A must-read book for people who cares about health
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As all Simon Singh's books, it is amazing as he seriously applies the scientific method. Singh and Ernst (an adequate name) addressed almost all the fashionable alternative treatments in search of the truth about them.
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If you or someone you know have any health issues or illness that is not being addressed, you must read this book. TO read the stories of the people, in their voices, will open your eyes and hearts to this "industry". More important, maybe to a path that will save or heal you or someone you love.

Medical tourism. No cocktail parties?I had no idea about this"business". Probably because my need has not been there. BUt I ask myself if it was, would i just dismiss my choices down this path as radical, crackpot, too risky and that is why they aren't covered by my insurance. Reading about people taking responsibility for their lives , and others that help people looking for help, has changed my perspective.

I hope that somehow this review helps a person in need to get this book and read it. I think you can't help but connect with someone in this book, and that alone is important.
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If you really care about your health and living your life to the fullest, you must read this book.
This topic is something I research constantly; it's a topic near to me because I've seen my father suffer due to careless doctors who pumped him full of unnecessary drugs when all they had to do is care a bit more about the true health of their patient. It was only after many months of horrible pain that he was diagnosed with cancer, thanks to an observation made by an x-ray technician (not even by the doctor who prescribed and injected him very strong pain meds!). Sometimes I become infuriated by the time lost and the few possibilities presented to cure him before his illness caused his death.
However, I'm trying to get informed now so the same mistakes are not repeated, and this book is a great starter.
It has many of the technical details you need to know about many important vitamins like A, C, D, E, K, all the B's. It's very well researched with all the resources listed. Yet it's not complicated at all and it's a very easy and entertaining read, as well as being informative, motivating you to take back control over your own health and helping you choose better.
Dr Kmiec is aware of all the inappropriate things prescription drug companies do to get their product on the market and how dangerous those drugs can be to our bodies. Plus, she was saved by what she writes in this book and I'm sure all of us can be too.
I really enjoyed this book and I highly recommend it to all. I know many people who'll definitely put this information to good use.
Let's realize we are part of nature and it holds many treasures to help us enjoy a healthy life!
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This book is a MUST READ for everyone!  If you want to be aware of the how the medical system is motivated, funded and managed and to understand that it is a large complicated and multilayered system, you need to begin by reading this book.  As a patient, and a potential hospital patient, you need to understand how to advocate for yourself and your loved ones and how to try to protect yourself when making health care decisions, and especially in understanding the value of having an ethical, morally responsible and conscientious health care provider and advocate.  You will be shocked by what you read, but you need to know where you stand as a patient in the health care system.
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A book that every doctor who really care about the health of theirs patients should read. Very well written and intriguing at the same time. It amazes me to see how most doctors complete discard the importance of nutrition and what we eat when it comes to bring one to full health or prevent/treat diseases. Dr. Kelly showed in practice what "The China Study" by Dr. T. Colin Campbell have indicated based on their research that there is a relationship between animal-based food and cancer.
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This book is a must read for anyone that cares about what they put into their mouth. "we are what we eat.." or what we don't. Unfortunately in the United States fresh fruits and vegetables have become almost foreign to us. We are not concerned that most of what we buy in the grocery store is loaded with ingredients that are not even pronouncable, much less are they actually food! With the rise of juvenille diabetes, heart disease, and an increase in cancer, not a decrease with all the treatments, this book brings us right back to basics. Start with your diet. Start with the food given to us by nature. Read the boxes. If an ingredient has more than two syllabels it probably isn't food.

  Kelly Hayford has a great writing style, and an excellent sense of humour so you won't find this book a dry or boring detailed account of what we should eat. You may actually laugh reading this book. Another excellent bonus is each page contains an excerpt from different books, and medical and scientific studies of astounding facts to the lack of health in this nation.(Make sure to read the margins). I highly recommend this book and am so surprised it is not a bestseller.
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If you're interested in your health, check out this must-read book! Extremely insightful and helpful.
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Another amazing book by Dr. Fuhrman that gets to the heart of a matter and it's a big matter; it's what we're eating. Only now, he's taken the gloves off on this one because we're facing a genocide today that is happening right underneath our noses. It's so right-in-front-of-our-noses that most of us won't even think it's abnormal, let alone a "genocide," (aptly titled) and will literally reward others, including our kids, with foodstuff that are killing us slowly but assuredly, prematurely.

