A helpful and well-researched plan for improving gut health, reducing inflammation, and avoiding disease triggers.
In this guide to holistically handling psoriasis and arthritis, the author provides keys to healing and wellness through nutrition.
Fett (It Starts with the Egg, 2016, etc.) has more to offer than sound research and tested principles touting the curative power of food. From the beginning of the book, she shares her own personal journey of managing psoriasis and arthritis from age 18. As a determined student who became a busy attorney at a fast-paced law firm, Fett realized by 30 that psoriasis and arthritis were not temporary conditions but lifelong battles that she would have to find alternative approaches to to win. In this conversational title, she explores the science behind these conditions and their connection to gut health—the key she learned that would turn her suffering around and give her control of the maladies. The book explains in simple, well-articulated terms how deterioration of the intestinal barriers creates inflammation and pain and how the gut is the body’s center for immunity cells and microbes. Quite simply, eating a diet that targets these issues and heals rather than disturbs the gut can make the difference between lifelong pain and strong recovery. Fett covers the Mediterranean diet in detail, teaching the reader about the dangers of a “Westernized” regimen lacking fiber and the importance of polyphenols in fruits and vegetables. She even offers recipes at the end of the book. The author thoroughly explains the impact that probiotic supplements and dietary changes can have on an individual suffering from psoriasis and arthritis. With an in-depth discussion of fats like olive oil, fish oil, and coconut oil, the author surveys the studies available and promotes small amounts of animal protein in lieu of saturated fats, which may increase endotoxin levels in the blood. Further, Fett examines the problematic nature of grains and legumes and prescribes a balanced Mediterranean diet with plenty of statistics to back her position. For readers who want to learn more about the way diet can change their quality of life, this manual is easy-to-understand, full of relevant data, and well-organized.
A helpful and well-researched plan for improving gut health, reducing inflammation, and avoiding disease triggers.Pub Date: June 13, 2017
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 626
Publisher: Franklin Fox Publishing
Review Posted Online: May 30, 2017
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
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For the author’s fans.
A Fox News journalist and talk show host sets out to prove that she is not “an empty St. John suit in five-inch stiletto heels.”
The child of devout Christians, Minnesota native Carlson’s first love was music. She began playing violin at age 6 and quickly revealed that she was not only a prodigy, but also a little girl who thrived on pleasing audiences. Working with top teachers, she developed her art over the years. But by 16, Carlson began “chafing at [the] rigid, structured life” of a concert violinist–in-training and temporarily put music aside. At the urging of her mother, the high achiever set her sights on winning the Miss T.E.E.N. pageant, where she was first runner-up. College life at Stanford became yet another quest for perfection that led Carlson to admit it was “not attainable” after she earned a C in one class. At the end of her junior year and again at the urging of her mother, Carlson entered the 1989 Miss America pageant, which she would go on to win thanks to a brilliant violin performance. Dubbed the “smart Miss America,” Carlson struggled with pageant stereotypes as well as public perceptions of who she was. Being in the media spotlight every day during her reign, however, also helped her decide on a career in broadcast journalism. Yet success did not come easily. Sexual harassment dogged her, and many expressed skepticism about her abilities due to her pageant past. Even after she rose to national prominence, first as a CBS news broadcaster and then as a Fox talk show host, Carlson continued—and continues—to be labeled as “dumb or a bimbo.” Her history clearly demonstrates that she is neither. However, Carlson’s overly earnest tone, combined with her desire to show her Minnesota “niceness…in action,” as well as the existence of “abundant brain cells,” dampens the book’s impact.
For the author’s fans.Pub Date: June 16, 2015
ISBN: 978-0-525-42745-2
Page Count: 272
Publisher: Viking
Review Posted Online: March 27, 2015
Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 15, 2015
Thus the second most costly war in American history, whose “outcome seemed little short of a miracle.” A sterling account.
A master storyteller’s character-driven account of a storied year in the American Revolution.
Against world systems, economic determinist and other external-cause schools of historical thought, McCullough (John Adams, 2001, etc.) has an old-fashioned fondness for the great- (and not-so-great) man tradition, which may not have much explanatory power but almost always yields better-written books. McCullough opens with a courteous nod to the customary villain in the story of American independence, George III, who turns out to be a pleasant and artistically inclined fellow who relied on poor advice; his Westmoreland, for instance, was a British general named Grant who boasted that with 5,000 soldiers he “could march from one end of the American continent to the other.” Other British officers agitated for peace, even as George wondered why Americans would not understand that to be a British subject was to be free by definition. Against these men stood arrayed a rebel army that was, at the least, unimpressive; McCullough observes that New Englanders, for instance, considered washing clothes to be women’s work and so wore filthy clothes until they rotted, with the result that Burgoyne and company had a point in thinking the Continentals a bunch of ragamuffins. The Americans’ military fortunes were none too good for much of 1776, the year of the Declaration; at the slowly unfolding battle for control over New York, George Washington was moved to despair at the sight of sometimes drunk soldiers running from the enemy and of their officers “who, instead of attending to their duty, had stood gazing like bumpkins” at the spectacle. For a man such as Washington, to be a laughingstock was the supreme insult, but the British were driven by other motives than to irritate the general—not least of them reluctance to give up a rich, fertile and beautiful land that, McCullough notes, was providing the world’s highest standard of living in 1776.
Thus the second most costly war in American history, whose “outcome seemed little short of a miracle.” A sterling account.Pub Date: June 1, 2005
ISBN: 0-7432-2671-2
Page Count: 656
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 2005
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