This book brings together some of the most important and urgent ideas for Human and Environmental Health of our time; it is not just about being fat and how to avoid it. It is about why this happens, why it is not just about calories, why it sometimes cannot be shifted, why we HAVE to wake up to the devastating impact of chemical toxicity in our environment and our agricultural practices. It is a book with solutions. I hope millions read it, digest its contents and go on to enjoy much improved health and well being as a result.'
Dr Kim Jobst, Visiting Professor in Healthcare and Integrated Medicine at Oxford Brookes University

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'This is a ground-breaking approach to dieting and detox whilst reconciling the individual aesthetics of today's lifestyles with a greater awareness of environmental issues and health.'
Dr Gera M. Troisi. Senior Lecturer in Environmental Toxicology, School of Life Sciences, University of Kingston.

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'It adds something in a more nuanced way to look at food and the environment. Thinking about food behaviour is very important. The problem with food, is at the moment these chemicals are there.'
Dr Peter van den Hazel, Chairman of the International Society of Doctors for the Environment.

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'Being a health practitioner for over 9 years I have been keenly aware of the detrimental effects of the chemicals found in our food, water and environment to our health and well being. I have been especially interested in their effects on women's reproductive systems, and do believe they are one of several reasons why we are currently experiencing an increase in fibroids, endometriosis, polycystic ovary syndrome and infertility.

It was a great pleasure to read a book advocating the advice I have given to my patients over the years, and was impressed with the comprehensive but easy to access research on core issues surrounding chemicals and health. After many years of being viewed as extreme and radical for my beliefs I delight in this book as it does much to raise public awareness, and is to be commended for the strong presence of research from no doubt dedicated and passionate researchers.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who seeks to understand and moderate the effect of chemicals in their lives and whilst doing so support and nurture the environment.
Thanks for an intelligent, thoughtful and passionate book.'
Jo George, The North London Clinic of Chinese Medicine and Gynaecology.

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'I am fifty-nine years old and for the last twelve years I have had very poor health. Originally I was diagnosed with M.E. but last year I contacted Dr. Myhill who, on investigating my medical history, and the events leading up to my physical collapse diagnosed organophosphate poisoning.
When I read the article publicising your book I thought that although it was written for people without serious organophosphate problems that it might help me.
I obtained your book and have followed the advice closely, but without food restrictions. I am sure you will be pleased to hear that I am feeling normal, which is a condition I had thought I would never feel again.
I now:
Sleep for eight hours per night;
Can stay up all day;
Have been able to walk around the shopping area without excruciating pain a few hours later;
Have begun to do my own housework;
I recently drove one hundred and twenty miles without having to spend the next forty-eight hours in bed recovering;
Best of all I can make arrangements to go out knowing that I will be well enough to attend the event;
I used to sleep with a TeN's machine strapped to my legs to dull the pain, and have only used it twice since I began your regime;
I am also losing weight and inches, but I am trying not to lose too much too quickly, as at my age my skin is not elastic and I am trying to avoid saggy skin.
I can't thank you enough for the effort you put in to gather the enormous amount of information necessary to make a coherent manual for a healthy life.
I have also spoken to Action for M. E. and recommended that they get a copy and they have asked me to review your book. I have never done anything like this before. But I will try to do you justice.
Please feel free to use this letter, if you so require.
Reader from Nottinghamshire

Update from Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton:

Soon after I received this letter, I called this reader to talk over her health issues, and she told me that she had actually lost 2 stones in 3 months with no food restriction. She had not mentioned it in her original letter since her tremendously improved health was the most important thing.

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I just want to say how brilliant your book is, and how I take my hat off to you for researching the badly neglected area of the effect of chemicals upon peoples' health!
Reader from South Yorks

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Firstly my sincere congratulations on your book which I think is a magnificent achievement!...My initial reaction is that your concept of Chemical Calories is brilliant: I have not previously encountered the view that toxic chemicals disrupt our bodies' natural slimming ability; this ranks alongside the known effects of oestrogens in the environment (and a whole range of oestrogen mimicking chemicals) on sperm counts in male animals - which has potentially very serious consequences.
Reader from Perthshire

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I am writing to thank you for a wonderful book. I have been a Complementary Therapist as well as a Weight Control and Fitness Consultant for the last 20 years, and one of the main theories I have tried to teach my classes was the need to eat the most natural of foods, to prepare from 'scratch' and always buy Organic or grow their own.
I also noted that with a lot of my patients, medication intake, processed foods and toxic environments always had to be taken into consideration for 'dieting' and treatments.
Amazingly, doctors were not always as ready to listen, especially when it came to steroid intake for asthma and its effect on weight gain.
It has been great reading a book which proves so many of the 'intuitive' answers or theories I have held for so long. I cannot thank you enough.
Reader from Devon

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What a surprise to take such a comprehensive volume into my hand. And what a surprise to read a text which declares so much in such comprehensible terms. It is a very interesting and also an extremely releveant subject you introduce. Said by a person who is only a layman: It is a wonderful book.
Reader from Denmark

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Thankyou for an inspiring method which tackles several of todays most
complex health issues.
Reader via email

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I am greatly impressed by your book. I will certainly advise it to my patients in my natural health practice.
Reader via email

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I think the book is amazing and I'm so glad I purchased it.
Reader via email