Nutrition Books

I don't have enough words to tell how this book is valuable to me.
You gotta read it! It will change your habits and spam your life time on earth!
Good luck!

While I agree with those who contend that even in large doses vitamin C undoubtedly doesn't cure cancer, neither do the deadly poisons of chemotherapy and radiation. Unlike the horrible side effects and life shortening poisons of chemotherpy and radiation, even in large doses vitamin C won't poison your system and shorten your life. Having said that, I convinced that you can take to much of even an excellent vitamin such as C.

The mildest form of chemotherapy, mustard gas was used in WWI. It was so difiguring that it's use was outlawed at that time. The form most often used in present day cancer treatment is the most toxic form available. As it burns the tissues, radiation is no safer than chemotherapy.

In the 1970's Nixon declared a war on cnacer, which meant he was declaring war on our bodies. I'm not war with my body, but rather desire to do all in my power to treat as the fearfully and wonderful made creation of God that it is.

While not a cure for cancer either, a truly healthy diet, optimal doses of all vitamins and minerals, fresh air, moderate sun exposure, plenty of rest, dealing with emotional issures, etc, can prolong people's lifes, give them a better quality of life with less pain and in less advanced cases even reverse the disease. Way to often we are looking for a magic bullet supplement or treatment for disease. There are no magice bullets, but rather we all need to take "responsibility" and care for our bodies the way they were designed to be cared for. Prevention of disease not cure should be our emphasis.

User "L. POWER lp542": while Linus Pauling is a great mind and his vitamin regimine is a wonderful way to maintain a healthy immune system, his mega-doses of Vitamin C are ABSOLUTELY NOT a primary treatment for cancer, as you suggested. It is irresponsible of you to suggest that taking large doses of vitamin C can push one's cancer into remission. The only effective prescriptions for cancer are those offered by leading oncologists, like surgery, if possible; chemotherapy; radiation treatment; radiofrequency ablation; monoclonal antibodies; etc. It is irresponsible and morally abhorrent to suggest that vitamins can be an effective primary treatment for cancer when leading oncologists have never supported this hogwash. You are presenting a supplementary treatment as a primary treatment. And, since cancer is a fatal disease, your advice can actually shorten the lives of patients who would otherwise be receiving treatments that actually work and have been proven to do so in double-blind randomized placebo trials. Do you really believe that a random book (written by a Nobel laureate or not) contains secret cancer fighting tools that leading researchers and oncologists are not aware of? If vitamin C loading was so groundbreaking in the treatment of cancer, don't you think there would be articles about it in major medical journals and presentations on it at the annual ASCO (American Society of Clinincal Oncology) convention? There is a reason that mega-doses of vitamins are not used as primary treatment at cancer hospitals. That reason is that vitamin C loading is NOT a proven primary treatment for any type of cancer. There are NO studies proving that vitamins can push any type of cancer into remission. Those cancer patients you mentioned who are alive today are not living because of their vitamin loading. They're alive because of the primary treatment (e.g. chemotherapy, radiation, monoclonal antibodies, etc.) they received.

I have not read this book, but I somehow doubt that Linus Pauling would suggest in it that vitamins are a good primary treatment for cancer. In fact, I'm sure he didn't. Something this riculous could only come from a crackpot poster on Amazon...

Reviewed by Andrew W. Saul
Assistant Editor, Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine

My Dad always said that when you want to know something, talk to the organ-grinder, not the monkey. With that epithet in mind, may I suggest that you promptly borrow or buy a copy of Linus Pauling's How to Live Longer and Feel Better, recently reissued in an updated 20th anniversary edition. Yes, this is THE Dr. Pauling: the man your chemistry teacher idolized and your family doctor tries hard to ignore. Why? Because Linus Pauling committed the cardinal sin of allopathic medicine: he, a medical outsider, dared to present, directly to the public, his insightful reviews of the scientific literature to demonstrate that high doses of vitamins cure real diseases. What's more, Pauling reassessed many supposedly open-and-thoroughly shut "vitamins-are-useless" studies and explained how the researchers had skirted the fact that their data actually demonstrated that vitamin therapy did indeed have statistical value. Again and again, Pauling criticized study authors who failed to interpret their own work fairly, or even accurately, and had passed off biased opinions as valid conclusions from their work.

When negative studies are revealed to actually be positive, organized medicine has egg on its beard. Hence, it has long been open season on Pauling, arguably the world's most qualified, and certainly the world's best known, critic of our scorbutic (vitamin C deficient) medical system. Pauling's two unshared Nobel prizes (he is the only person in history with that distinction) are no protection from ignorant critics who slam vitamins without reading the research first.