I mean, at some point you just must lay it out there and that's what Dr. Fuhrman is doing. He doesn't want you to be one of those people who end up fighting against not only your self-interest, but due to the addiction to refined foods, one of the very core aspects of living that will help you and your family lead long, healthy and disease-free lives that you can genuinely enjoy in ways you probably cant imagine right now, and throughout your now longer life!

With so many other food influences, produced by people who may have good intentions but aren't in tune with what's natural or healthy, and focused more on what's convenient and tasty alone; the truth about eating nutrient-rich healthy foods, for the vast majority of us, is simply not understood beyond "making sure you eat your veggies." Even many in the know, don't fully understand what it means to eat healthily and how. DrFuhrman does.

I can already hear the vested interests gearing up to win you over to their fake foodstuffs and rage war against this book. I/we know how this goes, this book is sure to have at least as many detractors as it will champions because, as a protege of Dr. Fuhrman's for more than 25 years with an objective and comprehensive understanding of the nutritional field; and as a performance, lifestyle trainer and coach with an eye on the impact our lifestyle choices have on our energy and health, performance and well-being; I can tell you, the more refined a message is (one of the few things you actually want refined, unlike your food) and the closer to the truth is actually gets, the more detractors it will have. It simply steps on economic toes; those who've pitched their tent and built their habits around a narrower awareness, smaller ideas, or worse, nutritional tactics that produce predictable and even desirable results in the short term while selling your health short in the no-so-longer term.

Look, I get it, food is a huge part of our economy, our culture, and our lives; everything that's edible in our world or conceivably manufacturable is available to us right now or coming soon, and in ways that are so tasty (and addicting) people would, literally, rather die than face the truth that a nutrient-rich way of eating is what you need and will soon want to be eating after you read this book.

I'm glad you're here and reading this. Youre about to wake up to the certain reality that is both shocking in one sense, but also joyous as you discover the healthy needle in that big haystack of bad dietary influences that most of us are lost in.

Its time to get off the path of fast food genocide and on the path to what is going to help you not only live healthily but help you perform better to become more successful. ~ JAM
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The Nitric Oxide Solution is a must-read for anyone who is interested in his/her health.  It was fascinating to learn that low nitric oxide plays a critical role in so many health problems.  This book has changed my outlook on health as well as having changed my knowledge of foods and beverages that increase NO and therefore can improve my health.  If you value your health and that of your loved ones, you'll want to read this book and buy it for loved ones.
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This is an excellent book, thoroughly researched. I strongly recommend it to everyone who is interested in improving their health. I wish more doctors would read this!
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David Perlmutters book Brain Maker was recommended for me to read by a Physicians Assistant that I wholeheartedly trust and respect.  I am so glad that I read this enlightening book and recommend it without reservation to those who are concerned about their health and well-being.

Perlmutter is an award winning board-certified neurologist and a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition who is concerned with curing a variety of maladies as opposed to just treating the symptoms.

This is a very readable book that I found both intriguing and engrossing.  Doctor Perlmutter is an open minded physician who explains complex medical studies in terms that the average reader can understand.

Many of us do not know that our stomach houses a plethora of a variety of bacteria that is called the Microbiome.  These bacteria have been around long before humans inhabited the earth.  In our gut, they are key to our health.

In advanced modern Western society, it turns out that what we put on and in our bodies upset the balance of that bacteria.  Antibiotics, some medicines, soaps, shampoos, process foods, pesticides, and genetically altered meat negatively impact that balance.

Perlmutter provides example after example of medical conditions that have been reversed or improved upon through change in diet, use of prebiotics and probiotics.

It turns out that mental and physical maladies versus health are related more than we know to the bacteria balance in our bellies.

David introduces enlightening studies and recommendations while giving hope to those suffering from a variety of conditions that can be cured or improved through eliminating the extermination of helpful bacteria and living a healthy lifestyle.

