Diet Wise

This book has been replaced by a new version. This was much cheaper.I have used this book to find out foods that did me harm and improved my health thereby. I needed another copy to help a friend.This is not merely a "nice" or "useful" book. It is an enormous breakthrough, one of the most valuable things on Earth for anybody who wants to increase well-being. Of course, the current book would be even better.

i can see why you would be skeptical, Karen.. there's so much junk out there. I first heard him speak on Pat Timpone's online radio show, so had to check out the book because the thought that ordinary, supposedly good food can make people very sick was quite intriguing to me.The biggest thing that stood out for me was he mentions - it's not the quantity of the food, but what are you having every day... and i thought oh what do i find the hardest to give up that i have every day... so i just thought, toast in the morning, pasta, and milk. HA! what a shock.. i dropped ten pounds of Bloat in a week. All of a sudden i realized I had a keen addiction to starchy things i had been denying, and the milk just in tea/coffee was bloating me as well. Who knew? so have been eating stuff and seeing how i feel. If i bloat - gain a few pounds (he mentions takes about 4 days for substance to get out of your body) - ya, it takes a few days for the bloat to go away.I am starting to pinpoint things that do that, and I tell ya, it is really surprising what does and what doesn't. With stopping some of these bloaty foods, the cravings stopped right away too - except for the floury pasta stuff, which i suspect is just habit, because everywhere i looked it was like visual hypnosis - every ad on tv, everywhere people eating floury starchy things -eeeek! took me about 6 weeks to really get over all this "being surrounded by starch" mentality.I gave a copy to my friend and she says oh ya, that means i have to stop eating bla bla bla.. noooo just read it and see what it is for you because everyone is different... everyone is unique..He also talks about threshold of what a body can take, as well. Allergies and stress may not show because your body is handling it, but when you go over the threshold of what your body can handle, then the ailments etc appear. I haven't had the attention span to read the whole book, but am doing my own self discovery with food from this book.. considering i have been dieting since i was 16 (with miserable results - and now i know why!!!! finally!)... ya, it's been a lifesaver... better now than never.. thank you doctor!!

I have read about half of this book to date and will continue to the end. I recommend it to anyone who has digestive or allergy problems or just would like to learn more about how foods affect one's health. This book is an eye-opener as far as diet is concerned. The writer, a medical doctor who has worked with patients with serious health problems for more than 30 years, that range from OA to seeming mental disorders, is a veritable fountain of knowledge. He provides you with a detailed elimination diet as well as casebook examples of patients with serious food intolerances. He says that the only diet that's good for you is the one that doesn't make you sick. I am a perfect example of someone who attempted to eat all of the right foods, like spinach and broccoli and fruit. However, I am allergic to salicylate and those foods among many others are the worst offenders, along with aspirin (also NSAID) which is offered to patients routinely. . Supplements also contain allergens that many are unaware of. If you have any food related problems, read this book, it contains a fountain of information and advises how to find the source of one's problems if related to food. The doctor starts out with the 10 most common foods that produce reactions in the majority of people and then instructs one how to deal with other food intolerances after the major ones are cleared. I found out about my allergic reaction to aspirin many years ago, but had no idea until the last few years that all the foods I loved contained salicylate. Abstaining from these foods as much as possible corrected my long standing digestive problems. I've read other books about food intolerances, but none as explicit and detailed as Dr. Scott-Mumby. Read it! It might change your life and most certainly your outlook on foods and all of the conventional wisdom that comes to us via the MSM and Internet sources. If I understand it correctly, one's specific metabolism makes it impossible to eat certain foods and only complete withdrawal will keep you from reactions. Most of the books I've read, encourage one to try the offending foods again, but I know from experience that the author is on to something that I've not heard before. Read it and become informed!

This book literally changed my life! I was so ill last winter, (2014) prescribed inhalers, told I'd need to go on oxygen, told I had asthma, COPD, pneumonia, echo cardiograms, CAT scans ... I'd feel better for awhile and then I'd be sick again. I started following the suggestions in this book about eliminating foods to see what I might be allergic/intolerant to ... and incredibly - within a few short weeks, I was well and have been well ever since. I am now able to occasionally eat a loved food, but as long as I stay away from my intolerance foods, I feel like a million dollars. Start slipping some of the foods back into my diet and immediately begin with burning eyes, nasal congestion, wheezing and I don't hang around long enough to find out how bad it might get. I am hopeful this coming winter will not be a repeat of last year. I'm hoping that the changes I've made in my eating regime will be enough to keep me healthy. I will update next spring. As a personal opinion, Dr. Keith is a bit of arrogance and a whole bunch of down-to-earth truth rolled together into a likeable guy. Don't always agree with his take on certain views, but am open enough to recognize that he's onto something and that he has certainly helped restore my health and life. I get a kick out of him. Hope this helps someone out there. :-)

Food has certain effects on us, we often dismiss this and this book was an eye opener

Brilliant book and very informative. If you want to know the effect the food you are eating is having on your body, then this is the book for you. I would recommend it.

Just ordered second one for a friend. Great advice and it's working for me.

A sensible guide to working out any food issues you may or may not have. Good clear instructions on how to attempt an exclusion diet.

Very good book. Helped me identify which foods were affecting my asthma. Would recommend it to anyone.