Alkalize or Die: Superior Health Through Proper Alkaline-Acid Balance by Theodore A. Baroody Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Alkalize or Die: Superior Health Through Proper Alkaline-Acid Balance
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Summary: 4 Stars
This book was easy to obtain on Amazon.com. I had a hard time finding it in a regular book store. It was also cheaper.Book Review: Brilliant writing !!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Alkalize of Die should be a MUST READ for everyone !!! With the current DISEASE care system we have in place, it's about time someone is talking about HEALTH care -Book Review: Can't hold on to it...
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is a fast and easy read, yet quite thorough in coverage. The book I purchased on Amazon was actually my second copy. I have given it away twice now to friends and relatives I want to inform of alkalizing benefits. And I'm about to purchase another one for myself now.Book Review: Cured my acid refulx
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this book with the narrow goal of getting relief from persistent acid reflux. After going on a crash-course conversion to 80% alkaline-forming foods, it took only about a month or so before I saw 100% relief from the chest pains that accompanied my reflux condition. Less than two months later, I am seeing other benefits such as more restful sleep and less "panickiness" at certain times.
I believe that there may well be other tangible benefits to this diet that I have simply not yet identified, but that over time I may realize. In any case the diet really resonates with my personality and belief system; but it may not feel "right" to everyone that reads it. I admit to feeling a little uncomfortable at his frequent mention of God, but I still accepted the body of work as-is considering the author's background and beliefs.
The bottom line is that the diet worked for me and that I like the foods I am eating now more than the ones I was eating before. The book is not "fun" or entertaining to read, and I can attest to other viewers' complaints that there are no footnotes or bibliographies referring to other bodies of work.
I get the impression that if you come to this book from a strictly scientific point of view, it may be disappointing because it does not cite other literature to support its suppositions. If you come to the book needing help with a particular problem that diet may be able to assist, than by all means try it. The diet is all about getting back to basics: more plant-based food and less processed food.
I am thankful that I had the fortune to come across this book to help not only in curing myself of reflux, but also to completely change my perception of the role of diet in my overall health. I am giving it five stars not because it is the greatest book I have ever read, but because it helped to completely cure my condition. Please consider my rating of the book in that context.
Book Review: Don't read THIS book !
Summary: 1 Stars
I should have know right from the title, which is a plain exageration, that this book would be terribly bad. I have read a number of books on the subject because I wanted to get the more information possible, and try to make myself an opinion about this topic. This books is the most terrible I have read. It is badly written, badly organized, with gross overstatements, imprecisions, and even pure lies. Is this guy trying to make an impression by talking about people that lived until 200 years old (if this was true don't you think we would know about it), or by stating that he "met an Indian guy that looked 70 but was really 140" (same thing - the oldest a man is know to have lived is 115 years old - 122 for a woman) ? What kind of a scientist says things like (and I quote) : "As a practitioner, I *feel* that chances of being too alkaline are around one in every thousand" ? Oh really, can we "feel" statistics now ? There's even a chapter (and by chapter I mean 2 pages, which is the length of each chapter) on the vagus nerve. What does this have to do with alkaline/acid balance ?
What's more, unlike other books on the subject, this one is written by using the "I" everywhere, as if the author had been the only one working on this topic ; and as a matter of facts he presents things as being his discoveries. He is also constantly referring to God and "being aligned with God", which really did not help the reading as far as I'm concerned.
I stay under the impression that the author has been reading litterature on the subject, and then hastily put a book together with bits and pieces from here and there in order to make easy money. This is very unfortunate, because I think this is a very important matter that people should know about, but this author is really working against the interest of the cause with this poorly written book.
Books that I found much more useful on the subject are :
- the Ph miracle, by Robert Young, if you want to understand how the body is working and why you should alkalize (but not for his diet - except maybe if you are severely sick - or his food guidance, that based on all the other books I read, are I think partly mistaken);
- the acid alkaline food guide, by Susan Brown and Larry Trivieri, for a quick understanding (if you don't want the in-depth analysis of Young), and for the very complete food guide (knowing that you should always try and determine what's a food doing for you, if you have a doubt on one in particular);
- The Acid-Alkaline Diet for Optimum Health by Christopher Vasey, to understand better how metabolism can lead to different results depending on who is eating the food, for a guidance on how to flush acids (you don't need to go 100% alkaline as suggested by Young), and how to test for effect that food has on you.