Subtitled "Seven Keys to Unlock Your Health Potential," The Great Physician’s Rx for Health and
Wellness by Jordan Rubin
with David Remedios, M.D. provides a detailed guide to good health that almost anyone could follow—with success. Its seven chapters flow from beginning to end as a cohesive plan for achieving and maintaining optimum health, but each chapter gives comprehensive advice on a particular aspect of
wellness that can be referred to separately, time and again.
The book combines professional expertise with personal experience, presenting a wealth of information in easy-to-digest conversational style with plenty of examples and specifics. Interspersed are short testimonials by other individuals, each sharing how he or she discovered the importance of one of the seven keys and the difference it made in his/her life. Jordan Rubin writes from knowledge based on experience as well as education. A survivor of Crohn’s disease, he is now a strong, healthy, happily married man with a son and a successful enterprise. His testimony of trial and error in trying to find a remedy for his affliction runs the gamut of conventional and alternative medicines, diets, and supplements. His final discovery of the path to health and fitness led him to share his hard-won knowledge with others. This book is one of several he has written to do just that.
Anyone who wants more zest and less zonk in his life and wants to avoid the myriad diseases and allergies plaguing nearly everyone around him will surely appreciate this book. Although Rubin derives his basic premises from the Bible’s instructions for diet and
hygiene, his book will appeal to the non-religious and other-religious reader as well as to Jewish and Christian readers. Readers who believe the Bible is God’s handbook for humanity will find this book’s references to Scriptural standards of health and wellbeing both enlightening and inspirational as well as reasonable and profitable. Readers who have doubts about the validity of the Bible in matters of physical health will nevertheless admire Jordan Rubin’s book for its common-sensical, no-nonsense approach to good health and its refreshingly sane and time-tested advice. Readers concerned about sustainable environments and those who want to get back to basics will find much to agree with in this book.
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Eating Habits, Diet, and Nutrition —- Instead of promoting a fad diet or product, Jordan clothes hard facts in soft and often humorous language as he counsels readers to take an objective look at their own eating habits. He encourages readers to immediately translate their new awareness of the nutritious value—and lack thereof—of foods available to them into better choices. Readers who prefer a clearly marked path will find the menus and recipes a plus while others will appreciate the excellent guidelines that allow them to make their own food and supplement selections with greater discretion.
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Hygiene, Exercise, Therapy — Not simple hygiene, but advanced hygiene; not gymnastics, but functional exercise; and not spas but at-home therapies that include hydrotherapy, aromatherapy, and music therapy are some of the instantly applicable and profitable suggestions detailed in the next chapters. Photos of functional exercises illustrate the ease with which any reader can gain the advantage of a body more responsive to the normal demands of life.
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Toxins, Emotions, Purpose — Remaining topics include reducing toxins in one’s environment, avoiding deadly emotions, and living a prayerful and purposeful life. Jordan strikes a balance between accepting a polluted environment and living in a bubble. He illustrates the effects of deadly emotions on our health and wellbeing with confessional examples. He discusses the difference it has made in his life to know his purpose for being.