Like me, for example. I first encountered Linus Pauling's Vitamin C and the Common Cold in 1973 while I was a student at the Australian National University. In addition to being the author of my organic chemistry textbook, Pauling had also just visited our university. In the uni refectory (that's "campus dining hall" for you Yanks), I hereby confess that we privately made fun of Pauling. A physics student and I casually calculated on a serviette (that's a paper napkin, mate) that you'd have to do nothing but eat oranges all day if you wanted to consume the amount of vitamin C that Pauling recommended. Two Nobels or not, we thought he was past it, and we were not alone in our sophomoric view.

Some years later, now back in America and, quite suddenly, with two kids in diapers, I was reading all the Pauling papers and books I could get my hands on. Now, you see, I had become a man with an all-too-prosaic mission: to keep my two little kids healthy. Life for me has not been the same since, nor for my children. I raised them both all the way into college without a single dose of any antibiotic. I saw for myself that Pauling was right. Vitamins worked, for prevention and for cure.

It would be difficult to imagine that his advocacy of the practical medical application of vitamins would ultimately cause more of a ruckus than Pauling's previous overhaul of our knowledge of chemistry, or even the vicious blacklisting that Pauling got from the US government when he opposed nuclear testing. After bringing high-dose vitamin C therapy for colds and flu to the public's attention in the early 1970s, Dr. Pauling had to spend quite a bit of time defending much-larger-than-RDA nutritional medicine from an abundant supply of under-informed critics. By 1986, when he first published How to Live Longer and Feel Better, he'd had a lot of practice.

Pauling had the rare gift for making the complex understandable, and his talent shows most clearly in this book. Distilling thirty pages of scientific references into logical, common-sense advice, he covers vitamins and cancer, heart disease, aging, infectious diseases, vitamin safety, toxicity and side effects, medicines, doctors' attitudes, nutrition history, vitamin biochemistry and a good deal more. And, with all that, he still finds time to clearly summarize as he goes, and to include some personal thoughts on attaining world peace. This is perhaps the strongest presentation ever written on the need for supplemental vitamins. The new edition benefits from added notes, an introduction outlining Pauling's career, and the welcome inclusion of cartoon illustrations previously dropped from the mass-market edition. There are many good reasons why a one-second Google search for Linus Pauling will bring up nearly a million responses. How to Live Longer and Feel Better is definitely one of the best.

I have had this book for over a year now. I use a highlight marker to highlite the informative tidbits. This book can be hard to digest because of his knowledge of chemistry and the human body.Most of his health tips are very easy to read though. I have been on a high dose vitamin regiman for most of my life and I have not had any serious health problems. I look, act and feel much better than people half my age. (I was born in 1964).Dr. Pauling started the vitamin revolution back in the late 1960's. This book (How to live longer) is like a Doctors journal. As I said earlier- alot of the book is hard to understand unless you know something about chemistry. Dr. Pauling himself took 18 grams of vitamin C a day and lived to the age of 93. I myself take about 7 grams per day but I feel that is good enough for me so far.Dr Pauling also took his own urine samples to do tests on vitamin C and he found out that only 15% of the vitamin C is excreted through the urine! That means that the other 85% is being used by the body.Go on youtube and you can watch video clips of Linus Pauling discussing the importance of vitamins.
Thank you for prolonging our lives Dr. Pauling!

The name of the book is the new 8 week cholesterol cure and it is a fabulous book with plenty of informaion and tips on lower choleterol. I would recommend this book to anyone with heart problems as it gives great advice on all things to do with heart disease and how to keep choleterol down.

I bought this book to help reduce my recently diagnosed high cholesterol problem. I'm an RN and found this book very inspiring and informative. I highly recommend it and am using most of his suggestions. The best book I have found on the subject & I have lowered my LDL and raised my HDL. Now I am trying his weight loss ideas that cover one chapter and suggest restricting carbs. I started that today. This book is worth the money and the author also writes a newsletter that you can subscribe to.

Amazing results and pretty easy! Believe me, you can lower that colesterol and still eat well! Following a few suggestions in this book--I wasn't even that strict---oat bran, niacin, more vegatables, avoiding transfats ect, my total colesterol dropped 116 points in SIX WEEKS! My "bad" colesterol went from 177 to 80. The book is easy to read and you will learn tons about how your body works.

This book is an excellent read with practical, easy to follow diet changes. My cholesterol went from 257 to 187 in 3 months time. In addition to reading this book, I used recipes from the American Heart Assoc. cookbook, excersized almost every day, and read the "Cholesterol Down" book. This book has helped me understand how to change my life for the better, giving me the information to understand why I needed various diet adjustments.
In particular, I really enjoy the muffin recipes in the back of the book. And typically eat 2-3/day! Benecol also now makes a chewy caramel that I used to help get my intake of plant stanols/sterols as per the recommendations.

