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FOOD YOUR MIRACLE MEDICINE is for everyone. Jean Carper first told us about the potential of food to prevent and treat numerous diseases in her book THE FOOD PHARMACY and went one stage further in THE FOOD PHARMACY COOKBOOK. But it is with FOOD YOUR MIRACLE MEDICINE that Jean Carper has made a quantum leap in her revelations about the power of food. Over 100 symptoms and conditions from a minor stuffy nose to a potentially fatal cancer are dealt with in this complete, easy to follow, A-Z self-help guide.
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Jean Carper is a well-known authority on health and nutrition. She is a former senior medical correspondent for CNN in Washington and a former radio and TV on-air reporter. She has written fifteen books, including THE FOOD PHARMACY, FOOD - YOUR MIRACLE MEDICINE and STOP AGEING NOW!
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28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent book for those interested in natural therapies.,
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This review is from: Food Your Miracle Medicine: How Food Can Prevent and Treat Over 100 Symptoms and Problems (Paperback)
Jean Carper has written a truly, easy to read, helpful book on how to look after your body the natural way. My wife first used this book to cure me from a persistant virus that not even antibiotics could cure. I was truly amazed at the speed I recovered, since I had suffered for weeks before we discovered this "gem of a book". I would recommend this book to anybody seeking the "Natural way" to cure the body. I am purchasing a second copy for a friend.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Factual, easy to read and full of useful information,
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This review is from: Food: Your Miracle Medicine - How Food Can Prevent and Treat Over 100 Symptoms and Problems (Paperback)
This book is broken down into easy to reference sections, eg How to Avoid Heart trouble, or Migraines in Children. Each section is then further broken down in magazine-like articles on all manner of ailments and how we can avoid/mitigate/ improve them. Indispensable for the home - we are what we eat
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Misrepresenting research, and poorly written too,
This review is from: Food--Your Miracle Medicine (Mass Market Paperback)
I was lent this book by a colleague and, despite some reservations (not least caused by the title), I decided to give it a chance, and struggled through it. I wish I had not wasted my time, but I hope this review may save others from the same fate.
My main complaint is one that applies to a lot of this kind of advice. Over-complicating something that is largely common-sense. Unless you have been living in a cave on Mars, you probably already know enough to eat reasonably healthy, well-balanced meals. If not, a quick skim through the NHS website (or whatever health authority is relevant where you live) will give you plenty of good advice. Of course, the hard bit is following that advice. Jean Carper tries instead to find specific 'wonder foods' for a range of ailments and time and again, the evidence for these wonder foods is weak. No doubt much of the basic advice is sound, but the idea that you can 'scientifically' tailor your diet to battle illnesses just does not hold up in most cases. In nearly every chapter she manages to misrepresent a study or some piece of research. She does this in the same way as many tabloid newspapers: Quoting from a small study that finds a possible link between a substance X found in a particular food, and something that can be an indicator for increased risk of a certain disease in some people, then presenting this as proof that eating that particular food will significantly lower the chances of anyone getting that certain disease. This seems to be the backbone of the entire book: reading too much into individual studies (I shall not comment on whether the studies themselves are reliable, I am just going on the information that the author gives us in the book) On top of this, the book is poorly written. The author uses the same sentence formulations over and over again. If you are only reading one chapter about an illness you have, this may not be an issue but it makes reading the whole book really hard work. Also, in the unlikely event that she is reading this, I urge Jean to buy a thesaurus. Seriously, if I see the word "apt" one more time this year, it will be too soon. To sum up, I would not recommend reading the book as a popular science text about how diet affects your health, as the science in it seems really shaky, and if you are looking for advice on what to eat if you are suffering from health problems, you will most likely get far better advice from your doctor. On a semi-related note, I can thouroughly recommend Bad Science by Ben Goldacre. Although "Food, Your miracle Medicine" is not up there with the worst offenders, it uses some of the same tricks that Ben brings up when discussing nutritionists, and his book is both readable and entertaining.
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