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| View Larger Image | Understanding Our Epidemic: And Changes in the Food Industry Which Could Be Making You Sick! | Paperbackby Sylvia LeDoux (Author)
| List Price: | $20.99 | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | BookSurge Publishing | | Page Count: | 118 Pages | | Publication Date: | October 19, 2005 | | Sales Rank: | 1,222,789st |
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Product Description
Sylvia LeDoux's Understanding Our Epidemic is the result of her lifelong study of how the food we eat contributes to the physical and psychological diseases that have become epidemic in the United States. With brilliant illustrations, she describes the complex workings of the digestive and immune systems and why food intolerances often go undiagnosed in the medical professions. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 4 reviews)
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Understanding our epidemic by Sylvia Ledoux by P. Campbell  5 Stars
August 20, 2009
The book came to me in 3 to 4 days, and almost new condition. The book was very informational to me and my family, as we have similar background to the author, with many of the allergies. If you have allergy problems, lactose, wheat etc, and especially have North American Indian as part of your genealogy, it really helps in understanding your allergy, and avoiding foods that cause your allergy problems, and the body's response to foods when you have an allergy. Well worth reading!
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One of the biggest secrets to a better life... by W. Landry Prichard (Mississippi Delta) 5 Stars
January 27, 2007
...and yes...I know how pretentious that may sound. But actually, it makes sense when you re-realize that the brain's health is obviously linked to the health of the rest of the organic machine that we know of as our human body; It's in no way seperate. We act as if 'the body' is that entity below our brainpan that is somehow seperate from 'us' when this is hardly the truth. When one takes care of their body through good healthy dietary choices (including excercise...Don't be fooled by the various late-night ads...There's no way to have it without at least some good excercise.), then the mind is sure to follow...A clearer body means a clearer line-of-sight.
Now...All that being said, I can honestly say that the knowledge Sylvia's book has to offer is nothing massively elaborate and includes NO addition of any sort of drug or gimmick...quite the opposite in fact. It has to do with the subtraction of a few elements in our diet that we have for so very long taken for granted as being normal for human health when in fact they most certainly are anything other than healthy and have served as the premature downfall of many of our mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters...friends & ancestors. On the rare cases I've actually listened to my body, I could see that it was at least a couple of these dietary ingredients that was making me lethargic, unfocused & unmotivated. When I tried clearing my system again (but this time through Sylvia's tips), I saw that she was onto 'it'...She was and is onto something very important to the health/wealth of the human experience. The virtual pantheon of diseases we experience is ANYTHING but normal...at least it doesn't have to be.
...The world isn't flat, good people...You just have to give it a chance. :-)
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Booksurge Editorial review by The Author (Greenville, Ms) 5 Stars
December 07, 2005
This is the Editorial review from Booksurge Publishing which I felt was an excellent summary of the book and worthy of submitting here. It is also the back cover text.
YOU EAT SOMETHING and and almost immediately you have nasal drainage or your stomach is upset and you're lethargic the rest of the day. So what's up with this? Sylvia LeDoux has done us a big favor in writing Understanding our Epidemic, the results of her lifelong study of how the food we eat makes us sick. She takes highly complex medical information, coupled with brilliant illustrations and gives the average person a complete understanding of how the body uses the food we eat. Or, rather, how our body cannot use some foods we eat and we get sick! Ms. LeDoux gives us her personal experiences with food intolerances and thoroughly researched findings to explain how our digestive system is not equipped to handle the highly processed food we buy at grocery stores and eat in restaurants. The fact that 70% of our immune system is in our gastrointestinal system explains the importance of understanding that what we eat influences every cell in our body. With the epidemic rise in obesity, autoimmune diseases, asthma and cancer in our society, Ms. LeDoux demonstrates that it is imperative that we understand that what we eat can make us sick. In her words: "Being sick is not normal! A person can learn to listen to their body's signals, make adjustments to their diet and recover from illness"
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I thought I was lactose intolerant by Kathryn C. Lewis (Mississippi) 5 Stars
December 02, 2005
I have always assumed I was lactose intolerant because that's how my dad explained why he couldn't drink milk. I couldn't handle milk-based formula as a baby, could drink milk as a child, and cannot tolerate milk as an adult. My infant daughter was diagnosed with a type of milk protein allergy at age 4 months having never had anything other than breastmilk to that point. After many doctors visits and lots of experimenting, we finally figured out that milk proteins from foods I was eating were passing through the milk to her and as soon as I cut dairy out of my diet she didn't have the intestinal problems anymore -- although I accidentally ate things that did contain dairy over the next few months and the problems returned immediately. I was amazed at the aches and pains and sinus troubles that disappeared from my life and the overall improvement in my own health which led me to believe my own condition is more like hers. When I read Sylvia's book this all began to make sense as well as a host of other ailments my family members and I myself have endured. I remembered how we all took antihistamines for any complaints we had as children and it always seemed to work. The inflammatory response to the milk protein and the high fructose corn syrup was the key that linked so many things together. I now feel equipped to make much better food choices for my family to keep us all healthy.
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