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| The Great American Detox Diet: 8 Weeks to Weight Loss and Well-Being | 
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Category: Book
Author: Alex Jamieson
Publisher: Rodale Books
Studio: Rodale Books
Manufacturer: Rodale Books
Label: Rodale Books
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.1
ISBN: 1594862311
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.25
EAN: 9781594862311
ASIN: 1594862311
Publication Date: June 15, 2005
Release Date: May 26, 2005
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Here, in response to all the requests, is the detox program that undid the damage Morgan Spurlock-director and star of Super Size Me-did to his body in a month of gorging on nothing but McDonald's What would happen if you ate nothing but fast food for an entire month? That's what filmmaker Morgan Spurlock attempted to find out by making his scathing tongue-in-cheek documentary Super Size Me. A 33-year-old New Yorker in excellent health, he would eat nothing but McDonald's for 30 days, to gauge the effects on his body. The results were shocking: He gained almost 30 pounds, saw his cholesterol skyrocket, and developed chest pains and dangerously high blood pressure.
Amazon.com Review
When Morgan Spurlock, the star of Super-Size Me, gained nearly 30 pounds after a month of eating at McDonald?s for every meal, nobody was more horrified than his fiancee Alex Jamieson, a vegan chef and holistic health counselor. When his liver showed signs of damage just 20 days into his fast-food diet experiment, she knew he'd need serious help to recover at the end of his "gastrointestinal form of hari-kari."[p.viii] The Great American Detox Diet is her prescription for helping him shed the chub as well as rid his body of the chemical additives (such as propylene glycol alginate?yuck) so prevalent in fast food. She notes that since a British medical journal recently reported that eating fast food just twice a week increases one's risk of developing insulin resistance, a pre-diabetic condition, you don't need to have gorged yourself on McDonald?s to benefit from her quick-results plan. Jamieson does a noble job of spelling out the detrimental effects on the body of sugar, caffeine, and an overload of fat, carbs, and protein, all of which are present in your typical fast-food meal, let alone a "super-sized" one. (Spurlock's diet included a repulsive 30 pounds of added sugar and added sweeteners over the course of the month.)[p22] Those horrified by Fast-Food Nation will find familiar territory here, but will also receive constructive advice on how to alter one's diet for the better. Jamieson also spurns wheat, corn, and dairy products, citing them as potential allergens (interestingly, she points out they're all heavily subsidized by the government), and she recommends viable sugar and caffeine substitutes. Nearly 90 recipes round out her treatise on healthy eating, and although some are not unusual (revamped versions of Guacamole, for example, and Oatmeal Raisin Cookies), a few others like Miso Tofu Cheese Spread will be a bit of an acquired taste for those so accustomed to burgers and fries. --Erica Jorgensen
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 feeling better already! July 12, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have been following the basic guidelines of Alex's detox plan for about 2 weeks now and I am feeling really good. Taking some time to completely eliminate toxins from my body has helped to reduce (end?) cravings for processed, chemical-filled foods. Part of the reason it has been so easy is that the recipes she provides are fantastic! When people hear what foods I have cut out of my diet, they always ask "what do you eat?" Answer: yummy, fresh satisfying meals. Particular favorites of mine are Orange Date Scones, Avocado Sesame Pasta and Chickpea Lemon Spinach Salad.
This is a great jump start to get on track to healthier eating.
 Pretty good, but not great July 3, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is ok-- if you know anything about healthy eating, vegetarian or vegan diets, or the mistreatment of animals slaughtered for food, then you probably will not find this book very useful. However, if you don't know anything about these things and consume a high-fat diet full of animal foods, bad carbs, and rely on convenience foods full of sodium and chemicals, then this book would be a good resource to help you change to a more healthy lifestyle. But, it is not really a diet, it's more like a guidebook to what is wrong with the way you currently eat and foods to add and eliminate to help you eat and feel better.
Best Diet Book I Ever Read July 9, 2007
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Non-preachy. Personal. Great recipes. This is the book that finally got me to change the way I eat. It's not a diet book really -- it's a lifestyle change primer. I lost 25 lbs. in 6 months. No crazy dieting.
 Utterly Disappointing May 6, 2007
14 out of 46 found this review helpful
This book is written by the fiance of the guy who made "Supersize Me." She made all his meals following that movie and had him down to minimal levels of cholesterol, fat, blood pressure, and all those other health risks extremely quickly after the movie was made. Something like six weeks' time. She did something brilliant and incredible there. I thought that this book would be about how you can do it too.
It's not. It's a bunch of time-wasting platitudes about saving the planet that will convince nobody who wasn't already convinced and bore anybody who **was** already convinced. There's chapter after chapter about **WHY** doing what she did is a good idea, and maybe three to five pages about **HOW** you can actually do it. Honestly, this is the most self-indulgent, pathetic excuse for a book I have ever made the mistake of buying in my life. My father had a heart attack; his brother my uncle had a heart attack; their father, my grandfather, died of a heart attack. This woman has the ability to **SAVE MY LIFE** and she instead takes my money and gives me a bunch of pathetic, meaningless platitudes and chapter after chapter of reasons to change my diet, and no information at all about how to do it. She should be in jail for THEFT.
I do not need persusasion. I need a method that works. She has a method that works. She tells you she's gonna tell you what it is. And then there's just a ton of unnecessary blah blah blah and no useful practical information AT ALL. Except that eggplant is good for you. Like I couldn't have figured that part out myself.
BIGGEST. RIPOFF. EVER.
An Eye Opening Read April 19, 2007
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
I must say that I gained a lot of good information from this book. It really makes you think about what is put in the food we eat. Before reading the book I didn't give much thought to what I eat. I didn't think about the chemicals sprayed on foods, or the chemicals in milk, or all the hormones in the beef I eat. An eye opener that really makes you want to change what you eat.
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