I got my total cholesterol down from 275 to 191, Triglycerides down from 221 to 96. LDL down from, 182 to 118 and HDL up from 49 to 54.
This was accomplished in 10 weeks by rigidly sticking to the zero saturated fat recommendation and half heartedly trying the Niacin regimen.
I cut out cheese, milk, whole eggs, etc. and substituted with olive and canola oils.
I have since ramped up the niacin regimen to the complete doses recommended by the book and will see if I can improve on these already impressive numbers.
Try it, it works.
UPDATE - 10 weeks after the review above I had my lipids checked again and my total cholesterol is now 133; that's pretty amazing considering my
total was 275 just five months ago and I have not taken any prescription medications. My LDL is now 75 (down from 182) and my triglyserides are now 71 (down from 221). I am actually concerned my cholesterol may now be too low. Great advice!

This is the most entertaining, interesting cookbook I've ever read, second only to the great Pat Conroy's cookbook. And that's a compliment of the highest degree because Pat Conroy is my all-time favorite author, living or dead! Does that tell you how "taken" I am by this book?

I generally don't buy a cookbook to "read" it; I buy it to skip around through the recipes, but after reading all the delightful accolades about the charming stories the authors have published, in addition to the scrumptious recipes, I started reading from page one. And guess what? I couldn't put it down! Between the variety of recipes for this long-neglected vegetable with the unlikely name of "collard greens," and the interesting, often humorous, tales of the authors' friends and relatives, I had the time of my life.

Other reviewers have likened this reading experience to visiting old friends or relatives. I relate to that because it took me back to my Ohio childhood where I could envision my mother and aunts, shelling green beans (or other kitchen chores) as they told one "cooking" tale after another. My memories were so vivid I could even hear the Kentucky twang still evident in their voices.

I'm not a "true" cook, by any means, but even I could make the Stir-Fried Greens, and it was mouth-watering with the suggested sweet-and-sour sauce recipe that was included. The next time we have a family "pot-luck," I'm going to ask one of my daughters to prepare the Collard Crock-pot Casserole. That sounds "to die for." I can't wait to taste it. Oh, yummy!

In addition to the above, The Collard Patch contains many intriguing facts. I enjoyed learning how to grow and harvest collards--not that I'll ever do it. It's just good information.

And I must rave over the soothing green cover. It makes me want to take off my shoes and run through fields of grass (or even collards) as I did when I was a child. It doesn't get any better than that, "y'all!"

Thanks, Mary Lou Cheatham and Dr. Paul Elliott, for stirring my long-dormant memories and for sharing yours, also. You have another California "Collard Convert" on your hands now. I was pleased to note that Californian Dorothy Reinhold, a well-known food author and the supervisor of "Cut'n Clean Greens," contributed several delicious recipes and some great information, as did Yvette Freeman, another "collard lover" who is best-known for her role as Nurse Haleh Adams on the popular TV show "ER."

Kudos for collaborating on this book. You have a winner on your hands. Fly with it!

I highly recommend "The Collard Patch" and Cheatham's other cookbook "Flavored with Love: Mary Lou's Family and Friends Can Cook" to anyone who loves to cook AND to read.

Reviewed by Betty Dravis, November 2008
Author of "1106 Grand Boulevard"

If you've ever had a yearn for warm Southern food and a feeling of home, this book is perfect for you. While it does introduce several delicious and unexpected ways to enjoy collard greens, these are certainly not the only food on the menu. Dozens of wonderful recipes are included, along with food facts, entertaining stories about the different cooks who contribute, and some lovely Scripture quotes for good measure :)

Author Mary Lou Cheatham has not only great culinary skill, but a wonderful family and a warm heart, both of which show through her writings here. Reading this book gives me the feeling of being surrounded by good company, enjoying great food as well as nice tidbits of advice and Southern wisdom. Recommended!

The low-down, nitty-gritty bits of dirt and information about collards in this book is the appetizer before the main course of recipes that makes even the most over-boiled critic salivate. The dessert of stories is a fine finish to this unique cookbook that even cooking-phobic readers will enjoy. Read it in one sitting or read sample chapters as time permits -- either way, you'll learn something and be inspired to cook and eat these greens that are so good for you.

Back in the middle ages, every grand lady in her castle kept her own book of cooking and healing lore which might be passed down from mother to daughter. These "commonplace books" might have quotations from sermons, tips to kill insects, notations on how to skin wild boar and instructions for serving roast peacock with the feathers on. Later on the tradition became more like a scrapbook, a way for an accomplished young lady to show an elegant hand in setting down a favorite poem, dash off a watercolor sketch and collect the recipes for the favorite dishes of her best beau--soon to be her husband.

