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The Perricone Prescription Editorial Review: Presents a seven-step diet, exercise, topical, and nutritional program designed to rejuvenate the skin and body, citing the factors that cause aging and a host of degenerative diseases while outlining how to improve overall health. 125,000 first printing.
Customer Reviews: Great book!! Definitely a Five Star book. This book is awesome. I have been following the steps provided in this book and the results have been great. I even started taking the appropriate supplements and using the suggested skin care products in the book. This book informs us on the importance in eating the right foods to maintain healthy skin and body. The exercise plan is fairly simple and not overwhelming. Get this book!! You will thank yourself later.
Take this prescription with a healthy dose of skepticism I read a dog book in the 70s that stated, "good coats are bred for, fed for, and cared for". Good skin in humans is much the same. Heredity plays an important part, but it's too late to fix that now. The shelves of our bathroom cabinets are laden with products to help us care for our skin (many of which are crap, but that's another book and review). The purpose of the Perricone Prescription is to provide a diet and lifestyle plan that will give you beautiful skin. Only a credulous person would take all the recommendations as gospel. The true believer would not only be exercising regularly and drinking eight glasses of water a day, but also taking hundreds of dollars in supplements each month, using the good doctor's extremely expensive moisturizers, and eating salmon at least seven times a week.
There's "clinical evidence" in the form of lots of pairs of before and after pictures of women who have followed this diet. You be the judge, but without guidance in many cases I wouldn't have seen the improvements or even confused the "before" with the "after". Unless you are coming from a diet of celery sticks and a granola bar three times a day, this program won't be a quick fix.
The supplement program seems over the top, and a thinking person wouldn't start a bunch of supplements without researching them elsewhere first. The skin care products sold by him deserve a skeptical eye, and the drugstore/department store recommendations are too vague or out of date.
Having said that, The Perricone Prescription has some merit. The diet plans I've followed (along the Weight Watchers model) always asserted that "Americans eat too much protein". Perricone contends that many of the models and actresses he sees are malnourished. I added up the grams of protein I typically eat and it does fall short of the US recommended daily allowance of 55 grams and Perricone's minimum of 65 grams. I may not be thin, but I could feed myself better. It seems like everywhere you turn, the benefits of eating healthy, drinking water, and regular exercise have another benefit. Eating more wild fish, less red meat, more vegetables: these are all good things. Taken with a shaker full of salt, this is a useful book.
Excellent book, and worthwhile recommendations I highly recommend this book to anyone seeking to improve their eating habits as well as their skin. Most of the book deals with the effect of diet and supplements on the body, and gives specific recommendations as to which foods and supplements have the greatest healthy and anti-aging benefits. As well, it also approaches the topic of aging in a very well balanced way. For instance, Perricone also stresses the important effects of exercise, sleep, skin care, and lifestyle choices on ones overall health and aging. The Three-Day Facelift outlines an easy three day meal plan to follow to reduce inflammation. The plan is uncomplicated to follow, and the foods he recommends are easy to prepare. I followed this for 3 days and felt energetic and my skin glowed. I repeat this program whenever I need a pick me up (or I want my skin to look great!). This advice in this book are definitely something that I have modified my lifestyle around becasue it is effective, sensible and something that I feel is beneficial to my overall health, in addition to my skin. I HIGHLY recommend this as a read for anyone looking to improve their general health and eating habits with some truly impressive benefits!
Solid Ideas But Impractical Application for Most People Ok...I really haven't gone insane. I saw this particular "diet" mentioned on a show I was watching about a month or so ago and the dietitian talked about how the "core" of the program is actually pretty solid but she thought, by and large the supplement and skin care regimen that he's created is "excessive" - I think she was one step away from saying it's just too much (money) to be spending and too much to be taking in terms of vitamins and other supplements. If you did everything Perricone said, you'd be taking about 20 vitamins and various other supplements and putting 4-7 lotions and topical creams on your person everyday, twice a day...and most of them are hundreds of dollars apiece if you're buying his brand (and still quite pricey of you "shop around" for the same thing from another manufacturer). You'd be spending several thousand dollars a month just on supplements and creams before you even got to the food part of this.
Reading this and being able to be objective out it (i.e. I'm not looking for a quick fix, I'm looking for additional strategies to add to this whole healthy living adventure thing I've got going on) it's slap you in your face obvious how this guy makes his living because, according to him, everything can be made all better with these supplements and creams. My complaint with this is it's clearly for people who are making a LOT of money...he wants you to eat fish (specifically Alaskan salmon, but a few others are in there too) seven days a week and for more than one meal a day...according to him, that should be the staple of the diet with some chicken and turkey breast thrown in, but never beef. If everyone were to suddenly start eating like this, wouldn't that have a long term negative impact on the salmon population....for the amounts he's recommending, it seems like this diet will coast a lot of $$$ to stick to the letter of the plan. I think I've come away from it with some things I can defiantly work into my plan and it was interesting to read about health and well-being from a dermatologist perspective, but I'm guessing the people who can really embrace and benefit from this type of diet/lifestyle long term are the one's making loads and loads of money. I do give kudos that all the recipes are the embodiment of simplicity, even my 8 year old daughter could make everything listed in the recipe section...he seems to think under his plan you could eat this way for the rest of you life...I think you'd get sick of salmon after a while...no matter the health benefit, eating ONLY one food 95% of the time, in my opinion can be really hard to stick with long term (unless you're fanatical about salmon). Overall, interesting read from a dermatological perspective, but not something I think most people would be able or willing to do for a lifetime. I've come away from it with a few new ideas about supplements (small changes that I can make that won't cost me tons of $$$) and some new (for me) info on bad and good sugars and carbs. I give it a C simply because the average Joe couldn't get on this program without bankrupting themselves.
There aren't enough words to say how WONDERFUL!!! I am 33 and first saw Dr.Perricone on Oprah. Everyone had great results, but the patients were much older. I don't have a concern at this time with wrinkles, but my skin is glowing and I rarely need make up. I have lost 75 pounds TWICE on this diet - I used it after I had my 2 children and now I am skinny again! I eat 5 times a day on this plan and am always full!!! My friends and even strangers ask me how I look so good so often that I had to Xerox his diet and keep copies in my purse to pass out! I am going to write his office next to thank him.
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