Diabetes Without Drugs: The 5-Step Program to Control Blood Sugar Naturally and Prevent Diabetes Complications Review

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(More customer reviews)Being a pharmacist gives Suzy a lot of credibility with many people. Few doctors or pharmacists bother to list side effects of medications. If they did a lot of people might be put off taking their medications. Suzy informs you in a balanced way. It's nice to see a pharmacist pointing out when natural therapies are superior to medications.
Suzy also discusses the link between natural products and medicines ie. medicines are usually just synthesised natural products and this synthesis is usually just for purposes of profit (you can't patent a natural molecule). The beauty of many natural approaches is that they lack the side effects of the synthetic version (Suzy explains some of the reasons why this may occur)... and if that's the case it's worth knowing.
Equally useful is knowing which things to supplement with if you are on medications. Suzy does a first rate job listing the vitamins and minerals that are depleted in the body by certain medications and suggests you supplement with these. This is sensible advice.
If you have diabetes then you owe it to yourself to read books like this which are fact/research based. They will give you strong insights into the causes and treatment of diabetes.
This book suffers from a few too many typo's. Please fix some of them?
More importantly there are a couple of factual errors that Suzi ought to correct. It was annoying to find the entire book referring to EFA's (Essential Fatty Acids) as fish oils (EPA/DHA) and various other types of oils:
EFA's are defined oils the body can not produce. The only two EFA's are ALA (Alpha Linolenic Acid) an Omega3 oil (flax is one source of it) and LA (Linoleic Acid) an Omega6 oil (Sunflower is the most commmon source). It's a common error which many authors are making. Please someone stop and read a definition? Then get out a flow diagram of Omega3 and Omega6 derivative pathways? They show some very interesting things including that EFA's trigger your bodies production of anti-coagulants and anti-inflammatories... a very useful thing in diseases which have both a coagulation and inflammatory component.
Suzy mis-quotes Dr Michael Holick (a dermatologist) on VitD: Suzy recommends people stay out of the sun between 11am-3pm. Holick points out that it is only between 11am - 3pm that UVB is present and that's what you need to produce VitD. He does say you only need about 10 minutes and not to stay out too long. This was probably just a typo... but it would be nice if someone corrected it.
There are a few more things Suzy could have added to the book like the link between fructose/sucrose and uric acid... which then triggers inflammation and the inflammatory process is involved in diabetes.
You don't have to be diabetic to read this book as it has lots of useful information that's just as applicable to non-diabetics.
Well done Suzy.
:-)

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Tao of Beauty: Chinese Herbal Secrets to Feeling Good and Looking Great Review

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(More customer reviews)Although I like some of the recipes the author shares with us, I doubt her knowledge of herbal medicine. She has certainly paid a little attention here and there, and collected many recipes, but she contradicts herself quite often.
At the beginning of the book she lists items according to their yin/yang nature. So, for example, chicken is neutral or yin/yang. But later in the text she refers to chicken as a warming or yang food.
In the various sections on skin care, she lists beneficial foods, and foods to be avoided. In several places, however, she contradicts herself. For example: she says that for a certain skin condition, you should avoid cool-energy foods, but her list of beneficial foods includes several cool-energy items.
The author brings a variety of topical recipes (scrubs, toners, lotions), most made from food items. Many recipes are simple, use foods widely available, and are easy to prepare. Just don't have dandruff, because her vodka-treatment won't come cheap.
Some of the edible recipes are quite good and very simple. Others are questionable. For example, her papaya peanut soup consists of pork, papaya, raw peanuts and salt. (Sounds delicious?) The ingredients are cooked for 20 minutes without the addition of water. Well, try that. Good luck.
She also suggests to use surgical gloves when cooking to protect your hands. I wonder whether she has ever handled hot pots in her life, or even stood near a hot stove.
Overall, the book is interesting to read because the author uses food as medicine (instead of pharmaceutical preparations), but it contains many inconsistencies.

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The Encyclopedia of Country Living Review

