In The Super Health Diet, Craichy provides readers with a comprehensive evaluation of the diet industry, tracing its history as well as evaluating the major health clubs, popular diet plans, weight loss books, spas, clinics, as well as the pills, prescriptions, and procedures being used today. He demonstrates how it leaves people with the dilemma of what might work for them and shows how often the goals and products being promoted in the diet industry are out of sync with the medical-nutritional ideals and principles of good health.

Outlines scientifically supported methods for losing weight, fighting disease, and improving energy levels by eating strategic food combinations, describing a six-week program for embracing a healthier lifestyle and detoxifying the body.

"This manual offers the individual a new set of choices; ones which will lead to the Super Healthy outcomes that each of us deserve. Looking after sickness and looking after health are two very separate and different behaviors: You will learn how to nurture and improve your body performance so that you can enjoy optimal fitness, health and happiness. Chances are when you do this you will be almost unknowingly avoiding most of the preventable diseases that await you otherwise."--Provided by publisher.

“A fresh approach to aging well . . . the definitive ‘how-to’ book for celebrating the second half of life!” from a top yoga and mindfulness teacher (Darren Main, author of Yoga and the Path of the Urban Mystic). Filled with science, suggestions for gentle daily movement, natural remedies and modern wisdom, Super Ager is a practical and concise guide to optimal aging. Yoga instructor, nutrition expert and healthy living blogger Elise Marie Collins has compiled a comprehensive look at what “Super Agers” are doing to live long and prosper. Learn about movement at any age, brain fitness and memory maintenance, foods, vitamin and mineral content cues and clues, and what they do to promote health, prevent disease, and decrease and reverse symptoms of illness. In her revolutionary book, Collins presents us with a bold new paradigm of aging, showing us how we can increase not only our lifespan but also our health span. Through a journey of cultures that have the distinction of producing some of the world’s healthiest, oldest people, Collins reveals the secrets for living an extended and fulfilling life in which our later years become a period of wisdom, vitality, and happiness. From India to Japan, northern Europe and the Greek Island of Ikaria “where people forgot to die,” she shows how the unique lifestyles of these people can influence and improve our own lives. “A great inspiration to encourage humanity to not only live longer but better . . . Elise Marie Collins, gives us sound information that motivates us to eat a mostly plant-based diet and to move our bodies, even if it’s just walking, in a way that communicates—I AM ALIVE!” —Saeeda Hafiz, author of The Healing