Rosacea Diet: A Simple Method to Control Rosacea [Paperback]

Brady Barrows (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 31, 2002

The Rosacea Diet is a thirty-day plan to control your rosacea. You must have tremendous will-power to use this diet but it works. The Rosacea Diet Users Support Group confirms that it works!

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About the Author

Brady Barrows (b.1950 in Boulder, Colorado) was raised in Texas by his grandparents until age sixteen when he moved to California to live with his father and step-mother, who are also writers. He graduated from University High School, Los Angeles, California in 1968 and attended Santa Monica College in Santa Monica, California. In 1971 he moved to New Mexico and lived in the Jemez Mountains and became a hippie. There he met his wife Betty. A son, Jeremy, came along in 1973. By this time the family became Jehovah?s Witnesses. Brady was diagnosed with Rosacea in his thirties in New Mexico. In 1994, he joined his wife as a full-time minister of Jehovah?s Witnesses and volunteered to do construction work for the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, Patterson Educational Center, in Patterson, New York for six months. They decided to stay on the East Coast, moving to Great Barrington, Massachusetts where they both currently reside. Rosacea Diet is the author?s first book.

Product Details

• Paperback: 242 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse (May 31, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595228003
• ISBN-13: 978-0595228003
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #954,660 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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27 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rosacea Diet - Worth every penny, December 9, 2003

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S. Brown (US) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rosacea Diet: A Simple Method to Control Rosacea (Paperback)

It frustrates me to see several reviews from people who read Rosacea Diet and dismissed it without even trying it. How can you review something you "didn't have the willpower" to try or something you just didn't want to do (i.e. Give up sugar)? Comparisons to the Atkins diet are bound to occur, despite the fact that Rosacea Diet is very different in that it allows NO sugar and FAR fewer carbs than the Atkins plan. I'm trying Rosacea Diet now and have seen drastic improvement in just 5 days. When you get past the first few days of adjustment and get over the fact that you can't eat sugar or grains, it's not that hard. I don't have any desire to eat sugar and I previously consumed large quantities of it. You focus on what you can eat and you eat only those foods. There's nothing hard about it...it has actually greatly simplified my life to have the enormous number of food choices taken away. This book has opened my eyes to the fact that sugar lurks in much of the food we normally consume, even products that claim to be "sugar free." I HIGHLY recommend purchasing Rosacea Diet. The book is giving me the power to conquer rosacea without spending thousands on doctor visits and prescription treatments that don't work.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Everyone is different, June 14, 2008

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D. van Beemt - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rosacea Diet: A Simple Method to Control Rosacea (Paperback)

I have type 2 and 3 rosacea and read this book. I used the recommendations faithfully for only three weeks, because that is as long as I could stand my symptoms getting worse and worse. My lesions got bigger, and more itchy and weepy. I also had many other bad effects from the recommended diet, such as near constant gastrointestinal distress, headaches, skin problems starting to appear on my elbows, and the worst bout of PMS in years. That was some time ago.

The diet that has worked the best for me for my skin, with no bad side effects, was to reduce animal proteins in general, eliminate all dairy protein, and eat more fruits and vegetables and "plain" foods. My diet is now high in carbohydrates -- but low in processed foods and white flour. It is low in fat by American standards. This is pretty much opposite of what Brady Barrows prescribes. And none of this took "iron willpower" -- after a few weeks of avoiding the trigger foods, I no longer wanted them.

I have had only a small area of type 1 rosacea on one cheek now for over two years, and when I eat even better (practically eliminating white flour and animal foods, which I sometimes do for short periods), my one remaining lesion gets smoother. If I eat a lot of fatty foods or eggs/lean meat it tends to flare up. Caffeine has also been a trigger for me, so I limit myself to one or two cups of coffee a day and drink only caffeine-free sodas. I still take the precautions I always have, like protecting my face from hot shower water, steam from drinks, or cold air.

Some people have fruit and vegetable triggers, but I haven't found one yet. I thought I had a vegetable trigger because if I ate a lot of salads or broccoli it seemed to make my lesions break out more. However I finally discovered it was the dairy based dressings and cheese toppings that were probably doing it. I don't use those any more and have no problem with any vegetables, no matter how much I have.

Everyone is different. Try lots of different approaches, but give each one a good honest, 100% try for at least a week or two. If you go half-measures or "cheat" or don't try for long enough you won't really know. It is very much worth it when you find the right mix for you.

46 of 57 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Rosacea Diet disappointment, July 7, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Rosacea Diet: A Simple Method to Control Rosacea (Paperback)

I bought this book with the best of intentions: to read it in its entirety and apply its suggestions of a 30 day Atkins-like diet. Disappointed, I found that the author not only had no obvious accredited medical background of any type but also realized that he had written this book solely based on his personal experience with his rosacea. This certainly didn't apply to me and the explanations of having a protein diet and eliminating sugar wasn't equally as comforting either.

Unfortunately, for us rosacea patients who are trying to figure out the complexities of our disease, all know that our own bodily functions cannot simply be treated by a 30 day diet which includes what most dermatologists would have acknowledged as rosacea trigger foods.

Secondly, the last half of the book are just emails between the author and those who applied the diet, so there is a lot of repetitive information.
The book would've been shorter if it just referred you to read the Atkin's book after you read the preface of the Rosacea Diet. And if your rosacea didn't clear up at least you would've lost some weight. Truly disappointed at the lack of knowledge and information that was not apparent in the book. I gave this book one star just so I could get this comment posted. Otherwise I don't think it deserves a star. There are better books out there that will highly recommend ways to self-analyze reactions, provide worthy explanations and nutritional diet based on your own personal profile with rosacea.