THE COLLARD PATCH is an American edition of a "commonplace book" inspired by the homey 'mess of greens' that Southern children have gagged on for generations. There are recipes, many with a useful nutritional chart that shows the sodium level! There are stories, some of which shade into "yarns". There are more recipes, mouthwatering and fancy--who knew the humble collard could keep such company? The authors chat with us as if we have just dropped into their kitchen. I love the stories. I am thrilled by the section on cornbread, which contains some marvelous recipes for this Southern staple. I laughed over the instructions to Paul's Midnight Chili which begin "Far up the Crock Pot" and end with "Stop any flowing blood and apply Band-Aids as needed"!

These people speak my language. My one gripe? A cookbook needs tabs so the cook can find the recipes fast.

Highly recommended. Band-Aids not included.

The Collard Patch
By Mary Lou Cheatham
Paul Elliott

What a great idea for a cookbook, with stories and recipes.
This is a beautifully written book, with details on growing, and preparing collard greens.

I live in Utah. I didn't even know collard greens from spinach, kale or turnip greens.

I looked for frozen collards, with no luck. Next I looked for the fresh variety, still no luck. I did find some at the Whole Foods store. I later saw collard greens at Walmart, as well. They looked fairly sturdy, compared to other limp varieties of greens.

I have been reading the stories in the cookbook each night. Finally, on Saturday I began my chopping and freezing. It is very simple to remove the inner tough stem, and twist like a cigar. Then you slice at an angle and chop each section. Quick and easy.

Did you know there are two ways to soften the collard greens? One is by freezing, and the other is by adding a pinch of baking soda.

On Saturday, I picked out four recipes: Cherry Chocolate Cake, Apple Collard Raisin Pie, French Onion Collard Soup, and Collard Corn. The cake, although you need to note the missing ingredient, cherry pie filling, is a supper tasty and moist cake. Beware, it would be a very good idea to have company over. As a family of three, now, we ate and ate on the cake. Now it's time for some exercise. I walked the dog all over town, trying to fit back into my clothes.

The Collards Corn went very well with the Lasagna, I made for dinner tonight. I admit that I cut the garlic in half. My husband isn't a big fan of garlic. I thought this dish was great and very tasty, as a side dish.

The French Onion Collard soup great. I embellished it, a little, by adding two packs of onion soup mix to the four cups of water. I also added two whole onions, to get the real onion texture. I added the chopped collard greens on top of each cup of hot soup, browned the French bread rounds with a little butter, and added cheese, mine was mozzarella. It tasted just like Mimi's. Do they have Mimi's in the south?

Tomorrow, I will make the Apple Raisin Collard Pie, with the remaining 5 cups of collards, in my freezer. It sounds good, as well. I don't know why I picked two deserts. I guess I was just curious. If I like the desserts, I will surely like the collards. I remember the time my mom made cookies out of mashed potatoes. They were good, with a strange texture.

Now that I have tried collard greens, I will try to keep some in the freezer, for any future taste treats.

Jill Ammon Vanderwood
Through the Rug
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I am so grateful for the reviews. I would never have bought this book based on eating for beauty only. This is much deeper than that. It was well thought out and well done. I might buy this book for everyone I know.. well see! Out of all the raw food books I have bought this is in my top 3, who knows it could be #1. Great book you won't regret it. Beauty starts on the inside... and radiates out so maybe the title is fitting. mmmmmm?

This book is great. It truly shows the connection between the foods that we eat and how our physical appearance is affected. If it's true that we are what we eat, Wolfe shows how to do it right--the way nature intended. This book is a great complement to Pearls of Wellness, which addresses the emotional aspect of health (Pearls of Wellness 52 Inspirations to Achieve a Peaceful Body, Mind, and Spirit).

This book is full of great information which is easy to understand and apply. Super foods are where its at if you want internal health and beauty that shines through. People often tell me I have a glow about me. :-)

This book is outstanding!!! It blew me away. I have always been healthy but this took it to another level and really explained the importance of raw and organic food. I loved it. I have already implemented some of the suggestions into my daily life and feel great. I highly recommend this book, it's very well written, easy to read and simply brilliant.

Every bit of information in this book is extremely useful and helpful.Kirlian pictures of organic food is interesting, but they seem to over-use it in this book - as filler it seems (even though "filler" is unnecessary).

This book is so well written. It is very informative and the Dr. writes at a level that anyone can understand. He does not bog the reader down with lots of medical jargon. Instead, he uses language that anyone can understand and he is able to use descriptions that are very easy to understand. I learned things about the human body that I never knew and doctors never bother to tell you.

After all your frame is the most important link to your overall good health and longivity. This book gears itself to keeping that frame in the best of condition by carefully considering any weak links you may have in it. A real must read for the serious want to be in the best condition people.

