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Summary: Too much ax grinding
Comment: This very short book has some good suggestions regarding diet and exercise to relieve diverticulitis. Unfortunately, the author spends too much time bashing the standard medical system and extolling the virtues of naturopathy. In addition, the suggested diet is going to be too spartan for most folks to follow long term unless they are already into "natural" foods. If you can find this book for a couple of bucks it might be worth while, otherwise you can read just about any book on natural health and get the same infomation. Just eat whole foods and walk. And if you aren't willing to go that dietary route then it is not worth your time or money.
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Summary: Helped Me
Comment: This book helps you deal with the frustration of the pain, I highly recommend this to anyone dealing with this disease.
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Summary: Diverticulitis
Comment: Once you set aside the Author's rantings about Science, Food Manufactures and the Medical Society, this book is GREAT.It conirmed some of the action I had already taken regarding a fast during a bout, but the most important and revelationary information I got is the "Toilet Drill" and "Abdominal Ecercises". Never had I ever been told how to empty my bowels to avoid stress on the stomach. That information alone, was well worth the book.
Dont give up on the book, the 104 pages was information I already knew, but the last 14 are worth it.
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Summary: Don't waste your money
Comment: I ordered this book after my husband was hospitilized with diverticulitis. I was hoping for some real life diet and lifestyle information. Instead, fasting, a basically vegetarian diet without spices, "cold sponge down and friction rubs", daily enemas, herbal laxatives, and "toilet drills" were advised by the author. I laughed through this book, because many of the suggestions were ridiculous.
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Summary: Life-changing!
Comment: While I'm not a big fan of self-help books in general, I found this little gem to be worth its weight in gold. I've read it and re-read it, and I've even thought of writing to the author to thank him for writing such an important book for those of us who have long suffered with diverticulosis/diverticulitis and have run into a wall at our doctor's offices. I had been suffering off and on for the past four years with all the pain and discomfort an "attack" brings and repeatedly received no more help from my doctors than tests and prescriptions. During the visit before I turned to Dr. White's little book, after tests again had failed to show why I felt so very sick, my too-busy doctor wrote out a prescription for yet another drug and, when I asked her what to do about the antispasmodic I was already on, she said,"Huh? What are you on, now?" This was a drug I had been taking for over two years, which she had prescribed, it had unpleasant side effects, and my doctor had completely forgotten (with the file right in front of her)! That's when I decided to accept the challenge of Dr. White's book -- the challenge to cure myself, natually.
The first thing I did was to go off the drug I'd been on. Until I read this book, I had never had the courage to do such a thing, because I feared even worse pain. Within 24 hours, the mental confusion and clouding I had been experiencing for 4 weeks had completely disappeared, and I launched Dr. White's regime with firm resolve. As I fasted for three days and followed religiously Dr. White's instructions, I felt better and better. The pain in my gut lessened and lessened and is now, two weeks later, almost entirely gone.
When I first bought this book I looked at it and put it aside, because I wasn't desperate enough to give up food, alcohol, and caffiene for three days. I just didn't think I could do it. But, along with my doctor's indifference, the pain of this last episode convinced me I had no choice if I wanted to feel well again. Well, I now feel I have my life and my health back, and I've learned a whole new respect for my body. I'm happier, calmer, nicer to be around, and I have energy for the first time in many, many months ... all because of Dr. White's little green book.
Dr. White writes well and intelligently about the workings of the body (he is a D.O.), and his advice is easy to follow. Inasmuch as he's English, some of the terms he uses are a little odd, but I actually enjoyed that quirkiness.
If you or someone you love suffers from diverticulosis/diverticulitis, you should buy this book now. It can change your life, too.
