The PH Miracle: Balance Your Diet, Reclaim Your Health

by Robert O. Young and Shelley Redford Young

Book Overview

Forget counting calories, fat grams, and cholesterol. Forget blood pressure, blood sugar, and hormone levels. The single most important health measurement is the pH level in your blood. Now, The pH... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446528099
• ISBN13: 9780446528092
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Warner Books (NY)
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Don't trust the skeptics! Trust your own RESULTS!

Having waded through all 69 reviews, it's clear that people are either strongly in support of Dr. Young's approach to health and wellness (based on personal experience), or strongly against his ideas/theories. Really ... check it out ... you'll see either five stars or one star. Interesting though ... if you read carefully, you'll notice that most of the critics and skeptics haven't even tried the program. Instead, they're focused on attacking Dr. Young, his lack of credentials, his lack of published papers, his "mumbo-jumbo" science, etc., etc. But honestly, who cares? I don't care if he got his degree out of a CrackerJack box. Like most people, I want results that I can see and feel. And that's exactly what I'm experiencing as a result of two things that are the cornerstone to his program: eating more greens and super-hydrating. No need to follow all the fancy diets, either. It can be as simple or as difficult as you want to make it. Bottom line to his program entails 3 things: 1. Super-hydrate the body by drinking plenty of water (4-5 liters a day) 2. Alkalize the body by eating foods high in alkalinity (and this is where people get stuck ... you don't have to eat like them and fix all those fancy meals ... simply increase the % of veggies at each meal). 3. Supergreens - if you can't get enough veggies, and most of us can't, then use the supplements or powder. I mean you really can't beat them - 49 different organic grasses, vegetables and sprouts; as well as 125 different vitamins, minerals and amino acids. What does all this sound like? That's right ... grandma's recipe for "good health and longevity". Again, skip the skeptics and try it for yourself. No doubt your body will thank you for it!

This book can change your life

One of the reviewers here questioned the "junk" science invoked in the book, and questioned the motives of the authors since they market products based on the recommendations in the book. Baloney. This is anything but a "magic pill", as the reviewer suggests. It is a change in your life, and for the better. It's not easy, especially if you love food like I do, and who doesn't love food? But we've been sold down the river, as a nation and a people, by the greed of food conglomerates who saturate our foods with garbage: sugar, additives, fillers, clogging and poisoning foods. All so they can increase their profits. There's a better way: a way to improve your zest for life, live longer, cure yourselves of maladies, and all you have to do is throw away all the damn drugs and pills and other, true "pseudo-science" stuff being hawked every day in magazines and on tv and in newspapers and on the radio and just READ ONE BOOK: this one! It will change your life as it's changing mine. In the face of skeptics and cynics, I can only say my wife and children and I began this program after stumbling on the book in a book store, and I have had incredible results. The kids (two teenagers!) have jumped into this discipline (with the family pulling together it's fun and easy to do)and now take fresh green salads and quinoa and soaked almonds and such, based on Dr. Young's book, to school. They help us make dinner each night. We have terrific family meals together. And we all feel great. I've been plagued with sugar cravings, candidiasis, constipation, mood swings, depression and other systemic maladies for decades. When I embraced the suggestions in this book, I had the following short term results (this review is written about 6 weeks after I did a colon cleanse with my wife, then, after finding the book two days later in the bookstore, we started to change our diet to conform to the guidelines in Ph Miracle). * I lost 15 pounds without any exercise at all. (I was about 25 lbs. overweight: not fat, but just soft and getting paunchy; tired looking all the time; low energy too much of the time. I lead an active life as a photographer but was finding it more and more difficult to get going. I also spend a lot of time on computer with digital images and as an author, so it's harder to make myself exercise) * My bowels have been consistently regular...until I "slip" and have some sweets or eat something that is acidifying instead of alkalizing. Then I bind up again almost immediately. * My skin rashes on my arms and back are clearing up * I truly love and relish the food we eat, thanks to the detailed suggestions and terrific recipes in the book. Instead of cereal, eggs and bacon, toast and jam, and orange juice that I used to consider indispensable to a "healthy" breakfast, I'm now eating things like cooked buckwheat groats with fresh avocado, tomato, soaked and chopped almonds, and one of the sesame oil/lemon juice/tahini dressings mentioned i

