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What Your Doctor Won't Tell You : The Complete Guide to the Latest in Alternative Medicine

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I thought this was a great book to start with on today's alternative medicine. I have noticed that western medicine is restricted to drugs and surgery because that is what makes the most money. I can see why western doctors would be angry with Jane's book because she questions what is going on with western medicine. If you want to hear something more frightening, listen to the tape "Dead doctors don't lie" by Joel Wallach. Jane may have some mistakes in her book, but my observations as a layman lead me to believe that she is right-on because where western doctors have failed to help my family, holistic healers (naturopaths etc) have triumphed. Especially her chapter about cholesterol. I have found in more and more corners where what she is saying is exactly right - the whole issue is bunk

I'm quite perturbed by the negative reviews of what I consider a wonderful book. These reviews seem full of hate and vituperation. They also distort Heimlich's views and are, in my opinion, strongly and strangely biased.

The chapter on chelation, in particular, has saved a good friend of mine from extensive surgery which had been scheduled, but was then cancelled because chelation brought about an increase in circulation which baffled the doctors.

I seriously wonder if these reviewers have actually read this book. It is written in a delightful, often humorous way that makes its points easily and well.

Some of the information was new and interesting, but I found the book to be very non-specific. In other words, it would be very hard to create your own health plan based on information from this book.

At least Ms. Heimlich tries to get to the real truth about alternative medicine, unlike Trodeau who only wants to make money by exploiting fear. Further study into the mind, body, spirit connection would make this a better read. Forget The Cures, Find The Cause would be a geat companion to this.

This book really is controversial. I would suggest more research and self education because some of the information provided is just not true! It gives a neat perspective on things but not a book to use for diagnosis! I would suggest supplemental reading if you are serious about your health. I found a great report on Inner Health available at librarydepot.com It includes a nutrition benefits chart that links nutritional support needed to many diseases/disorders.

Don't bother with this book as there is nothing much to be found new here.
Anyone who likes to read this type of book will be disappointed.

This is an informative, well-written book. It is excellent as both a beginning book and an ending book (though not exclusively).

I gave up counting the mistakes and misunderstanding after I reached 100 - and had only reached the third chapter. The author opposes every major medical advance of the last 200 years: X-rays, vaccination, pharmaceuticals, blood tests, antibiotics, contraceptives, surgery etc etc etc. Although couched in terms of "patient empowerment" this book is, in reality, deeply reactionary. The author imagines a "golden age" (in medaeival times) when humans and nature lived in perfect harmony, a friendly local white witch brewed magic herbs to cure all your ills and the sun always shone. In reality, life was nasty, brutish and short. Life expectancy was about 30 years, 75% of children died in infancy, 50% of women died in childbirth. The advice given is particularly damaging to women. Any woman who followed this book would end up continuously pregnant (no contraceptives)with breast/cervical cancer (no screening)and smallpox (no vaccination) living in a hut with no TV/telephone/computer (EM radiation) and, in fact no electricity (radiation from cables). She couldn't leave the house (pollution) and certainly not use a car (fumes, toxins etc) and would only eat what she could grow in her own back yard (organic food). Ms Heimlich seems rather irritated that people (in the West) live longer than ever before and are healthier than at any time in human history - since this contradicts her basic premise. If you want a good laugh, read this book and make a list of all the things you have to stop doing in order to stay "healthy". I find it very disturbing that people are prepared to exploit the fears of the vulnerable in order to line their pockets with cash.

Informative and revealing. Don't order without it in your cart.

This cover of this book should read "For Entertainment Purposes Only - Do Not Try This at Home". It is as unreliable as the other book by this author, entitled "Milk: the Deadly Poison" - or something similar. It is also unreadable, deadly chunks of stoggy prose interrupted by highlights, boxes and exclamation points - each "fact" more wrong than the last. If you want to know about nutrition, Amazon sells dozens of very reliable and well written books (those for freshman college courses are usually excellent for the general reader) for other medical/health issues affecting adults and children, there are also hundreds of good books - Reader's Digest, Dr Spock, for example. Perhaps not fashionable and without such a hysterical title, but MUCH better value.