I saw this in the Medicine Book Box and couldn't remember if I had read it or not. I read lots of books of this type whenever I come across them. As I started reading it though, I realized that I had read it several years ago when it came out when I was in naturopathic medical school. I did give it another read because it was quick and I find this type of info really interesting. Like Hyphen, I found the chatter mostly annoying and extraneous. Some of the questions and answers were quite informative, but others were quite misleading. Just because the FDA approves a substance, does not absolve it of all wrongdoing! Health problems triggered by artificial sweeteners, MSG, etc are totally dismissed in the book since they are "generally regarded as safe" by the FDA. I suppose this is the nature of a book like this, but the human body is treated as a single entity, not one full of individual variance from person to person. I'm not sure what the authors' experience with variance is, but in my cadaver lab, I saw tons of individuality and variation in the many bodies I studied. I also find that my patients all seem to respond differently to the same disease processes and treatments. *shrug*

There are some golden nuggets to be found in this book, but you have to sift through a lot of other junk to find it.