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Comment on Disease-Proof Your Child: Feeding Kids Right by Ateebee

Ateebee — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:15:31 +0000

42 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

Finally!!, August 1, 2005

This review is from: Disease-Proof Your Child: Feeding Kids Right (Hardcover)

..That is all I can say.. I was so excited to receive your book today! You are an amazing man and I thank you so much for somehow finding the time to write this!
"Disease-Proof Your Child" shares with us the wisdom and knowledge we need to make the right decisions in our children's lives and future health. I LOVE IT! There is SO much fascinating information in this book. The RIGHT information finally! From vitamins... to supplements... to foods... to understanding causes of illness and disease.... I couldn't stop reading and learning.. It is all written in your easy to read and understand manner. You truly want to give us the tools and knowledge we need to make informed decisions about our own as well as our families health. I only wish this book were available years ago!! We really are what we eat and unfortunately lots of us are paying the price for what we ate when we were young. We (and our parents) did not have the right information. Now, thanks to Dr. Fuhrman, we do and children who are lucky enough to have a parent who learns this way of eating and living will not have to suffer from many of the health issues so many of us are trying to undo!
If you are pregnant or planning to be or are a parent who wants to get off the cycle of ear infection...Dr visit...prescription..ear infection..Dr visit etc.... or have a child diagnosed with ADHD and you want alternatives to drugs or you want to prevent illness or you have a child who is a picky eater and need help getting them to like good healthy food this book shows you the way. Dr Fuhrman also shares advice on pregnancy, nursing, hormones, pesticides, antibiotic use, foods to avoid (at least) until first birthday, his ten super foods to use in menu planning, making over your kitchen...school lunch tips...and more! Even if you don't have children you can benefit from all the well researched nutritional knowledge this book contains. Thank you Dr. Fuhrman for all the hard work and time you put into this latest accomplishment. I am so grateful to you!

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Comment on Disease-Proof Your Child: Feeding Kids Right by John Allen Mollenhauer "MyTrainer"

John Allen Mollenhauer "MyTrainer" — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:05:41 +0000

65 of 69 people found the following review helpful:

So you think your kids will make good decisions about food when they're older?, October 26, 2005

John Allen Mollenhauer "MyTrainer" (Maplewood, NJ USA) -

This review is from: Disease-Proof Your Child: Feeding Kids Right (Hardcover)

... Unfortunately, that's not how it works after their taste buds are now addicted to nutrient poor, super stimulating foods that haven't provided the nutrients they've needed, but haven't gotten, for likely some time.

When they try to eat better "Nutrient Rich" foods, especially the way most parents serve them in the typical "eat your veggies", "side dish" kind of way, what would normally be great tasting, nourishing, fulfilling and make them feel great with a smile on their face, tastes bland compared to the junk they've been eating; junk that's "designed" to make food addicts out of them. When this is the case, they rarely break out of poor eating patterns on their own.

Dr Fuhrman hits the mark with Disease Proof Your Child, and your childs health depends on you reading it and "getting", that you are literally setting your kids up for health, success and sustainability or, disease, failure and a life cut short, each and every time you feed them. It's a cumulative thing.

Dr Fuhrman not only explains the basic science confirming "why" you want to feed your kids Nutrient Rich foods in great tasting ways, but he also explains how. And when it comes to eating better and kids, "how", is everything. Starting with his 50 kid-tested and proven recipes, this book is a big deal.

Dr Fuhrman is America's Doctor, because first and foremost he has your best interests at heart. He is in the business of getting you well. With all the competing interests promoting foods that do the opposite, I don't think he'll run out of customers any time soon, but make sure you and your kids are his customers so that you don't have consider yourselves part of the ever-growing statistics on overweight, obesity and sickness.

The statistics are getting crazier by the day and all it takes, first and foremost, is ensuring they get better quality food, rich in the nutrients they need to succeed, and without all the crap that doesn't serve them.

Today's Kids, perhaps your kids right now, are toxifying their undernourished, getting-more-unhealthy-by-the-day bodies, and their bodies are waiting for the opportunity to clean up and get healthy once again. But they need your help.

And you need help to. That's why Dr Fuhrman is here. We all need to get re-educated and shed most of what we've learned about eating in the past 50 years.

I can't recommend anyone better for the job, of steering you and your family in the right direction. He is the real deal, a successful family man of four with a dog, leading physician, world champion athlete, and successful businessman, in part because he eats to live well and boy does he live well.

With great tasting food he and his family enjoys day in and day out they live free of disease and feeling powerful to pursue their interests. He wants the same for you and your family and he can show you how.

Help yourself in the process and make it a family affair. You need to disease proof your kids at a time when what they eat is going to set the trend for their life. Their taste buds, and their desires are being built right now, and it will show in their weight and health, if not already, in the very near future.

