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My Beautiful Life | 
 enlarge | Author: Mina Dobic
Publisher: Square One Publishers
Category: Book
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Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 343615
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Pages: 192
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.5
ISBN: 0757002447
Dewey Decimal Number: 921
EAN: 9780757002441
ASIN: 0757002447
Publication Date: February 1, 2007
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As a top academician in her home country of the former Yugoslavia, Mina Dobic led a privileged life. That all changed in 1987, when Mina was diagnosed with stage IV ovarian cancer that had metastasized to her liver, bones, and lymph system. Mina's doctors gave her only two months to live. She reviewed the literature and quickly realized that the chemotherapy and radiation treatment offered by her physicians was not a viable option. Instead, she did something remarkable: She decided to adopt the macrobiotic way of life. Six and a half months later, Mina Dobic was cancer free. My Beautiful Life tells her story. The course that Mina Dobic and her family took is a modern odyssey that weaves together many of the critical issues of the last half century--the struggle between repression and a free society, the conflict between conventional medicine and holistic health, and the forces that pull the modern family apart even as members strive to hold it together. During her journey to wellness, Mina passed from cancer victim to cancer survivor, from patient to healer, from student to teacher. My Beautiful Life not only eloquently explains how Mina recovered from cancer, but also details how cancer can be prevented through diet and a simple philosophy of living in balance with nature.
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 Macrobiotics works! March 15, 2008
Richard A. Myer (madera california)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I read this book and I am forever changed. I have adopted the macrobiotic lifestyle( for 3 years now) My brain tumor is gone as well as my high blood pressure, High cholesterol. arthritis and I also lost 45 pounds.I am also off of my seizure medication that I took for 17 years and the doctors told me I would never be able to go off of.I have been seizure free for 3 years also!! This way of life has been practiced by the Chinese and Japanese for thousands of years. I think it is about time that the American diet is put under scrutiny so that we can all be healthy. Richard Myer- 61 years old
Everyone should read this book January 7, 2008
Shirley R. Ashe (Massachusetts)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I can't reccommend this book highly enough.
It should be required reading for everyone.
If everyone followed this natural way of eating and lifestyle, there would probably eventually be no cancer at all.
I don't expect they will though. Most people are too self indulgent to give up all the tasty fast food out there:)
 Useless Charlatan August 20, 2007
Angela Kim (Los Angeles, CA United States)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
This woman - the macrobiotics expert - is, from what I understand, simply a dietician at a luxury hotel in Southern California. That's a euphemism for a "cook for rich people." She's not a doctor - of any tradition or discipline, either Western or Eastern medicine.
This book, and this woman's work, is beyond insulting to one's intelligence, common sense, and plain, old-fashioned logic.
I am all for using different traditions and disciplines for curing and healing. A friend's father died from a rare form of leukemia several years ago. Nothing could cure him, but it was Eastern medicine (REAL Eastern medicine) that made his final months much more bearable, helping to ease the pain and suffering he had to endure.
What I find most offensive and appalling - so awful that it makes my blood literally boil - is the fact that this dietician, untrained in any form of medicine, claims she can cure cancer. A dear friend had cancer last year. This friend saw several noted oncologists, all trained doctors obviously. He also saw experts in the field of Eastern medicine. No one had the arrogance or gall to tell him he would ever be cured. They may have differed on the amount of time the friend had left to live, but no one claimed they could cure him. Only Mina Dobic.
Is this dietician - again not a doctor of any discipline or field - somehow capable of performing biblical miracles? Clearly not. So where did she find the arrogance to claim she could cure him of a fatal cancer? I wouldn't mind if she sold him her menus and recipes, as a simple dietician, in an attempt to aid him somehow. What is wholly irresponsible is the fact that she sold her menus and recipes to a man who was clearly dying, a man who was clearly desperate for any small shred of hope - and she sold it to him as his salvation. Fine, sell your menu to whoever wants to pay, but don't tell your customers it'll cure them of fatal cancers! Because that is exactly what she did to my friend, whatever she claims in this book or in life.
Furthermore, it seems as if she borrows heavily from East Asian sources for her recipes and meal-plans. As an Asian-American, I have to ask: if miso and ginger, and so many ingredients she plundered from East Asia have such magical and mystical properties, why are there such high cancer rates in Japan, South Korea, and China? Or rather, any cancer in Asia at all? If all we needed to do was think positively and eat Asian foods, well, I guess no one in my family will ever die from cancer, using this dietician's ludicrous logic. It's just another form of exoticism, arrogance, and racism that is mind-bogglingly insulting.
I have nothing against macrobiotics. If it aids a relatively healthy person to live an even healthier life - more power to you. But what this woman did - promise a dying man that macrobiotics would CURE him of his incurable cancer - is entirely unforgivable. At the very least, she should be ashamed. But she probably doesn't have the intelligence or the introspection to ever do so.
snake oil August 14, 2007
bokmal (Montpelier, VT)
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
My sister died from Type IV Ovarian cancer despite following the macrobiotic diet and working with the same institute as the author of this book did, right outside of Boston. My sister believed in the macrobiotic lifestyle SO wholeheartedly. It was tragic watching her succumb, and she died horifically and painfully. I don't know how the author of this book sleeps at night, knowing full well that when it works to cure cancer, macrobiotics is a fluke. I'm amazed that people still buy into these lies, but when you're desperate and sad and scared, you'll believe anything.
"Promoting good health" is not the same as "curing cancer" July 25, 2007
Kris in Los Angeles
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
Please note that there is a big difference between subscribing to a macrobiotic diet as part of a healthy lifestyle and using it to cure cancer.
Macrobiotics may indeed promote general well-being and good health. But it is a tragic mistake to believe that it can rid the body of cancer.
I only write this because I lost a dear friend to cancer who tried to cure himself by following the precepts in Ms. Dobic's book. Her claims with respect to the macrobiotic diet's ability to cure cancer are inflated and dangerous.
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