THIS 158 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Vitality, Fasting and Nutrition: A Physiological Study of the Curative Power of Fasting, Together with a New Theory of the Relation of food to Human Vitality, by Hereward Carrington. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564599159.

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We Care Holistic Health Spa’s Detoxification and Revitalization Program is outlined in this invaluable book, showing you how to thoroughly cleanse your body, mind and spirit of the toxins that inundate them from fast food, chemical food additives, environmental pollutants, and emotional stressors. This book provides a clear, simple plan for detoxifying and outlines a lifelong maintenance program for maximum nutrition and health.

Written by the founder of the ‘healing spa to the stars’ in Desert Hot Springs, California, Susana Belen reveals the natural beauty secrets, special recipes, and methods of natural healing that have made this spa facility a world famous retreat.

Over 100 Simple, Creative Vegetarian Recipes, Including Raw and Gluten-Free!

Do You Suffer From These Symptoms of Colon Toxicity? Weight Problems Acid Reflux Headaches Food Allergy Lethargy Chronic Fatigue Frequent Colds Body Odor IBS, Constipation, Diarrhea Depression Skin Problems

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5 Stars Better detailed explanations than most
This is one of the better books on detoxification. Most others give various recipes and regimens to accomplish some form of detoxification without providing sufficient background information to understand how it is supposed to work and why. The author of this book starts with why you should detoxify, the five principles of balanced health, and the seven most important steps. People are much more likely to follow through when they know what to expect and understand why they are doing it. Written in an easy-to-read style the author explains concepts very clearly without introducing any unnecessary complications. Detox and Revitalize is highly recommended and especially so for those new to detoxification who want to gain a broad understanding of the purpose and process.

5 Stars Wonderful - Useful & Delicious Recipes
After spending one of the most eye-opening and amazing weeks of my life at Susana’s We Care Spa in California, this book keeps me going daily with recipes, ideas, motivations, and is a constant tangible reminder of that week. I can’t wait to go back, after a week learning about detox and clarifying the skin & body inside and out, this book is a must have for anyone interested in total body wellness, whole foods, and a long & healthy life.

4 Stars An inspiring guide to detoxification

Susana L. Belen’s Detox and Revitalise is easy to read and has a wealth of information in it regarding diet, nutrition, excercise, detoxification, juicing, fasting, and stress management-to name just a few. She also has many suggestions for a balanced diet and lifestyle to increase ones overall health and well being.

I am already involved in alternative health and health foods and I still found many useful ideas. Ironically, I was given this book as a gift the day I bought a take-away dinner for friends. Afterwards we all felt sick and lacking in energy- a timely reminder while reading about the benefits of eating well and detoxification!!

4 Stars great recipe ideas for raw food
This book has really inspired me and my daughter to eat more raw food on a daily basis. We really notice our energy levels improving. The book outlines a detoxification semi-fast that we were able to do for two days. The book recommends a week.

Some of it is a little too difficult for those of us who have 9-5 jobs and families, but in general the suggestions are easy to follow and have really quick pay-offs: more energy, no circles under the eyes, no water retention, belly gets flatter quickly, and skin clears up! It’s no wonder that a lot of actresses go to the author’s spa regularly!

Another good thing about the book is that it gives smoothies and simple recipes that my 11 year old can easily make. It puts everything together into a plan that works and has lots of suggestions for how to modify the plan based on practicalities.

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Are you longing to change your life? To detoxify your body, to be renewed and replenished, but feel as if you don’t hvae the time or the money ?Now you don’t have to go to a posh spa to rejuvenate–you can restore yourself in your own home in just three days. The 3-Day Energy Fast makes available for the first time her legendary ultimate life detox program–an integrated body, mind, and spirit health plan that will help you get your juices flowing and feel physically renewed and spiritually replenished.

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This guide to detoxing reveals how to acquire the sustained, natural energy needed to get through the demands of work, sport or some weekend DIY wihout feeling exhausted on Monday morning. It takes the reader safely though 24-hour, 48-hour and 3-day detox programmes that are specially tailored to give you the energy boost you’re looking for and offers easy-to-prepare recipes that aim to have you brimming with energy. It details all the food,drink, natural food supplements and exercise you need at each stage and shows you how to plan your life to ensure you have the energy and how to keep your energy levels on an even keel. Niggling health problems, energy at an all-time low and radiance like a dying light bulb - these are the effects of 21st-century life that we all experience at some time. The “Super Detox” series from nutrition expert and health guru Michael Van Straten is a series of carefully thought out, step-by-step detox programmes to address these problems that combines the traditional attributes of fasting with proven benefits of herbal medicines and natural food supplements.

