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sation and stress management. Choices include the Total Fitness package, where guests can
choose from more than 30 fitness classes (such as Pilates, beach walking, and yoga) and the
Weight Control package. Prices start at $3,550 and include healthy meals, a lifestyle assess-
ment, a customized exercise program, and all demonstrations, lectures, and classes.
Hilton Head Health Institute,
14 Valencia Road, Hilton Head Island, SC 29928,
800-292-2440, www.hhhealth.com.
Pritikin Longevity Center and Spa.
This health resort in Aventura, Florida, was founded
on the best-selling books by Nathan Pritikin, the engineer who 50 years ago reversed his own
heart disease and was thrust into the national spotlight when, on
60 Minutes,
he and Dr. David
Lehr proposed the radical notion that nutrition and exercise played a starring role in many
diseases. Now, of course, the link between the two is common knowledge.
TAKE TEN BREATHS AND CALL ME IN THE MORNING
“He lives at a little distance from his body.”
—James Joyce
Most dieters wage all-out war on their bodies, despising them because they refuse to
stay thin. Consequently, there's no harmony, no union—just this angry, never-end-
ing tug-of-war. We look in the mirror and feel sick, desperately wanting to trade our
bodies in for a different model. We become cut off from our bodies. It's us against
them. No wonder we can't lose weight.
Maybe it's time to call a truce. Perhaps it's time to do something radical, like
giving your body a little credit. Instead of constantly fighting it, how about actu-
ally sitting down and inviting it in for coffee? At least consider the possibility that
it might, just
might
, know what it's doing.
The best way to be introduced to your body is to breathe—ten deep breaths into
your abdomen every time you think of it. As you learn to breathe more fully, you
can't help but start to listen to your body's great wisdom.
—Adapted from
Jumpstart Your Metabolism
Although the spa is science based and you'll be expected to meet regularly with a team of
doctors, dieticians, and exercise physiologists, the setting is stunning. All 75 rooms and suites
