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Integrative Nutrition: Feed Your Hunger for Health and Happiness
Every year, healthcare costs increase while overall health decreases. People continue to eat poorly, to gain weight, and to depend on medications and operations to maintain their health--all while attempting the latest fad diets promising miraculous results for their outward appearance. It's time for a reality check: there is no one-size-fits-all diet. Stop judging your ow...more
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by Integrative Nutrition Publishing
(first published 2005)
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A noble effort, but in many ways just a "bound" version of an advertisement for the author's Integrative Nutrition institute in New York. I appreciate good advice in a book--that's why I buy the book; I don't appreciate the blatant attempt to sell yet another product besides the book. That's what newspapers & billboards are for. That said, three stars for the helpful advice to pay attention to one's cravings to observe from where in your body they actually stem; and another handful of ...more
I am on a recent health kick and, though I bought this book over the summer, finally decided to read it this Fall. It was a really good intro to healthy eating and even though it is full of common sense habits we should all have, the book somehow puts it all into perspective. My husband is reading it now, and I am waiting for him to finish it so I can read it again more carefully. Also has a few healthy recipes in the back.
I can only give this four stars, because it is, after all, a diet book. I think Mr. Rosenthal would take exception to that, but that's what it is. Okay, maybe it's a "Lifestyle" book, but still.
His discussion of "primary food" (how our relationships, career, spirituality feed us) v. "secondary food" (the stuff you actually put in your mouth) is pretty interesting. However, much of the book reads like a big commercial for his elitist New Yorkese instit...more
His discussion of "primary food" (how our relationships, career, spirituality feed us) v. "secondary food" (the stuff you actually put in your mouth) is pretty interesting. However, much of the book reads like a big commercial for his elitist New Yorkese instit...more
Wonderful overview of nutrition and what it really means when it comes too our food and bodies - and mind. Also provides outlines of various diets - key theme is that not one diet works for everyone. Find what works for you as an individual.
Integrative Nutrition by Joshua Rosenthal
This book is a wonderful read for anyone who is interested in improving how they treat their body. It breaks down the basic 'diets' out there and how each can be effective and/or damaging. But, it does not advocate any of them, nor deny any of their viability completely. The book is designed to help people begin to understand and listen to the messages their own body is telling them. While the author takes extraordinary leaps at times, wit...more
This book is a wonderful read for anyone who is interested in improving how they treat their body. It breaks down the basic 'diets' out there and how each can be effective and/or damaging. But, it does not advocate any of them, nor deny any of their viability completely. The book is designed to help people begin to understand and listen to the messages their own body is telling them. While the author takes extraordinary leaps at times, wit...more
He lost me when trying to explain that you receive spiritual energy from food. And of course, organic foods have much more energy than non-organic. I think there are more convincing arguments in support of organic foods.
This book provides a pretty basic overview of holistic health and nutrition concepts. For someone who is already even somewhat familiar with these ideas, the majority of the book will seem repetitive. The writing quality is slightly subpar - some simple sentence structure errors and such - that I find quite distracting and frustrating when reading a published book of any kind. I gave it three stars because the ideas inspiring the book are good ones (there is no one diet that is right for ever...more
I enjoyed Rosenthal's more holistic take on nutrition. The author's descriptions of primary foods (relationships, career, etc) vs secondary foods (what we actually eat) rang true and his acceptance of the positive aspects of many different nutritional theories was refreshing. This is a no guilt approach to nutrition with emphasis on listening to your body and being willing to experiment for yourself. The recipes weren't particularly useful, and I wasn't into the "case studies" (felt...more
Reading this book helped me help myself overcome addiction to prescribed medication, OCD, depression, anxiety and anorexia.
Fundamental to optimal health and well being
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going to the school!!!
This book came to me during one of my final papers I was writing for my bachelor's degree. I was writing about the path to healing and how to shift the mindset to adding good things in and letting them crowd out the unneeded junk without even trying. This book expertly articulated everything I had been trying to say for months. Less than a year later, I was at this man's school in NYC acquiring my certification in Holistic Health Counseling. I recommend this book to everyone. It changed my life.
If you want to improve your eating habits, this is the book for you. He nicely goes over each fad diet that America loves and states his problem with each one. All the while he offers suggestions on how to eat healthy foods and suggests that not any one way of eating is right for everyone. The main point of Integrative Nutrition is that food is only part of your nutrition, the rest is your surroundings and life. That seems obvious, but somehow many of us forget about it.
I picked up this book last spring to critique IIN and see if it was a school I could get on board with - I wasn't expecting to be blown away by the theories and ideas in this book. The thing is, nothing is mind-blowing about the theories, and some are just, plain common sense. But it takes a bit of a paradigm shift to see health as a holistic issue. Joshua does a good job breaking it down and ushering the reader into this new way of thinking.
Very informative especially if you're studying nutrition/alternative medicine.
No, we definitely do not live by bread alone - some of us might do well letting the basket pass us by entirely. Nourish your entire being with so much more than just the meals you enjoy, and take smart decisions based on your own bio-individuality. Thank you so much Joshua!
I love Joshua's wisdom about food. I graduated from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and a lot of what I learned was based on information from this book. It's a wonderful resource for me as I teach and make others aware of nutrition as a foundation of life :)
Not to sound overly dramatic, but for me this is a life-altering book. It discusses ways to approach both secondary nourishment (food) and primary nourishment (relationships, career, spirituality, etc.). It's been a wonderful tool for me.
The founder of my school and his approach to health through nutrition as well as fitness, relationships, career, balance and spirituality. Integrative ;-) and interesting--written in an empowering, easy to understand way.
Kelly
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The lovely Sarah Starpoli, who is my friend, integrative nutrition counselor, and fellow Main Squeeze Orchestra member, gave me this as a present. It is a good present.
One of my favorite books on health in a holistic sense. Provides easy suggestions for improvement and gives a point of view that just makes sense. Highly recommend.
This is where my paradigm shift around food began... and the book that sold me on enrolling at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition.
My all time favorite on holistic nutrition!!! By my favorite teacher, too!!
Very interesting approach to healthy eating. Holistic & individualized.
Very informative so far...
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“We can, and must, develop dialogue and relatedness with our body because it’s talking to us all the time. And please remember, your body loves you. It does everything it can to keep you alive and functioning. You can feed it garbage, and it will take it and digest it for you. You can deprive it of sleep, but still it gets you up and running next morning. You can drink too much alcohol, and it will eliminate it from your system. It loves you unconditionally and does its best to allow you to live the life you came here for. The real issue in this relationship is not whether your body loves you, but whether you love your body. In any relationship, if one partner is loving, faithful and supportive, it’s easy for the other to take that person for granted. That’s what most of us do with our bodies. It is time for you to shift this, and working to understand your cravings is one of the best places to begin. Then you can build a mutually loving relationship with your own body.”
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