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Are you longing to change your life?To detoxify your body, to be renewed and replenished, but feel as if you don’t have the time or the money? Now you don’t have to go to a posh spa to rejuvenate — you can restore yourself in your own home in just three days.  Pamela Serure’s The 3-Day Energy Fast makes available for the first time her legendary ultimate life detox program — an integrated body, mind and spirit health plan that will help you get your juices flowing and feel physically renewed and spiritually replenished.

Every one of us needs cleansing because we live in a world that is becoming increasingly toxic — environmentally, chemically, physically, emotionally and spiritually. From the polluted air we breathe to the chemically laced food we eat, from the unfiltered water we drink to the negative relationships we tolerate, we are filled with toxins, but you can  change the quality of your health. You can detoxify your body, and you can start doing it today.

With The 3-Day Energy Fast you can clean yourself out, top to bottom — mind, body and spirit. Say good-bye to all the chemicals and toxins trapped in your body, the negative ideas that are lodged in your head and the destructive behavior patterns that are ingrained in your psyche. Serure’s program allows you to break with the past and create new beginnings.

She offers an easy-to-follow three-part approach: “The Fast” shows how to make simple combinations of fruit and vegetable juices, along with easy vegetable mineral broths for the evenings; “Meditating and Breathing” offers exercises specifically oriented to the process of cleaning out emotional, spiritual and physical toxins, finding quick energy, calming down, balancing the body and spirit and helping to support fasting and healing; and “Creating Ritual and Discipline in Your Life” teaches you how to set up your own “sacred space” to which you can surrender your fears and dreams, and to schedule daily meditation and journal writing.

By following this extraordinary plan, you will experience a new dimension of health, vitality, beauty and clarity, including a healthy body, clearer skin, brighter eyes, weight loss, enhanced energy, minimal anxiety and maximum creativity. The 3-Day Energy Fast  lights the path to an approach to food, wellness and spirituality that can last a lifetime.

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4 Stars worth the time to at least read chapter one
I’ve often been attracted to fasting over the years, partly because of being fat, but mostly as a spiritual discipline and practice.

However i have also been singularly unable to properly do it, never lasting more than 4 days. That won’t start me from continuing to try, only a warning that i can not practice what they are preaching.

So, in anticipation of trying again, more consistently, over a longer period of time (not fasting but attempting to make fasting part of my lifestyle)

i emptied the local public library’s shelves of books on fasting, juicing and the like.

I read the first, last and skim the rest of the book when they come in the front door, or make a good attempt to do so.

This book struck me then as being heads and shoulders above the rest, it is literally the only one of the pile i’d actually recommend reading.

First, she is just simply a passionate and interesting writer, in her case practicing what she preaches consistently over the years.

Second, she is aware of the spiritual dimension not just of herself and people but of the topic-fasting. None of the other books even gave it (spiritual dimension) a passing note, except in one case that referenced fasting as a buddhist spiritual pathway. It is a significant part of the book, of her practice and i think of the topic in general. Even in our materialistic age, fasting as a spiritual discipline, as a spiritual exercise is obvious enough to at least warrant attention.

The book is half way between a polemic and a how to do book. It’s first priority is to relax people and lead them into her particular 3 day fasting program. To take us by the hand, convince us that reading the book is just a first however good and necessary step, only that a first step, the second step is to commit to doing it. If the idea just stays in her book, without anyone practicing it, she will have counted the book a lose. The how to do section is mostly step by step, chapter by chapter introduction to the why and how of her fasting program, with attention paid to keeping a journal and asking yourself sets of related questions as you go along.

It is advice like keeping a journal (i think one of the most important things a person can do, to talk to themselves through time in a systematic way), doing particular kinds of juices during different parts of the day and of the fast, silence, bathing, exercise etc that are the reasons this book is superior to the average one i picked from the shelves. It’s specificity, its instructions borne of experience, the structure inherent in following her particular plan for a 3 day fast. These beat the rest of the genre hands down with their generalities and nonspecific friendly advice.

Its a breezy read, i practiced my speed reading techniques on it, if you are going to do her fast, you’ll need your own copy, the organization is by the day of the fast. The best part of the book is probably the 1st chapter “Take my life, please” which is her story and how she got to where she was when she wrote the book, so start reading there to see if you like the book. It could benefit with a little more medical advice or to science of what is going on inside during a fast. It could use some pointers to longer fasts and advice on where to go from here, just enough to tie this book into the literature and the field. Like i said above the spiritual dimension is obvious and part of her process, it would be nice to have tied it into particular religious traditions a little more, but that is difficult without driving other people away. And there is nothing in the book that attempts to do anything but attract and soothe people, trying to pull them into her fasting program.

so it achieves it’s goals, looks ok to try, is a competent and interesting book. if you’re interesting in the topic, at least read the first chapter.

