Freedom from the Diet Trap
Slim for Life
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4.3 • 27 Ratings
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Publisher Description
A complete physical and psychological guide to the land of the slim and healthy. The Juice Master’s workshops and roadshows contain such antics as the ‘Who Wants to Be a Slimionnaire?’ game. This irreverent but hard-hitting book will ensure people never look at a burger in the same way again!
Jason Vale is the ultimate health coach – ‘The Juice Master’ – and in this book he reveals how everyone can get slim, get fit, and get energised – or ‘juiced’. His lively style and irreverent text nonetheless contains clear health messages for everyone:
- give up what he calls ‘drug foods’ – those nutritionally worthless addictive substances, such as sugar (‘white trash’) and caffeine – and return to a fresh diet
- eat the freshest plant ingredients and feel the fabulous health benefit of raw juice which is full of healthy enzymes
- hit out at the food industry and reject its brainwashing advertising
- use food combining to help your digestion.
The Juice Master, who has been described as a mix between Anthony Robbins, Jamie Oliver and Eddie Izzard, offers a whole new approach to reframing the way you think about food, and offers plenty of surprises along the way.
Reviews
‘Lager convert says ‘Mine’s a pint of veg juice’… the Juice Master has more energy and vigour than you can shake a cucumber at.’
Newcastle Journal
About the author
Jason Vale, the Juice Master, is a successful health and lifestyle coach. A former trainer for Alan Carr in Birmingham, he launched his London clinic and countrywide workshops two years ago. His seminars on losing weight and quitting drinking and smoking are consistently sold out. He has appeared on GMTV and is a key presenter at the Vitality Show.
Customer Reviews
Took me by surprise!
I was pretty sceptical when I was recommended this book by a friend, but the explanations and analogies have really made me think about food in a totally different way. I almost feel a bit stupid for being 'duped' from an early age by advertising, marketing and triggers: then did the same with my own children. Crazy really when you look at it all from a different perspective!
Goes on a bit
I know the author states that he frequently repeats his message in order to get it home and counteract all the negative programming we have been subjected to by advertising; but boy does he go on and on and...on.
I think the message is probably sound but loses its impact when repeated ad nauseum. Also much of what is written is purely anecdotal with little properly referenced research. For example, he includes stories of people living to a ripe old age and experiencing total remission from cancer because they “juiced” and lived his healthy junk food free lifestyle. He then complains when medical experts say that remission from cancer purely because they “juiced” is an unproven hypothesis. I don’t think many medical experts would argue against the fact that a good healthy diet is going to help with certain medical conditions, but his assertion seems to be that “juicing” is the sole cause of cancer remission in the cases he quotes. If that is his assertion, they are using the term unproven because it’s accurate. Sorry Jason but the plural of anecdote is not “data”.
He complains about what he calls “big food” and “big drink” (whatever that is supposed to mean) making mega bucks out of pushing their junk foods etc and he probably has a good point. However, I am just wondering whether “big juice” isn’t pushing some money his way if you know what I mean. The book does read a bit like a very long advert and I note he has a list of the best juicers.
Having said that, I think the underlying message is probably sound.
Game changer
I have read this book twice now, it will open your eyes and expand your mind. It has made me realise I can eat what ever I want and now I eat the good stuff every time.