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 - Excellent source of information...yeast influence in the body....Great resource for yeast influence in the body (all ages), etc. ADHD on all 3 subtypes...etc.. Rating: - This book could be a life changerAnother most excellent book penned by a most knowledgeable man! After years of suffering from a worsening digestive disorder picked up during Desert Shield/Storm, I was able to get the understanding I needed to discuss a successful treatment plan with my physician. If you have bounced from doctor to doctor with some strange set of symptoms that no doctor can seem to explain or help, I recommend you buy one of these books used - dirt cheap - and give it a read. Maybe it will change your life for the better like it did mine. Rating:  - Book Needs to be Renamed--Mostly FillerOne of the jobs of an editor is to determine whether the content of the material matches the title. "The Yeast Connection Handbook: This easy-to-follow guide brings readers the latest information about yeast-related disorders and how to overcome them." Of that title and subtitle, only four of the 14 chapters are related to the subject matter. The rest of the material branches off into common knowledge subjects like diet, nutrition, exercise, drug-related illnesses and homespun advice about how to feel better, like avoiding chemicals, smoke, hazardous materials, and so forth. In this case, the author has acceptable material, but is not related at all to the title. In this case, in order to make this book acceptable, the title would have to be changed to something like, "Dr. Crook's Advice for Better Living," or perhaps "Everyday knowledge and Your Health" or some similar phrase. So if we extracted the relevant knowledge of yeast infections and yeast-related illnesses, we would have a forty page booklet instead of a 274-page book filled with information that has been repeated tens of thousands of times in tens of thousands of other books, materials, doctor's office literature and encyclopedias. We don't need to see what the essential vitamins are and what they do,for instance, or the health benefits of exercise, because such knowledge can be found on the Internet--even when this book was printed in 1999, there was already total saturation regarding common diet, nutrition and proper health guideline knowledge. On page 93, there is a homespun comic of pollutants as they are represented in a simple diagram. One of the callouts has "contactants" as a source of modern ailments; a substance that can cause an allergic reaction. "Contactant" is a word so rarely used in the layperson community that "allergen" would have been better. This all gets back to the point: what does this have to do with yeast infections? Yeast anything? So while "The Yeast Connection Handbook" is adequately written, the content is mostly filler. As a writer and editor myself, I would have redlined the whole project as unpublishable, because the entire premise of the book assumes the reader was in a time capsule or living in a cave for the previous fifty years. Dr. Crook needs to extract only the relevant information, add new source material and new information as relating to his title, and then compose a revised first edition. As it is, the information is too common to sell as a marketable publication. My goal is not to infuriate the author as much as it is constructively criticising the content and how it is related to the title. The title is everything. Otherwise, the title has to be renamed to match the contents. If not, it reduces the credibility of the author. So it must be that the publisher is more of a vanity press, and would accept almost any type of manuscript, and did not catch this woefully inexcusable oversight. A major publisher would have caught it right away. Rating:  - InformativeAfter reading the reviews, I was hesitant about purchasing this book. The internet provides a vast amount of information on the subject. When I started reading it, I thought that the reviews were right in the sense that it was redundant information. Not so...the first 8 or so chapters shows you how wide spread this problem is and how subtle and diverse the symptoms can be. The second half explains the different treatments & nutritional requirements. I don't think you can read too much on this subject, and I would recommend this book. Rating: - Yeast Connection HandbookI have SEVERE Fibromyalgia and this book has given me a new life!! I have not felt this well in THIRTY YEARS!! Also one of the fabulous benefits of this way of eating is that, in the first two weeks of using this cookbook, and eating as it is suggessted .....I lost SIXTEEN pounds and am still loosing and I am never hungry, except when it is time to eat again!! I HIGHLY reccommend this book! How I wish Dr. Crook had written it thirty years ago!!! Thank you, Dr. Crook!!!! Cheri' In association with Amazon.com | |