Readers Comments
Comments on the book
Change Your Diet and Change Your Life:
- "This book sets out an excellent plan to help identify foods that may cause problems with your health. Food intolerance is a growing concern for many individuals and can make simple dietary needs difficult to manage. This book was written by Sharla after she herself suffered poor health due to foods not suited to her, and so she set about trying to identify the problem ones. If you think you are suffering from food intolerance or food allergies then this easy to follow book is for you."
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- "I am an Otorhinolaryngolist in Durham, North Carolina who specializes in amongst other things food allergy. I have been in practice for well over ten years. Your advice is not only common sense but very well researched. I would
highly recommend it as required reading for any of my food allergy patients." Robert Taylor MD
- I wanted to write to thank you for all the research and hard work you have put into your web site and your book. It is extremely well researched and thoughtfully organized. You have saved my daughter and my family untold misery!
A simple thank you does not seem to be enough to express how you have helped us.
- My grateful thanks for Change Your Diet and Change Your Life... I now feel I know where I am going and am greatly improved - but it is a constant fight. Your book is my best weapon, I'm so grateful for it, again, Many Thanks Sharla.
- "Sharla, your web site and book have changed my old age. I'm 65 and was
(notice was) suffering from aching legs, aching joints and fuzzy thinking,
confusion and headaches. I was really considering moving, leaving the
house and garden I love, to find a climate that was easier on my
"disabilities". The leg pain had gotten so bad that by the end of the day
it was agony to go upstairs to bed. The winters here are dull and dreary
and this past winter I found it unbearably depressing.
I have food allergies (milk and wheat) and decided to look further into food problems and found your website. I didn't know anything salicylates but recognized quite a few symptoms and decided to try your program of eliminating them for two weeks. After four days the leg aches were gone and the rest of the symptoms were rapidly disappearing also. I added some back and fell right back into the dull, confused thinking and some leg pain.
I can't thank you enough, this discovery has restored my health, changed my whole attitude about life and kept me from making some seriously wrong decisions about my "old age". For you Sharla, Thanks Be To God." Janet
- "Thank you, thank you, thank you. At last an explanation to my problems AND a solution. Fantastic book."
- "I am absolutely amazed at what I have learned from Sharla's e-book "Change your Diet and Change your Life". There was suddenly had an answer to the majority of symptoms which I had suffered to a greater or lesser degree all my life - and not only that, but someone else had suffered them too!"
- I did print out the entire book when I did the download and read it straight
through that night. You've done a great job and its a great service. I'm
amazed at how little information is available about this compared to food
allergies.
- Please send me an email when the paperback edition of Change Your Diet and Change your Life is released.
I just purchased the electronic version of the book today and am really enjoying reading it.
I really appreciate the fact that someone has written a practical book on the subject of food intolerance.
- An Australian reader had this to say about the first edition:
"Wow. I'm amazed at all the information it contains. I wish to goodness that there had been the opportunity of reading it 35 years ago - it might have made that period (and actually a lot longer than that) a little easier and saved me so much pain, illness and frustration.
I was able to say "Yes!" to so many things in your book (even more than from your website). Quite a few I didn't even realise until I read the book that could be put down to food intolerances. One thing stands out for me immediately - restless legs syndrome. It is something I've also suffered with for years but I could never ever get an answer for it. Another thing was your explanation of "brain fogging and confusion". Another sensitivity to light and/or noise. I could go on and on. Thank you - I'm not going mad after all. I also like your explanation of "clusters" of symptoms - it is an apt description - it describes it to a "T".
I like the "scoring" idea too - what a useful tool.
It also contains such a lot of common sense as well - dealing with reactions - write yourself a note. How true. When it really hits you, you DO wonder sometimes how you (and if you) are going to survive"
- "I really liked what you had to say about
food intolerances being "part of life" and not a "problem". Perhaps if
society becomes more accepting of this, those of us with food
intolerances will be able to go out to eat and have more options on the
menu (like breads made with different grains and not just wheat)."
- "I am still reviewing your on-line book but I wanted to tell you that I found it very informative, concise and easy to reference."
- "I showed your book to my osteopath and he was impressed. He's probably ordered his own copy by now. He said the
info on Purines is particularly hard to find."