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Is there a divine plan for health and nutrition that we can follow? Jordan Rubin emphatically says there is in The Maker's Diet. Based on his study of scriptures, health and nutrition, and his own experience of sickness and recovery, Rubin presents a diet and overall wellness plan that he believes lines up with God's plan for healthy people.

The Maker's Diet begins with Rubin's inspiring story of his battle with severe Crohn's disease. His doctors called his case the worst they had seen. During college, Rubin went from the picture of health to death's doorstep-6'1 and weighing 111 pounds due to digestive problems related to Crohn's disease. Rather than giving up after over a year of sickness, Rubin clung to his faith in God and sought one more solution. The final try was a man who had developed a Biblically-based diet and health plan. This early version of the Maker's Diet saved Rubin's life and led to his complete recovery and healing over the course of several months. He includes astounding before and after pictures of himself that demonstrate the diet's effect.

This experience inspired Rubin to enhance the Biblically-based diet through additional research and create Garden of Life, a health and wellness company.

Rubin's in-depth analysis of the typical American's diet compared to what he considers to be a healthy, nutritious diet impacted me. In the recent weeks since reading the book, I have changed my grocery shopping and eating habits to better follow the book's general guidelines for healthy eating.

Rubin emphasizes the benefits of natural and organic foods in contrast to the nutritional deficits found in processed and engineered foods. He also compares the nutritional value of foods God included in the diet plan for the Israelites versus those excluded such as pork and shellfish.

While he makes no claims that his diet is a "cure-all," he believes "the book was inspired by God and that the practical protocol it contains can greatly improve your health."

The Maker's Diet offers a 40-day diet plan targeting not only weight loss but overall health and disease prevention. It consists of three phases. The general diet is a list of foods to enjoy and foods to avoid during the phases. For example, Rubin encourages readers to enjoy beef but to avoid pork. For all of the food, he recommends natural, organic or free range products for reasons he specifies. He includes sample meals and recipes. His diet also includes regular fasting for physical and spiritual health.

His Garden of Life company supplies many nutritional supplements and products to complement the diet. He recommends some of these but also lists various other suppliers of natural foods and products for the reader's benefit.

Some of Rubin's comments focus on healthcare and exercise. These are not Rubin's areas of expertise. His sincere though pedestrian writing about these topics offers little insight and may do a disservice to readers who follow his advice too literally. At times he seems combative toward the medical profession, as he contradicts what physicians and medical experts would advise regarding medicine, vaccinations and exercise.

He does come across as an expert in nutrition and natural remedies. Although not from mainstream or even physical universities, his advanced degrees are in naturopathic medicine, nutrition and natural therapies.

I think The Maker's Diet will benefit all readers who are willing to make changes in their diets. It offers general guidelines and specific programs to follow. Throughout the book, Rubin expresses the importance of his relationship to God and the Biblical foundation to his diet. In addition to his own miraculous story, he includes testimonies of sick people who recovered on this diet and overweight people who lost weight while on it.

It is sad to see that in this industry there are many critics that ignore the fact that the information provided in this book has actually improved the lives and health of perhaps tens of thousands of people. I am one of those people that suffered from serious digestive disorders and I thank Jordan Rubin for providing this information in a way that I can understand. I don't care where he got his degree, I care about my health and his diet certainly is not detrimental to my health. It works and the supplements (although pricey)WORK !!

I have used Garden of Life products for years and they have made my life bearable from all the problems I went through. I have shared these products with people who have been suffering and they have been seen improvements in their health (and they have shared the products with other people).

No, I do not agree with everything the book says, but the idea that there is a holistic health program that provides information and recommendation based on organic food, exercise, cleansing, meditation, and nutritional supplements as part of one program is a breakthrough. It is not a fad diet nor is it a Christian Book. It provides advice on how to prevent diseases and live a healthier lifestyle.

