turning point in your health … and therefore in your life.
… All of my commissions on this book are going to a new non-profit health association described below.
The Total Health book
Part One of the book presents Dr. Mercola's entire dietary and health program. It took him over two decades to fully develop this program, and it has helped improve the health of literally tens of thousands of patients in his Chicago clinic, from those with serious chronic disease and major weight issues, to those seeking to optimize already good health.
Chapter 5 of this section includes a test, with supporting guidance, to determine your specific metabolic type, and how to eat properly for your specific needs. Your metabolic type is, according to Dr. Mercola, the "missing key" to truly successful dieting and health; a crucial component you won't find elsewhere else, but that is absolutely essential if you really wish to fight disease and premature aging, increase your vitality and energy, optimize your weight and live longer and better.
Dr. Mercola claims that, in his book, you'll learn all the healthiest foods, and the right proportion of carbs, fats and protein for your specific, body-typed needs. And, he says that learning how to eat for your metabolic type is, by itself, worth the price of the Total Health Cookbook & Program many times over.
In addition to this, you'll also learn all the right forms of foods you should be eating … and those you should be avoiding.
Metabolic Typing: What is it?
Metabolic typing is a system that acknowledges that you, like everyone, have your own unique biochemistry — and therefore your own specific nutritional needs — to optimize your health and weight.
This system has been extensively used (including in my own clinic), and is demonstrated to work.
In this book, you'll learn where you set on the metabolic-type spectrum, and how to fine-tune your intake of healthy carbs, proteins and fats accordingly.
Just following the diet for your metabolic type will, therefore, improve your health and weight more than you can possibly imagine. But that is still just part of the immense benefits this book will provide you.
Here is just a small sampling of what you'll learn:
- Soy, a food that many consider healthy, but should be avoided like the plague. It can harm your immune system, lead to everything from gastric distress to cancer, and cause women to have their thyroid gland stop working (Page 19).
- The nine reasons why milk bought in most grocery stores can harm you — mostly related to pasteurization — and why raw milk is such a better idea (Page 32).
- What you really must know about beef, chicken and other meats to protect you and your family, and all the truly safe and healthy options (Chap. 4).
- Coconut oil: the one fat that can actually help you get — and stay — thin by helping to burn other fat more efficiently, while also improving immune system (Page 24).
- Vitamin D, the single most important supplement you should definitely be taking, as it will increase your lifespan and reduce your risk for cancer and heart disease (Pages 61-62).
In fact, by the time you're done reading Part One, you'll have a far more comprehensive understanding of real health and nutrition than 99% percent of the population — including the knowledge of what is right for you in particular, and a solid, rational plan to follow.
What else you'll find in the Total Health book
The benefits to you don't stop there, though. In Part Two, you'll get over 150 brand-new recipes, created by a leading chef and nutrition expert, specifically for this program. These are easy-to-prepare recipes, organized for every single type of meal and dish, from snacks and desserts to soups and salads to main dishes, juices & smoothies and even raw and fermented foods.
Beyond ensuring that these recipes were grain-free, very low-sugar (almost all are suited for diabetics), low-carb, and suited for his program, Dr. Mercola's directive to the chef who created them was to ensure they were extremely nutritious and — despite the reputation that goes with most "healthy" food — extremely delicious. One of the most frequent complements he hears from readers is that they love the taste of these recipes; which of course, makes it much easier to stick to eating healthily.
Finally, these recipes will give you still something more in each of their "Tips" and "Notes & Suggestions" areas: Insight and practical lessons on how to tailor each recipe to your specific metabolic type and other dietary needs that you learned in Part One. It's an ongoing education on dietary health. So you can use the healthy and delicious recipes as they stand, or delve into these notes and tips to continue broadening your knowledge on how to eat properly to optimize your weight, fight disease and premature aging, and increase your energy … and the length and quality of your life!
Who is Dr. Mercola, and Why Should You Trust Him?
Dr. Joseph Mercola is a licensed physician with over two decades of clinical experience in dietary health. He is routinely consulted and interviewed by major media, and other experts, throughout the world for his dietary and health insights.
But, far more importantly, many years ago, he committed his life and career to helping as many people as possible adopt the diet and lifestyle (and overcome the hurdles to doing so, including the pharmaceutical companies) that would truly help them fight and prevent disease, reach their ideal weight and energy levels, and live long and better. His plan, in short:
- As a licensed physician, with full medical school and residency training, and strong experience — up to and including the Department Chair of a major medical center — he committed to take his knowledge still further. He understood that nothing was more important to health than what people consumed every day, and so he committed himself to the continued research of the scientific and clinical information, and studies on all the various dietary theories.
- As a physician practicing conventional medicine — before becoming a natural health physician — he saw many of his peers whose medical advice was being unduly influenced by pharmaceutical companies, food processing giants, and other "information sponsors" — as well as the government they lobby — who all had priorities other than your health. He vowed to be very wary of these influences, without ever ignoring them. He refused to accept any form of their ulterior "persuasion" — third-party advertisements, drug company "gifts", etc. — in his practice, on his website or in his thinking.
- Once he had a grasp of a dietary program that truly worked to help people, in both the short- and long-term, he began applying it in his clinic. (The Optimal Wellness Center is located just outside of Chicago.) As healthcare knowledge is always progressing, he adjusted this plan over the years; but for the last decade-plus, literally tens of thousands of his patients have found dramatic success on this plan — such an unusually high success rate, in fact, that he was often asked to write a book presenting the entire program.
- With a vision to reach as many people as possible with health and dietary information that can truly help them, he realized there was no better place to do so than the Web. He built Mercola.com and the free e-newsletter around his dietary program, and today it's one of the five most-visited health websites in the world. For this reason — and because many tens of thousands more have improved their health through the information on the site — he was also often asked to write a book presenting my entire program.
That book, which in a sense has taken Dr. Mercola over two decades to create, has finally been written: Dr Mercola's Total Health Cookbook & Program.
Other dietary and health experts may come and go, but this program — as well as his website (www.Mercola.com) and free e-newsletter — have a built in reputation, earned over many years, and are now growing more rapidly than ever. There is one reason, above all else, for this: His information and advice has been widely proven and researched, but it also comes from the heart. As so many readers, reviewers and experts have labeled it, you'll be getting "the real deal" with this book.
How the Dr Mercola's Total Health Cookbook & Program
will help heal the entire healthcare system while helping you.
It comes down to how the proceeds from this book will be used.
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Dr Mercola's Total Health Cookbook & Program |
All of the commissions from this book will be donated to the World Wellness Association, co-founded by Dr. Mercola and several other major organizations dedicated to health and wellness. It's mission is to provide individuals and families the insight, guidance, and a wide range of practical opportunities to achieve true health and wellness, while working in Washington, D.C. and other power centers to take on the drug companies and medical establishment, to truly change the healthcare system to one focused on real prevention and cure.
Its vision is to change the medical paradigm from one focused on pharmaceutical and surgical band-aids, to one focused on prevention and permanent health solutions. It will provide both a comprehensive education to people on everything they can do to proactively achieve health and wellness, and it will also provide a wide range of real resources they can use toward this end … this includes everything from health practitioners and health services, to the potential for an innovative form of health insurance that promises to save people immense amounts of money, and turn the current industry on its head.
And so, investing in this book is a real investment in your health and the transformation of the current health paradigm to one focused on real prevention, cure and wellness.
I'm convinced you'll soon agree: This isn't just another health and wellness book, but a major turning point in your life.