4 Stars Just What I Needed!
I decided to do the 3-Day Energy Fast right after New Year’s. It was exactly what I needed after the holidays. During the three days, I felt great mentally and spiritually. Physically, I experienced some caffeine withdrawal (which is addressed in the book)that passed without too much discomfort. What I really liked about the book was the way that Serure not only provided me with recipes and menus for the three days of drinking juices and vegetable broth, she also included suggestions for meditations, walks and journalling. This was truly a mind-body-spirit experience! And, I was not hungry at all during the fast. My only criticism of the book is that it does not provide the reader with enough information about how to change eating habits after the fast is complete. While Serure does address what to eat immediately following the fast, I would have liked more information about how to change eating habits on an ongoing basis.

1 Stars dissapointed in the “new”(and unenlightened) age
If you are interested in learning about the healthy benefits and factual information on nutrional fasting and detoxification this is not the book for you. Serure’s ideas on the benefits of healthy nutrition and the need to reduce stress in one’s life as well as examine fundamental aspects that make us unhealthy are well meaning. But like so many alternative health guides today, its credibility comes into question with her descriptions of “psychic visions”, new age superstition,as well as descriptions of visits from dead friends from the nether world (Really, would you trust someone like this with your health?) Starting out on the right track to healing she asks the reader, as a part of her healing program, to take a step back into ignorance and delusion (and eventually unhealthy denial), by surrendering to a higher being. Is this what unhealthy people need–to bury themselves in more unrealistic dogma? Lets get real, boycott ignorance by not purchasing this book.

5 Stars Awesome cleansing program!
I’ve done this cleansing program for 3 years now and love it. It really works and the juice recipes are easy and taste good. I’ve recommended it to all of my friends when they are feeling run down and just need a few days to themselves to get rested and healthy again.

1 Stars Did SHE ever try it???
My reactions to this book, and to the fasting method it promotes, are mixed. I have strong suspiciouns that, like most self-help books, the need to pad a small amount of essential information has led her to add many things that don’t need to be there–the daily routine she prescribes is utterly unrealistic for a person eating three solid meals, let alone existing only on juice and broth. But my biggest complaint is with the juice recipes, which she clearly has never actually made. About the “morning drink” recipe, made in a blender, she says, “If there’s any left over, have that for an afternoon pick me up.” Lady, if you follow your recipe, it makes nearly a half gallon of the stuff. Sorry, but I’m getting a little cynical about the new age cash cow.

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This nine step programme aims to show the reader how to transform every aspect of themselves - body, mind and spirit. It offers advice on nutrition, skin care, total hydration, bodywork, balance and positive thinking.

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4 Stars The Get Your Act Together Guide
I bought this ages ago and then was disappointed because it didn’t really seem like a detox plan. I think of a detox as going for a period of time drinking tons of fruit juice or the like and at the end you’re supposedly glowing with good health and have lost 10 pound of “toxins” from your digestive tract.

This isn’t really that so I didn’t spend much time on this book.

Recently I looked at it again and realised it’s actually pretty good as a general guide to good health… and more. It’s kind of a guide to getting your act together. It’s very holistic -covering a broad range of topics. They not only tell simple ways to eat right but also list a lot of other things you should consider if you’re trying to improve your sense of well being - skin care, style, rest, habits that kill your energy… Actually I’ve been looking for something like this for a while and didn’t realise I had it all along.

Stay Young Detox is a misnomer. This is a practical guide for any age on how to create the basis for good health and positive self esteem.

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Contents: The Nature of Disease; The Physiology and Philosophy of Fasting; Vitality, Sleep, Death, Bodily Heat; Hygienic Auxiliaries Available During a Fast; Studies of Patients During their Fasts.

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4 Stars Great work.
I think the book is wonderful, it covers a looot of information on fasting, the theory of disease, food, and health. I think it is verbose. This is just a personal opinion, however, because I like to get the essence of things and teachings and run with it. I do not always like getting long, detailed, factual, repetitive information. BUT don’t get me wrong, the book is fantastic, for learning and for future reference.

