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Shed 10 Years in 10 Weeks
by Julian Whitaker, Carol Colman
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (1999-01-02)
ISBN: 0684847914
EAN: 9780684847917
Dewy Decimal #: 613
Paperback: 288 pages
Edition: 1
SKU: CH3279
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: Good condition. Shows light wear. Comes from non smoking home
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
The Fountain of Youth is Just 10 Weeks Away!Based on advanced scientific research and the actual experiences of thousands of Dr. Julian Whitaker's own patients, this remarkable program shows you how to strip away the wear and tear of aging. In this book, which includes a sound nutritional food plan, cutting-edge supplements, innovative skin treatments, an easy-to-follow exercise program, brain teasers, and more, Dr. Whitaker shows you how to: - lose a decade's worth of fat and regain 10 years' worth of muscle
- erase fine lines, diminish wrinkles, and restore a youthful glow
- boost your brain power and sharpen your memory
- revitalize and enjoy your sex life into your 60s, 70s, and beyond
- strengthen your immune system and prevent disease
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Amazon.com Review
Here's another candidate for the "Whoa! Who's that old guy in the mirror?" genre. The advice in Shed 10 Years in 10 Weeks covers a wide range of age-related complaints: more fat, less muscle, more wrinkles, less sexual vitality, more illness, less short-term memory, and on and on. The proposed solutions to these problems rely heavily on nutritional supplements, which is a bit dubious, and there aren't any recommendations for strength training in the "Regain 10 Years of Muscle" section, which is even more suspect. (Julian Whitaker seems to be a cardio person.) But aside from those two quibbles, the advice seems useful and practical, especially for those who've worked and played just a little too hard in their first 40 or 50 years.
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Customer Reviews
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Easy, Simple Baby Steps That Anyone Can Do
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-10-17
Just the chapter on Skin Care is worth the read.
Unlike other books, this one leads you into the recommended changes very gradually, so you don't come away after reading it thinking you cannot possible remember everything you are supposed to do and give up before even trying.
My recommendation is not to think about this process as a 10-week long program.
Just take it one day at a time, in week-long blocks. Mark the changes on your calendar. Don't look at the whole 10 weeks. Just look at what you will do during the first week. Then you look at what's on schedule for the following week when it starts. And so forth.
If you are consistent, you'll see dramatic changes.
I needed quickie proof that something in this book works, so I began the skin treatment first. Since you see your face every day when you wake up and before you go to bed, your face is a good place to start seeing changes. When your complexion shows improvement even after a couple of days, you'll think...."Wow...I ought to do those other things in the book."
Before you realize it, Voila! You'll have lost a few pounds, and the people at work will ask you what you've been doing with yourself.
I'm on week four. It must be working because my clothes don't fit as tightly and my skin looks GREAT.
Since the pig-out holiday season is starting up, don't punish yourself if you fall off the wagon. Pick up where you left off. One binge isn't going to result in total failure...just a little set-back from which you can quickly recover.
And if it takes you 12 weeks or 15 weeks, just keep doing this program. It worked for my husband, and it is working for me.
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Lots of good advice, some unique information
Rating  (4)
Date: 2004-03-09
14 out of 14 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book purports to assist you, O Baby Boomer, to remove 10 years of aging in only 10 weeks. This book has no schematics to build a time machine, instead it's a guide to vitamin supplements, health issues such as sexuality, diabetes and heart disease, how to preserve your mental accuity and much more. I was surprised to find some interesting nuggets of information that, taken together, form a good blueprint for healthful habits. Some of the habits (quitting smoking) are a given. Others, such as finding supplements like bilberry to ward off eye problems, are not so well-known. This author is not on the low-carb bandwagon (recommends the more usual lower-fat, whole-grain diet) but this is in keeping with such books as "South Beach Diet." What's valuable to me are lists of supplements and what degenerative processes they help deter, and a general plan for good health in your middle age and beyond. This is a readable, useful book.
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SHED 10 YEARS IN 10 WEEKS: Mostly Diet Advice--But Worth It
Rating (5)
Date: 2004-02-17
9 out of 10 customers found this reveiw helpful
When a dieter seeks to reclaim youth, health, and vigor, he or she would most likely turn to the newest trend: human growth hormone. Now there is nothing inherently wrong with that as there is a clear place for HGH as a tool for health, but before one goes that route, it might make more sense to go back to the basics of a balanced diet and food supplements. In SHED 10 YEARS IN 10 WEEKS, Dr. Julian Whitaker and Carol Colman urge the health conscious to reappraise their diet so as to eliminate harmful foods and increase beneficial ones. The approach of the authors is bedrock common sense mixed with the knowledge that each brings to the table, he with his years of expertise in diet and nutrition and she with her own contributions to Melatonin and hormone research. What separates these two from other more widely known authors is their ability to take complicated issues related to diet and supplements and make these issues ring with clarity. Whitaker and Colman divide their book into 10 steps or chapters, with each step focusing on one aspect of dietary advice. For example, in step 2, called "Lose A Decade's Worth of Fat," they outline a 10 week program that urges the reader to do all the right things: eat lots of fresh fruit and vegetables; establish an optimum intake of carbohydrates, protein, and fat; cut down on red meat, add soy to the diet, recognize that some fats (like Omerga-3 fats) are necessary for cardiovascular health; choose which phytochemicals might help be useful; be aware of the importance of soluble and insoluble fibers. Now all this is what your Granny might have been telling you for years, but Whitaker and Colman manage to punctuate Granny's sage advice with the absolute need to listen to her and to them. The major focus of this book is on diet and supplements. It is interesting to note that if one were to follow their advice prior to adding human growth hormone to a health regimen, then the results of that HGH might likely deliver the fancy promises of the hype. SHED 10 YEARS IN 10 WEEKS is highly recommended in that it takes a complicated subject and breaks it down into easily manageable chunks.
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New Healthy Beginning
Rating (5)
Date: 2003-03-23
7 out of 7 customers found this reveiw helpful
I began reading this book after I quit smoking hoping for a healthy new beginning. It is absolutely a delightful understanding of how you can reverse past mistakes and embark on a fresh start to reverse aging. I have basically purchased many of the suggested items and have seen a remarkable change. Alot of the items were somehow difficult to find such as the high potency multi vitamins without iron which was suggested but I am searching vigorously. I think anyone who reads this will understand when I tell them to purchase this for friends and loved ones. Awesome reading!
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Direct, Accurate, To The Point
Rating (5)
Date: 2002-04-27
9 out of 9 customers found this reveiw helpful
Filled with practical, well researched information this book contains the distilled knowledge of the most recent studies on aging. The book is organized in a way that allows you to go to the areas that concern you most and read that section without having to read all the preceding chapters.
The chapters cover such topics as getting rid of fat, regaining lost muscle, boosting your brain power, getting rid of fine lines and wrinkles, recharging your immune system and others. Julian Whitaker and Carol Colman have created an interesting book that puts information you would normally have to search across many reference articles to find into one easy to read book.
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