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Sick American

Kristin Marks Roslund, NTP

What your doctor hasn’t told you about the Standard American Diet and what it is doing to your body one bite at a time.

 

America desperately needs a fresh nutritional perspective. With relevant anecdotes and solid science, Sick American exposes and explains the bad nutritional science and perpetuated inaccuracies that have instigated America’s sickness. We have the power to prevent many diseases before they become diseases, when they are still only deficiencies, with simple holistic nutrition. Mainstream medicine’s arrogant ignorance of this simple fact is killing this country. The notion of abandoning the broken model is becoming more acceptable and attractive to real people who are disenchanted with mainstream medicine whose allegiance lay with Big Pharma and the Food Giants. The low fat and antacid fallacies, as well as the failure to regulate blood sugars with proper nutrition, are three fundamental principles where mainstream medicine is wrong. By perpetuating these gross errors society remains on the road to disease. It is time for us to understand the processed substances we are ingesting are causing degenerative damage. Sick American explains how eating whole food and rejecting processed food translates into wellness for every cell and function of the body. If you want to feel better, sleep better, have more energy and lose weight take this Nutritional Therapist’s advice and emerge from America’s dysfunctional nutritional paradigm.

 
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Cat091971 wrote 484 days ago

This is a book which would need to be read in hardcopy and not while sitting at a computer. Insightful and educational. Backed and rated.

Cat
Twisted
Lies & Love

BFREE wrote 497 days ago

Finally, someone who knows what they're talking about. Stop the sugar, eat the right food and start feeling young again.

LittleDevil wrote 503 days ago

Kristin,
I know a lot of this information is available on the internet, but I have to say, you've done a great job with this very informative and interesting book. I've just read the first three chapters and would certainly buy a hard copy. I think you should be less Americanised though, we could all do with a good dose of this book, regardless of where we hail.

I haven't found anything that I disagree with in the first section. I started looking into alternative medicene and nutritional values of food when my husband got kidney cancer. I do believe the doctors have shares in pharmaceutical companies!

I think you have written a very interesting book that we should all read and adhere to. I have totally abused my body over christmas but you have kick-started me to a healthier regime. Food does make me feel ill sometimes.

Thanks for the read. I'll star this a six and hope it saves a few lives!
Best wishes
Sue

Vickie Clasby wrote 500 days ago

That's it - I'm off sugar! And I'm pretty sure I have the dehydration headache right now.

I think your book strikes the right tone - authoritative, practical, and alarming. It's a real testament to the survival instinct of the human body that we can exist, though sub-optimally, on the junk we feed ourselves.

Personally, I know I'm firing on two cylinders. So I'm starting today. Thanks for the information. I finished ten chapters, and will be back for more.

Happy to back you, and best of luck!

Melissa Bleu wrote 496 days ago

You had me at, "America desperately needs a fresh nutritional perspective." All I could do is read and think, "YES! This is true! Why doesn't everyone know this????"

A holistic lifestyle really is the only way.

We (my husband and I) became vegan, eliminatedwhat we call "bad sugar", "bad fat", etc. and started living an overall healthier lifestyle 7 years ago. My husband used to have terrible allergies and migraine headaches, and after only a few days of becoming vegan, his allergies, migraines disappeared. I lost 15 pounds without even trying (we eat plenty of "high fat" avocados, nuts, etc). Our kids never get sick, even when we're around other sick families, etc. etc.

Don't get me started on antacids, antibiotics/sugar/candida, the difference between fats, etc.

I support you ALL the way. You just made my day.

sunrize604 wrote 372 days ago

Sick America

Kristin,

I will buy your book for myself, family and friends when it is published. Your book is very well written. It is informative, well thought out and easy to understand. Your book is correct, I say this from experience. I will recommend your book to others. ***stars***

Note: In chapter two, I personally would eliminate one statement that is offensive in such a diverse country. In "Traditional Digestive Aids" you state: "our closer relatives used sour dough to make bread products, though the cooking of the bread kills the enzymes."

As the enzymes are killed, the statement in itself becomes moot.

This is of course my personal opinion, but alienating readers is usually not a good idea.

Gregg A Granger wrote 440 days ago

Kristen, I gave you ****** rating, and placed your book on my bookshelf. I am pleased with the subject matter, and happen to agree with the message you present. I enjoy your personal experience anecdotes from the very start and throughout-no I did not read it all, but popped in and out of several chapters. Our family traveled the world in a sailboat for 4 1/2 years, and we were appalled at the foods available here on our return.
Gregg A Granger
Sailing Faith: The Long Way Home

Paula W. wrote 458 days ago

Well-written valuable information. Thanks.

lizjrnm wrote 463 days ago

As a nurse practitioner I find your writing important and poignant. Everyone should read this because it is so true! Backed 100% and if you publish this I will use it as a recommended reading for my college students in the Nutrition course I teach!

Liz
The Cheech Room

Laith Doory wrote 464 days ago

Very well written. Very engaging and fluid. The subject matter is just the kind of thing I would read.

Wishing you all the best with this.

