1001 All-natural Secrets to a Pest-free Property [Hardcover]

Myles H. Bader (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 2006

If they are flying, crawling, burrowing or sneaking in to your home or garden, this book has the solution.

Do you hate spiders?

Has your house been invaded by ants, termites or cockroaches?

Is your garden a feeding ground for caterpillars, aphids, mites or grasshoppers?

Are you tired of rabbits or deer eating from the vegetable garden you worked so hard to create?

Are raccoons after your trash or tearing up your lawn?

Is your property infested with mice or moles?

Does your neighbor’s dog or cat cause you problems every day?

Or would you simply like to enjoy your summer evenings without mosquitoes, flies or yellow jackets?

This book offers powerful, all-natural solutions to these problems -- and hundreds more. Every bug, pest, critter and animal related problem you can think of is covered in this comprehensive, detailed and creative book. And every one of the 1001 solutions in this book avoids the use of any kind of pesticide or other poison that could potentially cause harm to our families, our communities, and our natural environment.

There are over 2 billion pesticides manufactured in the United States every year. In 2002, more than 3.2 million people suffered medically related side effects from the use of pesticides. By using the simple, tried and true solutions provided in 1001 All Natural Secrets to a Pest-Free Property, you can make a significant contribution to reducing the damage caused by pesticides and other poisons.

This book has been designed to make it easy for you to find the information you need and gives you precise and clear answers to all your pest control questions. Protect your property and your family’s health today!

No one knows more about natural pest control than world renowned Dr. Myles H. Bader. He has spent countless hours over more than ten years of research to find the answers you need to know in order to keep your home, garden and grounds free of insects and critters of all kinds. Most importantly, Dr. Bader shows you how to do this without the use of poisons and toxic preparations.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Dr. Myles H. Bader

Known as the "Wizard of Food" as well as "The Buggy Professor," Dr. Myles Bader has been a guest on over 65,000 radio and television shows in the United States and Canada and is internationally recognized as a leader in the Preventive Care and Wellness fields.

His 174 books on bugs, food, cooking, and wellness have sold over two million copies.

He has appeared on many television shows, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, NBC, HGTV, Help At Home, The Food Channel, The Discovery Channel, America’s Talking, QVC, and Smart Solutions.

Dr. Bader studied extensively in the field of zoology before receiving his Doctoral Degree from Loma Linda University in Preventive Care.

His interests have always been in the field of food and cooking and many of his books are related to helping the chef or cook with cooking and kitchen secrets that may have been forgotten over the years. This has led him to include household hints and other related subjects in his books.

Recent books authored by Dr. Bader include: 20,001 Food Facts, Chef’s Secrets & Household Hints; Grandma’s Kitchen Wisdom Library; Cookbook’s Companion; 21st Century Reference Guide To Cooking Secrets & Helpful Household Hints; 1,001 Secret Money Saving Formulas; 10,001 Food Facts, Chef’s Secrets & Household Hints; 5,001 Mysteries of Liquids & Cooking Secrets; 250 Future Food Facts & Predictions for the Millennium; To Supplement or Not To Supplement; Weighting To Die; and The Wellness Desk Reference.

Dr. Bader was also a professor, teaching health services. He has counseled in areas of weight control, exercise physiology, stress management, all areas of nutrition and has lectured extensively on anti-aging for 30 years. He has also established prevention and executive health programs for numerous safety departments, city governments, and Fortune 500 companies.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 340 pages
• Publisher: Allstar Marketing Group (April 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0977670600
• ISBN-13: 978-0977670604
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #75,224 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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88 of 93 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Interesting cures, but a few too many problems, May 10, 2006

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Bill S. - See all my reviews

This review is from: 1001 All-natural Secrets to a Pest-free Property (Hardcover)

First the good. This book provides some very interesting cures for pest problems that I haven't found elsewhere and that may very well work as indicated.

Now the bad. This book provides some cures that are just plain wrong and may even be dangerous. For example, on page 23 Dr. Bader refers to Sevin as an organic insecticide containing pyrethrums and diatomaceous earth -- It's not, actually it's a synthetic insecticide containing carbaryl. On page 22 Dr. Bader refers to diatomaceous earth as safe. It's actually quite dangerous if it's inhaled -- which is easy to do since it's a dust. Dr. Bader also refers to Rotenone as a low toxicity insecticide to humans on page 339 -- wrong again -- it's one of the highest toxicity organic insecticides. The list goes on and on. I also wonder why, as a doctor of preventive care, he refers to tobacco and tobacco smoke so much.

To sum up -- there are some great ideas in this book, but it's not one that I'd recommend because of the faulty and even dangerous statements that it makes about certain cures. Better choices might be Jerry Baker's books, especially his old ones like Plants are Like People or The Impatient Gardener. Sharon Lovejoys book Trowel and Error, or Jeff Gillman's book The Truth about Garden Remedies. All of these books offer a bit more explanation about possible cures and the research in these books is significantly better (especially Gillman's book which includes many references and where the author talks about trials that he has conducted himself).

32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Poor, July 17, 2006

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B. Reuter - See all my reviews

This review is from: 1001 All-natural Secrets to a Pest-free Property (Hardcover)

I bought this book hoping to find some cures to insect and disease problems on my plants. What I found instead was poor editing, information that seems to come from the top of the authors head, and drawings that are amaturish at best.

Information in this book usually comes in poorly organized one sentence long blurbs that don't supply data on where the information originally came from or how likely the cure is to work, which is important since there seem to be about thirty "cures" for each problem. I guess the author just expects us to keep trying the wacky cures (some of which do include poisons)until one works - if any of them really do.

I did try a few of the cures including a wierd baking soda mixture, and a citrus spray. Neither of them worked. If the author had actually tried these cures I would think that he would have provided more information on them - In other words I doubt that the author tried these cures himself.

As a doctor I like the idea of safer cures. This book misidentifies certain practices as cures, misspells simple words, and gets the facts wrong about the safety of many cures and chemicals (what he thinks is in Sevin would be particularly amusing - if it weren't so potentially dangerous). I strongly recommend avoiding this book.

Dr. R

25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, July 22, 2006

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M. Olson (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 1001 All-natural Secrets to a Pest-free Property (Hardcover)

TV hype is misleading-its not worth the money for following reasons:
1. If you have to go to multiple stores to buy a half dozen ingredients for 1 spray, it will occur to you to just buy 1 spray. Isn't it like buying 5 batteries to recharge one?
2 He spends a lot of pages telling you why he loves various pests rather than how you rid yourself of them. I got it for frogs. Nothing on that but a lot about why toads are good.
3.Rid yourself of ants by leaving tainted cat food in the bushes. Hmm. Isn't the reason you would have cat food that you have a cat?
4. Some suggestions were downright hilarious- I live in Hawaii and have bamboo around every side of the premises. I guarantee that it does nothing to discourage mosquitoes howevermany dragonflies may like the bamboo. And the notion crows may be deterred by socks that look like humans? In fairness, I did not climb trees to hang them because I would hear crows laughing.