08/26/2011: Francisca from Michelbach-le-bas, Alsace, France: "The Doctors Book of Food Remedies: The Newest Discoveries in the Power of Food to Treat and Prevent Health Problems-From Aging and Diabetes to Ulcers

I bought this book after reading quite a few very positive reviews and oh, was I disappointed. The information contained in this book is completely out of date and it is more of an ode to governmental indoctrination than anything else! Not at all what I was after.. The war against fats makes them include the words fat-free and low fat almost any time they mention milk, yogurt or cheese, very irritating! Then the disinformation about cholesterol which is horrific because in fact no cholesterol is bad for you, you need it all or else you die. The war on saturated fats is just as horrific! Just read the sentence: "These days, it's difficult to think of an illness that isn't made worse by a diet high in saturated fats. Arthritis, it appears, is no exception". They even want you to replace butter To anyone wanting who wants to understand what I am talking about, anyone who thinks that fats are indeed bad for you and that cholesterol is awfully dangerous I would advise they read for example Trick and Treat or Fat / cholesterol are good for you. No, don't be afraid, just read them and after that make up your mind! True, the authors do refer to quite a lot of advice which has been changed lately but in the end they are still caught up in a lot other old advice. The bad thing about this book is that, because they interview a lot of doctors, it makes people think that this might be reliable information and therefore you get the reviews you see here. I haven't finished reading this book yet but I fear that till the end it will be more of the same. Still, I will finish it!

Some other bad advice I found in this book: it advocates calorie restriction, while we know that our body needs enough nutrients in order to function properly and food being as bad as it is nowadays often we don't get the nutrients we need even if we eat enough. Advising canola and other vegetable oils like rapeseed or sun flower is not a good thing either. Just read the books I advise and see for yourself! One thing people need to be aware of, since we started eating as we are told by governments we started having a lot of illness that were rare till that time or didn't even exist, that should make people think.. Advising people to microwave their food is also wrong. We know that microwave ovens can bring about changes in your food and its functioning can affect your body, why advise people to use them? People are free to use them but they should be aware of the dangers before they do so! Ok, they are big business but so is health care. Their war on meat is also quite extreme and advising the 5 a day, something that has only ever made sense in the head of the person who was making up something for a marketing campaign is quite weird! Just think that they are advising the same amount of fruit and vegetables (they do it with water as well) for a child, a small woman, a big man. How can it make sense? But once you get your 5 a day they want you to go for 9 although they never really explain what those 5 or 9 really are because what is a serving? Advising people to eat fruit without pealing is also quite dangerous because even if you go for bio you never know exactly what was sprayed on them and the damage can be irreparable! Then this fixation on more fiber. According to new advice a lot of fiber may even irritate the bowel and is not really necessary! As far as the dangers of Laetrile here is more government sponsored disinformation. I would advise people to read the book The Cancer Industry: The Classic Expose on the Cancer Establishment or any other you like and make up your mind!

One thing I always find quite interesting in such books is the misunderstandings about the Mediterranean diet! I suppose the authors do some research on the Internet and then perpetuate such misunderstandings! I was born in a country where people eat according to the real Mediterranean diet and have been to others. It is a lie that people don't eat meat very regularly because they do! Spinning a traditional diet to fit certain propaganda purposes is very fashionable but only uninformed people will believe such lies!

I could go on forever because this huge book goes on and on. To be honest, it is such a big, heavy book that even if the information it contains was accurate it would never be a book I would have bought if I saw it in a bookstore! And as far as advising it to anybody else not even to my worst enemies.. Unfortunately it is not the first book of this kind I buy, another one I wouldn't advise to anybody is Giant Book of Kitchen Counter Cures: 117 Foods That Fight Cancer, Diabetes, Heart Disease, Arthritis, Osteoporosis, Memory Loss, Bad Digestion and Hun (Jerry Baker's Good Health).""

I bought this book after reading quite a few very positive reviews and oh, was I disappointed. The information contained in this book is completely out of date and it is more of an ode to governmental indoctrination than anything else! Not at all what I was after.. The war against fats makes them include the words fat-free and low fat almost any time they mention milk, yogurt or cheese, very irritating! Then the disinformation about cholesterol which is horrific because in fact no cholesterol is bad for you, you need it all or else you die. The war on saturated fats is just as horrific! Just read the sentence: "These days, it's difficult to think of an illness that isn't made worse by a diet high in saturated fats. Arthritis, it appears, is no exception". They even want you to replace butter To anyone wanting who wants to understand what I am talking about, anyone who thinks that fats are indeed bad for you and that cholesterol is awfully dangerous I would advise they read for example Trick and Treat or Fat / cholesterol are good for you. No, don't be afraid, just read them and after that make up your mind! True, the authors do refer to quite a lot of advice which has been changed lately but in the end they are still caught up in a lot other old advice. The bad thing about this book is that, because they interview a lot of doctors, it makes people think that this might be reliable information and therefore you get the reviews you see here. I haven't finished reading this book yet but I fear that till the end it will be more of the same. Still, I will finish it!

Some other bad advice I found in this book: it advocates calorie restriction, while we know that our body needs enough nutrients in order to function properly and food being as bad as it is nowadays often we don't get the nutrients we need even if we eat enough. Advising canola and other vegetable oils like rapeseed or sun flower is not a good thing either. Just read the books I advise and see for yourself! One thing people need to be aware of, since we started eating as we are told by governments we started having a lot of illness that were rare till that time or didn't even exist, that should make people think.. Advising people to microwave their food is also wrong. We know that microwave ovens can bring about changes in your food and its functioning can affect your body, why advise people to use them? People are free to use them but they should be aware of the dangers before they do so! Ok, they are big business but so is health care. Their war on meat is also quite extreme and advising the 5 a day, something that has only ever made sense in the head of the person who was making up something for a marketing campaign is quite weird! Just think that they are advising the same amount of fruit and vegetables (they do it with water as well) for a child, a small woman, a big man. How can it make sense? But once you get your 5 a day they want you to go for 9 although they never really explain what those 5 or 9 really are because what is a serving? Advising people to eat fruit without pealing is also quite dangerous because even if you go for bio you never know exactly what was sprayed on them and the damage can be irreparable! Then this fixation on more fiber. According to new advice a lot of fiber may even irritate the bowel and is not really necessary! As far as the dangers of Laetrile here is more government sponsored disinformation. I would advise people to read the book The Cancer Industry: The Classic Expose on the Cancer Establishment or any other you like and make up your mind!

One thing I always find quite interesting in such books is the misunderstandings about the Mediterranean diet! I suppose the authors do some research on the Internet and then perpetuate such misunderstandings! I was born in a country where people eat according to the real Mediterranean diet and have been to others. It is a lie that people don't eat meat very regularly because they do! Spinning a traditional diet to fit certain propaganda purposes is very fashionable but only uninformed people will believe such lies!

I could go on forever because this huge book goes on and on. To be honest, it is such a big, heavy book that even if the information it contains was accurate it would never be a book I would have bought if I saw it in a bookstore! And as far as advising it to anybody else not even to my worst enemies.. Unfortunately it is not the first book of this kind I buy, another one I wouldn't advise to anybody is Giant Book of Kitchen Counter Cures: 117 Foods That Fight Cancer, Diabetes, Heart Disease, Arthritis, Osteoporosis, Memory Loss, Bad Digestion and Hun (Jerry Baker's Good Health)." "