Betty Kamen's 1,001 Health Secrets: What the Latest Research Reveals about Living Longer, Living Healthier, Living Better: The Skeptic's Guide to Alte

1,001 HEALTH SECRETS by Betty Kamen is a wonderful book: fascinating, all-encompassing, and crammed full of such vitally important information that it has fundamentally changed the way I think about food and nutrition. The best part is the format: it's so well organized and simple to use, you can just flip to the section you're interested in and quickly read the short, to-the-point health hints that you can put into practice that very day! And the way the hints are linked is also brilliant: after reading about, for example, the benefits of green tea against cancer, the hint will direct you to other hints to learn more of the story; that is, what other diseases and health problems green tea (or whatever the supplement, food, or vitamin in question) can help to prevent. In fact, it's so fascinating to see how so much about health and nutrition is interlinked, you can get (happily) sucked into the book for hours...not many health books can claim that! And for the "Scullys" out there, EVERY SINGLE HINT is backed up by hard science and cutting-edge research, published in the most recent medical journals (all the journals are cited). Every time I hear of a new supplement or see something unfamiliar in the health food store, I rush to my copy of this book to look it up and get the whole story. There's nothing else like it.

This is the only health advice book I'll ever need. The material is well-organized and easy to find, and it's comforting to know that all the recommendations, even the most alternative therapies, are based on documented scientific research. A winner all the way around.

I've been having some health issues, and this book has provided me with excellent tips for improving my health, as well as background information and other resources. Every home should have a copy.

It is my pleasure to review "1001 Health Secrets." I find the book to be well wriiten, pleasant to read, and most importantly full of useful and timely information. In a world where there is as much nutritional misinformation as reliable information circulating I am delighted that Dr. Kamen has pulled togther a referenced resource to help anyone sort fact from fiction. Many people have shared with me that they have given up believing that the nutritional information they hear is right as the tidbits of nutritioional wisdom broadcast by the news media seem to change and are often contradictory. However, there is a stable and growing body of knowledge that is data-based (backed by research). When examined as a whole the credible research studies actually do support each other. Betty Kamen is masterful at sharing results of valid research and helps create the big picture of what is healthful. This book does an excellent job at pulling together many aspects of what is known about best nutritional practice with clear explanations, all referenced to mainstream medical and nutritional literature.