Guess What Came to Dinner? : Parasites and Your Health

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Guess What Came to Dinner? : Parasites and Your Health (Paperback)

by Ann Louise Gittleman " Do you feel tired most of the time?... "

 

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# Paperback: 208 pages

# Publisher: Avery; 2nd edition (July 5, 2001)

# Language: English

# ISBN: 1583330968

# Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.0 x 0.5 inches

# Shipping Weight: 430.0 grams.

 

 

 

 

 

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt!, March 11, 1999

Reviewer: A reader

This topic, affecting so many millions without their knowledge, and

without treatment, certainly has to be one of the few unexplored areas

in the public media. Most public media will not " touch " this news. The

effects on health are myriad. Gittleman has acknowledged the problem

with parasites, both large and gross, and small and microbial.

Everytime one comes in from outdoors, digging in the soil, cleaning up

after pets, pulling weeds, etc., one must wash doubly, and clean under

and around fingernails. The thought of pets kept indoors, being let

outside, then going back in and climbing on the furniture, the beds,

walking on the countertops, eating from human family dishes, etc.,

makes my skin " crawl " . We are living in a parasitic nightmare, similar

to the most abject, filthy slums, here in our arrogant, smug, current

style. The image of classy, high-toned people being kissed and licked

by their pets, immediately after the pet just licked and kissed its

street friends is amusing, isn't it? What do we see in nearly every

prime-time TV ad? A pet, licking a child, or " kissing " an adult.

Everytime one pets pets of any kind, or grooms them, or cleans up

after them, it is safest to assume parasites are there, ready to

infect the human. Organic food of every kind may be full of nematodes

and other parasites, especially if it has been fertilized with

barnyard manure of any age, composted or not. Wash your food, or soak

it in mild detergent in water, or even put it in water with a single

drop of chlorine, then rinse very thoroughly. Did you know that many

herbal treatments for cancer are the same ones used to treat parasitic

infection? And you all want to cut down those precious and useful

black walnut trees? Gittleman and others, unpopular messengers in a

public wholly ignorant about this problem, are doing us a tremendous

service with their research and their well-founded advice and simple,

effective treatments. The least we can do is read their books, take

the cures, and find out their truths by feeling better, and enjoying

good health. Parasitic infection could be the background cause of

many, many human ills. THANK YOU, Ann Louis and Anne L.Gittleman!

 

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What you don't know could make you sick - or worse, January 11, 2005

Reviewer: Daniel Jolley " darkgenius " (Shelby, North Carolina USA) -

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Ann Louise Gittleman is doing all she can to raise awareness of the

danger of parasites in our lives; it is, she argues, a silent

epidemic. We've all heard of outbreaks of E. coli and the like, but

such disturbing stories quickly fade away from the public

consciousness. Most people don't want to think about all the really

nasty things that might be oozing their way throughout their bodies.

Gittleman clearly makes the case, however, that parasites are a

growing danger, and the fact that many medical professionals aren't

especially knowledgeable about the subject only exacerbates the

problem. Few medical students take a single course on parasitology,

she says, because such courses are usually found under tropical

diseases - and we in the United States still tend to think that

parasites only affect the lives of those in impoverished and/or

tropical nations. Gittleman's objective in writing this book (now

available in this revised version) is to educate everyone, layman and

medical professional alike, on the extent of the parasite threat. By

doing so, she is able to offer advice and guidance on protecting

yourself from the myriad of invisible threats parasites pose.

 

First, Gittleman lays out a strong case for the greatly increased

prevalence of parasites in today's America, pointing to a number of

factors such as the great increase in international travel, the

contamination of water supplies, the increased use of antibiotics, the

ever-growing use of day-care centers (which one expert dubbed the open

sewers of the 20th century), and the dramatic number of household pets

interacting with men, women, and especially children. She then

describes some of the symptoms of the different kinds of parasitic

conditions. In many cases, she says, these symptoms closely mirror the

symptoms of other diseases and usually go undiscovered - thus, you

have patients continuing to suffer with afflictions while being

treated for conditions they may not even have. Gittleman's guide to

parasites provides summary details (albeit somewhat technical ones)

about all of the varying types of parasites - fluke worms, tapeworms,

assorted amoebae, and a number of dastardly little critters I had

never heard of. She provides information designed to help you

determine whether you might have a parasite yourself (relying

significantly on lifestyle history), discusses the most modern testing

methods out there, and discusses treatment options. If you exhibit

symptoms that do not go away and have your physician somewhat baffled,

she encourages you to consider the possibility of a parasite and

discuss it with your doctor. I was amazed to learn that parasites can

basically settle in all over your body, not just in your

gastrointestinal tract.

 

The most important part of the book, though, has to do with prevention

and protection. With parasites so prevalent in our daily lives, it is

important to build up our resistance to them. Gittleman goes into

detail about the problems inherent in water and food preparation

(especially undercooking), the risks posed by even the most beloved of

pets (the next time your four-legged best friend gives you some sugar,

you could possibly end up swallowing egg-carrying fleas), and the

health risks surrounding young children. As you might suspect,

activities such as eating dirt and moving your hands back and forth

between your backside and your mouth are not conducive to good,

pesticide-free health (it's amazing that so many of us actually

survive long enough to grow up given the general nastiness that

defines babyhood and early childhood).

 

The book does get slightly technical from time to time, and Gittleman

does engage in the art of redundancy occasionally, but this is

certainly a valuable and effective book. It makes you think about a

danger you have probably never contemplated before, explodes the myth

that parasites only cause problems in Third World countries, and helps

you take steps to better protect you and your loved ones from the pain

and suffering parasites are more than capable on inflicting upon you.

 

 

 

Guess What Came to Dinner Saved My Life, July 9, 2000

Reviewer: A reader

All I can say is God Bless Ann Louise Gittleman. If it were not for

this book that I brought with me into my physician's office, I would

have never discovered that I had a chronic case of giardia. My doctor

was dismissing my symptoms for the longest time and finally when I

found Ann Louise's books, I realized that a parasitic infection can be

misdiagnosed as flu, IBS, or even gall bladder disease. Now that I

have taken the prescribed medication and am using Ann Louise's

suggested natural herbs from Uni Key as a follow up, I am a new

person. This book should be Mandatory reading for every high school

student, college student and health minded individual in America.

 

 

Superb Coverage of a Disturbing Topic, October 28, 1999

Reviewer: A reader

I thought Ann Louise Gittleman did a wonderfully thorough job of

exposing parasites in terms of where they come from, who gets them,

and what we can do about it to prevent them. Her dietary information

was right on in light of the current concerns about sugar and

processed foods plus the herbal and homeopathic remedies really work.

I think the overly sensitive reviewer from San Franciso should get

with the program - This book tells it like it is and specifically

states that parasites know no boundary regardless of gender, race, or

economic level.