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The modern world is a toxic place, and we’ve all become less healthy because of it, whether it is from the air that we breathe or the foods that we eat. Natasha Kyssa is a raw foods chef and lifestyle coach, and her company SimplyRaw helps people improve their health and well-being by integrating simple, natural-based guidelines into their current lifestyles. This informative and useful manual outlines Natasha’s twenty-eight-day detox program, which includes only raw and “living” foods (i.e., those that have been lightly steamed). It is a gentle, effective method to cleanse the body of toxins and to provide optimal nourishment for healing. The author believes that we can heal ourselves naturally to mend the damage done to our bodies due to unhealthy environments and improper food choices.

Raw diets have become all the rage lately, and Natasha believes that proper digestion, essential for one’s health and vitality, can be greatly improved by an all-raw diet. This manual, which includes 135 recipes as well as plenty of guidelines and background information, follows a proven approach to better health, natural weight loss, increased vitality, and healthy lifestyle changes.

Natasha Kyssa is a former international model who has been a raw and living foods vegan for almost twenty years. At the age of forty-seven, she leads an active lifestyle and trains daily, including rock climbing, long distance running, hiking, skiing, yoga, pilates, and cycling. She attributes her strength, well-being, and youthfulness to her raw and living foods diet.

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3 Stars Informative but overcomplicated
This book has some very good information, but it is delivered in an overcomplicated and rather intimidating way. If you have already experienced raw food eating you might learn something new, but novices should avoid this book and instead purchase ‘The Raw Revolution’ or ‘The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Eating Raw’.

5 Stars Time to Detox!
You know the feeling you get when you finally break down and clean out that “file drawer” in your desk that you have been avoiding? If you are like me, it’s a feeling of great satisfaction and accomplishment. I have been putting off doing a good “detox” program for myself for a while even though I wanted to and knew I should… after reading Natasha’s book and incorporating her suggestions I made a commitment and did it! And you know what? I have the same feeling of satisfaction and accomplishment as cleaning out the “file drawer” but better energy levels and less wear and tear on the paper shredder. Hey, I figure that if I’m going to be diligent about the oil changes on my car I should at least give my body the same courtesy.

5 Stars An Inspiring Approach to Raw
The SimplyRaw Living Food Detox Manual is a motivational read. Once I started, I couldn’t put it down. After raiding the natural foods store to purchase the materials, I immediately was drawn to the kitchen to start experimenting. As a vegan, I tried “Raw” diets in the past and found that they did not work. I’ve read several other books, which included recipes or suggestions that typically required too many nuts and heavy foods as prime calorie sources, however, these foods tended to inhibit proper digestion.

Natasha’s approach is fun (and delicious) and considers that an excess of oils/nuts can be an obstacle to feeling great. She has pages and pages of easy to make recipes. She also mentions alternatives for those with Candida (another ailment many of us grapple with).

Her writing is so supportive and encouraging. She stresses that this is a 28-day detox, not a “forever” program. However, I have found her approach to be one that I will continue even after the 28 days is complete. Granted, my diet was already 50% raw and full of sprouted foods prior to reading this book… so it wasn’t a huge transition. I can see that this would be a greater adventure for someone on a standard North American diet, as he or she would likely receive much more dramatic improvement in their health. If I already feel this great… I can only imagine how amazing someone who currently eats processed foods, meats, and refined sugars will feel after this detox! In addition to recipes, there are also household and lifestyle tips that can help remove the toxins from your external surroundings. The book is surely a springboard to wellness.

I encourage anyone who just wants to be bold, improve their health/energy, and go on a 28-day culinary exploration to please implement this program!

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By the co-author of the bestselling Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine

Does your body need a tune-up?

In this remarkable new approach to holistic medicine, Michael Murray, N.D., one of the nation’s leading naturopathic doctors, shows you how to use the latest information in natural medicine to customize a program that will have every system in your body running like new.

Take Dr. Murray’s self-tests to pinpoint your health priorities. Then go on this fascinating guided tour to better health.

Circulatory system: lower your blood pressure without pills • keep your cholesterol in check with a vitamin derivative • stop varicose veins with a treatment that’s better than surgery

Immune system: foods that bolster your defenses against cancer and other life-threatening illnesses • herbs to stop a cold … fast!

Digestive system: discover Germany’s number one natural remedy for digestive problems • what’s dangerous about antacids • how to stop heartburn with DGL

Brain and nervous system: natural remedies for memory loss and depression • brain-boosting vitamins and herbs

Detoxification system: cleanse your liver with an ancient herb • revitalize your system through safe fasting

Endocrine system: a no-cost way to burn fat • new ways to achieve crucial hormonal balance and reduce stress

Skeletal system: how to prevent — even reverse — osteoporosis with these simple natural supplements • new approaches to arthritis and chronic fatigue

Sexual system: how to bring more energy to your love life without dangerous drugs • ease menopausal hot flashes, and much more!

