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The 3-Season Diet: Eat the Way Nature Intended: Lose Weight, Beat Food Cravings, and Get Fit Paperback – March 13, 2001

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Fitness and diet expert John Douillard helps you restore balance to your daily life with The 3-Season Diet

Derived from a 5,000-year-old traditional medical system, the 3-season diet does what no other diet will: work along with the body's natural response to the changing seasons to feed the body what it craves and can best utilize at all times. In winter, for instance, we crave soups, nuts, warm grains, and other high-fat and protein foods such as fish and meat. In spring we want salads, berries, and leafy greens: a naturally low-fat diet. And in summer, when long days and outdoor activities require high energy, we desire fruits, vegetables, starches, and other high-carbohydrate foods.

By following The 3-Season Diet's simple instructions for eating foods appropriate to each season, adjusting your diet to your body type, eating at the optimal time of the day, and exercising without triggering a survival response, The 3-Season Diet will become an easily sustainable way of life that lets you look and feel better than you've ever imagined.

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"The 3-Season Diet is very informative. It helps me on game days, when I need energy most. This book is a winner."
-- Kendall Gill, team captain, the New Jersey Nets

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* Do you drink coffee in the morning to get your day started?

* Do you work through lunch?

* Do you crave sweets or a nap in the afternoon?

* Have you tried losing weight in the past three years and given up?

* Do you tend to have bouts of worry, anxiety, and depression?

* Do you have difficulty remembering things?

If you do, this book will help you restore balance to your daily life. By following its simple instructions for eating foods appropriate to each season, adjusting your diet to your body type, eating at the optimal time of the day, and exercising without triggering a survival response, you will not only lose excess pounds and maintain your ideal weight, you will generate energy and power in your life.

Derived from a 5,000-year-old traditional medical system, the 3-season diet does what no other diet will: work along with the body's natural response to the changing seasons, feeding it what it craves and can best utilize at all times. In spring, for instance, we want salads, berries, and leafy greens, a naturally low-fat diet. And in winter, we yearn for hearty soups, nuts, warm grains, and high-fat and protein-rich foods such as fish and meat. Following the foods that nature provides seasonally creates the best diet for balancing weight, mood, and energy for anyone living anywhere on earth.

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* Do you drink coffee in the morning to get your day started?
* Do you work through lunch?
* Do you crave sweets or a nap in the afternoon?
* Have you tried losing weight in the past three years and given up?
* Do you tend to have bouts of worry, anxiety, and depression?
* Do you have difficulty remembering things?
If you do, this book will help you restore balance to your daily life. By following its simple instructions for eating foods appropriate to each season, adjusting your diet to your body type, eating at the optimal time of the day, and exercising without triggering a survival response, you will not only lose excess pounds and maintain your ideal weight, you will generate energy and power in your life.
Derived from a 5,000-year-old traditional medical system, the 3-season diet does what no other diet will: work along with the body's natural response to the changing seasons, feeding it what it craves and can best utilize at all times. In spring, for instance, we want salads, berries, and leafy greens, a naturally low-fat diet. And in winter, we yearn for hearty soups, nuts, warm grains, and high-fat and protein-rich foods such as fish and meat. Following the foods that nature provides seasonally creates the best diet for balancing weight, mood, and energy for anyone living anywhere on earth.

About the Author

John Douillard is a former professional athlete and consultant to the New Jersey Nets, and the author of Body, Mind and Sport. He received a Ph.D. from the Open International University, which was established by the World Health Organization and the United Nations University. He practices Ayurvedic and chiropractic sports medicine and lives in Boulder, Colorado, with his wife and five children.

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Over millions of years of human evolution, nature has figured out how to feed us with astonishing accuracy. The more deeply you study the 3-Season Diet, the more logical and compelling you will find its wisdom. And the proof is in the craving: When you practice this diet, you will crave exactly what nature is about to harvest. You will not experience any struggle or strain, only a growing appreciation of how nature has designed the best diet for balancing weight, mood, and energy for everyone living anywhere on the earth.

In the late 1980s, I went to India to study their natural system of medicine, called Ayurveda. That ancient Sanskrit word means literally "the science of life," an in-depth study of nature itself. To the masters who described Ayurveda in the ancient Vedic texts, perfect health was a reflection of a life attuned to the changing cycles of nature and with all plant and animal life. They saw that these cycles, from annual growing seasons to daily rhythms, were connected to the rhythms of the cosmos and influenced every aspect of nature. Because Ayurveda was derived from natural rhythms, its research and proving ground was found in the expression of nature itself. The 3-Season Diet that I am presenting here is based on the Ayurvedic nutritional map, but with some important differences.

After my postgraduate training in Ayurvedic medicine in India concluded in 1989, I returned to the States and started teaching Ayurveda to doctors and lay people. During my years of teaching, I realized that the original Ayurvedic diets, which work for India, don't always fit well in our culture. So I began to apply the concepts and rules I had learned in India to the pace of life and the foods that are available here in the West. I have spent the last 10 years translating Ayurvedic concepts into the American way of life, including diet, exercise, eating habits, and stress-prevention techniques--all of which are included in this book. The deeper I delved into nature and its growing seasons and harvests, the more respect I had for nature's wisdom. I discovered that the principles of Ayurveda provide a universal body of knowledge that applies to every culture and each individual in all parts of the world. Although I would not call this an Ayurvedic book, the principles from which the 3-Season Diet is derived have been proven over more than 5,000 years. In fact, I like to think of the 3-Season Diet as an updated version of the original American Diet. It is based on the same logic farmers have been using to feed us since the very first harvest.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harmony (March 13, 2001)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0609805436
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0609805435
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.2 x 0.9 x 9.2 inches

