The 20-Day Rejuvenation Diet Program

Ivan Illich, Austrian-born U.S. sociologist wrote: "Effective health care depends on self-care..." The book "The 20-Day Rejuvenation Diet Program" by Jeffrey S. Bland educates you to take self-care in you eating. We consist of what we eat after all, right? The major ideas on which this book is built are: plant foods and their constituents (phytonutrients) have helth-giving properties, diet and lifestyle can help reverse the aging process, and help overcome the effects of living in a toxic world. This book is about consuming raw legumes, vegetables and fruits, but it's not vegetarian - it contains lot of delicious recipes of meat, fish and so on. The book just explains how to balance the food to get enough phytonutrients and. The major component of the Rejuvenation Program presented in this book is the 30-day Phytonutrient Diet with daily recipes and menu specifics. if you try to follow this diet specifically as it is written, without modification, you may find it too difficult, the recipes too time-consuming, and some ingredients hard to find in your area. Just feel free to modify this diet and make sure you do not go hungry. The book contains fairy well explanation of the human body, the digestion process and the detoxifying properties of the liver, and how to help the liver and your entire organism to be healthier. Remember that the absence of disease does not guarantee the presence of health. It analyzes which food is good and which is bad for the body. However, you should devise your own eating style, because each person is biochemically unique and this book acknowledge this. Personally me find the recipes of this book extraordinarily delicious. I follow the recipes regularly. I also recommend The Liver Cleansing Diet by Sandra Cabot in addition to this book.

The diet is complex, both in planning, bying ingredients, and cooking. It is a part-time job you commit to for three weeks. However, if you suffer from long-term bad health and fatigue and have been shoved throughout the system and back again, it is well worth trying out the diet and the recommended antioxidant supplements. It certainly helped me. The diet is only half the book, and I strongly recommend the research part to any health practitioner or therapist. It will bring convincing enlightment, without preaching any new age stuff, and give you a new view on what health is. The psychological aspect has made its way to the institutions in psychosomatic disorders, but detoxification remains and is as important to stressed out persons. How I wish I met a physicians who had applied to these findings when I was burned out, and gotten me off pain killers and towards recovery years ago...

Finally a nutrition and health book that didn't seem to have an axe to grind. Rather I found Dr. Bland's book to have sensible, well balanced and science-based information that I can use to improve my health. I really liked the questionnaires in the book that helped me to personalize my own program from the information provided.

There are many books on nutrition, but I have found those of Dr.Bland to be some of the best researched and documented. I have followed his advice for the past fifteen years and have never felt better. I think that the 20 Day Rejunvenation Diet Program is a very helpful "how to" in assisting the reader in understanding how to improve their health using the latest in nutritional science.

I really liked this book. I read a lot of health books and this was one of the best in giving me thing to do to improve my health that really worked.