The Perricone Prescription: A Physician's 28-Day Program for Total Body and Face Rejuvenation

Ok…I really haven’t gone insane. I saw this particular “diet” mentioned on a show I was watching about a month or so ago and the dietitian talked about how the “core” of the program is actually pretty solid but she thought, by and large the supplement and skin care regimen that he’s created is “excessive” – I think she was one step away from saying it’s just too much (money) to be spending and too much to be taking in terms of vitamins and other supplements. If you did everything Perricone said, you’d be taking about 20 vitamins and various other supplements and putting 4-7 lotions and topical creams on your person everyday, twice a day…and most of them are hundreds of dollars apiece if you’re buying his show more brand (and still quite pricey of you “shop around” for the same thing from another manufacturer). You’d be spending several thousand dollars a month just on supplements and creams before you even got to the food part of this.

Reading this and being able to be objective out it (i.e. I’m not looking for a quick fix, I’m looking for additional strategies to add to this whole healthy living adventure thing I’ve got going on) it’s slap you in your face obvious how this guy makes his living because, according to him, everything can be made all better with these supplements and creams. My complaint with this is it’s clearly for people who are making a LOT of money…he wants you to eat fish (specifically Alaskan salmon, but a few others are in there too) seven days a week and for more than one meal a day…according to him, that should be the staple of the diet with some chicken and turkey breast thrown in, but never beef. If everyone were to suddenly start eating like this, wouldn’t that have a long term negative impact on the salmon population….for the amounts he’s recommending, it seems like this diet will coast a lot of $$$ to stick to the letter of the plan. I think I’ve come away from it with some things I can defiantly work into my plan and it was interesting to read about health and well-being from a dermatologist perspective, but I’m guessing the people who can really embrace and benefit from this type of diet/lifestyle long term are the one’s making loads and loads of money. I do give kudos that all the recipes are the embodiment of simplicity, even my 8 year old daughter could make everything listed in the recipe section…he seems to think under his plan you could eat this way for the rest of you life…I think you’d get sick of salmon after a while…no matter the health benefit, eating ONLY one food 95% of the time, in my opinion can be really hard to stick with long term (unless you’re fanatical about salmon). Overall, interesting read from a dermatological perspective, but not something I think most people would be able or willing to do for a lifetime. I’ve come away from it with a few new ideas about supplements (small changes that I can make that won’t cost me tons of $$$) and some new (for me) info on bad and good sugars and carbs. I give it a C simply because the average Joe couldn’t get on this program without bankrupting themselves. show less

Excellent book. It is just basic common sense. Eat real,fresh food like berries,produce and nuts and grains,salmon.Forget the processed foods. He gives indepth descriptions of supplements and why we should eat the good foods and stay away from the processed foods.

Well-written; easy to understand; logical