I DID lower my cholesterol without chaning my diet

Update 3/07: still eating green as much as possible. Love spinach, avacado and frozen broccoli smoothies (really, I do). However, it looks like the greens that Dr. Young sponsored are still around but he isn't. So, I recommend going with some other greens (just read labels). I like Paleo Mint through a health care provider and you can find some at Whole Foods and mercola.com as well.......get some with fruits in it as well and you can kill 2 birds, less the sugar and carbos of eating alot of fruit. Garden of Life seems decent (but expensive). Shop around. Original review: I read this book at advice of a friend. I sort of bought into it but thought it was a bit extreme. I had been really tired and just lost 2 babies so I was up for feeling better. My friend told me to do nothing buy try the SuperGreens listed in the book along with the PH drops. So I did. My energy went up immediately. I kept my diet the same (wine, beef, chicken, you name it). I started feeling better but just thought my depression had lifted. Well, 4 months later, I went to my MD. I had a BMI test done that also includes cellular health. I had my blood lipids run. When I got the results back, I was ASTOUNDED and so were my doctors. My total cholesterol dropped 57 points (I am only 39, in fairly good shape, size 8 and have NEVER had a cholesterol level below 210). The check I did in august 04 was 233 total cholesterol. The test last month: 176. All I did differently was drink supergreens 2 times per day with PH drops. All of my lipids lowered including my C-Reactive Protein. My cell health went WAY up, my BMI went down, i lost 16.8 pounds of fat without losing any muscle. I will share my reports with you and my doctors comments if you like. I got so excited, i signed up to distribute the product so i could get the discount. I have 22 of my friends and family on supergreens. My mom says her energy is great (she is 72 and obese). Contact me if you want details of my story and on the SuperGreens. Read the book if you like or contact me for some highlights first. I don't know if this is the answer to everything, but it is the answer to alot of things. I was so skeptical before but not anymore. This has made me WANT to start cleaning up my diet in addition to supergreens and I am well on the way. Take baby steps and start with their supergreens. contact me for a free sample.

A Life Changing Book

AFter 3 1/2 weeks of following the Youngs program:* I have lost 14 pounds* All feelings of bloat and gas have vanished* My energy has noticeably increased* Every afternoon my brain got 'fuzzy' (dull, tired, hard to think) - this has entirely disappeared and I feel sharp and clearSeeing my great results, a close friend bought the book and is trying it, too. Her results have been even better than mine, because her severe asthma has already lessened in only 10 days.Some of the reviews here have critized the Youngs for various reasons:First, "Those who have lost weight on the diet is almost certainly for no other reason than it has the tendency to be low in calories." Eating olive oil, avocados and nuts does NOT create a low calorie diet. Further, I have tried to lose weight in the past by cutting calories - and was spectacularly unsuccessful. We weight loss is happening because I am being cleaned from the inside out, and I can feel it clearly.Other reviews say this book is '"dumbed down" for the masses' and others refer to it as 'junk science'. I don't need the blessing of "science" to attempt to heal myself. Are these the same experts who jeered at meditation, acupuncture and yoga? am responsible for my health, and the only authority I trust is my own body. It will give me all the feedback I need. I don't need long scientific documents, or the approval of others. As for the claim that there is nothing new about this information - that is exactly right. Acidity and alkalinity have been discussed for decades. Does this mean we can only write books on subjects that are completely new?As for this comment: "for those of us in the real world, it's more trouble than it's worth." Gee, and all this time I thought I was in the 'real world' and yes, I agree that it's a lot of trouble. But how much trouble is it to be sick? To feel rotten? To be exhausted? To be fat? I really don't want to be one of those people who becomes seriously ill and then looks back and says, "If only I had ..."Several reviewers criticized the Youngs for selling supplements. Isn't that the ideal work that we all wish for: to do what you love, make a contribution and be richly rewarded? Sounds ideal to me. And as for the comment that "you really can't follow their program without their products." ... absolutely not true. I haven't bought a single one of their supplements and am following their program without difficulty.This is quite amazing: "I tried to sell the products I bought, but the prices were too high for online sales" and then this same author refers to "greed for many of the MLMers who feed from its trough." The writer admits that he failed in selling the products - yet obviously he was trying to do so. Does that mean he was greedy and trying to profit, too? Quite a contradiction. Does this program work for everyone? I have no idea. My experience has been nourishing and enriching but we are all individuals, with different bodies and different chemistries. Personally