Live Better Longer: The Parcells Center Seven-Step Plan for Health and Longevity

by Joseph Dispenza

Book Overview

Simple steps for getting well, staying well and gaining vitality for a long and healthy life based on the teachings of legendary holistic healer and pioneering nutritionist Hazel Parcells. Dr. Hazel... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595163610
• ISBN13: 9780595163618
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

A Healer's Healer

Dr. Hazel Parcells was a total original with an astonishing ability to cut through nutritional dogma. She had little patience with most health experts, saying that they were unteachable because their cups were already full. She broke all the rules of establishment nutrition by recommending red meat, raw milk, butter, no soy and no margarine. And she understood body/mind/spirit medicine long before it became popular. Most importantly, Dr. Parcells was a living, breathing success story -- a woman who had been terminally ill at 39, who healed herself and went on to 65 vigorous years of pioneering discoveries in nutrition before her death at 106 years young in 1996. Dr. Parcells liked to say that "If you want to be healthy, you need to trade your wishbone for a backbone and get to work." I took her advice and became healthy. I noted that she earned several advanced degrees after the age of 50 and went for my own PhD. I was so intrigued by her findings about the health problems caused by soy protein and soy margarine that I researched and wrote "The Whole Soy Story: The Dark Side of America's Favorite Health Food." It confirms what she -- in her brilliance -- knew back in the 1950s! Joseph Dispenza's beautifully written book is a tribute to the life, love, laughter and wise teachings of this extraordinary woman. I recommend it highly to everyone who wants to remain joyous, vital and productive into great old age.

Great advice for keeping (or recovering) your health

When I first heard about Hazel Parcell's work on a Gary Null radio broadcast, I was intrigued enough to order the book the next day. I've been studying health and nutrition on my own for the last 12 years, and during that time have found a lot of the information presented by the "experts" contradictory and often confusing. With so many different theories regarding diet and lifestyle changes circulating it became difficult to know who to believe. This book is a refeshing change from all that. In the book, Hazel explains that one diet does not fit all, and that you have to experiment a bit and see what works for you, something I myself have been doing for many years. In addition, she gives lots of valuable information on water purification (her recommendation came as a bit of a surprize to me-it was the first time I had ever heard that theory), special baths for detoxification, the harmful effects of pollution in our enviornment, and cleaning your fruits, veggies, and even meats of toxins and pesticides. She even gives you a detox protocol if you've been exposed to X-rays. I highly recommend this book to anyone seeking to either improve or maintain their health, especially the beginner. It is filled with some of the most sensible health advice I've ever read. Thanks Hazel and Joseph.

An intriguing alternative to better health.

Dispenza has tapped a fabulous resource, in Dr. Parcells, to bring to light an alternative to healthy living. The pages map out an intriguing alternative down the path of alternative health and healing, while also providing a good read.

This book changed the way I look at health.

I am a massage therapist -- and I thought I had read and learned just about everything important in the field of health and wellness. But this book opened my eyes! I particularly enjoyed the philosophy of healing that it espouses. We are not just physical beings, but we also have emotional, mental, and spiritual bodies -- and all of them (they are all one, of course) need to be healthy. This book taught me, through the example of Hazel Parcells, that we all have to take responsibility for our health. But the great thing is that we really can do it! This book should be sent to every health professional in the country. I've already sent it to a lot of fellow massage therapists. Great book!

Life altering reading providing spiritual & physical changes

This book has changed my life spiritually and physically! Even though the book is mostly about acquiring healthy eating and hygiene habits, I selected it to cling to as a tool and motivator to help me through the quit smoking process. I feel this nasty habit has miraculously been taken away from me due to Joseph Dispenza's wonderful book! Not only do I feel better physically, but I feel I have spiritually reached a higher level. I also have a better attitude and feel happier. This book has helped me to care more about my health and to carefully select what I put into my body. I hope to live a healthy life like Dr. Hazel Parcells did for 106 years!