An Apple a Day: The ABC's of Diet & Disease

The author enlightens the reader in her usual informative and humorous manner.

Written by Barb Bancroft, a health care professional who has been offering informative seminars since 1980, An Apple A Day: The ABC's Of Diet & Disease is a solid, understandable, easy-to-read reference written expressly to be understandable to non-professional general reader. Organized in encyclopedia-format A through Z, An Apple A Day offers solid, practical information on everything from Apples and Anorexia to the scam of Yam-based creams and a recipe for cold Zucchini Soup. Witty, heavily researched, and packed with so much information the reader is guaranteed to expand his or her knowledge on the good, the bad, and the ugly of foods and nutrition. Of special note are the entries dealing with food-borne illnesses. An Apple A Day is highly recommended for personal and community library health care reading lists and reference collections.

If you want to find out why you may be taking aspirin without knowing it, or why you shouldn't down your Viagra with grapefruit juice, this is a must-read! Whether you're a medical professional, trivia buff, or looking for topics of conversation that will surely enthrall your friends and colleagues, Barb will take you on a roller-coaster ride through the entire alphabet of diet and disease. This is serious stuff, done in an amazingly humerous tongue-in-cheek style. You simply won't want to put it down, and I would recommend it as a great gift for any occasion...