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Written in Barb’s usual witty style is
sure to delight, amuse and educate.
With chapters like Beans, Beans,
The Musical Fruit; Chocolate,
Chocolate and More Chocolate; Mad Cows
and Big Macs; Pizza, Pasta and
Prostate; Veggies, Vitamins and Viagra
and 21 others, you are sure to find
yourself chuckling, chortling and
possibly guffawing at this priceless
collection. It will make a great
Christmas, birthday or housewarming
gift for friends, nutritionists,
nurses, physicians, dieticians,
health-nuts, etc. Order them a copy
today–while you are ordering one for
yourself!
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$22
+
$4.
shipping & handling for the first book and
$1.50 shipping & handling for each
additional book.
"Vegetables
are interesting but lack a sense of purpose
when unaccompanied by a good cut of
meat."
–Fran
Leibowitz
An Apple a Day–the ABC's of Diet and Disease
(click
here for excerpts)
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Here's What the Reviewers are Saying
about
An Apple a
Day…
The
Midwest Book Review
Written
by Barb Bancroft, a health care professional who has
been offering informative seminars since 1980, An
Apple A Day: The ABC's Of Diet & Disease is a
solid, understandable, easy-to-read reference written
expressly to be understandable to non-professional
general reader. Organized in encyclopedia-format A
through Z, An Apple A Day offers solid, practical
information on everything from Apples and Anorexia to
the scam of Yam-based creams and a recipe for cold
Zucchini Soup. Witty, heavily researched, and packed
with so much information the reader is guaranteed to
expand his or her knowledge on the good, the bad, and
the ugly of foods and nutrition. Of special note are
the entries dealing with food-borne illnesses. An
Apple A Day is highly recommended for personal and
community library health care reading lists and
reference collections.
Susan
Droske, RN, MN, CPN
Associate Professor, Texarkana College
Author of Nursing Care of Children: Principles and
Practice 1997
W.B. Saunders Company Philadelphia PA
America’s favorite
nursing speaker/author has done it again! Barb
Bancroft has thrilled her fans with a second book,
“An Apple a Day: The ABCs of Diet and Disease”.
This clever book continues the tradition of
entertaining while educating begun with Barb
Bancroft’s first book, “Medical Minutiae”. This
little gem is jam-packed with research findings, fun
facts, and little-known historical highlights.
Conveniently arranged in an alphabetical format, the
compilation focuses on diet & health… and even
includes healthy recipes at the end of each chapter to
help the reader put the information into
practice!Barb’s seminars, always eagerly anticipated
by our nursing students and faculty alike, are well
known for a plethora of entertaining and informative
stories. Barb has a true gift for making the most
complex material understandable… and FUN! It’s
especially nice to have so many of Barb’s nuggets of
wisdom now in printed form. “An Apple a Day” is a
great resource for spicing up lectures and for helping
my students understand difficult concepts. Not only
that, it’s a really fun read! This little book is a
treasure – thanks, Barb!
Reviewed
by Jen Oliver, MyShelf.com
What
a fantastic way of telling people anything and
everything about diet and disease. This book is truly
the ABC's of health and nutrition. It includes
everything from alcohol to zucchini. It provides some
helpful facts regarding cholesterol and other health
problems. There are interesting historical facts
and some humorous comments throughout the facts.
The book contains interesting quotes from celebrities
like Johnny Carson, Humphrey Bogart, and Erma Bombeck.
Ms.
Bancroft does a great job in giving the facts about
everything and anything that anyone could want to know
about dieting, diseases, and foods. She has beautiful
illustrations by Ashley Long throughout the book.
At the end of each chapter, she includes a recipe from
Ina Pinkney and her Chicago restaurant, Ina's Kitchen.
If you
have ever been confused about what certain foods
contain nutrient-wise and wanted to know the
difference between good cholesterol and bad
cholesterol, you should pick up a copy of this
informational book that will help provide the answers.
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