The Great American Detox Diet Feel Better Look Better and Lose Weight by Cleaning Up Your Diet

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The Great American Detox Diet Feel Better Look Better and Lose Weight by Cleaning Up Your Diet

Here, for all those eagerly awaiting the paperback edition, is the detox plan featured in the hit movie Super Size Me—the program that reversed the damage filmmaker Morgan Spurlock did to his body in a month of gorging on nothing but fast food

Alex Jamieson, a certified holistic health counselor and vegan chef—presents the everyman’s version of the detox plan that helped Spurlock lose 14 pounds in 8 weeks. Flexible and easy to follow, this 8-week strategy lays out a step-by-step plan for not only ridding the body of harmful toxins but also ending addictions to sugar, fats, and carbohydrates that damage both mental and physical well-being. Filled with 100 unique, delicious, and healthy recipes, The Great American Detox Diet can help anyone begin a lifetime of wellness and good health – and regain control of their body and lose weight.

User Ratings and Reviews

1 Star Utterly Disappointing
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.

3 Stars Pretty good, but not great
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.

5 Stars feeling better already!
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.

5 Stars Worth Every Penny
This book is a life saver! Before buying this book I had been showing symptoms of acquired food allergies and/or celiac disease. I tried a bunch of other eating plans/diets and nothing seemed to be doing the trick for me and my health. I had just about succumbed to my non-success when I was told about this book. I read it cover to cover and began “detoxing” right away. I haven’t felt this good in years!! I have been following Alex’s eating plan for almost 2 months now and my health has GREATLY improved, my skin is soft and glowing, I have way more energy than I can remember having in years, I’ve lost weight, and I just feel happy and healthy.

Like other reviewers have mentioned, I do not consider myself a vegan. However, since reading this book, I have stuck to a predominately vegan/vegetarian eating plan. The transition was really never that difficult. I have incorporated many of the included recipes in this book into my weekly menu’s and, because Alex included such a tasty (simple to make) variety, I don’t feel as if I’ve missed out on a thing (as in meats or animal products)!

I would highly recommend this book to anyone. It would be impossible to read this and NOT learn at least 1 valuable thing about what you are currently putting into your body.

5 Stars Best Diet Book I Ever Read
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.

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