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Summary: Misinformation, ignorance and blind prejudice.
Review: I gave up counting the mistakes and misunderstanding after I reached 100 - and had only reached the third chapter. The author opposes every major medical advance of the last 200 years: X-rays, vaccination, pharmaceuticals, blood tests, antibiotics, contraceptives, surgery etc etc etc. Although couched in terms of "patient empowerment" this book is, in reality, deeply reactionary. The author imagines a "golden age" (in medaeival times) when humans and nature lived in perfect harmony, a friendly local white witch brewed magic herbs to cure all your ills and the sun always shone. In reality, life was nasty, brutish and short. Life expectancy was about 30 years, 75% of children died in infancy, 50% of women died in childbirth. The advice given is particularly damaging to women. Any woman who followed this book would end up continuously pregnant (no contraceptives)with breast/cervical cancer (no screening)and smallpox (no vaccination) living in a hut with no TV/telephone/computer (EM radiation) and, in fact no electricity (radiation from cables). She couldn't leave the house (pollution) and certainly not use a car (fumes, toxins etc) and would only eat what she could grow in her own back yard (organic food). Ms Heimlich seems rather irritated that people (in the West) live longer than ever before and are healthier than at any time in human history - since this contradicts her basic premise. If you want a good laugh, read this book and make a list of all the things you have to stop doing in order to stay "healthy". I find it very disturbing that people are prepared to exploit the fears of the vulnerable in order to line their pockets with cash.
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Summary: alternative medicine
Review: I thought this was a great book to start with on today's alternative medicine. I have noticed that western medicine is restricted to drugs and surgery because that is what makes the most money. I can see why western doctors would be angry with Jane's book because she questions what is going on with western medicine. If you want to hear something more frightening, listen to the tape "Dead doctors don't lie" by Joel Wallach. Jane may have some mistakes in her book, but my observations as a layman lead me to believe that she is right-on because where western doctors have failed to help my family, holistic healers (naturopaths etc) have triumphed. Especially her chapter about cholesterol. I have found in more and more corners where what she is saying is exactly right - the whole issue is bunk
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Summary: This is an excellent book
Review: I'm quite perturbed by the negative reviews of what I consider a wonderful book. These reviews seem full of hate and vituperation. They also distort Heimlich's views and are, in my opinion, strongly and strangely biased.The chapter on chelation, in particular, has saved a good friend of mine from extensive surgery which had been scheduled, but was then cancelled because chelation brought about an increase in circulation which baffled the doctors. I seriously wonder if these reviewers have actually read this book. It is written in a delightful, often humorous way that makes its points easily and well.
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Summary: This is an excellent book
Review: I'm quite perturbed by the negative reviews of what I consider a wonderful book. These reviews seem full of hate and vituperation. They also distort Heimlich's views and are, in my opinion, strongly and strangely biased. The chapter on chelation, in particular, has saved a good friend of mine from extensive surgery which had been scheduled, but was then cancelled because chelation brought about an increase in circulation which baffled the doctors. I seriously wonder if these reviewers have actually read this book. It is written in a delightful, often humorous way that makes its points easily and well.
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Summary: alternative medicine
Review: This cover of this book should read "For Entertainment Purposes Only - Do Not Try This at Home". It is as unreliable as the other book by this author, entitled "Milk: the Deadly Poison" - or something similar. It is also unreadable, deadly chunks of stoggy prose interrupted by highlights, boxes and exclamation points - each "fact" more wrong than the last. If you want to know about nutrition, Amazon sells dozens of very reliable and well written books (those for freshman college courses are usually excellent for the general reader) for other medical/health issues affecting adults and children, there are also hundreds of good books - Reader's Digest, Dr Spock, for example. Perhaps not fashionable and without such a hysterical title, but MUCH better value.
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Summary: What Your Doctor Won'T Tell You
Review: This is an informative, well-written book. It is excellent as both a beginning book and an ending book (though not exclusively).
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Summary: What Your Doctor Won'T Tell You
Review: This is an informative, well-written book. It is excellent as both a beginning book and an ending book (though not exclusively).
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