The Truth About Beauty: Transform Your Looks and Your Life from the Inside Out [NOOK Book]

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Overview


Are You Ready To Be Transformed?

Fully updated, featured re-release! Includes new information, personal stories, and delicious recipes.

Beauty is not about hard work after all -- if you have the right tools. This revolutionary guide peels away the layers of conventional body and beauty wisdom to uncover the crucial missing information needed for real transformation. nationally renowned beauty and holistic health expert kat James reveals the life-altering secrets she discovered after more than a decade of self-destructive living, and an eating ...

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Overview


Are You Ready To Be Transformed?

Fully updated, featured re-release! Includes new information, personal stories, and delicious recipes.

Beauty is not about hard work after all -- if you have the right tools. This revolutionary guide peels away the layers of conventional body and beauty wisdom to uncover the crucial missing information needed for real transformation. nationally renowned beauty and holistic health expert kat James reveals the life-altering secrets she discovered after more than a decade of self-destructive living, and an eating disorder that almost took her life.

Based on breaking science and her own remarkable metamorphosis, The Truth About Beauty represents the most comprehensively researched, inside-out beauty guide to date. In this book you will discover the real power tools for dramatic, healthy self-transformation without drugs, surgery, harsh regimens, or deprivation.

In this fully updated and expanded fifth-anniversary edition, you will find more than one hundred new pages of information and hard-to-find resources, including book-wide chart updates, incredible new success stories, and -- by demand -- Kat's Six-Day Jumpstart menu and Recipe Collection from her acclaimed Total Transformation® programs!

Transform yourself by upgrading selfsabotaging choices into "pro-beauty" choices.

Shut off weight gain, inflammation, and food addiction by correcting your chemistry (not by counting calories).

Get back your "virgin skin" by getting off the merry-go-round of problemcausing product regimens and taking a smarter, inside-out approach to chronic issues.

Discover the most exciting, proven natural antiaging nutrients and strategies.

Access a powerful arsenal of standout foods, supplements, and cosmeceuticals that Marie Claire calls "worth their weight in gold."

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781416577423
  • Publisher: Atria Books/Beyond Words
  • Publication date: 12/26/2007
  • Sold by: SIMON & SCHUSTER
  • Format: eBook
  • Pages: 384
  • Sales rank: 76,692
  • File size: 5 MB
  • Items ship to U.S, APO/FPO and U.S. Protectorate addresses.

Meet the Author


Nationally renowned beauty and holistic health expert Kat James transformed her body and skin beyond recognition after a twelve-year eating disorder and the resulting liver disease nearly took her life. Through her book, national health columns, public television special, lectures, and acclaimed Total Transformation® programs, she has helped millions to mastermind their own healing transformations using science and strategy rather than suffering or extreme measures. James came to know the inside of the beauty industry from her many years as one of the most quoted experts and cosmetics-company spokespersons of the 1990s, and now offers a rare new perspective on enlightened, holistic self-transformation. Her advice has appeared in nearly every major women's and national health magazine, including Vogue and O, The Oprah Magazine, as well as on the Today show. She is founder of informedbeauty.com and creator of Total Transformation® programs. Her clients have included celebrities such as Kate Hudson and Sarah Jessica Parker and world-class athletes.

Table of Contents


Author Note     ix
Foreword     xi
Acknowledgments     xiii
Introduction and 2008 Author Update     xv
Uncovering Your True Radiant Potential
The Ultimate Beauty Lesson     3
The Process of Shedding     15
The Real Tools for Transformation     29
Feeding and Cultivating Beauty
Drink Yourself Beautiful     53
Reclaim the Joy of Eating     85
Your Kitchen Cabinet Makeover     103
Your 6-Day JumpStart Menu and Recipes for Transformation     137
When Food Is Your Drug     161
Achieve Maximum Radiance with Supplements     175
Transformation Profiles     203
The Makeup-Less Makeover
Get Back Your "Virgin" Skin     219
Purify Your Potions and Paints     233
Strategize a Whole New Skin Approach     245
Your Bathroom Cabinet Makeover     271
Minimize Your Beauty Wild Cards     283
Make Life an Authentic Beauty Ritual     295
The Living Beauty Resource Guide     303
Bibliography     365
Index     401
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  • Posted October 31, 2008

    This book is for anyone who has struggled with weight or is interested in living a healthier life.

    The Truth About Beauty teaches an amazing transformational way of eating and caring for your total body. If applied,this way of living will change and extend your life and the health of your body. If you have been on a miriad of diets, have a disease; from diabetes to heart conditions, or just want to improve your overall health, you will benefit from reading this book. Have you always wanted to learn more about suppliments that are detrimental to your total health? The suppliment section is invaluable. Recipes show you how you can eat without gettting hungry or craving the foods that feed that cycle. The resource guide is amazing and will help you get started immediatly, so you can begin to feel great within no time at all. Kat James is a thorough writer and covers every aspect of eating right and caring for your body in a holistic way that will transform you, making you look and feel your best. If you are feeling you need more after reading her book, Kat offers retreats and webinars to help you move forward.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 28, 2010

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    This book is Awesome,

    I love this book, have read and re-read many times, have given as a gift. Her web site is also very good. She challenges us to be responsible for ourselves and environment.

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  • Posted September 28, 2009

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    Wish I'd found this book sooner

    I wish I had found this book when I was a miserable, carb-addicted size 18. Kat James gives a controversial, yet extremely effective, nutritive apporoach to beauty and weightloss. A must read for the majority of americans. You know who you are.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 23, 2007

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    Kat has uncovered a lot of myths and misconceptions and offers so many alternatives. It's a wonderful resource for the environmentally and health conscious.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 16, 2005

    Life Changing!

    No More DIETS--- You will learn how to love YOURSELF and be healthy when you read this book. It truly changed my life.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 1, 2004

    AWESOME!!!!!

    What a wonderful book! Finally someone has written a book that really says it all. This is an inspiration to really motivate you into a life style change. Kudos to Kat James for writing such an inspiring book.

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