Laith

Old Bob wrote 465 days ago

Kristin, I read your introduction with some interest. I have a simpler solution, eat what ever you want with moderation and reason. I, my wife, my children and my grand children are all growing up relatively thin and healthy by doing just that. I think taking anyone off anything just makes that person want it more.

I respect your book but I think people have to be responsible for themselves and find a personal program that works for them. Any preplanned program or advice designed for more that an individual is doomed to failure.

That being said, I don't read much non-fiction but, anyone who writes it should have the credentials to back it up. You apparently do and I wish you well with this book.

If you care to take a shot at me, my book is A PLACE IN LIFE. I'd appreciate hearing your first impression.

Old Bob
A PLACE IN LIFE

Cat091971 wrote 484 days ago

This is a book which would need to be read in hardcopy and not while sitting at a computer. Insightful and educational. Backed and rated.

Cat
Twisted
Lies & Love

NITA DUTTON wrote 490 days ago

Hi Kristen
What a great book!! I only had time to read a little right now, but I am hooked and can't wait to read the whole thing!! Thanks for taking the time to help people this way.....giving them the true solution to eating healthy!!
Nita Dutton

bbinbend wrote 491 days ago

I have a family member who has recently been diagnosed with a serious medical condition. The doctor's have not asked or even considered her "diet" in trying to diagnose and treat her. We have done a ton of research on our own about her condition and every source we have points to how her diet is probably playing a significant role with what she is struggling with.
Anyway, I just have to say thank you very much for all of the time and effort you have put into this book. Most of all for all of the information...It is pretty much our #1 resource in helping to "clean up" her gut and hopefully heal her. You spell everything out so clearly that it all makes such perfect sense. Thank you again.

karenrosario wrote 491 days ago

Blimey, you certainly know your stuff! This is thorough and informative and yet is written in a compelling and fresh way, and good for people (like myself) who have little understanding on such things.

mvw888 wrote 492 days ago

Important and timely, a book I would buy and devour like a chocolate cake. Just kidding. Really, this is so well done. I hope you're finding worthy publishers for this.

---Mary
The Qualities of Wood

Robert Slimm wrote 492 days ago

Hi kristen
Sick American is amazing and so very clever! It reads so perfectly well too!
This I believe should be published right away. I especially delighted in the remarkable way you kept bolting those sentances where anyone else would have ran out by two or three pages. I found it skillful and raging even though the subject had little in common with myself.
All that is now is that I 6 star it and add it to my watchlist.
Thank Again
R Slimm

mazeydaze wrote 494 days ago

Right off the bat, I was excited to read your introduction. More literature should exist for this very topic. A couple things I noticed that might strengthen your work: I noticed a lacking in transition in the introduction. The paragraph about your health situation ended abruptly, and lead into a statement about diabetes with no transition. Also, how did you come to the conclusion that your body needed to detox? Another thing I noticed is a heavy element of bias in your text. If you want to sound credible to readers, make sure to fairly represent both sides as well as state fact with strong evidence rather than assumptions. If there is no evidence and it looks like you are finger pointing, it will take away credibility from your truly important message. Good luck!

kategrimes@live.co.uk wrote 496 days ago

Kristin, I am not American, nor do I have any degree of any kind, but I do understand that the modern diet world-wide is, on the whole, very bad for anybody. I'm a great believer in natural foods, but like so many people, are put off by the higher prices. It seems unbelievable that processed food is given so much preference over natural food, yet it is understandable when one is on a limited income, yet the cost of medical care must surely be a lot higher than the price difference in the two diets. I found your book very enlighting, if a little technical. I hope you get it published. You have obviously put in an awful lot of hard work into trying to help people. Well done and good luck. Book backed and on watch-list

Kate Grimes -LIZZIE -CUPPA TALES

Melissa Bleu wrote 496 days ago

You had me at, "America desperately needs a fresh nutritional perspective." All I could do is read and think, "YES! This is true! Why doesn't everyone know this????"

A holistic lifestyle really is the only way.

We (my husband and I) became vegan, eliminatedwhat we call "bad sugar", "bad fat", etc. and started living an overall healthier lifestyle 7 years ago. My husband used to have terrible allergies and migraine headaches, and after only a few days of becoming vegan, his allergies, migraines disappeared. I lost 15 pounds without even trying (we eat plenty of "high fat" avocados, nuts, etc). Our kids never get sick, even when we're around other sick families, etc. etc.

Don't get me started on antacids, antibiotics/sugar/candida, the difference between fats, etc.

I support you ALL the way. You just made my day.

BFREE wrote 497 days ago

Finally, someone who knows what they're talking about. Stop the sugar, eat the right food and start feeling young again.

