Book Review: Dr. Isadore Rosenfeld’s Breakthrough Health

 

by Isadore Rosenfeld. M.D
There’s a kindly looking, grandfatherly doctor on the cover of this book and
inside he confides to you 167 up-to-the-minute medical discoveries, treatments
and cures that can save your life. Who wouldn’t want to read this book?



Have you ever wanted to corner a doctor at a party and pick his or her brain about
your newest symptom or self-diagnosis, but social graces prevented you? Well
this informative book is the closest you can get to that banter.

Breakthrough Heath is a medical reference book that you can refer to many times.
It’s written in a simple direct approach and broken down into alphabetized
chapters on illnesses from alcoholism to wrinkles. Within each chapter, Dr.
Rosenfeld writes about "the latest news" in current studies on
subjects in the areas of medication, treatments and the "bottom line,"
which incorporates his personal suggestions.

Unfortunately, now that I am past 50, I find myself discovering a new medical
problem with each yearly checkup. Last year, it was high blood pressure; this
year, it’s high cholesterol. I felt both of those chapters were enlightening. In
one chapter, the suggestion was to cook with sesame oil since it was found to be
helpful in cases of high blood pressure.

Some other subjects covered are: breast cancer, cold and flu, depression,
diabetes, reflux disease, lupus, menopause, Parkinson’s disease, sinusitis and
stroke. If every time you read or re-read this book you discover one new thing
to try or one more question to raise with your personal physician, it will
certainly be worth the price.


 

Title: Dr. Isadore Rosenfeld’s Breakthrough Health

Author: Isadore Rosenfeld. M.D.
Publisher: Rodale Inc.
ISBN: 1579549004
Review written by: Janet Pope