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---Ilse Heidmann, San Marcos, TX
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Someone needs to write this book; Obviously T.S. Wiley can't,
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This review is from: Lights Out: Sleep, Sugar, and Survival (Paperback)
Pocket Books should be ashamed of publishing such a badly-written horribly edited book. Really too bad because I think the theories deserve some real thought and documented research. One hundred pages of references doesn't mean a thing if you can't line up a fact with a reference (who did the research that says we only get one billion heart beats?). A 30-page glossary seems nice, but the 2 words I tried to find weren't in there, and I'm sure some that are there aren't in the book. One of the final chapters mentions an appendix twice -- but the book has no appendix! Minor, but showing how badly this book wasn't edited, the last page (About the Authors) has the title of the book wrong!Although this book was very, very frustrating to read, I wanted to learn what it has to teach. I wish I knew which parts were from real science and which were pulled out of hats. Reviewers who say it is an easy read couldn't have tried to understand all the words ... for example, in one page, she discusses Newtonian physics, Quantum physics, supersymmetry and string theory AND Chaos theory. She may use simple words, but her thoughts ping-pong around through complex and questionable ideas and trying to "connect the dots" and discern the truth make in-depth reading very slow and frustrating. T.S. Wiley should have hired a ghost writer. Hopefully someone else will write this book the right way and help us see what in here is fact.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Be Very Skeptical,
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This review is from: Lights Out Sleep, Sugar, and Survival (Hardcover)
The first reason I would be skeptical of this book is because of the author's credentials. In "About the Authors", it doesn't mention T.S. Wiley's education anywhere. It does say that she has been a guest investigator at Sansum Medical Research Institute, and an investigative reporter for an NBC affiliate in St. Louis. In 1995, "she turned to medical research, with a special interest in endocrinology and evolutionary biology." Not that the lack of credentials would automatically dismiss this as an important work, but it does make me wonder.The basic premise of the book is simple enough. In the 1930's, for the first time in history, inexpensive artificial light was ubiquitous in America. Around the same time, processed foods high in corn sugar and hydrogenated oils came on the market. Americans were sleeping less, eating processed foods, and (surprise) heart disease, diabetes, and cancer became serious problems. The author's solution to preventing all these diseases? Eat lots and lots of meat. She goes on to say that cavemen ate meat almost exclusively, and when humans shifted to an agrarian society, it causes all sorts of health problems. But she does not go into much more detail about that. Nor does she correctly footnote, so it would be very difficult to figure out where she got this information. The book is very condescending to vegetarians. Yet it neglects to acknowledge Asian societies that eat a rice based diet and don't have problems with obesity or heart disease, and live long, healthy lives. A few quotes from the book: (pg. 165-166)"Vegetarianism is morally laudable, but it's impossible to get enough protein." Impossible? I guess the author never heard of eggs, cheese, nuts, or soy. (pg. 166)"Even monkeys murder for meat." Is the author implying that monkeys are more scrupulous than humans? After the author preaches the benefits of eating lots of meat, she has this to say: (pg. 176) "It's good to eat red meat, just don't do it 3 times a day." OK, so maybe it isn't all that good for you. "Don't cook it to death, it's already dead. (The average serving of barbecued or burned meat imparts to you an amount of cancer-causing particles equivalent to what you would get from 250 cigarettes.)" I think cancer was one of the diseases that this diet was supposed to prevent... The book does have some interesting ideas, but I would never shape my diet around an individual with no medical or nutritional background. As far as a book on healthy sleep habits, I recommend "Power Sleep".
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting ideas, hard read,
By A.T. (Toronto, On.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Lights Out: Sleep, Sugar, and Survival (Paperback)
I would have to agree with other reviewers that this book has some very interesting ideas, but is very poorly written.
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