Just finished reading The Maker's Diet. I think I have every
alternative health book ever written that claims to improve
health. But, I'll have to say, this is the first one to
really make sense. And I've studied alternative medicine just
on my own for about 18 years.
If you will notice, Jordan has a lot of regular foods on his diet...in fact, MOST of them are every day foods...the difference is...THERE ARE NO ADDITIVES!!!!!
What did our grandparents and great grandparents eat in their

day? They ate a lot of what we eat NOW...except, they GREW
THEIR OWN vegetables, and fruit, and raised their own chickens.
And when they wanted MEAT...which, by the way, was probably
almost every day...they just went out in the country side and
brought home a rabbit, or deer, or turkey, and they processed
their own beef and pork.
I am head over heels in love with the message in The Maker's
Diet...and I think if a person followed it to the letter, they
would see profound improvement in their health in no time at all.
And while I think the supplements he recommends are probably
some of the best you can find anywhere, I don't think...unless
you're battling a serious or heaven forbid...terminal illness,
that you really "have" to take them to see improvement.
About 3 years ago, the Hallelujah Diet was the rage in our area.
I bought all the books and videos, because I knew 3 people who
had made drastic improvement in their health using that diet.
My husband and I (our children are grown) went on the diet..and
stayed on it for 3 weeks. We juiced the vegetables, left off
the sugar, quit meat...and I can tell you for a fact, that
after about 1 1/2 weeks...we felt so good and energetic...our
thinking was so CLEAR..we could NOT believe it...but then we
started "wanting" meat...and "wanting" ice cream...and our
health was fairly good...so we thought..."Oh, why fool with
this...". But NOW...we're getting arthritis, vision could be

better, etc...and we're thinking..."Ok, "maybe" diet WILL make
a difference." Our ancestors started the day off with bacon
and eggs, biscuits and gravy, coffee with sugar...and ended
the day with fried chicken, whipped potatoes with real cream
and butter and red eye gravy...with flour gravy on the side...
corn cut off the cob...and topped with a big dollop of butter..
and covered with salt and pepper...fried okra, green tomatoes,
and squash...and then topped it all off with a big apple pie
and a bowl of ice cream...AND LIVED TO BE IN THEIR 90'S!!!!!
BUT...they raised their own chickens...grew their own potatoes,
milked their own cow and made their own cream and butter...
grew their own corn, okra, tomatoes and squash...picked apples off
their own tree..and churned their ice cream. AND YES, that
takes TIME...but, oh, what a life...we're newly retired...and
just now going "back" to that way of life...and I can tell you
for a fact...it's priceless!!!! I wouldn't trade a day in our
garden for a week in the Mall Of America. We all need to learn
to slow down and LIVE...THIS IS NOT A DRESS REHEARSAL...life is
not about MONEY and STUFF...it's about how you feel inside and who you have beside you...Anyone interested in the Maker's Diet can also check out the website of Dr. Joseph Mercola....author
of Total Health Program...I think his site is www.mercola.com
TONS of good information on his website...there is also a
Maker's Diet fan club...and The Maker's Diet website is
www.makersdiet.com If you're sick and tired of being sick
and tired....The Maker's Diet is your answer....it's all up
to YOU !!!! Katydid

I've read this book and I don't see the inconsistancies in it. He doesn't say don't eat carbs. He says to be careful about what carbs you eat. He says to cut out the sugars, refinded flour, etc. He says to eat a lot of live, raw vegetables (Organic). As for the fish, he never says not to eat any fish. There are some seafoods he says not to eat such as shrimp, and clams because they don't expell the toxins. Basically any fish without fins and scales are off limits.
To the guy who wrote questioning if he was a doctor...Did you even read the book? I don't think you did. He has his certifications and boards that he is a member of. He wouldn't be able to call himself a Doctor if he wasn't. Also did you know that every single health product (anything that's not manufactured by a drug company) has those two disclaimers "..has not been evaluated by the FDA" and "products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease." If you have no proof of it not working then I don't think you have the right to be putting Dr. Rubin down. He has helped many people overcome many health problems. As a side note, almost none of the modern day drugs cure any disease or maladies, they're just bandages and it doesn't treat the root cause.
I encourage everyone to read this book. It makes sense and will be beneficial to many people who want to lead healthier lives. He does recommend his products, which he has every right to do, but it is not mandatory. Read the book and make up your own mind about it. At first I was a little skeptical, but I read it, and from some of the changes I've started to make in my eating habits, I have seen a difference (I'm not talking about weight), and I have not yet taken his products, but I think I may try the Primal Defence.

To all the critiques out there (especiall the one below), this is not a fad diet. Depriving people of the opportunity to read this book is depriving people of information that can make them healthier and help them lose weight in a safe way.That is why I am writing this review.