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(More customer reviews)The Encyclopedia of Country Living by Carla Emery, A Review, by Sher June
This book is phenomenal! Besides offering general information on
gardening and variations on the usual ways to prepare and preserve
produce, Carla Emery includes thousands of other exotic and old
fashioned recipes. That alone would be remarkable, but she doesn't stop
there. She covers information on every aspect of farming and
homesteading from buying a farm to delivering your own baby---yes, if you
are all alone when you go into labor!
Here is a general idea of what she includes, as well as some of the
weirder specifics:
How to get water - dowsing, getting it to your farm, using it, pollution
concerns
Living primitively - shelter, backwoods refrigeration, campfire kitchens
Alternative energy - information and resources, using a solar cooker (We
have one, and they really do work.)
Washing clothes by hand
Quilting
Candle making - paraffin and beeswax
Foraging - also poisonous plants and mushrooms
Wood - harvesting, heating, wood cook stoves
Fertilizing your soil
Raising earthworms for gardening, bait, or money making
Using draft horses and oxen
Grain (all kinds!) - planting; mowing by hand; binding sheaves and making
shocks to cure them;
threshing by hand, with animals, or machinery; winnowing; drying;
storing; grinding; and protecting from pests
Preserving food - canning, freezing, drying, salting, larding, fermenting,
jams and juices, making vinegar
Saving seeds for next year plants
Herbs - culinary, not medicinal
Pressing oil from seeds
Acorns - making meal and flour
Bamboo - growing, recipes, and various other uses
Wild Rice - foraging and growing your own
Flax - growing and making linen
Maple sugaring - collecting sap and making syrup
Dandelion root or chicory coffee
Beekeeping - keeping bees, harvesting and using wax and honey
Animals
Raising, feeding, and caring for all types of livestock
Building barns, fences, chicken coops, rabbit hutches, etc.
Pastures, forage, hay, feeds
Predator control
Diseases and veterinary care
Reproduction from breeding to births
Dehorning, castrating, hoof trimming
Sheep shearing and using wool
Pigs - housing, fencing, and how to catch a pig!
Rabbit raising
Poultry - chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, guineas; hatching chicks;
preserving eggs and testing them for safety; using feathers
Dairying - milking and milk handling; all types of dairy products; cream
separators and butter churns
Butchering - preserving meat; making sausage, soap, and lard; tanning
hides; making pickled pig feet!
Home funerals and burying your dead
In March 1974 Carla Emery self-published the first edition of what she then called "The Old Fashioned Recipe Book." It made the "Guinness Book of World Records" as the largest book ever printed on a mimeograph machine. It was well over 900 pages, hand bound, and some of the early ones were held together with plastic coated copper wire through a 3-hole punch. We were lucky to get one of the early mimeographed editions before she sold it in 1977 to Bantam Books, who continued to publish until 1988. Sasquatch Books began republishing it in 1992 under the current title, "The Encyclopedia of Country Living," and continues to publish it today.
Carla's recipes and homesteading information came largely from her personal experience farming, which she did while raising 6 children and running the School for Country Living for a while in Kendrick, Idaho with her husband Mike. She also
gleaned much information for the book from elderly farming friends and neighbors who still possessed these basic skills and favorite old recipes. Once Carla started publishing her mimeographed editions, she quickly became famous enough to be interviewed on major national TV talk shows, etc., and folks started sending her even more homesteading tips and recipes. So her book kept expanding until it weighed several pounds and looks today like a big city phone directory!
I have been referring to Carla's book for over 30 years on many topics for our own farm, and found it very helpful. I particularly used her recipes on preparing and preserving food. My own 30 year area of expertise is in keeping dairy goats. I found her goat information quite useful and accurate, although I did disagree with her on a couple of points, which isn't unusual with any
book on animal raising. For instance, she says any doe who has trouble giving birth twice should be butchered. Goat birthing problems are almost always tangled or backwards kids, which you can usually help deliver, and are just bad luck. Also she recommended a wormer that is outdated, because worms do become immune to these products after a number of years in general use.
There are useful resources throughout the book for further reference or purchasing products. These include books, periodicals, government agencies, and organizations.
This book is surely unique. I have never seen anything remotely as useful, thorough, and inclusive as this homesteading reference. It was a labor of love.
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No home, whether in the country, the city, or somewhere in between, should be without this one-of-a-kind encyclopedia — the most complete source of information available about growing, processing, cooking, and preserving homegrown foods from the garden, orchard, field, or barnyard. For more than 30 years, people have relied on its practical, step-by-step advice on basic self-sufficiency skills such as how to cultivate a garden, buy land, bake bread, raise farm animals, make sausage, milk a goat, grow herbs, churn butter, build a chicken coop, cook on a wood stove, and much, much more. First written at the height of the 1960s back-to-the-land movement, the book has been continually revised, updated, and expanded, and has grown from a self-published, mimeographed document to an exhaustive reference of more than one million words, 2,000+ recipes, and over 1,500 mail order sources. Emery's personal advice, reflections, and anecdotes ensure that this incredibly detailed, diverse reference is as enjoyable as it is useful.

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Raw Energy: 124 Raw Food Recipes for Energy Bars, Smoothies, and Other Snacks to Supercharge Your Body Review

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(More customer reviews)I'm very impressed with Raw Energy. I've been looking for ways to add more raw food to my diet, but not necessarily at dinner. And I don't have time, nor the organization, for raw food cookbooks that make you start an entree 3-5 days ahead of time to sprout, soak and dehydrate the creation. This book focuses on snacks.
I like that most recipes use ingredients I already have around the house. There are a few with more exotic ingredients like spirulina powder, but these are easy to skip over if you don't wish to buy the ingredient. Each recipe is fairly simple and straight forward. Most use a blender or food processor, a few use a dehydrator (but if you're into raw food, you probably already have these anyhow). There are lots of recipes that omit frequently allergic ingredients such as dairy, egg or gluten so I can make snacks for my friend with food allergies.
I just made Cashew Maple Oatmeal Squares and they taste just like an out-of-the-oven oatmeal cookie, but cold. There's also recipes for breakfast cereals, "milk"shakes and smoothies, dips, trail mixes and lots of desserts.
This book is going to be getting a lot of use at my house.

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