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| The pH Miracle: Balance Your Diet, Reclaim Your Health | 
 enlarge | Authors: Robert O. Young, Shelley Redford Young
Publisher: Wellness Central
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Pages: 480
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Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 0446536199
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.2
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Publication Date: June 1, 2008
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 Good intentions, not for everyone April 24, 2002
58 out of 63 found this review helpful
My wife bought this book and likes it. We bought an earlier Dr. Young book and really tried to live his extreme vegetarian program for six months. I just got sicker and weaker, bloated and always tired. My wife did really well. What was the difference?
Then we discovered Dr. D'Adamo's book "Eat Right 4 Your Type." I discovered I was a type O, and vegetarian diets weren't right for me, my wife, a type A, could do well on a diet like Dr. Young's. She still follows Dr. Young's diet, modified by Dr. D'Adamo's recommendations, and she's thriving. I'm now lean and energetic--with Dr. D'Adamo. If you're a blood type O, watch out--Dr. Young's diet didn't work for me!
 hmmm ... May 14, 2005
57 out of 70 found this review helpful
I only want to make a few remarks about this book, to inform those people who are like me, searching for dietary cures to their chronic ailments, that, quite frankly, never seem to go away. This is a vegan diet if there ever was one. Last year I was stuck between this diet, and convinced that I responded so well to my 7 day fast because I changed the acidity of my body, and another diet that had plenty-o-animal protein. I'm still mystified by the whole 'acidity' thing. I'm sure there is something to it, don't get me wrong, but not like this so-called scientist is saying (so called because this 'world renowned researcher' has not published a single article in any health/medical journal on this planet ... ever. Prosecution rests.) But, listen to this one thing, dude: the author claims that ACIDITY is the breeding ground for all types of pathogenic bacteria ... 'bacteria thrive in, you guessed it, acidity ... they love to swim in their own waste ...' OK so, I bought that, but then why does the stomach -- the ULTIMATE barrier against pathogenic bacteria, secrete hydrochloric ACID to destroy same pathogenic bacteria. Another book, called alkalize or die by baroody, heavily lauds the benefits of HCL and claims that it is paradoxically the great alkalizer in the body because it stimulates alkaline secretions from the pancreas and liver. ph miracle author also claims that algae such as chlorella, so popular as a supplement, are not recommended because they thrive in acid conditions. This is categorically untrue. Chlorella and other blue-green algae thrive in highly alkaline conditions! OK, lastly, the author claims that even though acidity is the root of ALL illness, 'a mildly acidic environment is what your looking for in the gut' Say what? How do you reconcile these two assertions?
Probiotic bacteria THRIVE in acid conditions. These are the life-saving, life-giving bacteria so essential to digestive and overall health. It's this ACID condition that destroys yeast in the gut, especially the colon. I believe that an acid colon is key to health and longevity, and this is achieved by fostering the development of lactic acid probiotic bacteria in the colon, which create the acidic environment that precludes the development of pathogenic bacteria such as yeast. So, I guess it's: if you want to alkalize the body, acidify the colon!! And make sure your secreting enough HCL in the stomach!
 This book can change your life April 5, 2005
55 out of 55 found this review helpful
One of the reviewers here questioned the "junk" science invoked in the book, and questioned the motives of the authors since they market products based on the recommendations in the book.
Baloney. This is anything but a "magic pill", as the reviewer suggests. It is a change in your life, and for the better. It's not easy, especially if you love food like I do, and who doesn't love food?
But we've been sold down the river, as a nation and a people, by the greed of food conglomerates who saturate our foods with garbage: sugar, additives, fillers, clogging and poisoning foods. All so they can increase their profits.
There's a better way: a way to improve your zest for life, live longer, cure yourselves of maladies, and all you have to do is throw away all the damn drugs and pills and other, true "pseudo-science" stuff being hawked every day in magazines and on tv and in newspapers and on the radio and just READ ONE BOOK: this one!
It will change your life as it's changing mine.
In the face of skeptics and cynics, I can only say my wife and children and I began this program after stumbling on the book in a book store, and I have had incredible results. The kids (two teenagers!) have jumped into this discipline (with the family pulling together it's fun and easy to do)and now take fresh green salads and quinoa and soaked almonds and such, based on Dr. Young's book, to school. They help us make dinner each night. We have terrific family meals together. And we all feel great.
