Product Description

The Choosing Health Workbook gives you the tools and strategies of Functional Selfcare, a completely unique approach that puts you in control over your own health.

Functional Selfcare consists of two parts:
1. The Elements of Health are those components essential to a healthy lifestyle and include strategies for supporting body, body chemistry, and mind and spirit.
2. Self-Directed Selfcare includes the tools for evaluating the exact status of your health using home tests, graphing the function of your body systems from a health questionnaire, and reading your own lab results clearly, easily, and with complete understanding.

Practicing Functional Selfcare gives you knowledge about your body and what works to improve and protect your health. You will be able to measure the results on your health from any drug, nutritional supplement, diet, exercise regimen, or lifestyle habit.

Additionally, you will know from this workbook what stress is and is not, how dramatically it affects your health, how to measure yourself what stage of stress your body is in and how it has affected your health, know what to do to restore your health from the ravages of stress, and measure the improvement in your health objectively.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #648038 in Books
• Published on: 2003-06
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 231 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780755907854
• Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
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From the Publisher
Choosing Health: Dr. Force's Functional Selfcare Workbook is a completely unique approach to selfcare that goes beyond advising you what to do to address symptoms you may suffer from to discovering the underlying causes of your symptoms and directing you to the long-term resolution.

From the Author
Choosing Health: Dr. Force’s Functional Selfcare Workbook comes from my twenty years practicing the healing arts. Originally, I was looking for answers for myself; later I was looking for answers for others. I found both in abundance.

As wonderful as it is to work with my patients, I can contact only so many people each day. I came to realize that many of the methods and tools I use with my patients could be taught, and that they could empower and change the lives of an unlimited number of people. Hence, choosing HEALTH was written.

It’s a workbook – because it’s something you use rather than read; a tool that gives you the ability to restore and protect your health.

This is the one and only workbook that teaches a process called Functional Selfcare. This powerful process puts the tools of Functional Healthcare (a process that in the past has only been available to physicians) into your hands.

Beyond treating symptoms, the choosing HEALTH workbook will teach you how to restore health by restoring function.

Symptoms and illnesses won’t be an elusive mystery anymore; you will have control over your own health.

About the Author
Dr. Force has practiced natural healthcare since 1984 and has always advocated that individuals be in control of their own health and healthcare. His practice focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of complex and chronic illnesses.

He has published numerous peer-reviewed professional papers, contributed to technical manuals on laboratory diagnosis and clinical nutrition, taught diagnostics and natural therapies to physicians, and aided nutritional manufacturers in developing product formulas.

Customer Reviews

A Book to empower, educate and inspire
I am a Naturopathic Medical Doctor and own several hundred books on health care. Out of all these books, I feel "Choosing Health" is the most valuable. The information in this book is so useful, that I provide a copy to every new patient in my naturopathic practice. It makes my job much easier.

The only other books like this are Dr. Balch's Nutritional Rx, Andrew Weil's Optimal Wellness, The Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine, and Linda Page's book. I think this book beats them hands down.

This book avoids the common pitfall of most natural health book, i.e. green drugs. Green drugs are herbs or natural remedies that are used like prescription drugs. Each condition has a list of natural "cures", e.g. for headache - Feverfew. Dr. Force allows the reader to develope a plan based on their individual and unique cause(s) rather than the symptom (headache)

This book is unique because it provides comprehensive details on the "elements of health." These are essential lifestyle choices that patients make for themselves. This is the first but most important step in healing any chronic pain or illness. Dr. Force calls these essential elements "functional self care".

Dr. Force also has included a health questionaire section that allows a person to discover their functional health weaknesses. Functional health weaknesses are the organs, glands, or systems that are not working optimally, but have not progressed to the point where they could be identified in a blood test, xray or mri. Identifying and correcting these problems before they manifest in tissue damage is the beauty of this approach. This book provides patients with this valuable tool.

There is great section that helps patients make sense of standard blood work, chem screen and CBC. This is invaluable for the patient that wants a deeper understanding of their blood chemistry instead of their doctor just telling them, "everything looks ok." OK, compared to what? This section alone is worth the price of the book.

The most common complaint in my practice is fatigue and stress. Dr. Force has a wonderful section on the causes and the physiologic effects of stress. His suggestions for improving adrenal dysfunction resulting from stress are comprehensive and very useful.

As a practicing physician, Dr. Force has not put himself or other doctors out of business. He clearly states that this book does not replace health care from a physician. People need both: healthcare and selfcare. A healthy person should get a yearly physical and a health tune up. Others that are not healthy should incorporate the "elements of health" and the functional self care suggestions. If they don't improve, then they should see their physician for health care.

When this book receives the kind of publicity and reception it deserves and people follow the suggestions, it will truly transform our medical system. The conventional medical "disease care" system is failing miserably. This book should be required reading for all doctors, parents, and anyone interested in truly improving someones health.

This is a great book. Do yourself a favor, buy a copy for yourself, a few more for your family and friends, and lastly a copy for your doctor, chiropractor, naturopath. If they won't read it, I'd suggest you find a different doctor.

A wonderful health care manual
I was delighted with this book. I found this resource to be a complete guide for both a reference for my patients and a self-help manual for my own health needs.
It really put me in charge of my own life and should save me an amazing amount of money. Now I can fix many of my health concerns without having to go to a doctor and when I do need to go I will have already figured out what my problem is. It allows me to really be a partner in my own health care.
Jef Gazley, M.S.

A practical, usable, and essential guide to better health!
Wow...what a find! Choosing Health: Dr. Force's Functional Selfcare Workbook has definitely put me on the path to a healthier, more vital life. Because Choosing Health is a "workbook", it's practical and usable by anyone looking to have a better understanding and take more control of their health. You might "read" other books, but this one you'll "use!" That's because, Dr. Force has written Choosing Health in terms that allow anyone to assess their present state of health, understand the root causes of any current symptoms, and define a path to a higher state of wellbeing. Oh yeah, this goes way beyond the mere treating of symptoms. Deal with the underlying cause of the symptom and you can get results that'll last. Deal with just the symptom, and you'll have to deal with it again, and again, and again. Been there, done that! Follow the simple guidance Dr. Force provides in Choosing Health and you'll experience tangible, objective and lasting results that, based on my own experience, will lead to a significantly higher quality of life. For me, that has meant more energy, better sleep, less stress, more focus, better digestion, greatly reduced allergies, far fewer "common" ailments...like colds, flu's, headaches. But, beyond purely physical results, I'm experiencing a greater sense of wellbeing in all areas of my life day-to-day...and who doesn't want that?! Thanks for the powerful assist, Dr. Force.