I purchased this used, looked brand new and is just what I wanted. I will order from the Amazon marketplace again.

Dr. Nick's book is excellent. Clear explanations of how the body works and what it needs to be safe and efficent in exercise. This is a good book for teachers and students of any kid of exercise program and those considering beginning a program. I am a yoga instructor since 1973 and have recommended it to my students. They are very pleased.
Good for Dr. Nick to address such a timely subject so thoroughly.

This is one of those books that should be read by anyone interested in overall good health. The information, advice, and instruction are all excellent, as are the book's layout, grammar, and photos.

I especially benefited from this book because I have injuries from repetitive microtrauma, namely microscopic tears in the tendons of my forearms. They will likely never heal; however, taking the advice and using the exercises that Dr. DiNubile offers, I have prevented further injury and strengthened just about everything else on my body.

One of the keys points that Dr. DiNubile makes is the one on diet. This one, to me, is critical, one that is most often ignored by those new to exercise. For one, simply removing refined sugar from my diet (which I actually have done) has worked wonders. If you have an allergy or weight problem, you will surely find sugar (and dairy) working behind the scenes--and working to your detriment.

The other nice thing is that you don't need fancy equipment to get into shape. All you need is the will power. There's no need to go on and on here in this review. The book is only as useful as you make it. If you have the desire, Dr. DiNubile gives you all the tools you need. And in a very nicely produced package!

Joseph L. D'Agostino, author of "Modern Music Systems: a new perspective on music scales, clefs, and chords"

I believe this diet is a wonderful and healthy approach to losing weight, it is not to easy but the results in the end could just make your day, I lost 8 pounds in one week with the Protein Plus One Plan. I love it, I recommend it to all of my friends.

This book has every diet you could ever think of in it and it helps you pick the one that would work best for you. I learned a lot from this book and lost some weight without putting it back on.

I'll admit that these diet plans probably work, but I just got this book and it is not as easy as it sounds. I can see how it would work for celebrities who have someone to make them the meals they want with the allowed foods.

I am a busy college student, and the 3+2 was what was the best for me, but there was no way in the world with my schedule that I'd be able to get the amount of protien that my plan required by cooking foods. So I was going to try drinking protien powder shakes.

THEY ARE DISGUSTING AND EXPENSIVE. If you have the time and the money to prepare a variety of meals then I think you will be satisifed with this book and I wish you well, otherwise you will have a hard time. All these diets require that you eat a LOT of protien, and not from some of the sources that we previously believed to be good protien, like dairy products.

Also, if you don't know your exact body fat for some of these plans you have to make estimates, how many people are going to go out and get their bodyfat monitored? Your doctors office would laugh at you if you called them and told them you wanted to make an appointment to do that. There are a lot of hidden advertisements for Dr.Perrone's products, constantly reminding you to dial a certain number toll free if you need something he wants you to buy and he can't find it.

However, I am using the book as inspiration to diet, I may not lose fat as rapidly as if I was on an exact plan from the book, but I am going to try. I am going to eat a decent amonut of protien and lots of vegetables, and limit my fat and carbohydrates.

I have read this book from front to back and have selected the perfect diet for me from the diet questions. I have lost 15lbs in two months eating the foods that I love from the protein, carb, fat and free foods lists. I followed the instructions and have not been hungry. Other than planning to cook a turkey breast on the weekend for the week and for shopping for my foods that I will eat that week, this diet is a snap! I feel healthy. I feel very good. My muscle strength is returning and my fat is melting way. I would reconmend to the buyer of this book to get the free Lean Body Mass Calculator from (Diet Hacker). By weighting yourself once a month, doing the measurements that are required by the Lean Body Mass Calculator, you will get a fairly accurate Percent Body Fat measurement. With this number, the rest of the calculations in the book for your specific diet will give to you the exact information that you will need to create your daily meals. I would also advise that the buyer take a good multi-vitamin & mineral supplement, so you will be sure your body is getting the complete nutrition it needs everyday.

Here's to a slimmer me! Yum!!

Beware! This book is not for helping you change your habits over the long-term, but it interesting because it gives you a range of options should you need to lose weight quickly. And I MEAN WEIGHT, not NECESSARILY FAT. In fact, you will probably just lose a lot of water and the glycogen stored in your muscles, instead of actual FAT. It is pretty much physically impossible to lose 5 pounds a week unless you are morbidly obese and totally starving, which is not healthy, nor is it realistic over the long term. But "Dr." -- and that's Ph.D., not M.D.--Perrone gets 2 stars from me for the effort!

Still in the beginning, this book is interesting to read.
Would buy it again.....

