Mixed feelings about this book.

Barefoot has one quite good book: The Calcium Factor. It gives great detail and insight on calcium and vitamin D.

But, this book, and another “Death by Diet” contain a large re-hash from the calcium factor. I gave death by diet a terrible review.

This book DOES contain great information about vitamin D, but most of that is also in the calcium factor. It also contains an interesting chronology of newspaper reports in the early 20th century, showing how media was excited about all of the vitamin discoveries coming out, then switching to hostility as “mainstream medicine” condemned nutrients, and government tried to ban them or make them prescription only. This was great but it was also in large font and took up a big chunk of the book.

There IS a lot of good information in this book. But between the gems Barefoot is rambly and repetitive. It’s very annoying to read.

This book is much better than Death by Diet, but not as good as The Calcium Factor. Normally I wouldn’t compare an authors books so explicitly, but since he repeats most of the information in all these books I have no choice.

Authors use this strategy to milk more sales all the time. Instead of writing a totally new book, they take the best of their successful book and change it slightly, calling it a new book. I hate this strategy and therefore I am disappointed with this book.

With all that said, this book was worth my $4, if only for the newspaper chronology. There could have been a lot more about actual “FDA suppression of cures”, but most of the “suppression” was just about vitamin D here, which, again, is already in The Calcium Factor..You probably should just read The Calcium Factor instead.