Wayne Scott Andersen - Discover your optimal health: the guide to taking control of your weight, your vitality, your life

Praise for Discover Your Optimal Health

Have you ever been sound asleep and someone disturbed your sleep? Chances are you werent happy with that person. But what if your house was on fire and that person saved your life? You would be forever grateful. I was asleep about my health. Dr. A woke me up and led me to a safer, healthier lifestyle. Read Discover Your Optimal Health, awaken from your slumber, and create health in your life on-purpose.

Kevin W. McCarthy

Author, The On-Purpose Person and The On-Purpose Business Person

Dr. Wayne Andersen is at the forefront of creating optimal health in the lives of so many Americans. In his new book, Discover Your Optimal Health, Dr. Andersen continues to demonstrate how the right tools and behaviors can help people truly transform their lives. Our team at Take Shape for Life and Medifast is proud of Dr. As groundbreaking work.

Michael MacDonald

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Medifast, Inc.

As someone whos on a mission to advance health care and implement corporate health management programs across America, I endorse Dr. As important message. Healthy habits today are a practical solution within everyones reach. This is a book that will change lives.

Michael Nadeau

CEO, Viverae Corporation, Author, Working to Live

This book is a life changer for me. Too many years of dieting and exercising to just find myself back where I dont want to be led me to the book. The book focuses on what I have been missing all these years... what is going on in my head! Now I feel I have the tools to make the mindful changes to healthier life. Thank you, Dr. A.

Sue Piazza

Certified Health and Business Coach

My decision to live a healthy lifestyle started when I was 16, and dont think for one second that its been an easy journey. After all, I live in the same environment everyone else does. Over my nearly fifty-two years I have managed to maintain a healthy weight through exercise and calorie management, but never really felt like I was truly healthy. After reading Dr. Andersens book I understood that there were areas I was missing, and started adding simple, healthy habits to my daily regimen.... I now understand what it truly means to live an optimally healthy life. If living a healthier life is what youre looking for, this book is a great place to start!

David G. Miller

Health and Fitness Enthusiast, and Entrepreneur

More praise for Discover Your Optimal Health

If you think you dont need to read another book on health... rethink that decision! Dr. Andersens latest book takes you right to the heart (literally) for achieving optimal health, and delivers the tools to get you there. Incredibly informative and profoundly helpful to anyone wanting to embrace a richer, fuller life.

David Singer

Creative Director, ReThink All Media

For far too long we have been approaching health in the order of How, what, and then whyif we ever get to the why part of the conversation at all. Dr. A goes unplugged and lays out why creating optimal health is a fundamental principle to live a full life, and then goes into the whats and hows of creating it. Dr. A skillfully, gracefully, and boldly tears down the barriers, the concepts, the fears, and creates a book that will move you, restore you, empower you, and ultimately, with the combination of education, daily activities, and choices, assist you to truly live the life you were put on the earth to experience.

Ashley Miller

Certified Health Coach

Having failed at every diet (commercial or self-prescribed), gym membership, or at-home fitness program, I felt that I was destined to live the rest of my life as an overweight, out-of-shape man with an unhealthy prospect for the future. After reading Dr. Andersens book, Discover Your Optimal Health, I realized that I finally have the power to take control of my health and live the kind of fit, fun, and fulfilling life I always imagined I would have when I was younger. Dr. Andersen doesnt preach to me, guilt me out, or tell me what I have to do. Instead, he writes as though he was talking directly to me, nonjudgmentally, as a helper, partner, and health coach, giving me the confidence to realize I am not alone in my endeavor to achieve the proper habits of health. Thank you, Dr. Andersen, for allowing me to live the healthy life I always hoped I would.

Seymour Schachter

Creative Illustrator

Your world needs a new underlining structure of health. Dr. Andersen has simplified the process of making it possible if you are willing to work in the six inches between your ears! Dr. A asks the needed question: If you could choose optimal health, would you?, and then he takes you through a short and simple journey of why to create health; how to create sustainable motivation and vibrant, resilient, and brilliant life; and what will change in your life when you are all you can be. This is a must read if you want to live a long, healthy, quality life. Bravo, Dr. A!

Kelly Rife

CHC, Triliologist

DISCOVER YOUR OPTIMAL HEALTH

discover your
OPTIMAL
HEALTH

THE GUIDE TO TAKING CONTROL
OF YOUR WEIGHT, YOUR VITALITY, YOUR LIFE

DR. WAYNE SCOTT ANDERSEN

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Copyright 2013 by Dr. Wayne Scott Andersen Inc.

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2013 Seymour Schachter Illustration, all rights reserved

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First Da Capo Press edition 2013

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Note: The information in this book is true and complete to the best of our knowledge. This book is intended only as an informative guide for those wishing to know more about health issues. In no way is this book intended to replace, countermand, or conflict with the advice given to you by your own physician. The ultimate decision concerning care should be made between you and your doctor. We strongly recommend you follow his or her advice. Information in this book is general and is offered with no guarantees on the part of the authors or Da Capo Press. The authors and publisher disclaim all liability in connection with the use of this book. The names and identifying details of people associated with events described in this book have been changed. Any similarity to actual persons is coincidental. The mention of specific organizations or authorities in this book does not imply their endorsement of this book. Medifast, BeSlim, Take Shape For Life, Lean and Green are registered trademarks of Medifast, Inc. All rights reserved. The medically formulated PCMR weight-loss products, programs, and transition plans, the many references to calorie-restricted diets, and all other material derived from Dr. Andersens access to Medifast proprietary clinical information and data and previously copyrighted material as medical director of Medifast, Inc., are the property of Medifast, Inc., and/or its subsidiary Jason Pharmaceuticals, Inc.