This book does not claim to help you lose "20 pounds by this summer !!" It has certainly helped me lose weight as well as alleviate my digestion problems. It has given me the energy that I didn't have before I started with this diet. Yes, organic foods are a bit more expensive and this diet does require a change of lifestyle, but hey...so does cancer and other diseases...so take your pick. It's about how to lsoe weight (if you need), live healthier and prevent health problems in the future for you and your family.

This book's underlying purpose is to promote specific supplements using so called HSO's; both good and bad bacteria. Two types of which are classified as pesticides by the EPA, according to the National Institutes Of Health. They are; Bacillus Lichenformis, and Bacillus Subtilis. Both of these bacillus are highly aggressive, spore forming and show mutagenic properties. Corroborating research is available everywhere,.. The National library Of Medicine, NIH, Lancet, to name a few.

Before you decide to follow this book, which was sent free to Health Food stores across America, for the underlying purpose of selling their products, think twice. These people have already received a severe warning from the FDA for falsified claims.They have embarked on a massive marketing campaign for the express purpose of profiteering, on science that is both dubious, and likely dangerous.I would rely on good probiotic supplements, that don't need a multi million dollar marketing campaign to sell them!

Reference;European Journal of Biochemistry 267;4068-4074 "toxic lactonic lipopeptide from food poisoning isolates of bacillus licheniformis." .. American Society For Microbiology, from Pub Med central, "Toxigenic strains of bacillus licheniformis related to food poisoning." oct.1999, [10] 4637-4645. National Library of Medicine feb. 2003 [2]290-2 ;University of Sheffield titled "Is this the historical cancer germ? " on bacillus lichenformis. EPA - biopesticide fact sheet 2/20/2003 opp chemical code 006492. Do we need food supplements with this in them?

As a concerned reader, I felt is was important to share some information that I saw about Jordan S. Rubin on yahoo.com. It is as follows:

Best-Selling 'Maker's Diet' Creator Has Shifty Qualifications

"Thu May 27, 7:30 PM ET
WPBF TheWPBFChannel.com

Jordan Rubin has been on top of the world. His newly released diet book, "The Maker's Diet", is a New York times bestseller, and his multimillion-dollar company, Garden Of Life" is thriving.

"Well, he wouldn't be able to open a (doctor's) office in Florida," said Kathleen Kelly, a registered dietician.

Kelly said based on Rubin's creditials, he is no more an authority on health than a normal guy on the street.

Kelly has never even heard of the institutions from which Rubin boasts his 2 PhD's.

"It's amazing. If you have enough money, you can buy a degree," Kelly said.

The country's leading authority on diploma mills, Dr. John Bear, affirms Kelly's comment.

"Both of his doctorates to me are really dubious, highly questionable, and have no validity in the academic world," Bear said.

Still, Rubin calls himself a doctor and wrote a book telling you what to eat and how to supplement your diet.

NewsChannel 25 requested an interview with Rubin to get some answers, and was told he is done with TV interviews.

"Rubin chose institutions that allowed him to pursue distance learning and a non-conventional course of study," said a spokeswoman for Rubin.. "While not accredited by mainstream accrediting bodies, his studies proved to be instrumental in his quest to help others. Jordan Rubin did not intend to mislead anyone or hide anything. He is sorry if this issue has caused any confusion regarding his degrees."

"It is so misleading because first of all, if it's in a book, the public believes it's true," Kelly said.

Aside from the book, Kelly said there's a whole other issue, which is Rubin's multimillion-dollar wellness company, Garden Of Life'. It distributes over 40 nutrition supplements to any willing buyer. Kelly took a look at them, and said "buyer beware."

Kelly said if someone reads Rubin's book, takes his supplements and suffers, Rubin could have a real problem on his hands. What's more she's weary of his claims the maker's diet cured him of what's known to be an incurable disease. Her bottomline: if it looks too good to be true, it is."

So, for all of you who seek to improve your health and figure, please beware. Personally, I don't believe that Rubin's advice is the way to reach my weight loss goals.