Deborah Aldrich Farhi wrote 499 days ago

Hi, Kristin, I totally praise what you have done here! And so well-researched and well-written!! Thumbs up! I've not read anything about food and nutrition that I didn't already know, being someone who has kept atop of the issue through the years myself, so I feel so confident in saying everything you've written is spot on! Some of the more specific things to America, particularly the school problems, are news to me (though not surprising). Although it doesn't take much to apply the problems of eating a moslty refined, processed diet to my current country of residence, I can at least say that junk food in schools have been addressed far more over here and teachers generally completely disallow junk food in school (except for rare parties; and there are still plenty of parents who put rubbish in their children's packed lunches. School dinners can also still be hit and miss even though a hero of healthy school meals ran a campaign which did bring about some change- he's known in some places in USA too- Jaimie Oliver).
I apologise if I missed it as I admit I did skip quickly through some chapters- but didn't happen to see anything about the problems with even 'healthy' choices, including fruit and veg, being grown in depleted soil and sprayed with pesticides and herbicides? I will be reading more so I might be saying, 'oops, there it is!'
Meanwhile, backed with enthusiasm.
Just one more thing- do keep up the campaigning, especially educating people- that is so important. But I think you are probably aware of the BIG GUYS (those adoloscents in adult disguises that Daniel Prokof talks about in Leaving Neverland) whose self-serving one track minds of profit-making will do all they possibly can to stop people realising what is going on. It's a David and Goliath kind of battle.

billysunday wrote 500 days ago

Kristin-I read the first three chapters of your book and think you did a thorough job explaining how our eating habits are making us sick. Your writing style is clear and cohesive and topic is interesting. I know this site doesn't include pictures, but do you have pictures for your own copy? Photos of the different kinds of herbs you describe would be great. Nice job. I could see this book published and sold in a nutritional section of a bookstore.

Vickie Clasby wrote 500 days ago

That's it - I'm off sugar! And I'm pretty sure I have the dehydration headache right now.

I think your book strikes the right tone - authoritative, practical, and alarming. It's a real testament to the survival instinct of the human body that we can exist, though sub-optimally, on the junk we feed ourselves.

Personally, I know I'm firing on two cylinders. So I'm starting today. Thanks for the information. I finished ten chapters, and will be back for more.

Happy to back you, and best of luck!

Kristin Roslund, NTP wrote 500 days ago

I'm on Weight Watchers right now and thought I'd skim through your book. Nice intro. If you like conspiracy fiction, please check out 33.


funny you mention weight watchers. when i was substitute teaching friday, i found out our school district is paying for the employees to go to WW. I was shocked and of course a bit concerned. before I made any rash judgements, I wanted to go online and see exactly what WW is preaching. It was what I figured,
so when one of the teachers that i was talking with said, "I seem to gain weight when i am on weight watchers" I understand why. they are telling you to eat the wrong things. Beware. Read Sick American and you will understand exactly what I mean. Sick American will explain why eating low fat leads to weight gain and why the waffles, bagels and other starchy carbs they recommend make people fat.
This is exactly what I am talking about with Sick American. What mainstream is preaching in regards to nutrition is wrong, doesn't work and is making America sick and fat!
I'll check out 33, thanks for your comment and checking out my book, Kristin

billysunday wrote 500 days ago

I'm on Weight Watchers right now and thought I'd skim through your book. Nice intro. If you like conspiracy fiction, please check out 33.

LittleDevil wrote 503 days ago

Kristin,
I know a lot of this information is available on the internet, but I have to say, you've done a great job with this very informative and interesting book. I've just read the first three chapters and would certainly buy a hard copy. I think you should be less Americanised though, we could all do with a good dose of this book, regardless of where we hail.

I haven't found anything that I disagree with in the first section. I started looking into alternative medicene and nutritional values of food when my husband got kidney cancer. I do believe the doctors have shares in pharmaceutical companies!

I think you have written a very interesting book that we should all read and adhere to. I have totally abused my body over christmas but you have kick-started me to a healthier regime. Food does make me feel ill sometimes.

Thanks for the read. I'll star this a six and hope it saves a few lives!
Best wishes
Sue

celticwriter wrote 503 days ago

Hi Kristin. You've my vote. :-) Placing yours on my watch list for now...will back in a few days.

many blessings,
jim

Walden Carrington wrote 504 days ago

Kristin,
I read your introduction to Sick American with great interest as the subject is one I've read other books on. It's a sad reality that the medical establishment has a paradigm which seeks to treat preventable illness with drugs and surgery when there are natural cures they don't want you to know about. The prevention model which would educate millions on basic nutrition and substantially reduce the need for medical treatment should be taught in every medical school since the health and welfare of patients should be a doctor's primary concern. I've read that the standard American diet with its processed foods is poor compared to that of many people who live in poverty by American standards in the third world. Your book serves a useful purpose in educating people about things their doctors don't educate them about due to the paradigm they acquired in medical school. The profit motive in the pharmaceutical industry has become obvious since they are now allowed to advertise prescription medication on television. That's one of the reasons I no longer have a television subscription. The side effects of those medications are sickening just to hear about and it's even more sickening to think that people are going to their doctors demanding prescriptions for medication they learned about from watching television where actors are hired to pretend to be taking medication with dangerous side effects. The more people can be educated about basic nutrition the better as an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. I've rated your book with six stars and wish you much success with it.

Walden Carrington
Titanic: Rose Dawson's Story

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