Are you setting your kids up for success, or failure? Are they eating foods that are promoting their health or disease?

Read this book, its worth is weight in your child's well being.

Don't read it and let your child make the decision to eat better when they're older and by then it may be too late.

Read it and disease proof your child, bring their taste buds back to earth, nourish and protect their bodies and set them up for success, moving forward.

If you could accomplish all this, and enable them to look better, feel better and perform better, while they enjoy great tasting foods, that you'll love too, would you do it?

Then do it!

All my best.

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Comment on SPRI Pilates Power Ring and DVD by Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:01:45 +0000

Power Ring/DVD by SPRI, July 11, 2011

Quietude (N Hollywood, CA United States) -

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This replaces my Winsor Pilates Magic Circle, which began to squeak and was not my favorite material (exposed metal & hit my head with it more than a few times!) Love the SPRI brand and this product also delivers. The 20-minute DVD is more basic but the instructor is very likable and any newbie would be challenged with it. The ring has the perfect amount of resistance and I also really like the materials used on the ring (no smell, soft (covered metal), durable, easy to clean). Only regret is I should have replaced my old ring with this one years ago!

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Comment on Ryka Women’s Studio D by Lucy Mcveigh

Lucy Mcveigh — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:55:01 +0000

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

Instructor loves her shoes!, September 29, 2009

Lucy Mcveigh -

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I am a Dance Aerobics instructor at a college and have had such a hard time finding the "perfect" shoe for teaching my classes...A lot of money wasted and many disappointments, not to mention foot problems from wearing the wrong shoes. Since using my new Ryka shoes, my feet feel much better. I also think they are cool looking, which is a plus!

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Comment on SPRI Pilates Power Ring and DVD by Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:53:57 +0000

Poor quality, August 11, 2011

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I was mislead by some of the reviewers, but this ring is too weak. Poor quality too bad, or may be this was one that came defective!!!

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Comment on SPRI Pilates Power Ring and DVD by Sharon Christensen "Pilates student"

Sharon Christensen "Pilates student" — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:20:48 +0000

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

SPRI Pilates Power Ring and DVD, May 13, 2009

Sharon Christensen "Pilates student" (San Francisco, CA) -

This review is from: SPRI Pilates Power Ring and DVD (Sports)

The first one I received didn't include the DVD. It stated right on the box that it's a Power Ring and DVD. So I shipped it back, they sent me another one. It also didn't have the DVD. So I called and they gave me half off, which I took. I really would have liked to have had the DVD, but I do like the power ring.
Just be sure you understand that the DVD will not be included.
Sharon Christensen

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Comment on Disease-Proof Your Child: Feeding Kids Right by Howie Jacobson, PhD "Online Marketing Evoluti...

Howie Jacobson, PhD "Online Marketing Evoluti... — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:08:29 +0000

160 of 166 people found the following review helpful:

The one book every parent needs to read, October 9, 2005

Howie Jacobson, PhD "Online Marketing Evoluti... (Durham NC USA) -

This review is from: Disease-Proof Your Child: Feeding Kids Right (Hardcover)

Disease-Proof Your Child does two things no other book has ever done. First, it clearly and persuasively presents scientific research that shows what our children eat now will more or less determine their risk of developing cancer and other killer diseases as adults. After reading the first few pages, you will never again view sodas, donuts, fries, pizzas, candies and other "All-American" junk foods as innocent again.

Allowing and encouraging our kids to eat this garbage on a regular basis is excusable only when we don't know what we're doing. Now that Dr. Fuhrman has exposed the truth - we can cause or prevent 99% of all diseases by what we eat - no parent who reads this book will be able to allow their child to develop "cancer on the installment plan" through malnutrition. And if you're not into long-term thinking, Dr. Fuhrman also demonstrates the link between the Standard American Diet and the national epidemics of childhood asthma, ear infections, colds, flus, and allergies.

So a warning: do not buy this book unless you're willing to exert your responsibility to protect your children. If you read it and do nothing, you'll go through hell as you watch your kids poisoning themselves with their favorite addictive substances and starving their immune systems by not eating nutrient rich foods.

Which brings me to the second thing this book does that no other has: it provides tools and a roadmap and a philosophy for transitioning your family to a healthy diet. Remember paint by numbers? This is the diet transition equivalent. From practical ideas (the "refigerator advertisements" is a wonderful example) to over 50 recipes ("string beans and almost dust" will blow you away with its simplicity and how much your kids will love it) to lists of delicious "non-recipe snacks" that ensure you'll always have healthy alternatives to junk fod - Disease-Proof Your Child is a well-written and well thought out "operations manual" to your most important job as a parent: setting your child up for a lifetime of health and happiness.