Can simply drinking tea lead to weight loss? This must be some fad diet potion of sorts, right? Well, no. This book is actually referring to the tea you know and love without any additives or enhancements at all. It turns out tea contains three pretty amazing ingredients that are useful towards promoting weight loss: caffeine, L-theanine, and EGCG. The combination of these three work in harmony to reduce your appetite, burn stored body fat, and get your metabolism running high.

Of course, we're not talking about the kind of tea I grew up with living in the South where it's so sweet if you ran out of syrup you could pour it over your pancakes! But the author Mark "Dr. Tea" Ukra suggests using natural sugar alternatives such as stevia or agave to prevent the weight loss benefits of drinking tea from being negated by the sugar. There are even food recipes in the book utilizing tea as an ingredient. Wicked!

And if you have concerns over the caffeine content found in tea, then you'll be pleased to know how to easily eliminate over 90% of it while still maintaining the integrity of the taste you know and love from consuming tea. My favorite aspect of this book is that it can be used in conjunction with whatever diet and health plan you have chosen to follow.

So, low-fat, low-carb, Mediterranean, and all diets in between, don't you think it's time you started drinking more tea?

I would recommend this book to all tea lovers. And also to anyone wanting to know about tea & it's enjoyable benefits. I rec'd the book in a timely manner, in good shape & no hassles.

This book is so interesting! i was fascinated with all the facts and research Dr tea presented in this book. More importantly this really works. I find it extremely easy to drink at least 8 cups of tea a day. I simply replace my water. I don't follow the exact menu plan but have tried some of the recipes and they are delicious. I have so much more energy and I am feeling very positive these days. I started reading this book and drinking more tea right before a friend went on a business trip. When he came home 3 weeks later he pulled me aside and wanted to know my secret. he said it looked like i shed more then just weight. and it's true. i fell fabulous and i give all the credit to this book!

This book was completely fascinating. The benefits of tea were explained incredibly well, however during certain sections I felt that Dr. Tea was being repetitive with his descriptions. My only other fault with this book is the disgusting amount of "tea" puns. Blergh.
I haven't started the diet yet (I'm waiting for my loose leaf tea to come), but I'm really excited to try it. This diet recognizes that not everybody can eat at the same time every night, and cannot prepare a nice meal every night. Dr. Tea lets the reader know it's fine to have a bad day - just don't beat yourself up over it, and try to get back on the tea and healthy habits the next day.
All in all, I would recommend this book in a heartbeat, especially if you already love tea like I do.

This big fat juicy book contains about 5 of her smaller books and covers everything from descriptions of fabulous meals eaten in tiny restaurants in the Swiss Alps to descriptions of other patrons, to how to actually cook food, should you have cream in your coffee after dinner? (no) to her experiences of cooking and finding enough to eat during the war. She was a wonderful writer and after one of her stories, you will feel replete, as if you had just joined her in a meal.

This is an excellent volume and great value for money as it comprises several of Fisher's best-known texts.

No other writer combines a knowledge of cuisine, history, and social place with such lyricism and panache. If you want some obscure recipe in its unadulterated, early 20th century form, it is here. If you want an account of life under the hardships of war, described through the gastronomic difficulties of rationing and scarcity, look no further. But if you want all that and a style that is as beautiful in its choice of word and phrase as it is in its theme and moral, then you have arrived at the caviar of culinary insight. Fisher is so much more than a food writer and it is often easy to forget that you are reading the work of a author who is perhaps best known as merely the translator of Brillat-Savarin's masterwork, "The Physiology of Taste".

There a is haunting, autobiographical element to this work. The Art of Eating is actually a collection of Fisher's best pieces and so the anthology is divided into the books and arranged chronologically. Yes, there are recipes but I enjoy the personal stories best. Recollections of a meal in Lyon with a friend and a drunken waiter are so much more than embellishments of past adventure. They are windows to a world which has vanished; a time when food meant so much more to culture than a quirky jingle about cheeseburgers. Even if you are not a self-professed foodie this is a fantastic read and I recommend it to anyone who finds beauty and romance in a well-written story.

I thought this book was interesting. Our book group also read "The Omnivore's Dilemina". She brings a post WWII perspective to food.
The tomato soup cake was OK.

We had our meeting and each made something from the book. The author had an interesting life and has written many other books so it was a good discussion.

"The Art of Eating" recountss the tale from post World War I to World War II France in gastronomic terms. This is a collection of several books. "Serve It Forth," first published in 1937, is a history of gastronomy. In "Consider the Oyster" written in 1941, Fisher finds her voice. "How to Cook a Wolf" published in 1942, when wartime shortages were at their worst includes recipes for stretching the smallest of ingredients to meet nutritional needs and the needs of the spirit. "The Gastronomical Me" is this reader's favorite, which recounts Fischer's life in France. If you have any interest in good food, well-written memoirs or French culture, you really must read this book. It defines the word "classic."

