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Summary: Dreadful editing ruins the content
Review: I found the information in this book to be minimally useful, and worse, marred by a lack of careful editing. Example: "more livilier" or "more fresher." Also, consistent use of "your" when the author meant "you're." Also, many repetitions of the same "facts," often under the same subheading.I find such problems reduce my trust in what the author has said. Once or twice is understandable. Repeated over and over, such carelessness truly diminishes the validity of the material in the book. Overall, this book has the look and feel of a low-quality, self-published book. That's not a comment on the quality of self-published tomes -- many are outstanding and professionally done. This one, alas, is not. In addition, many of what the author purports to be "facts" are now proven to be old, questionable suppositions, many of which have already fallen out of favor. Many of these are fat and cholesterol related myths from the past 20 years, and which have been updated or questioned or rethought in the past few years, especially in the light of the efficacy of new theories of eating high protein/low carbohydrate diets, for example. In sum: This book seems like a quickly thrown-together reworking of old material that the author has simply quoted from the popular press -- not a good source for hard facts. I'd like to know that, like good cookbook writers, he has tested each of these hypotheses for himself. Definitely would like to get my money back for this book.
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Summary: Dreadful editing ruins the content
Review: I found the information in this book to be minimally useful, and worse, marred by a lack of careful editing. Example: "more livilier" or "more fresher." Also, consistent use of "your" when the author meant "you're." Also, many repetitions of the same "facts," often under the same subheading. I find such problems reduce my trust in what the author has said. Once or twice is understandable. Repeated over and over, such carelessness truly diminishes the validity of the material in the book. Overall, this book has the look and feel of a low-quality, self-published book. That's not a comment on the quality of self-published tomes -- many are outstanding and professionally done. This one, alas, is not. In addition, many of what the author purports to be "facts" are now proven to be old, questionable suppositions, many of which have already fallen out of favor. Many of these are fat and cholesterol related myths from the past 20 years, and which have been updated or questioned or rethought in the past few years, especially in the light of the efficacy of new theories of eating high protein/low carbohydrate diets, for example. In sum: This book seems like a quickly thrown-together reworking of old material that the author has simply quoted from the popular press -- not a good source for hard facts. I'd like to know that, like good cookbook writers, he has tested each of these hypotheses for himself. Definitely would like to get my money back for this book.
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Summary: very interesting but not well edited
Review: I have found Bader's book to be very interesting and full of stuff I didn't know. However, the editing is none too good- things are repeated in the same category; there are plenty of typos and word omissions, etc. Also, I'd like some idea whether his "hints" actually work or is he printing them to fill page space?
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Summary: It's fun information
Review: This book is filled with fun information. However, I agree the book is edited quite poorly.
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