Tomato Power!: The Miracle Nutrient That Can Prevent Aging, Heart Disease and Cancer [Paperback]

James F. Balch (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 150 pages
• Publisher: Advanced Research Press (March 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1889462047
• ISBN-13: 978-1889462042
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,412,381 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Not good., June 3, 2001

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Nik Willmore (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tomato Power!: The Miracle Nutrient That Can Prevent Aging, Heart Disease and Cancer (Paperback)

Deceptive. Take a look at the cover. Click on it above, to get a bigger view. They have plastered in big letters the name of a real doctor who merely wrote the forward. His name is printed three times the size of the actual author's name, so they could make it *look* like the book was written by an MD! It was not. The real author's list of credits includes articles for Cosmopolitan, Esquire, and Good Housekeeping magazines. And that's about it. In other words, he doesn't know what he's talking about since he has evidently had no education in biochemistry or nutrition, and it shows.

The MD who wrote the forward is noted as holding a Master's degree in "theology and urban ministry." Huh? He's another writer of popular antioxidant books.

The book is disjointed fluff, padded with cartoon pictures of bad guys wielding crowbars to illustrate the nature of free radicals in the body. It's contains a comic book level of sophistication in terms of biochemical information. Yet it's chock full of graphs from research articles that show this or that cancer rate falling with greater serum levels of lycopene. This is coupled with ridiculous cheerleading text about how great lycopene is. His strategy seems to be to make the book look sophisticated to someone browsing it in a bookstore. There's more name dropping and Ph.D., M.D. mentions than real content.

He does have the structure of beta carotene and lycopene shown, which is nice. But they are the same structure for both! Oops. Both are actually shown as the molecule lycopene. Carotene has a ring on both ends. There are only 9 lines of text on that page. On the next page is a scary cartoon picture of a scientist poking a sharp eye dropper into a black flask. There are 7 lines of text on that page. Book? Comic book!

- Nik Willmore, Ph.D.

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great book to understanding Lycopene, May 2, 2000

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This review is from: Tomato Power!: The Miracle Nutrient That Can Prevent Aging, Heart Disease and Cancer (Paperback)

I Love this Bbok it helo me understand more about Lycopene and how it can help prevent cancer i read the book because i was doing my thesis on lycopene and it was a great source for me to understand about the power of Lycopene. i would hope all who are in to enviromental health would read it.

thansk Scheer