Great info, a really useful resource. The home remedies section would be a great addition to a library, but most of the first sections is more read-once and remember.

Greg A. Minton MD found this book to be educational.

A well hidden treasure of knowledge from the best source for staying healthy: Nature ... which the commercial interests do not promote enough!

This is an excellent resource for thinking about a healthy lifestyle and made me think about some of my more mundane choices, like what kind of water filter I use, what kind of tea I drink, and which things should be organic in my life. I didn't read the whole thing, since I'm not so concerned about cancer and heart disease right now, but I will use it as a resource for a while.

A good, but short, synopsis of other of Dr Weil's excellent books.

Book about natural medicine - try to improve your health through foods and exercise.

Address the root cause vs slapping medication in top of an issue makes so much more sense to me!

At the outset of the book Dr Weil admits that what we know of nutrition is changing and that the information in the book is based on the best available information we have today. I appreciate that comment because some information is already dated (cholesterol causing fats). But it is a really informative read and his website is current so as new information becomes available or thoughts about specific foods change, one can read the latest available information on the website.

I also like that he is a traditionally trained doctor so that holistic remedies highlighted are neither the popular fad of the day nor baseless in fact. When there are no scientific studies, he may indicate 'some people find 'x' works.'

It had some good advice and some advice I'd never follow. Much of what was in this book felt like something I had heard before; however, I watch WAY too much Dr. Oz.

Great holistic health book; covering many diseases and their common sense natural remedies

First Chapter: What should I eat is simple and effective.

this is a book i am constantly going back to

"8 Weeks to Optimum Health" is far better.

I'm not sure why this books. Exists. It seems to be a series of blog-post-like entries on various health matters. It helps that it has an excellent index (a bit), but it is lacks the virtue of being comprehensive and conclusive. That is to say, many times Weil simply admits that there are no known answers to a condition.

It's good basic info, but the other book is better: it packs more information in a better ordered way in fewer pages.

As I said, I'm not sure why this book exists. It's okay and all, but not necessary.