The author teaches the reader how to make many of the foods that positively impact a helpful balance of healing bacteria that keep our bodies running at optimal efficiency.

I like this book so much that I am not only following the recommendations and losing weight, but also purchased the authors bestselling book, Grain Brain as well as books by other authors dealing with balancing gut bacteria that promote weight loss and a healthy way of life that improves our physical and mental well-being.

I whole heartedly recommend this easy to understand enlightening book that may extend your life as well as the quality of your existence.

Enjoy!
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This book is written for the general public, but is also worthwhile reading for physicians.  Dr. Knope explains what private, or concierge, or personalized, medical care is all about.  He describes what this kind of practice can involve, why it is a fast-growing movement in our broken healthcare system, and why it both makes sense for, and is within reach of, many more people than just the "rich and famous".  If you consider your health as something of value it makes sense to consider it as something worth investing in.  This book represents an important perspective not just in the debate over this type of practice model, but also in the ongoing national discussion about health care reform.  I highly recommend reading it.
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This book is a must-read for anyone who either works in the health care system or is a health care consumer or decision-maker - that means all of us.  Bob LeBow sifts through a very complicated problem and makes it clear for any reader.  Very simply, we, the American public, have been victimized by the interests of insurance companies, managed care companies, pharmaceutical corporations and other branches of our health system.  He presents the problem and offers a solution.  His style of writing is engaging and holds the reader's interest.  I highly recommend this book.
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It looked like one of those books that I should read.  I'm getting older, I need to evaluate my health.  The whole deal.  The problem is that books that I should read are often dense and seem to make no effort to keep me engaged from fact to fact.

That wasn't the case with "The Secrets of People Who Never Get Sick."  The book is a great compilation of best health practices.  It's never preachy and doesn't seem to try to veer your health one way or the other.  Instead, the book takes a look at some healthy life choices, and gives you the research as well as the historical origins of each.  It's a great pick-and-choose sampling with a great range.  From the history of the intense caloric reduction diet to alternative benefits of hydrogen peroxide, there is a lot here.  And, none of it is overwhelming.  Picking just a few could make a notable impact on just about anybody's over health.  Great book.  A perfect book to read before you make your next batch of resolutions.

Chris Bowen
Author of, "<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Our-Kids-Building-Relationships-in-the-Classroom/dp/1432724533/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Our Kids: Building Relationships in the Classroom</a>
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Laurie Garrett has done a wonderful job of portraying public health at present and for the future as the most important solution for our ever predominant world of microbes and disease. She has with an expert ability demonstrated how heads of state all over the world have betrayed their people as they continously undermine the most basic principles of public health.  Her exposition is an alert to consciousness for global experts to reconsider their priorities and put under perspectives global health issues. It is a call for humanity to become aware that our health and survival will depend on global cooperation of all people and the commitment of public statesmen to value health as the most valued asset of their countrymen.  Betrayal of trust has given a historical view of the development of major global public health issues. It is a book that can enlighten many readers concerned about public health.  My congratulations to Laurie Garrett.
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A close family member got diagnosed with cancer recently. I bought this book to help us all understand how we all can change our lifestyles to stay healthy. The book is so nicely written that I read it like a story book and could not put it down. It not only tells you what you should do, but WHY you should do it. The writer has explained all those complexities in such a way that it is very easy for a non-medical person to understand.

I consider the book to be a Godsend. There is no guarantee that anybody who follows this book will never get cancer. But at least it's a step towards a healthy and better life.

My brother's tests came out negative after only 2 cycles of chemotherapy - probably because his cancer was not that widespread, probably because he has been following the advice in the book religiously - who knows..  But I do know it has changed our lives in a big way and I hope it benefits others as well.
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The information in this book is so vital. Everyone, and I mean everyone, should and need to read this book. As a society, we are on a financial, environment and physical precipice about to fall off both. We have to take better care of your environment and rid both our bodies and the environment of as much of the toxicity as possible. If we do not, we will see more people, more friends, more family members contracting diseases faster and faster. This is going to tax our already ridiculously high health(sick) care.  Peter Greenlaw's has taken the time to research the facts and lay them out in an easy to understand terms. I highly recommend this book to everyone, especially families with children as they are the generations to come.