Product Description

Fad diets, weight-loss gimmicks, and get fit quick exercise machines abound, but none provide lasting results. Too quickly people fall off these diets, stop using the latest machine, and lapse back into their unhealthy habits. The clutter of diet options and conflicting advice leaves us all the more confused. Imagine if you could follow a simple, straightforward ten-step plan to a healthier life from the worlds leading medical experts? The Mayo Clinic Plan is culled from MAYO CLINICs current research and world-renowned medical experts, and includes the keys to healthy eating and a healthy lifestyle that are easy to follow. From achieving your optimal weight through eating the right foods and watching portions (and not necessarily carbs!!) to the incredible health benefits of incorporating exerciseor any physical activityinto your weekly life, the important new findings on the impact of sleep, and much more, youll feel a difference quickly by following these steps.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #155890 in Books
• Published on: 2006-01-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 192 pages

Customer Reviews

healthy eating practices
doctor recommended this book and I've learned some helpful information on good eating habits and exercise routines

A Great Place to Start
Mayo Clinic has produced a book that is a great place to start for learning about a healthy lifestyle. It has helpful quizzes to assess your health in different areas. I wish it had more depth; that is why I can only give it four stars. It lays a good foundation, but leaves you wishing for more details.

Ten Steps to Better Health
The Mayo Clinic Plan is a 10-step program laid out in detail to improve your overall health. In a set of quizzes, you can analyze your health and take steps to make it better

1. Health Assessment, fitness, eating habits and risky behaviors (alcohol, tobacco and risky activities like driving without a seatbelt.)

2. Exercise: basics of aerobic, core and strength training and frexibility are outlined. What to do about injuries.

3. Eating: The Mayo Clinic Healthy Pyramid, how to plan meals.

4. Dieting, basically food portion control and eating from the pyramid.

5. Tobacco--how to get quit of it.

6. An on-course assessment, medical tests to consider.

7. Your spiritual and emotional health, whether religious or attitudinal.

8. Stress--how to manage it.

9. Mind and Body Recharge--insomnia, taking a break

10. How to live safely--seatbelts, responsible drinking, safe sex. chemicals in the home, sunscreen and household safety (remember how many accidents happen at home? A huge percentage.)

Summary: A nicely complete book with many useful charts, quizzes and bits of information. Use this as a roadmap for total health and you won't go far wrong.