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Title: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutritional Medicine May Be Killing You : by Ray D. Strand ISBN: 0-7852-6486-8 Publisher: Thomas Nelson Pub. Date: 10 September, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.44 (9 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Book is not a resource for Fibromyalgia (FM) sufferers
Comment: When my boss told me about this "incredible book" in which a physician's wife was diagnosed with FM, bedridden and then cured by only vitamins and minerals, I bought the book immediately. What a major disappointment. Dr. Strand is a GP, not a Rheumatologist and thus has no specialty in FM.
The book contains one chapter entitled Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia, in which he devotes less than a a single page to the most superficial description of FM available. The other nine pages consist almost entirely of home baked anecdotal banter. While one rheumatologist may have diagnosed Dr. Strand's wife with FM ages ago, her symptoms grossly exceed those commonly attributed to FM. His other two anecdotal success stories did not reveal any clear legitimate diagnosis of FM.
The index misleadingly cites page references to FM as follows: 3-6, 8, 162 - 174 and 198; (inronically pages 172 - 174 contain no text whatsoever while 198 contains not a single mention of FM). He proclaims that FMS is caused by oxidative stress (OS), however reveals no scientific basis for this assertion. Apparently, unless you attribute the cause of FM to OS, you can't sell the nutritional supplement "cure" approach.
You may find as I did that the person referring you to this book is also coincidentally attempting to sell you high priced supplements.
What also bothered me most about this author's simplistic soundbit on FM is that he does not once cite or refer his presumably suffering and desperate readers to any of the myriad of active national FM organizations who work exclusively to provide up-to-date education to FM sufferers:
1)Fibromyalgia Alliance of America, Inc.; 2) National Fibromyalgia Research Association;, (dedicated to education, treatment and finding a cure for FM); 3) The Fibromyalgia Association of Greater Washington, Inc., and; 4) The American Fibromyalgia Syndrome Association.
Dr. Stand based his FM book opinions on anectodal storytelling without even a minimal survey of the available research. He cites only four references for his entire chapter, however not with sufficient detail to find, read or verify. This book is not scientific - it is sensationalistic, anecdotal and not helpful to FM sufferers.
Rating: 5
Summary: Outstanding health book for the 21st Century
Comment: Dr Ray Strand's book is one of the first I've read that explains the underlying reason so many people in the world are suffering from chronic degenerative diseases -- oxidative stress. He clearly shows how the right diet and the right vitamin, mineral and antioxidant supplements plus essential fatty acids can help bring folks suffering from serious diseases back to health. I've been on the program he recommends for several months and have almost completely recovered from long-standing chronic fatigue syndrome/fibromyalgia. His informative web site, bionutrition.org. has an excellent article on oxidative stress. Thank you, Dr. Strand.
Rating: 3
Summary: It's not too late . . .
Comment: This could have been a five star book, but Ray Strand insisted on peppering us with language of a particular religious world view that has made it difficult to believe in the rest of his recommendations. Personally, I wanted to read the book for solid scientific information on nutrition, I could have done without the narrow religious statements.
However, if you can get by the self-serving public piousness, there is good information on nutrition, diet, supplements and exercise which will serve us all well. For years I fought the use of supplements as being a waste of money. I subscribed to the view that if you ate a reasonable diet of vegetables and fruit, you would get all the nutrients you need. Perhaps that was true at one time, but with the high levels of pollution in our environment, poor animal husbandry, and depleted farm lands, we have to resort to the use of supplements. I am now convinced that high quality dietary supplements are a requirement for a healthy life.
If you can't find any other books on nutrition, then this one might serve to get you started. However, steel yourself for the off-topic creationist messages.
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Title: Death By Prescription : The Shocking Truth Behind an Overmedicated Nation by Ray D. Strand ISBN: 0785264841 Publisher: Thomas Nelson Pub. Date: 02 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.99 |
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Title: Comparative Guide to Nutritional Supplements by Lyle MacWilliam ISBN: 0973253800 Publisher: Northern Dimensions Publishing Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Bionutrition:: The Amazing Health Benefits of Vitamin Supplements by Ray D., M.D. Strand ISBN: 0966407571 Publisher: Comprehensive Wellness Pub Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The New Nutrition: Medicine for the Millennium by Michael Colgan ISBN: 0969527241 Publisher: Apple Pub Co Ltd Pub. Date: April, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Wellness Revolution : How to Make a Fortune in the Next Trillion Dollar Industry by Paul Zane Pilzer ISBN: 0471430676 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 04 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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