I've been plagued with sugar cravings, candidiasis, constipation, mood swings, depression and other systemic maladies for decades. When I embraced the suggestions in this book, I had the following short term results (this review is written about 6 weeks after I did a colon cleanse with my wife, then, after finding the book two days later in the bookstore, we started to change our diet to conform to the guidelines in Ph Miracle).
* I lost 15 pounds without any exercise at all. (I was about 25 lbs. overweight: not fat, but just soft and getting paunchy; tired looking all the time; low energy too much of the time. I lead an active life as a photographer but was finding it more and more difficult to get going. I also spend a lot of time on computer with digital images and as an author, so it's harder to make myself exercise)
* My bowels have been consistently regular...until I "slip" and have some sweets or eat something that is acidifying instead of alkalizing. Then I bind up again almost immediately.
* My skin rashes on my arms and back are clearing up
* I truly love and relish the food we eat, thanks to the detailed suggestions and terrific recipes in the book. Instead of cereal, eggs and bacon, toast and jam, and orange juice that I used to consider indispensable to a "healthy" breakfast, I'm now eating things like cooked buckwheat groats with fresh avocado, tomato, soaked and chopped almonds, and one of the sesame oil/lemon juice/tahini dressings mentioned in the book, and this meal sustains me well into mid afternoon, with no post-sugar or post-caffeine crash, because I don't take in those physiological pollutants any longer.
I expect to feel a whole lot better in 6 months, but meanwhile, I felt, as I prepare to turn 60 next week, that I was starting the long slide toward incapacity, declining physical health, and death. Now, 6 weeks later, I am feeling like my old, youthful, energetic self again.
You are what you eat. There are so many delicious foods in here that it will amaze you. Plus when you get off the sugar/meat/acid foods, everything, I mean everything, tastes better.
I used to hate cucumbers. Now I eat them like I used to eat apples or oranges. And I don't get a manic rush afterwards.
This is a great book and once you read the author's theses, based on 20 years of research (he's a microbiologist), you'll ask yourself whether it's worth remaining a creature of habit...and watching your health go slowly down the toilet, the way I was watching mine.
Good health!
Buy the book but not the products December 8, 2005
55 out of 56 found this review helpful
Dr. Young maintains that there is only one disease and only one cure. The desease: too much acidity in the blood; the cure: alkalize. I have read all his books and have followed his advice for more than a year, and its transformed my life in many ways. I had some serious health challenges and spent years researching and consulting and have found nothing more powerful. I certainly recommend his books...BUT I do not recommend buying his products. Although his products are first class, Dr. Young insists on selling them in the most nauseating way possible...through Multi-Level Marketing. Shop around...there are equally good products on the market that are at least half the price and much easier to buy. 5 Stars for the books; 0 Stars for Dr. Young's sales practice (hence the 4 Stars).
 Acid Waste December 24, 2004
52 out of 66 found this review helpful
I really don't like writing negative reviews, but this book is just crying out for one! I'm a nutritionist, and have seen a lot of fad diets and health claims come and go. I believe that the principle of acid-alkaline balance through diet is vitally important. However, this book does it a disservice.
First, the author strongly denounces the humble potato, which is probably the cheapest, most easily obtainable alkalizing food in the world (and is highly recommended by other authors on the subject).
Next, Mr. Young advises, as one of his primary recommendations, that we add hydrogen peroxide drops to our drinking water, in order to alkalize it. Well, I tested my H2O2 with ph test strips, and it is extremely acid (5.0 on the ph scale). Am I missing something??
The problem with so many of these health and self-help books is that the authors happen upon some program or system that works for them, and then they promote it to the world as a cure-all. Unfortunately, what works for them doesn't always work for the rest of us.
Following this book's recommendations, and buying the author's products, may help some people, but I believe they will be in the minority. If you are interested in this subject, I recommend The Acid-Alkaline Diet by Christopher Vasey, which is much more scientifically sound (and he doesn't try to sell you anything, either).
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