I personally thought the book was good, and had many terrific insights into healthy and Biblical eating habits. However, I suffer from the impracticality of these habits in an already healthy person's live. I can see how it would do well with a person who has problems, however. Organic food is VERY expensive to buy for a healthy family. I can see doing it for someone who is single, or a couple, though. Also the 40-day plan to get started on the diet is outrageous. I cannot identify what many of those foods are, because they are not typically in one's supermarket. You MIGHT find them in a local health foods store. And I commend anyone who is strong enough to make it through stage 1! I personally wasn't brave enough to try the types of foods it required. And I wasn't ready to give up my shrimp and crab legs (yum!).

Now, occasionally I like to buy an organic product or two. I will sometimes buy organic fruit (which is delicious, by the way), and more recently I have discovered organic peanut butter - all I do is push a lever, and I get fresh peanut butter from the peanuts in the bin! I love it, and the kids adore it! And I like to use more natural products, like butter (rather than margarine), sugar (rather than sweetners), and real salt. I know that contrary to popular belief, those things are better for the body than their lab-made counterparts. But on the whole, I really don't like "organic" milk, or what is considered "organic" cereals. Those really do taste like twigs and dirt to me. Give me some good ol' fashioned 2% cow's milk and oatmeal with strawberries any day! And organic meat is way to expensive. Like I said, far too impractical for a family. On the other hand, if I had a farm, I would raise my own meats, vegetables, and fruits. And I would love it (I know because I ate food from my grandmother's farm). It's fresh. it's wonderful. It can feed a family.

Just got acquainted with Dr.(?) Jordan S. Rubin's lucrative business of selling (for Money) a multitude of products all of which "...have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration." And furthermore these "...products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease." Other than accomplishing a "walletectomy" I see no purpose in this advertisement disguised as a book. God help us!

When I first bought this book on Amazon, I was excited. "Finally," I thought, "a book that will bring me uplifting spiritual thoughts and tidbits to help me renew my strength in combating my horrible eating habits."

Boy, was I surprised...and wrong!

This book is nothing more than another desperate effort to sneak around the other diet-related books (or perhaps I should say...the current low-carb craze books) and convince the already poor overweight public into thinking it's a legitimate "diet".

The so-called "eating plan" was no plan at all. It was a few pages of do's and don'ts, a simple list of foods you can eat and foods you should swear off, (including pork, since it's an "unclean animal" from the bible with "no real purpose on earth") and some drivel about getting plenty of "dirt" (yes...DIRT) in our system.

For a while, it had me thinking...perhaps I should eat pork after all. Although the book said pork was off limits due to it's biblical references of being "unclean", my thought was, if I was supposed to get some "dirt" in my system, then why not kill two birds with one stone? After all, pigs roll around in the dirt!

In the end, it was a dissappointing waste of good reading time, and I happily listed it on Amazon for sale and managed to convince some other poor, unsuspecting, good intentioned Christian into buying it for the same amount as I paid.

The author, Jordan S. Rubin, had an interesting story to tell (well, sort of interesting) about his personal plight with Crohn's Disease, and his pictures were pretty gruesome when he was at his most ill. What troubled me with this was, Crohn's Disease causes you to lose weight, basically, a person with this type of disease is in grave danger of starvation and malnutrition. I ended up more confused that this man claimed his diet was so "supreme" when it worked so well for him...to GAIN weight.

Um...pardon me Mr. Rubin, but the people who buy your book aren't likely to be UNDER weight...but rather on the opposite end of the spectrum. The book should not be advertised as a "diet book" of any sort, but rather a health book for fighting off nutrition-based maladies.

Rubin also recently launched a line of "advanced hygiene" soaps and has a full line of dietary supplements that he sells under the Garden of Life label.

The problem with the dietary supplement industry is that it isn't regulated. The problem with Rubin's book is that he has absolutely no scientific proof or studies to back up his claims (especially the one about "dirt").

I found it very sad that people with real problems have already spent hundreds and thousands of dollars on diet-schemes, all in a desperate attempt to lose the weight and keep it off for good, and will probably be a sucker...like me...and buy this useless book, with some hope that perhaps this thing will change their life forever in a positive way.

What was sad for me personally, is that I wanted some spiritual uplifting, and ended up being sickened enough by Rubin's "pork-scare" tactic that I nearly ran to the bathroom every time the thought so much as crossed my mind to eat pork for three weeks after reading about it.

In the end, there was only one point I agreed with; he believes that a proper diet is about more than just eating - it's a whole way of life.