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Capture Perfect Health
CAPTURE PERFECT HEALTH is the EASY TO READ, EASY TO UNDERSTAND, and EASY TO FOLLOW factual guidebook to leading a healthy lifestyle.
Dubbed by the press as the "apostle of good health and happiness," author ELIZABETH ACOSTTA MICALLER Ph.D., N.D., practicing Naturopathist, Iridologist, health visionary and local pioneer in alternative health therapies shares in this book, her practical and acquired knowledge as well as personal experience on how to CAPTURE PERFECT HEALTH.
Dubbed by the press as the "apostle of good health and happiness," author ELIZABETH ACOSTTA MICALLER Ph.D., N.D., practicing Naturopathist, Iridologist, health visionary and local pioneer in alternative health therapies shares in this book, her practical and acquired knowledge as well as personal experience on how to CAPTURE PERFECT HEALTH.
206 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1995
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March 31, 2016
I studied for about six years just to become a medical doctor, and as an orthodox one I've always believed in scientific rigor, randomized controlled trials, and the five-letters of ANOVA. I'm not any good in any of the three, however, but I always look for bases whenever I speak regarding medicine. While I usually find it in our massive textbooks, updates and studies that are published yearly keep me up to date (whenever I find the time to read them).
Capture Perfect Health represented most of the things I disagree with. Iridology has been definitively proven to be a pseudoscience with homeopathy, after all. But I thought it was important that I keep my mind open to any knowledge that would come my way. That was what my father taught me: never close your eyes to knowledge, whether you'd like that knowledge or not.
Surprisingly, Micaller did her research for the most part. Her chapter on vitamins was based on scientific research, and I applaud her for that. I actually smiled when she wrote that aflatoxin led to cancer, because it does lead to hepatocellular carcinoma. There were certain other parts of the book that showed me she read and reflected on established science, and for that, I applaud her effort.
The advertisements were highly unwelcome, however. At times, the book seemed to me an advertisement to go to her institution to promote health. I also found the lack of proofreading to be irritating. Her repetition of 'wholistic,' has actually given me PTSD, because I cringed whenever I saw that word, and she repeated it often in her book. Her horrible portmanteau 'infanticipating,' when she could have used the simpler and more understandable word 'pregnant,' also infuriated me. She's no Joyce, so there's no reason for her to write like him. I don't think she's a literary genius, after all.
I could respect her scholarly approach toward the more whimsical aspects of her health promotion, but I cannot forgive her lack of a proofreader especially when it could mislead readers. Vitamin K isn't used for acne or nyctalopia: isotretinoin (a vitamin A derivative) is used for acne, and vitamin A is given for nyctalopia (p. 157). Given the good research she's done in writing the rest of the book, she should have looked for an editor who was at least familiar with medicine.
It's still a decent book, and I liked it enough.
Capture Perfect Health represented most of the things I disagree with. Iridology has been definitively proven to be a pseudoscience with homeopathy, after all. But I thought it was important that I keep my mind open to any knowledge that would come my way. That was what my father taught me: never close your eyes to knowledge, whether you'd like that knowledge or not.
Surprisingly, Micaller did her research for the most part. Her chapter on vitamins was based on scientific research, and I applaud her for that. I actually smiled when she wrote that aflatoxin led to cancer, because it does lead to hepatocellular carcinoma. There were certain other parts of the book that showed me she read and reflected on established science, and for that, I applaud her effort.
The advertisements were highly unwelcome, however. At times, the book seemed to me an advertisement to go to her institution to promote health. I also found the lack of proofreading to be irritating. Her repetition of 'wholistic,' has actually given me PTSD, because I cringed whenever I saw that word, and she repeated it often in her book. Her horrible portmanteau 'infanticipating,' when she could have used the simpler and more understandable word 'pregnant,' also infuriated me. She's no Joyce, so there's no reason for her to write like him. I don't think she's a literary genius, after all.
I could respect her scholarly approach toward the more whimsical aspects of her health promotion, but I cannot forgive her lack of a proofreader especially when it could mislead readers. Vitamin K isn't used for acne or nyctalopia: isotretinoin (a vitamin A derivative) is used for acne, and vitamin A is given for nyctalopia (p. 157). Given the good research she's done in writing the rest of the book, she should have looked for an editor who was at least familiar with medicine.
It's still a decent book, and I liked it enough.
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