I have read many books on the subject of food and health but this is absoultely the best book I've ever read on the subject. The book is so well written, that I could not put it down. I highly recommended this book - it will save your life!

Nancy Deville is a medical writer who became alarmed at the national upward trends regarding obesity and other health problems of the general American public. In her researches she uncovered an unpleasant truth -- the food industry has a significant responsibility for what is happening to American public health. The result of her research is "Dead By Supermarket" in which she reveals the benefits of real food while exposing the health risks of eating factory foods, serial dieting, taking drugs. Of special note is what Deville discovered concerning the intrigue, corruption, and simple ineptness within the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Using sold research to show just how the government and the medical community collude in the propagation of disastrous nutritional advice, "Death By Supermarket" is a vital and necessary call to action on both a personal and a political level. Informed and informative, "Death By Supermarket" needs to be on the Health & Medicine shelves of every community library in the country -- and considered an essential study for health and nutrition advocates, as well as non-specialist general readers with an interest in personal and public health.

I have read MANY books on health/nutrition, but few are as effective at getting the message across while still being enjoyable to read. I loved the pace and style and honesty of the book. I didn't want it to end, as I found it motivating to read a bit each day. You will not be disappointed with this book. It would be a great gift for those you love, as well.

"Death By Supermarket" is a five star book. The author's Grandma, the first healthy eater in the family, who is quoted a number of times in the book, would be proud of her Granddaughter. Even though Grandma was seen as the family oddball, she stuck to her beliefs and eventually passed them on to her Granddaughter Nancy.

For years my philosophy concerning food has been to "Let your food be your medicine bottle." To finally have an author echo these beliefs and gives additional insight as to how to walk them out is truly refreshing. We should shop for fresh, locally grown foods as much as possible. When going to the supermaket, we are to shop the outside isles of the store, where the whole foods such s meats, eggs, dairy,fuits and vegies are found. You want to stick with whole grains, whcih haven't had all the nutrients processed out of them as have refined grains, with only a few of those nutrients being replaced with synthetic vitamins, etc. It's also important to buy 100% free range meat, dairy and eggs, which don't have growth hormones or antibiotics, aren't crowded into farm factory facilites or fed species inappropriate food and are slaughtered most humanly. It's also important to purchase Alaskan Salmon, which isn't full of mercury and other toxic industrial waste contaminents. As Chief Seattle said, "How we treat the land, we treat ourselves." This is also true of how we treat our animals.

The whole food always contains various nutrients in the proper amounts that work as a team to nourish your body. Some of these nutrients haven't even been discovered yet. You definately can't seperate one or even several of these nutrients from the whole food and receive the same nutritional benefit. Also different foods are high in different nutrients, which is why you need to eat a variety of whole foods from all of the three main food groups, fats, carbohydrates and proteins.

Having said that, much of our soils have become nutritionally depleted, becuase of unwise farming practices and so you want to purchase organic grains and produce when that is possible. You also want to eat the freshest food possible. Wilted organic produce, which has been shipped long distances and sat for extended periods of time on the supermarket shelf is unhealthy at any price. You are better off purchasing really fresh non organic produce.

Nancy's message really needs to be read and embraced by every American, especially those with the strongest Puritan ethics, who really believe that food isn't meant to be savoured or celebrated. Our Creator gives us all things richly to enjoy. Mouth watering real food is meant to be eaten with gratefulness, leisurely enjoyed with family and friends as the good gift that it is to us from an all loving God. Also our bodies are more than a machine, and food is more than the fuel. Our bodies are a fearfully and wonderfully made creation and food is a gift meant to enjoyed as it nourishes us.

Once in awhile, if you're really lucky, a book comes along that will change your life. Death By Supermarket is one of those books. Initially,I was curious about it because of its intriguing title and now I'm a huge fan and supporter of its message. I have always eaten pretty well--or so I thought--but so much has changed after reading this book.I eat only real food now--foods that have been picked, fished, hunted, and milked. i have completely turned my back on "factory foods," imitation, fake food with ingredients on the label that can't even be pronounced. You've heard of a "fast food nation." Well, i think we have become a "factory food nation," and it has to stop. Reading this book motivates one to stop eating the processed junk and the fake this and that. It's the best diet book out there--and it isn't a diet book! If you eat real food, you will never have to diet again and your body will return to its normal weight. Nancy Deville is an amazing woman with a very important message for all of us. Death By Supermaket is a page turner!
P.S. Don't drink diet colas and don't eat splenda!

Very helpful, must-read for a Lyme sufferer. If you have it, or think you do, read this. Most doctors do not know the score on this widespread and dangerous disease. Some common misconceptions, shared by most doctors:

* You can show negative on the standard tests, and still be infected with the Lyme spirochete.

