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I Cured My Arthritis You Can Too

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This is an outstanding book with practical ideas and suggestions for curing, or substantially easing, the pain and stiffness from arthritis. I have suffered from arthritis for 20 years, taking many pain medications which only controlled, not eliminated the pain. After 4 months of following the instructions and diet, I realized the pain was virtually gone! It was a slow easing that was nothing short of a miracle. My doctor was skeptical that it would work, but said why not try it. It does work. Give it a try.

Margie Garrison tells us her story on how she overcame the painful disease of arthritis.

The book gives those of us who have been dealing with this disease hope. You don't have to go over your doctor's head, just add some very insightful already proven methods.

I was diagnosed with osteo-arthritis over a year ago. I have been taking medication(s), going to a pain management center, taking a course on pain managemnt.

Margie Garrison's book gave me another outlet to find some relief. The book is re-enforcing many of the recommendations of my doctors etc. It offers us an exercise program, a nutrition progam but most of all hope.

A lot of info is in this book. The book came in a timely manner, and very informative. vitamins listed in this book to take on a daily bais was listed.

I have finished reading half of this book...so far. It is NOT well-written by any means. She does not give you a solid plan to follow, just a very rough idea of what she did, but without any back-up to why the things that helped her worked. She basically expects you to become a vegetarian, and even suggests eating tomatoes, potatoes, and other well-known trigger foods that cause arthritis sufferers a lot of pain!

Other than telling you to eat a bunch of fruits and vegetables, all she says about eating any other foods is exactly the following, "Dairy foods and meats are the culprits, stay away." It's not even a proper sentence! She doesn't even say anything more about this, such as WHY dairy foods are bad, WHICH meats are bad and why, and what does she have to back this up? She later states she has an ALLERGY to beef. From what I've read in other books on arthritis, food intolerances make-up a large part of the problem for arthritis sufferers. This is the case with my husband, who has NO allergies to any foods or anything else (we had him do the full allergy prick test along with allergy blood tests - they came up with nothing). But he absolutely has food intolerances, which are completely different than food allergies (what I have).

She also writes as if she is talking at you - she tells you, "Read about vitamins, try to find a doctor who treats with Orthomolecular method." Again, not a proper sentence. Also, instead of telling us what vitamins help with arthritis sufferers and what vitamins may harm them, she has us pay good money for HER book so that she can tell us to go read some other book. Ridiculous! And she doesn't mention ANYTHING about "Orthomolecular method" prior to or after the aforementioned sentence.

I don't think I will bother reading the rest of the book, as nothing in it thus far has been based on any form of scientific fact, has nothing / no research to back it up, and is really all hearsay. I may finish reading it on the slim chance it could have something useful in it that could help my husband. But that's also because I already bought it. I bought it used for about $3 and paid the $3.50 shipping, and I STILL feel like I've been ripped off! If you ARE going to try it, don't you DARE pay the $29.95 price tag I've seen. I also bought, "Conquering Arthritis - What Doctors Won't Tell You Because They Don't Know!" by Barbara Allen. Although her "reviews" for her book on Amazon need to be deleted since they are NOT reviews, but are in fact written by a bunch of people who know her personally telling you how great she is rather than by people who actually read AND used her book, after finishing Chapter 1 I am already impressed. Of course, I haven't gotten that far, but it is already obviously a well-written book filled with research, facts, and proof to back up the statements she gives. Nothing like this stupid book's lines like, "Eat at least two salads daily, two helpings of steamed vegetables, brown rice, or potatoes. (They are not fattening.) Lentils or Chinese vegetables, grains and fruits. "My!!! What a feast."" And no, I did not change the punctuation. She actually puts random sentences inside parenthesis and says condescending phrases like, "My!!! What a feast." Lines like these are all over this book. And since when are potatoes, particularly regular brown, Russett potatoes, not fattening and good for you?! These are well-known to raise your blood sugar levels much the same as when you eat white bread!

Anyway, I could go on and on with quoting and bashing this book, but I think I'll instead just read the OTHER book I bought by Barbara Allen. For this book I paid the Amazon price of about $24, and it is SO MUCH BETTER than the $3 I threw out on this piece of garbage!

I was diagnosed with Arthritis last week and was searching for information. A friend loaned me this "book", I was excited to get info about treating arthritis. After a few pages, I realized this was just someone's ego talking, and not informative at all. Half the book reads like a diary, "I got up at 9:00 feeling bad, called a friend, etc"..blah blah blah!! plus lots of whining. The title should be "Feeding my ego writing a book helps my arthritis and my bank account." Thank goodness I didn't pay $30 for this piece of drival. It is little more than a pamphlet, with sketches from what appears to have been done by second grade students, wherein the author expounds on her day to day life with little information about nutrition, foods, etc. and a few recipes that just take up space. In addition, there are Bible and other quotes which were totally out of place. How she found a publisher for this worthless booklet is beyond me!!! Oh! I see, it is self published, big surprise. I can only think that the positive feedback posted on this site was from her relatives or friends. With thousands of books on the subject, this one must be the worst.

This was a good book, I bought many and this and another one were my favs. I no longer have Arthritis because I learned about food and changed my diet. I learned about the hallelujah Diet & Lifestyle (see my other reviews) and now I am healthier and younger looking than before. Arthitis is not a death sentence, it's a wake up call! Change what's causing it (Not old age either) and that is as simple as changing what you have been eating all your life... Learn and read as many good books as you can. You will learn as I did, Doctors are not taught much about nutrition as it relates to sickness and disease. Let food be your medicine and Medicine be your food -Hippicates said this 2000 yrs ago! We have so much to learn about healthy eating in this country (USA) other poorier countries don't have the sickness's and diseases we have here. READ and research, and never stop learning...in time you WILL learn what took me years to learn. You can control your own health! And being sick (any sickness) is not normal or old age related. God made us right! We just have abused our wonderfully made bodies by throwing all kinds of junk in it and expcting it to run flawlessly year after year! Well it doesn't work that way... and if you don't change your diet you will soon learn and be at a doctors office taking pills and heading down that same slipperly slop so many americans are on. We don't need health CARE... We need to be taught correctly about health and what is healthy and life. This begins with a journey and desire to LEARN about health. This book was helpful along with others in helping me to open my eyes that something as simple as FOOD was causing my problems, not a gene, not a disease, not some odd virus, not cause mom or dad had it... it was our standard poor american fast food diet, even healthy food is not so healthy as you will learn, this book helped me years later to learned about the hallelujah Diet & lifestlye. This later helped me to reverse my Arthritis and help others to change their health and their lives. it is power to know that YOU can change YOUR health, when you get sick enough, you'll start looking for answers. I did... and I found them and now I am much healthier than I have ever been in my life!

Not at all what I expected. A very OLD book. The date of it should be more prominent when advertising it!