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Summary: A True Gift of Health
Review: This book is a gift from the Paul Chek. His first introduction into the mainstream should be applauded. It is beautifully illustrated, making exercise easy to follow. The information on nutrition, stress, and sleep is easy to understand and makes so much sense. It makes health a not so distant concept. Thank you!
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Summary: A True Gift of Health
Review: This book is an absolute must to have for everyone serious about making a complete lifestyle change towards better health. The information and references provided about nutrition, metabolic typing diets, circadian rhythms and hormonal responses, parasitic stress on digestion, and parasympathetic-sympathetic balancing of the autonoimic nervous system is outstanding. The only thing that held me back from giving this book five stars is the exercise selection. I understand for the beginner less is better, but I feel advanced level people will not use the recommended performance training routines exclusively due to the over emphasis of light resistance, single leg support based movements, and minimal exercise variety.
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Summary: The truth will set you free
Review: This book is an absolute must to have for everyone serious about making a complete lifestyle change towards better health. The information and references provided about nutrition, metabolic typing diets, circadian rhythms and hormonal responses, parasitic stress on digestion, and parasympathetic-sympathetic balancing of the autonoimic nervous system is outstanding. The only thing that held me back from giving this book five stars is the exercise selection. I understand for the beginner less is better, but I feel advanced level people will not use the recommended performance training routines exclusively due to the over emphasis of light resistance, single leg support based movements, and minimal exercise variety.
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Summary: Great all around fitness, nutrition and life style book
Review: This is a great book about diet, exercise and general health. If you want to make changes to your life but aren't sure where to start out, this is definitely the book for you. If you want a solid explanation why you should change, followed up with research, this book is for you. Mr. Chek has taken information about diet, exercise, and mental and physical health from many different sources, including his own personal experiences, and compiled it into this book. The book is easy to read and is also an excellent starting point for anyone interested in improving his or her quality of life.
The book covers such a wide variety of topics and everyone will be able to learn something from this book. But in covering so many topics, there is a lack of depth in some areas. Fortunately Mr. Chek sites many references throughout the book, allowing you to dig deeper if they choose.
Paul is a big advocate of getting back to the basics. He uses examples of primal man and activities primal man engaged in through out his book. If primal man survived moving and eating a certain way, we should adopt those patterns to our own life. I personally agree with this way of thinking, I'm sure some others will not.
The sections on training programs are excellent; my only gripe is the advanced program. Mr. Chek definitely practices what he preaches, but I doubt he got to where he is doing the advanced program presented in this book. I remember seeing pictures of Paul doing a one-arm push up on a Bosu and another of him doing a sit up on a Swiss ball with a 100+ pound dumbbell across his chest. Those sorts of very high level exercises are absent.
I'm nit picking with this, so Ill digress.
I personally enjoyed the book and have recommended it to many of my friends. This book as something for everyone, especially the person looking for a starting point. If you are serious about making life style changes and want a solid explanation as to why you should or shouldn't change something in your life; get this book. The book is easy to read but application of the topics will take time. Don't expect a magic band-aid. After all, this book it about life style changes and that takes time.
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Summary: A good addition to your fitness library
Review: This is a very imformative book that has some interesting conecpts regarding diet and exercise. It is full of new information and concepts that other fitness gurus have never talked about. I would recommend it.
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Summary: How to Eat, Move and Be Healthy by Paul Chek
Review: This is the best book on all subjects listed that I have ever found. Not only does it address what is going on in our food chain that needs to be looked at, but it also addresses how to eat in a way that totally works. I lost 55 pounds that were a real problem for me by finding out my metabolic type. Not only did the weight come off but health problems are now non-existant.The exercise programs and stretches in the book are easy to follow and as a massage therapist a great book for clients and chiropractors, in fact any one interested in helping themselves or their health conscious clients. Congradulations Paul for the excellent book. All the best to you.