Here are the tools — and the knowledge — you need to put yourself in the best shape of your life.Michael Murray is on a mission. A prominent naturopath, professor, and coauthor of the hugely popular Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine, he’s been teaching people for over 20 years to “harness the power of nature and achieve the highest level of health possible.” In his Total Body Tune-Up, Murray outlines a plan to adjust the major organs of the body on a cellular level, using nutrition, vitamins, minerals, amino acids, herbs–and the body’s natural drive to heal itself. “Most cells in the body reproduce many times during your lifespan,” he writes. “By tuning up, you can make sure that each new generation of cells is as fit and robust as its ancestors.”

Murray opens each chapter with a symptom checklist, so readers can prioritize the needs of the various body systems–digestive, cardiovascular, reproductive, and so on–as high, medium, or low. He then explains how each system works when healthy, inspiring an odd affection for all the organs needing nutritional support, from the brain to the thymus. (”If the entire absorptive area of the small intestine were laid flat, it would be the size of a tennis court.”) Because naturopaths practice holistic medicine, he covers stress, humor, and optimism, and gives dosages and brand names for hundreds of supplement regimens. Murray’s book is so full of useful nutrition information, the occasional missing piece is forgivable. (Most Americans adults, he writes, eat 100 pounds of sugar and at least 40 pounds of “other sweeteners” a year–yet he fails to detail the health hazards of what’s inside those ubiquitous blue and pink packets.)

The book’s title notwithstanding–the body as car needing a tune-up is a bit rusty–Murray writes with a knack for metaphor. (Phase II detoxification in the liver is “like handcuffing the toxin so it can be escorted out of the body by the biological equivalent of security guards.”) Citations for the clinical research articles he pulls from would have been useful for readers seeking more information. Still, this is a must-have reference for anyone who wants to move toward the promise of well-being, whether readers have a medical condition or want to prevent health problems. –Rebecca Taylor

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5 Stars ISBN number
The ISBN differ for the hard back and the paperback, but it is the same book word for word per Bantam publishing house.

5 Stars Excellent Book
This is another excellent book by Dr. Murray. I highly recommend any of Dr. Michael Murray’s books–he is an acclaimed naturopath who provides excellent insight into the workings of the human body. This book itself is very straightforward, well organized and contains loads of information. Well done!

5 Stars One of the best I’ve ever read!
What can I say? Dr. Michael Murray is still one of the very best and most instructive of all Naturopaths I’ve ever seen live at health conventions. His books are pure gems of how to self-diagnose and heal yourself of all kinds of difficult health problems, including Phase I and Phase II detoxification problems in the liver…explained in great detail, actually. I loved Total Body Tune-Up because I already do a bit of health counseling and a LOT of study of natural health and healing. Dr. Murray filled in some blanks for me regarding some of the mystery health problems.

I am still working on healing the last 15-20% of a damaged immune system/environmental illness….so anything that can knock off the last few stubborn problems is WONDERFUL news to me. There are only two things I do not intend to be without from now on: my beloved (organic, therapeutic) Young Living Essential Oils and natural healing advice from Dr. Michael Murray!

Since first reading this book about 7 weeks ago, I have purchased another 3 copies and given them as gifts. “Total Body Tune-Up” THAT significant of a book.:-)

Dr. Murray, please come back to the Syracuse area.. We want to hear you speak AGAIN!

Joyce E. Stotts

Newark, NY

5 Stars great anecdotes, author believes in what he’s recommending
This is a manageable, user-friendly approach to lifestyle changes that can have lasting effects on health, well-being and physical appearance.

I appreciate that the author combines the best of his findings from naturopathy as well as western medicine. His writing voice is friendly and nonjudgmental. He provides true stories of how his often simple natural dietary/lifestyle prescriptions remedied patients’ health issues. This book had some hard truths about my favorite vices, but these are why I wanted to read it.

5 Stars Fantastic book
This is my favorite book on health, and I strongly recommend it to anyone wishing to improve their health in a effective and natural way. Its superbly written, and you have a hard time putting it down. Its a easy read and you will feel like implementing it right away. And it works!!! I have used it for everything from curing colds fast to loosing weight. My parents have received a copy for lowering cholesterol and blood presure …in the natural way!

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