Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the Yeast Connection: A Get-Well Guide for People With This Often Misunderstood Illness--And Those Who Care for Them [Paperback]

William G. Crook (Author), Cynthia Crook (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1992

Discusses the role that the body's production of yeast plays in disorders of the immune, endocrine, and nervous systems and details how nutrition and exercise have helped many patients suffering from the symptoms of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Original. 30,000 first printing.

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Crook ( The Yeast Connection , Professional Bks., 1985) has "written this book to serve as a general guide for persons with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and those who are working to help them." He has failed to achieve this goal on almost every point. While CFS may well be connected with food allergies and yeast, as Crook claims, he ignores many other causes of the condition and doesn't even consider any standard medical diagnostic tests or treatments. The book doesn't address even basic information on CFS very effectively and is poorly written and disorganized in content. Libraries would be much better off purchasing Katrina H. Berne's Running on Empty: Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome or Neenyah Ostrom's 50 Things You Should Know About the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic (both LJ 6/15/92).
- Janet M. Schneider, James A. Haley Veterans Hosp., Tampa, Fla.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Paperback: 398 pages
• Publisher: Professional Books; 2nd Printing edition (August 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0933478208
• ISBN-13: 978-0933478206
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,221,685 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #57 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Disorders & Diseases > Candida

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Don't bother, October 28, 2002

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This review is from: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the Yeast Connection: A Get-Well Guide for People With This Often Misunderstood Illness--And Those Who Care for Them (Paperback)

I've read other Yeast Connection books and they were much better than this one. The book has an over abundance of cartoons used for illustration and instruction, so much so that they are extremely distracting and make it very difficult to read. All of the information covered in this book can be read in the Yeast Connection Handbook and others. It basically repeats other books and adds too many cartoons to fill in the pages.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Book That Started it All, June 1, 2004

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This review is from: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the Yeast Connection: A Get-Well Guide for People With This Often Misunderstood Illness--And Those Who Care for Them (Paperback)

Dr. Crook was one of the first to write about CFS,this book does have cartoons which make it easier to understand. This book changed/saved my life. My daughter & I were diagnosed in 1983(a rarity in itself back then)and told "good news is, yes there is something wrong with you. Bad news is there really isn't a standard drug or treatment. Except expensive immunoglobin therapy that your insurance won't cover since they don't really recognize CFS as an illness!" I didn't get the book until 1990 and read it from cover to cover the first night. Remember no real internet then and GNC carried vitamins and body building supplements, no St.Johns Wort, forget Acidopholous and CoQ10 sounded like a Star Wars character.THANKS TO DR. CROOK these things plus many others in the book made a complete difference in my health. Yes the other books listed are more informative, they were published later. If you can still find this one read it first. P.S. I was searching AMAZON because my 2nd copy is now so tattered and covered with notes from people I've loaned it to that it resembles a high school yearbook complete with heartfelt comments:)

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the Yeast Connection, June 13, 2009

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This review is from: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the Yeast Connection: A Get-Well Guide for People With This Often Misunderstood Illness--And Those Who Care for Them (Paperback)

Amazing read with all my questions answered. The self test was an eye opener and the suggested treatment via medicine and elimination diet was right on.

Anyone suffering from chronic yeast problems and/or chronic fatigue must read this book!