Product Description

Your H (homocysteine) level is the single most important statistic you need to know in order to determine how healthy you are and how long you will live. Your H level is now widely understood to be a greater risk factor for heart disease than cholesterol. Homocysteine expert Dr James Braly has shown that a high H score is a major risk factor for cancer, arthritis and even obesity. In this accessible book Dr Braly and leading nutritionist Patrick Holford show you how to assess your H level and suggest 10 remarkably simple changes to your diet and your lifestyle that will lower your score and dramatically cut your risk of ever having cancer, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis and many more serious ailments. Learn how to: test your homocysteine levels; reduce your risk of disease; slow down the ageing process; improve your health; radically increase your life expectancy

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #56185 in Books
• Published on: 2003-05-22
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages

About the Author
Patrick Holford is Britain's top nutrition expert, with a weekly feature in Metro and regularly appearing on ITV's This Morning programme. He is the author of over 20 health books, including the blockbuster The Optimum Nutrition Bible, which has sold over half a million copies in 30 countries. Patrick Holford is founder of the Institute for Optimum Nutrition in London. James Braly, MD, is one of America's leading medical authorities on nutrition, among the first to prove the link between food allergy and disease. He is author of the best selling Dr Braly's Food Allergy & Nutrition Revolution and Dangerous Grains. He is medical editor of Let's Live magazine.

Customer Reviews

Jury is still out on this one!
We bought this book , hoping for good sensible advice , which we got . The main drawback to this book is that you need to spend quite a bit of money on Testing via a private laboratory in order to make the purchase of the hard to find , very expensive vitamin formulas worthwhile. Things may change if more NHS Testing for homocysteine levels becomes available , which would make the purchase of such vitamin and mineral supplements more worthwhile ,as you could easily see they were (or were not) of benefit to your health.
All other advice is pretty sound and very well explained and reasonably easy to follow.

If you want to be healthy read this book
This is an excellent book, it tackles a complicated topic simply. It is very interesting and an imperative read if you want to get to grips with your own health.

Atomic Bomb Truth ??
I agree with both the reviewers before me.
My own succinct comment is that I believe this book is earth shatteringly profound, and true, and I'm acting on it.

Less succinctly: there exists enormous differences of onion between 'interested parties' on the subject of nutrition/supplements/drugs; and alas I personally feel it's a pity more PUBLIC money is not put in by honourable people to enable *TRULY* IMPARTIAL research into the whole issue pertaining to the body's astonishing capacity to heal and stave off disease. And furthermore isn't it a pity we (the public) are easily gullible, believing a front page (quite often tabloid) newspaper saying for example 'Organically Grown Food is NO Better for You !'. Ergo- Strategy: "Sling headline mud - never mind about erudite letters to the editor which follow and which few people will even *know were written !* - let alone read".

So what IS the Truth about homocysteine ? {I prefer to let people think what they want to think (otherwise it get's too emotive or gives one an unpleasant aftertaste in ones mouth [so to speak] - a bit like debating the existence of God)[by the way on that score, what do you Believe, and what do you Know ? - I contemplate a curious and warm Sensation of 'Something', but am generally open minded on that topic ... ]}.

If this book about homocysteine is true, (and I for one am *not yet prepared to believe that it isn't* - [also based on my fairly extensive reading of other book's of this nature and even Darwin [on evolution] and Hubble [the age of planet earth], then when a patentable 'drug' to control homocysteine is discovered (let's ignore for a moment any side effects it might have); then that drug will be marketed *SO* heavily and hailed as such a profound medical breakthrough as to be the 'Atomic bomb' of medicine in the history of mankind's health and longevity in the last 5,000 years. It will certainly put Viagra in the shade. But the politicians won't want most of the populous living another twenty years {think of the strain on the pension system !}. And frankly, what inept action regarding global warming ! (I digress...)

As to blood tests etc. I do agree with the first reviewer as to the cost of them [UK £70 each ?] (because you ought to get at least two of them [before and after supplementation, and, from time to time]. In my own case, I'm 'lucky' - I had a stroke and the consultant instructed a homocysteine test [my own doctor cannot order such a test], and my level is 13.1 which is described in Holford's book as being the high end of 'high risk' whereas the consultant regards me in the 'normal' range of 5-15.

In terms of what I regard as scientifically rigorous *narrative*, I would he hard pushed to rate this book as more than 8.5 out of 10. But as far as the essence of it its message goes: it deserves 100 out of 10 (and that wasn't a mis-type !).

Read this book and follow it if you believe it. You'll be healthier and live longer. I'm certainly not prepared to ignore the book's message.