In Disease-Proof Your Child, Dr. Fuhrman explains:

- how to prepare your home for eating healthfully before making the shift
- why "three meals a day" is a recipe for failure when it comes to feeding kids right
- why focusing on quality, not quantity, is the key to healthy eating
- why "consistent but not perfect" is more effective than 100% "compliance"
- when and where it's OK to compromise
- how to teach your kids never to "diet"
- how to reform the picky eater

Dr. Fuhrman is not an armchair researcher. He runs a family practice, and offers many case studies that show exactly how families transitioned successfully to a healthy diet - even when both parents thought their child's eating habits were a lost cause.

After reading the first half of the book, you will be shocked, angry, and motivated like crazy to do something to save your kids from a lifetime of obesity and disease. The second half of the book, the solution, is going to get dog-eared and underlined and photocopied and food-spattered. You're going to want to recommend it to your friends, mostly because you won't be able to part with your own copy. I already find I need two - one for my study and another for the cookbook shelf.

There are few books ever written that have to potential to have such a huge positive impact on the well-being of your family. Is it easy to put this into practice? Not at first. But is it worth it? Try the following thought experiment:

It's 35 years from now. Your child is a grownup, with a kid in elementary school and another in high school. You get to choose one of the following scenarios: a) your child is a healthy and vibrant adult, at the prime of life; or b) your child has just been diagnosed with cancer, possibly fatal within 3 years.

I know that's stark. But the links between what we feed our kids now and their health as adults are that real. Try the thought experiment for 2 minutes and see what moves within you.

If you're not able to link current behavior with the long-term future, here's another experiment:

What if you were able to prevent most of the ear infections, allergies, colds, feveres, and severe asthma attacks that your child gets on a regular basis? The long nights up with a crying child, the endless trips to the doctor for another round of antibiotics, the missed events, the feelings of "when will they outgrow it"? That's a real outcome too.

Please - as a health educator, as a parent, as someone who cares about the world we're sending our kids into - I urge you to get and study this book.

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Comment on Ryka Women’s Studio D by TawnTawn

TawnTawn — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:59:48 +0000

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

I like them pretty well, June 10, 2009

TawnTawn (Texas) -

This review is from: Ryka Women's Studio D (Apparel)

I use these shoes for Zumba. I needed something light with a smooth bottom. I ordered them elsewhere as they were cheaper.

At first I thought I wouldn't be able to wear these as they were too narrow in the instep (I also have this problem with Nike and usually wear Adidas). My foot is not narrow, but a Wide shoe is too big. I wore the shoes anyway, and they did develop some "give."

The only problem is that the sole is thin, and sometimes after doing heavy duty Zumba for an hour on a wood floor, my insteps can feel a little sore or burning. But it doesn't last long.

I wear a size 6 in regular shoes, and a 6 1/2 in athletic shoes. I ordered a 7 in this shoe and it fits. Also, I've had no problems with my ankles in this shoe, it seems supportive enough for me.

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Comment on Ryka Women’s Studio D by Alison Hudson

Alison Hudson — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:50:10 +0000

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

No more knee problems!, March 3, 2010

Alison Hudson -

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When I first started doing jazzercise in mid January, My right knee began to hurt so badly I could hardly do the moves. Being 48 and returning to exercise after being away for five years, coupled with a history of long distance running I thought it might be something I would have to learn to work with. But it got worse. Having a history with running I knew the importance of investing in good shoes and someone suggested Ryka's for the type of aerobics we did in jazzercise - jumping, turning, twisting. Within one week of wearing the right shoes I had no more pain. Even the instructors comment on how high I jump and how much fun I have in class, not to mention the 15 lb weight loss in 5 weeks. I found an awesome deal on Amazon and haven't looked back.

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Comment on The Moosewood Cookbook by Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:27:40 +0000

57 of 59 people found the following review helpful:

Recipes have TONS of variety, simple preparation., June 25, 1998

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This review is from: The Moosewood Cookbook (Hardcover)

I purchased the Moosewood Cookbook last summer, during one of my many attempts to revive the "health" level of my diet. I'm so glad that I added this book to my collection.

The recipes use a wide variety of ingredients. So, you'll never get bored if you cook from it on a regular basis. The variety in the collection also allows you to make use of fruits and vegetables that are in season throughout the year.

The time required to prepare most dishes is under an hour. This makes the book ideal for weekday cooking, a time when most of us should be eating better, but don't due to busy schedules. I made the vegetable chowder for dinner last night. I needed about an hour total. The result was a delicious, healthy, lowfat meal in a bowl. Perfect for a hectic Wednesday.

Finally, I'd like to say that everything I've cooked from this book has tasted FABULOUS! I haven't missed the fat. I love the fresh ingredients, particulary the use of herbs. And I love the fact that I'm eating healty food that also tastes wonderful.

Hats off to Mollie Katzen and the Moosewood crew. This book is a godsend.

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