Seven Weeks to Sobriety The Proven Program to Fight Alcoholism through Nutrition,9780449002599

Seven Weeks to Sobriety The Proven Program to Fight Alcoholism through Nutrition

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780449002599
ISBN10: 0449002594
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1997-10-07
Publisher(s): Ballantine Books
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Summary

"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.

Author Biography

Joan Mathews Larson, Ph.D., is the author of the national bestseller Seven Weeks to Sobriety. She holds a doctorate in nutrition and is the founder and executive director of the highly esteemed Health Recovery Center in Minneapolis. It was the loss of her seventeen-year-old son to suicide that fueled her search for more effective solutions to emotional healing. Her clinic has now successfully treated several thousand people over a twenty-year period. She lives in Minneapolis.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction xvii
Loss of a Son, Birth of a Concept
3(8)
The Best-Kept Secret
11(16)
It's Not All in Your Mind
27(19)
The Difference in Drinkers
46(17)
Week One: Assessing the Damage
63(31)
Week Two: Breaking the Addiction
94(21)
Week Three: Correcting Chemistry
115(35)
Week Four: Tailoring Repair
150(42)
Week Four: Continuing Repair
192(24)
Week Five: Good-bye Depression
216(26)
Week Six: Biochemical Traps That Block Recovery
242(29)
Week Seven: Planning the Future
271(34)
Appendix A References 305(12)
Appendix B Suggested Reading 317(4)
Appendix C Recommended Laboratories 321(2)
Index 323

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