The pH Miracle for Weight Loss - book

[English Tracy]

I've just bought this book (by Dr Robert O. Young and Shelley Redford Young) as I saw it on a raw food site. I haven't had a chance to look at it in detail but has anyone read it? Any comments?

There are before and after photos of people who have lost lots of weight following the advice from this book so I'm keen to have some opinions here. I noticed that it doesn't seem to advocate 100% raw foods but certainly high raw.

I did see as well that it is recommended that each day a person should drink 1 litre of water for every 30lbs he/she weighs. Gosh, for someone 200lbs that's 7 litres of water a day?!*??* :eek: (Where's the bathroom?)

Tracy

[Pailani]

I read half of The Ph Miracle. It's intriguing - if acid/alkalinity is the key to health, then that could explain why a raw diet works, because it's an alkaline diet.

But The Ph Diet isn't an all raw diet. I think it's closer to a candida diet - lots and lots of veggies, but not corn or potatoes, and not much fruit. Some fish is acceptable on the diet. I think it would be difficult to stay on a diet that emphasized veggies but severely limited fruit, potatoes and everything else. If a raw diet can do what the Ph Diet does, it seems superior, and it's a more pleasant way to eat.

[Kitty]

before I found raw I got this book read it and followed it, I detoxed almost instantly *it was horrible but good* and really liked it but prefer this way of eating because its less limited. I love fruit and can't NOT eat it. But it has a lot of good info about why some foods are bad for you so it motivated me because of how graphic it was!

[dread_head]

my husband and i started the Ph miricle in march 2005 i was following it for about a year. i felt good and everything. but i love fruit :( so, i sterted eating fruit again. we still follow parts of it like no corn, yeast, and prossed foods. I know what you mean about the water :eek: it workes for some people.... it worked for me for the most part. i lost 35+ pounds. but i can tell a defference when i am not eating fruit.

[English Tracy]

That's interesting about the fruit impacting on weight loss. I thought it was only nuts and too many avocados that would be a problem.

Tracy

[Conscious Midwife]

That's interesting about the fruit impacting on weight loss. I thought it was only nuts and too many avocados that would be a problem.

Tracy

Blood Sugar and insulin response is impacted by all carbohydrate intake, espcially fruit. The problem isn't the fruit but our damaged bodies that need time to repair and respond to a more healthful intake.