Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the Yeast Connection: A Get-Well Guide for People With This Often Misunderstood Illness--And Those Who Care for Them
Crook ( The Yeast Connection , Professional Bks., 1985) has "written this book to serve as a general guide for persons with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and those who are working to help them." He has failed to achieve this goal on almost every point. While CFS may well be connected with food allergies and yeast, as Crook claims, he ignores many other causes of the condition and doesn't even consider any standard medical diagnostic tests or treatments. The book doesn't address even basic information on CFS very effectively and is poorly written and disorganized in content. Libraries would be much better off purchasing Katrina H. Berne's Running on Empty: Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome or Neenyah Ostrom's 50 Things You Should Know About the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic (both LJ 6/15/92).- Janet M. Schneider, James A. Haley Veterans Hosp., Tampa, Fla.Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.