Essential Green You: Easy Ways to Detox Your Diet, Your Body, and Your Life

by Deirdre Imus

Book Overview

An essential guide to detoxifying your lifestyle and your body, inside and out, from expert and activist Deirdre Imus

In The Essential Green You!, the third volume in the New York Times bestselling Green This! series, Deirdre Imus shares tips on how to "green" the way you take care of yourself, whether with the food you eat or the clothes you wear, or the cosmetics, toiletries, and hair products you use every...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 141654125X
• ISBN13: 9781416541257
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Chock full of useful information not found anywhere else!

Admittedly, I'm an Imus groupie and every time Diedre or Don Imus recommends something that I can afford, I'm right on it! This is Diedre's best book and is fully researched with great suggestions--my favorite segments are foods and cosmetics. The web site for cosmetics she tells us about is awesome--worth the price of the book alone! I won't be converting to some of the items mentioned--I'm in my seventies--but have already tried other things she touts and I haven't been disappointed. This lady is an expert in her field--when Diedre speaks, I listen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You won't be sorry you bought this book.

Absolutely a must have volume from her Green series

I think that if we all read this book, keeping it on hand until it's common knowledge, we would be a much healthier and happier society. And the health industry as we know it would change to the benefit of the human race rather then the drug companies that are counting on us to get sick. And the big food manufacturing companies who want us to get hooked on their toxic cancer causing foods. Live long, live healthy is what this book is about. And do it for the same amount of money that you are spending right now when you go to your local grocery store. I personally learned so much, the light bulb went on and I'm now embracing this new lifestyle and loving it. This BOOK is going to be a present that I buy over and again to send to my loved ones, Birthdays, Christmas, Easter, Baby Showers, etc...It's the gift of life!

Wonderful book!

Without being pushy or overwhelming, Dierdre Imus takes readers through a wealth of choices for healthy living. She explains the hazards of choosing food, household and personal care products without first being an informed consumer. In this era of economic belt-tightening and of so many toxins in available products, ignorance is far too costly for all of us. Ms. Imus has an engaging, personal writing style, as though she is talking to a friend. And she offers lists of the bad choices, giving reasons why they are harmful, as well as lists of better choices in all the areas she covers. And she is thorough! I was glad to find, for example, names of cosmetic companies I hadn't heard of before who offer beautiful products I will enjoy trying. The whole book is like that --- a fascinating look at the wide and ever-growing group of safe and health-enhancing products that are every bit as good as more familiar commercial products, and are also price competitive. Interesting to read and invaluable to use as a reference. Highly recommended!

Love Deirdre's "Green" Series

This book is a lovely resource in the library of Mrs. Imus' GREEN SERIES. I highly recommend her books for sound and practical advice on how to be and live GREEN.

An informative book that helps you choose change

In her third book in this series, Deirdre Imus tackles the "greening" of us as individuals. From cosmetics to soaps to foods..everything has been researched and is well-documented without being overly pushy or completely non-understandable. Her down-to-earth approach at highlighting the influx of chemicals into our daily lives is enough to make even the most steadfast non-believer take another look- a hard look. Imus advocates natural healing, earth-friendly and chemical-free products and a vegan diet, but she isn't pushy in her viewpoints. She explains in simple text what benefits these things play in her life and how one can take parts and pieces of that to incorporate into their lives. In each chapter, she lists the "worst offenders" and gives suggestions for alternatives (i.e, nix this mascara or this snack food and try this instead). It is easy to skip around in chapters to look something up on the fly, but it is just as simple to read the book cover-to-cover (as I did) and feel like you had a week's work of reading in one sitting. Very informative. Overall, the entire book is about choosing. We can't do everything. In fact, some of us can only do a little bit due to cost, but we can start making some better decisions in the hope that the government and the companies who make this product will start paying attention.