Great idea for a book and really well executed. A thoroughly good read. Highly recommended. .

My best friend loves this book and recommends it often. I got it years ago to review on NetGalley and it was archived before I read it. While I was visiting my friend last month, she brought out her copy of this book for me to read through for ideas about my daughter's UTI and my son's stomach aches.

It's hard to know what to say about it because I don't want to denigrate my awesome friend or those who follow this stuff, but it's really not in alignment with my own belief system. It was interesting and kind of fun to read, but I couldn't take it totally seriously. You're supposed to just put a bowl of cranberries on your counter to benefit from them if you don't like the taste, because spiritually they'll still bless you if you touch them every day. There's a lot of stuff like that. The guy claims to be a spiritual healer who's been given this information sort of magically. It's not based on studies or even traditional practices. It's also not very practical for me, as even after I was convinced that everyone in our family needed the magic of figs I realized I'd go bankrupt giving each of us 9 figs a day forever. Have you priced figs? And you can't exactly forage them in Minnesota.

Also, the layout is really difficult. You have to basically go to the index and look up your health problem and then go to every page listed to see what to eat to solve your problem. Got UTIs? Expect to go through 15 pages of foods and then basically it's all generally the same because just about every fruit or vegetable seems to cure just about everything. Eat all these fruits and vegetables (in large quantities) because most of them solve most problems according to the book. Perhaps it would be better to just eat lots of fruits and vegetables every day and call it good.

All that said, my friend gave someone advice based on this book and told her to have her daughter stop eating her daily oranges and the medical problem that had doctors stumped went away pretty much immediately. So there is that. And she has been helped herself by following advice in it. Hence the 3 stars. Who am I to say whether it works or not? I did buy a bag of organic figs when I saw them on sale at Costco.

I have mixed feelings on this book: The Medical Medium Life-Changing Foods. While I would love to eat healthier, there is a lot of vagueness in here. There are a lot of recommendations, however, give specific amounts aren't always given. Nor do I think it would be safe to start taking all of the supplements listed without talking to a doctor or pharmacist about the interactions they may have with other medications. Personally, I didn't appreciate reading that my rheumatoid arthritis is attributed to my diet alone.
That being said, I'm certainly willing to take his advice with a grain of salt. I'm trying to take bits and pieces and hope that they will help my overall health - however, I'm not going to stop seeing my rheumatologist. One last comment, it would be impossible to make all the changes (you just can't eat that much - or afford to purchase all of it) in a single day, week, or month.

The Medical Medium Life-Changing Foods book presents information channeled by Anthony William from a source call Spirit, and includes a section for life-changing angels who “support us via our food supply.” Consequently, “You won’t find citations or mentions of scientific studies in this book.”
Anthony William addresses the unforgiving four: radiation, toxic heavy metals, the viral explosion, and DDT. Moreover, the adrenaline trap: stress – adrenal fatigue, infertility issues, harmful health fads and trends, and foods that make life challenging.

50 life-changing foods include fruits, vegetables, herbs, spices, wild plant-based foods, and raw honey. The book presents general information, conditions and symptoms that can improve with each of the life-changing foods, emotional support, spiritual lesson, tips, and one recipe.

I use the information in this book as long as it doesn’t collide with doctor’s diet advice such as Dr. McDougall.

Useful to know after reading Life-Changing Foods: Citric acid is described as “a corn-derived irritant.” Further looking on the Internet shows on ethicalfoods.com that “Citric acid used to be made from fruit. Now it’s more commonly made from feeding sugars to black mold and processed using sulfuric acid. Citric acid is in just about all processed foods. It’s also often found in kitchen cleaners, and does a great job removing mineral deposits from chrome.”

As always, “the reader should consult his or her medical, health, or other professional before adopting any of the suggestions in this book or drawing inferences from it.”

Liked the detail on different foods and what they are good for. Would recommend this book.

This is a wonderful book filled with so much important information. The author starts off with a discussion on the "unforgiving four", which according to the author are the four main things that are hurting our bodies. He then goes on to talk about life-changing foods and how they can help combat the unforgiving four and help us to lead healthier lives.

Each of the life-changing foods is looked at indivually, its benefits is described, a list of conditions it will help with, symptoms it will help, emotional support, and a spiritual lesson. There are also tips for each food included and a recipe.

I loved that each food was described on its own and there is just a lot of great information included in this book. I would highly recommend it to anyone looking for some common sense ways to eat better.