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Summary: A fantastic guide to health the holistic way
Review: Using this fabulous book you'll be able to identify and address your unique roadblocks to health. More importantly, the holistic, cutting-edge information will help you simply identify the grass roots steps needed to rebuild the health of your cells so that you glow with vitality. As a nutrition and lifestyle coach and holistic exercise trainer I have used Paul Chek's methods with clients since 2002 and they really do produce excellent results. Don't delay, do buy How To Eat, Move and Be Healthy today and prepare to be amazed and see for yourself how simple the road to recovery is.
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Summary: A good Swiss-army-knife book for health.
Review: Well illustrated, detailed without being overly technical. Explanations are generally nice & clear. Goes into lots of detail on the basics of eating, digestion, and exercise. Contains little tests to check out various elements of your state of being such as metabolic type, flexibility, conditioning level, etcetera, then prescribes various program elements to fit your needs. Large colorful layout makes it seem less intimidating, less textbook-like.
I'm sure some will dislike it because it doesn't dig deeply enough into some topics. I like that he doesn't use ten pages to hammer a point when one will do. The result is that the text moves along, and you'll spend your time learning useful principles. Though it does have the most detailed and interesting chapter on, well, pooping (his word!), that I've ever seen. If you are squeamish about this subject, you won't be after you finish the chapter, complete with illustrative poop cartoons.
Chek is seen shirtless, looking quite buff in a number of photos. There are two issues I have with this: One is that, as other reviewers have noted, he did not get to looking like that via just the exercises in this book, putting in a couple of hours a week at the gym. The other is that he is at 8% body fat in the pics, and I seriously question the wisdom of advocating that as a healthy goal. 8% looks really cool, but some people feel that actually ends up being hard on the body (and the brain inside). I'd like to hear him speak to this.
The other very minor thing I dislike about it is the conspicuous presence of the CHEK Institute throughout the book. The testimonials scattered throughout are interesting, but they are either by professional pretty people like actors, or CHEK practitioners, people who have certification on the Paul Chek philosophy. I guess that is testimony itself, that these people apparently thought so highly of Chek's work that they decided to become certified themselves, but it does give a sort of promotional, cultish ambiance to the book. I'm not saying the testimonials aren't real examples of what can be accomplished; it just would have been nice to see more average Joe testimonials.
If some skeptical short-attention-spanned friend invites me to give them ONE book to introduce them to the possibility of improving their health, this would probably be the book.
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Summary: Finally It's here!!
Review: With this work, Paul Chek has written one of, if not the greatest book on health and wellness the world has ever seen. All of those who read and apply what Paul teaches in this book are sure to experience improvements in health and vitality levels never before seen. This is the only book in the world that completely customizes an individual's nutrition, lifestyle, and exercise program in order to improve one's health. This book is an absolute must read for anyone interested in improving his/her health as well as a necessary component of any health care/exercise professional's library. Unfortunately, words do not truly do this book justice. Paul's lifetime of work will take those in the health care and exercise industries, as well as all readers, to a higher level of consciousness and I'm sure his methods will be utilized and pondered over for many, many years. Thank you Paul for one of the greatest books I have ever read!! Brandon Alleman, B.Sc., C.H.E.K I, MES, MTILA
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Summary: A Truly Revolutionary Book
Review: With this work, Paul Chek has written one of, if not the greatest book on health and wellness the world has ever seen. All of those who read and apply what Paul teaches in this book are sure to experience improvements in health and vitality levels never before seen. This is the only book in the world that completely customizes an individual's nutrition, lifestyle, and exercise program in order to improve one's health. This book is an absolute must read for anyone interested in improving his/her health as well as a necessary component of any health care/exercise professional's library. Unfortunately, words do not truly do this book justice. Paul's lifetime of work will take those in the health care and exercise industries, as well as all readers, to a higher level of consciousness and I'm sure his methods will be utilized and pondered over for many, many years. Thank you Paul for one of the greatest books I have ever read!! Brandon Alleman, B.Sc., C.H.E.K I, MES, MTILA
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