MAS o Menos

I never would have read a book with this title unless it was written by my nutritional mentor Jonny Bowden.

Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why is by Jonny Bowden, who wrote my favorite book on food The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth.  I come into this topic with a lot of bias.  My belief is most supplements and alternative health practices are a waste of money.  Dissecting healthy food into components and then bottling them for sale strikes me as modern day quackery.  Just eat a wide variety of healthy food and cut out the middle man.

Author Jonny Bowden must have read my mind when he wrote the introduction.  He set expectations in a realistic manner, which in uncommon in the alternative health field.  The book didn’t convince me of all the cures, but he did make a convincing case for a few supplements, so I consider the book a success.  This is the first edition of this book.  I’ll be interested in reading future editions as certain supplements fall into and out of favor.

One complaint I have with this book is the index was poorly constructed.  Unlike the index in The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth, the index in this book is missing a lot of detail.  There are cures for asthma and acne in the book, but those conditions do not appear in the index.  I feel sorry for the guy having to flip through 340 pages while having an asthma attack, because asthma wasn’t added to the index.

Overall this is an outstanding book.  I look forward to his next book which focuses in on meals.  He did a great job on The Desert Island Cures.  However, I still think EFT is nonsense. 

Jonny is now writing for T-Nation, a site site I’ve been reading for ten years now.  For more Jonny Bowden, visit his web site JonnyBowden.com.  He has a blog and free e-Book there.

Tags: food, supplement