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A review by mholla
The Immune System Recovery Plan: A Doctor's 4-Step Program to Treat Autoimmune Disease by Susan Blum
4.0
This book was recommended to my by a friend when she heard about some health problems I was dealing with. I ordered it immediately and read it in a few days. I am just starting an elimination diet, but I was mostly impressed with the information it contained and the case it made.
One thing that was a huge sticking point for me was her (repeated!) claim that our ancestors “settled down to farming (only ten generations ago)”. This is clearly not factual. If it was in there only one time, you think maybe the editors missed it and she meant ten thousand years ago but thought generations sounded good and didn't have a literal, numerical meaning. But seriously, in a book that claims to be well-researched, to claim that farming started around the time that the US became a country? It made me wonder what other number could be wrong.
And if it wasn't an honest mistake, then did she really think her case was weak enough that she had to make some bizarrely erroneous claim to convince readers? The obvious manipulation of that claim to support her theory just made me question the other facts she presented, which I find harder to verify.
Docking a full two stars for that mistake/lie. If the elimination diet works, I may restore a star ;)
One thing that was a huge sticking point for me was her (repeated!) claim that our ancestors “settled down to farming (only ten generations ago)”. This is clearly not factual. If it was in there only one time, you think maybe the editors missed it and she meant ten thousand years ago but thought generations sounded good and didn't have a literal, numerical meaning. But seriously, in a book that claims to be well-researched, to claim that farming started around the time that the US became a country? It made me wonder what other number could be wrong.
And if it wasn't an honest mistake, then did she really think her case was weak enough that she had to make some bizarrely erroneous claim to convince readers? The obvious manipulation of that claim to support her theory just made me question the other facts she presented, which I find harder to verify.
Docking a full two stars for that mistake/lie. If the elimination diet works, I may restore a star ;)