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“Comprehensive, rational and personal. It suppplies much of what is missing in traditional approaches to alcoholic rehabilitation. I believe that this book can save lives.”
Leo Galland, M.D.
Open this book and you will embark on a groundbreaking seven-week journey that will change your life. You will learn how to break your addiction to alcohol and end your cravings–and do it under your own power. Here, step-by-step, is a proven, seven-week program developed by Dr. Joan Matthews Larson at the innovative Health Recovery Center in Minneapolis, that subdues your body’s addictive chemistry and puts you on the path to full recovery.Amazon.com Review
In recent decades, many of those studying alcoholism have come to see it as a disease, rather than as a character flaw or a failure of will. And yet, alcoholism is most often treated through counseling. Joan Mathews Larson and her colleagues at the Health Recovery Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, discovered a series of nutritional deficiencies in alcoholics, and found that with proper dietary adjustments, they could help almost three-quarters of their patients kick the bottle for good. Seven Weeks to Sobriety is the updated version of the less interestingly titled Alcoholism–The Biochemical Connection, which was published in 1992.
#1 by 4yrssober102869 on November 12, 2009 - 5:28 am
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Don’t waste your money here, call AA and start a program. You can’t do it alone and certainly not without facing the real reasons that you self medicate.
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by Anonymous on November 12, 2009 - 7:02 am
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Please save your money! Of course, if one wants to stop craving alcohol (metabolized as sugar) one needs to go on a high protien, low carbohydrate diet. A diet like Sugar Busters is what is proposed. And of course, everyone can benefit from vitamins – so buy some and take them! The thing I found offensive about this book was that the author thinks that everyone who has a drinking problem is “alcoholic” (an antiquated term!) and that he or she can be defined as one of three or four different “kinds” of alcoholic. What a bunch of bunk! Instead of this book buy: Sober for Good and Sugar Busters.
Rating: 1 / 5
#3 by A Discerning Truth Seeker on November 12, 2009 - 8:18 am
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There are no quick fixes for alcoholism…this book just proves that fact one more time. The author’s recommendation for scads of medical tests to determine what “type” of addict one is, plus the cost of buying all the supplements involved in this “7 Week Cure” is probably beyond the ability of many people. Suffice it to say, I got hooked by the title, and I should have been more skeptical. Check out a self help group..they are proven effective and way cheaper than this plan!
Rating: 1 / 5
#4 by October6 on November 12, 2009 - 9:20 am
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Much too complicated for the average person. The overall premise that addiction is not just a “mental” problem but can find its roots in the physical is very believeable. BUT the book is more useful in the hands of professionals, not your average drunk. But if you want to go for it….do.
Rating: 3 / 5
#5 by Sandra A. Kistler on November 12, 2009 - 12:18 pm
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This is my second time reading this book. I was to impatient to read it through the first time. The author says do not jump ahead. I will do as she says now. I attend AA meetings. They give me the oppertunity to talk, but they have no nutrition to offer. In fact they say eat more suger as that is what you crave. Really.They drink alot of coffee I believe that both cause craving for alcohol. There needs to be a revival in AA, as today we know so much more about nutrition, brain chimistry, physical dependancy. There is a wealth of information out there. What I do not understand is I have been told, read nothing except AA liturature.
I was taught by my husband of 42 years you always look at all your options, to be well informed then make the choice for your decision.
Sorry for the spelling errors, fell free to corect them
Sandy
Rating: 5 / 5