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Dr. John Douillard, DC, CAP, is a globally recognized leader in the fields of natural health, Ayurveda, and sports medicine. He is the creator of LifeSpa.com, the leading Ayurvedic health and wellness resource on the web. LifeSpa.com is evolving the way Ayurveda is understood around the world, with over 700 articles and videos proving ancient wisdom with modern science. Dr. John is the former Director of Player Development for the New Jersey Nets NBA team, author of 6 health books, a repeat guest on the Dr. Oz show, and featured in Woman’s World Magazine, Huffington Post, Yoga Journal and dozens of other publications. He directs LifeSpa, the 2013 Holistic Wellness Center of the year in Boulder, CO.

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Maddy G.

Ayurveda for the western world

Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2019

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I have studied Ayurveda for a very long time and despite having many very good books on the subject I still found this to be quite engaging and useful.

To anyone unfamiliar with the ancient Indian science of life, this book explains the overall approach to shifting the diet according to seasons in a wonderful way. It is extremely helpful to know how and why our food should reflect the natural changes in local nature. People who find this book boring or too convoluted must be too accustomed to dumb diet books which treat people like idiots and just tell you what to do without teaching anything of substance. If that is what you want, keep going. This book explains the how and why of it all while sharing some great practical approaches to beginning to apply Ayurvedic wisdom in your life. If you implement even a few of the suggestions you will notice a big positive change in overall energy which will compel you to learn more. That's how I ended up studying it on my own for so long.

In addition to the information about food he offers some terrific tips on how deceptively simple breathing exercises can deliver tremendous benefits. Do not dismiss that as "just breathing". It is so much more.

He even offers a great segment which details short and simple yoga postures to use seasonally, either to get you going or to add to you existing exercises. And in the end there are 3 extensive grocery lists which show the foods to focus on the most, only sometimes or to avoid for each season. That is a terrific asset which will make it very easy, even if this idea is new and seems odd.

Some folks balk at this as not being scientific or going against current nutrition trends. Thank goodness. Nutritional trends come and go. This is based on a 5000 year old and highly efficacious system for working with natural rhythms to bring our bodies into balance and it is so beyond trendy diets it is a breath of much needed fresh air.

If you are seeking a way to feel calm, strong and healthy, to bring things into a place of balance or to release excess weight this is a fantastic resource. This is why Deepak Chopra recommends this book despite selling his own on the same subject.

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Ann

Excellent book

Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2010

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If you are interested in knowing a healthy way of losing weight, improving your life and all this by eating everything, this is the book for you. This is one of the best books explaining a diet routine based on age old Ayurveda. Usually I come across books written by authors who has good knowledge in Ayurveda but do not know how to express it well in English or vice versa. John Douillard has an excellent way of explaining the complicated yet great principles of Ayurveda in simple language. I had purchased 3 other Ayurveda books along with this book. This was the only one I could finish at one sitting. I am from India, land of Ayurveda but strangely, I developed an interest in the subject only after coming to this country. I am not (yet) interested (nor ready) in understanding all the underlying philosophies of Ayurveda but wanted to understand how to fine tune my diet based on Ayurvedic principles & my unique body constitution. And this book was perfect to give me just enough details. One thing I would say negative about this book is that - I wonder whether he went a bit too far in debunking other fad diets out there. I mean it isn't wrong, whatever he is saying is correct however I wonder whether he could've talked atleast generally without mentioning their names and such. Except this one teeny tiny disagreeable aspect, I LOVE this book a lot. I have changed my eating habits based on his suggestions. I still haven't managed to take 1-2 hr break for my lunch though, still on my to do list :-) I am also following his breathing technique suggestions & the morning exercise routines. I am already seeing an incredible change in my life. I am such a fan of the book and am recommending the book and his techniques to all my friends now.

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Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2009

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I read this prior to attending a seminar by the author. The book is great, and explains the basics. Combined with the seminar - it really makes sense once you understand the theory of keeping a natural balance. I learned many more things to do to maintain balance in the seminar that are not in the book. If the book makes sense to you, I recommend attending the seminar for additional info, or reading from the authors web site for more info.

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Buy it if you want to be healthy and build endurance

Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2019

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I am not new to Ayurveda, and I have to say that John Douillard explains things from a very western point of view while integrating Ayurveda eating habits. I love that I can now recommend a book to my friends who just don't understand Ayurveda when I try to explain, but still want to to better for themselves health wise. There are many examples of what to start off eating for each season, how to work on properly breathing and a few simple exercises to get you started. He teaches you how to build endurance for the long run. The first half of the book points out many popular diets and why they are not good year round, but for what seasons each one is good for - if you are familiar with that sort of thing. I was not, but I know many who are. I cannot recommend this book enough. A must read and do! I have been practicing what is in this book and from what I found in some of this author's materials on his site that supplement this book and I feel great. It took a few weeks just to build up the habits and do things correctly. Now I'm just going and I can do way more physically than I have been able to do in a while due to my own health circumstances.

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Convoluted simple ideas

Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2017

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I wanted to like this book after seeing the author on an alternative healing show. Basically, the principles boil down to: 1) eat in season, 2) with the lunchtime meal being the biggest of the day and 3) breath deeply and fully. He spends 338 pages complicating and convolution these simple ideas. Maybe a ghostwriter should have been hired?

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