Review: Great Healthcare Guide
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 3, 2012
I work in a busy Internal Medicine practice and support four MDs answering patient calls and questions. Most of our patients are in middle age or older and I am constantly asked what foods are recommended for this ailment of another.  The questions that I get run the gamut from urinary tract infection recommendations (besides the cranberry juice that everyone knows about) to what are the best foods to eat to prevent Dementia or Alzheimer's disease.  I used to have one of the folding files with a bunch of different articles in it but that was a pain as I was always making copies or running out of articles. Without fail, patients had several ailments that they wanted articles for so they left the office with a bunch of bunched up papers with varying degrees of print quality. This book has been a life saver.  It is organized by ailment and not at all written in medical language.  It does not bog the reader down in the biology and physiology of antioxidants or other medical components in foods.  It is written in a way that all of our patients can easily read reagardless of educational status. I have several copies in the office that patients can browse through so now all that I make copies of are the piece of paper with the amazon link, the name of the book and the name of the author so that they can go out and buy it themselves.  Several of our copies have "walked" away from our office and I have had to replenish our library.  This is a great patient guide of recommended foods by ailment.