The Skinty

The Great Physician Rx for Health & Wellness

Written by Jordin Rubin
*Taken From Amazon.com

* Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Riddled by immune deficiencies, Rubin spent most of his sophomore year of college coping with, among other things, a combination of Crohn’s disease, intestinal parasites and fibromyalgia. His six-foot frame dropped more than 100 pounds and he sought nutritional balance in a wide variety of places. His experience and ultimate recovery—brought about by a devout faith in God and natural medicine—led him to pursue doctorates in naturopathic medicine, nutrition and natural therapies. On the heels of his national bestseller The Maker’s Diet, the thirty-year-old Rubin offers this seven-part plan for a healthy lifestyle, based predominately on dietary and hygienic precepts outlined in the Bible. After years of tinkering with his own dietary restrictions and needs, he advocates a 50-day regimen of whole foods, supplemental vitamin cocktails, fasting and functional exercise. (Responsibly, he reminds readers not to make any drastic changes in diet or lifestyle without first consulting a physician.) Nonbelievers may have a hard time balancing some of his assertions as a Bible literalist with his lack of medical degree, though contributing writer Remedios lends credibility as a general practitioner. However, no one can dispute Rubin’s commitment to his faith and his lifestyle. (Jan. 10)
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*Book Description
At the age of 19, Jordan Rubin was a healthy 6’1” and 180 pounds. Shockingly, his weight fell to just 104 lbs. in a matter of months. His immune system was at an all-time low as he suffered from Crohn’s Disease. After seeing over 70 health professionals, Rubin was sent home in a wheelchair to die. Now, ten years later, Rubin is fully recovered, and he desires to share the keys to his own good health-not only for the disease-ridden, but also for anyone desiring to live an abundant life of health and wellness. Expanding beyond the solely nutritionally based information in his former book, The Maker’s Diet, in The Great Physician’s Rx for Health and Wellness readers will learn to apply these 7 Keys across the spectrum of their total daily health habits. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Skinty Review:

A sista from my church allowed me to read this book and let me tell you how I could not put this book down from the time I got it until the time I finished reading it in it’s entirety. And I was pretty surprised by that being everytime I saw Jordan Rubin’s face on my television I could feel a slight twitch developing due to my distaste for what he was speaking on. Any time someone is coming with some new or seemingly new revelation about something not laid out in the scriptures RUN I say RUN!!! There lied my distaste for what Mr. Rubin was saying. Making the claim that we are not allowed to eat shellfish and pork and how that’s biblical show me where as New Testament Believers I say.

Quite honestly it appears that Mr. Rubin may be onto something however, I plan to study that which he speaks about via the word and coming to a spirit led conclusion then. That’s one of those not such a biggie area to me being I’ve laid off of pork for the most part myself and while I do love shrimp if I’ve been deceived to believe I can eat them I mos def can release those bad boys if I found that I was well deceived into thinking this correct. However another person’s zeal about a thing and what seems to be backed by scripture can be the thing to woo us into believing someone or something is on point. I do not want to be wooed therefore will come to an absolute he’s on point or he’s not via the word.

I do not recommend not buying this book, I do advice considering the same and verifying with the word. Aside from the do not do and don’t touches, there is other info that you can chew on straight way. As this book teaches you how to live holistically from how you eat buying organic, to how you clean your house and care for your skin.

So bottom line word, good book, not sure how much I’ll agree with my own words when coupling it with the word and as I said this is something that I’d recommend even with my desire to study up on some things. Nothing stated to lead anyone away from the faith, could cause a person to be in danger of becoming obsessive about what they should or shouldn’t can or cannot eat.