* Only about half of those infected ever show a red, bullseye rash.

Even if your doctor decides you have it, he will probably prescribe too short a course of antibiotics to be effective, and fail to take other measures. Go to a Lyme-aware specialist, even if he/she is off your insurance, or you don't have insurance. You're worth it. Untreated, this disease can kill or disable you, and cause irreparable damage to your mind.

Also worth noting, many people previously diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, fibromyalgia, and arthritis actually have Lyme. There have even been misdiagnoses of MS, lupus, and some others.

The book also covers all the major tick-borne co-infections--bartonella, ehrlichiosis, babesia, etc.--which commonly occur with Lyme, and sometimes in place of it. His anti-inflammation diet also proved very good for me. Cured my "irritable bowel syndrome" as a side benefit, and I'm losing some weight.

Dr. Singleton avoids the politics and horror stories, and just gets to the things that will help and inform you. If you want the science, politics, and history, which is a horror story, read Pam Weintraub's "Cure Unknown." Also highly recommended.

I've been a lyme patient for years and it wasn't until this book that I am finally on my way back to total health. Dr. Singleton not only covers testing and treatment, but the ability to fix the damage caused by lyme. If you've had chronic lyme, it causes damage in your body and quite a bit of inflammation. The lyme and coinfections could be gone, but you need to continue ways to heal your body from this damage. Dr. Singleton takes the patient full circle and I've not found that anywhere else but in this book. So, if you want to know how to feel better during and after treatment for lyme, then this is the best complete guide out there today.

I totally disagree with the quakery label given by one of the reviewers, and quite frankly I think it is irresponsbile to label a fantastic book such as this as quakery. I've been suffering from Lyme for several years, and I can say wholeheartedly that the information in this book has helped me immensely - physically, emotionally, and spiritually! He does a great job of describing in easy to understand terms what Lyme is all about, the different types of Lyme infections, and the current treatments being used, along with comments about the effectiveness of various remedies and medicines. Possibly just as important, he describes how other factors play a part in the overall strategy for battling the disease (diet, sleep, spiritual wellness, etc).

There is no known cure-all for Lyme disease. For the thousands and thousands who suffer from the debilitating side affects of the infection, we know that a 30 day treatment with antibiotics just isn't going to cut it.. .we've been down that road too many times. It takes a dedicated long term approach using medicines, diet and exercise.

Doctor Singleton's methods for battling Lyme show an immense knowledge and appreciation of the powers of Lyme and its infections, and what we as sufferers can do to win the battle!

I recommend this book highly for those suffering from this disease, as well as those who have friends/family/loved ones who are also dealing with Lyme. Two thumbs up.

As both a nurse and a patient, I found "The Lyme Disease Solution" to be the best reference book on lyme thus far. Not only is it packed full of information from A to Z (too much to attempt to list it all here) it is printed so as to be easy on the eyes. Since having lyme I have found it hard to read small typeface or tight line spacing, so I am especially grateful to have larger typeface and spacing!

I appreciate that the information presented is in clear, everyday English, not complicated medical jargon. Dr. Singleton maintains a positive tone throughout, not doom and gloom, so a person feels hopeful after reading this, not despondent. Other lyme books I have read left me confused and depressed.

What I have found unique and so utterly important is the "lyme inflammation diet" included in the book (along with easy recipes)that is the cornerstone of his program. It is designed to reduce inflammation in the body (which runs rampant with us lymies). Not only is the diet healthy, you just may lose some weight along the way. Thank you so much Dr. Singleton for stepping forward and sharing your knowledge with us. May we all heal from this dread disease.

The Lyme Disease Solution contains a good overview of treatment for Lymes Disease,Bartonella, Babesia, Ehrlichia and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. It is a very well written and organized discussion of an integrated pharmaceutical, herbal, nutritional Lymes treatment approach.

This book is easier to read than Healing Lymes, by Stephen Buhner, but does not contain the same depth of herbal research.

The case histories of successful treatment outcomes for Lymes, Babesia, Bartonella, and Ehrlichia are encouraging. Dr. Singleton discusses his own experience with Lymes, which was originally diagnosed as fibromyalgia. Singleton also briefly mentions that President George W. Bush was treated for Lymes disease, after the characteristic Bulls Eye rash appeared.

A surprisingly thorough section on repelling and avoiding ticks is included.

The Lyme Disease Solution contains some Lymes treatment recommendations I have not seen in other books, including acetylglutathione ; using quercitin to decrease dieoff severity; ascorbic palmitate to protect cartilage and low dose Naltrexone to increase immunity. Singleton recommends CLA, curcumin, chlorella, ALA, green tea, Andrographis and alpha glycans to stimulate PPAR.

Steven Sponaugle
Research Director, Florida Detox