The Autoimmune Epidemic: Bodies Gone Haywire in a World Out of Balance--and the Cutting-Edge Science that Promises Hope PDF

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• Hardcover: 352 pages
• Publisher: Touchstone; 1 edition (February 5, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0743277759
• ISBN-13: 978-0743277754
• Product Dimensions: 1.3 x 6.5 x 9.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds

The Autoimmune Epidemic: Bodies Gone Haywire in a World Out of Balance--and the Cutting-Edge Science that Promises Hope PDF

The librarians in my community have had the insight to purchase three copies and have them on our shelves in the month that this book was published. Important? Yes, quite.

There's a web site referenced in the book, from Chapter Three, entitled "Dirty Little Secrets," that includes history about what happened to children in a Buffalo, NY neighborhood. Nakazawa refers you to a web site and invites you to type in the zip code for Buffalo and then read the story that unfolds about it.

Try this now! Go to the EPA dot gov web site using /enviro/emef as a suffix and type in YOUR zip code, then look at the map that pops up. It's color coded with all the locations being monitored by the EPA right now. The water was RED in mine.

So many people I know and love have had autoimmune diseases and/or cancer. This book has made me wonder even more than I already had how this all fits together - nutrition, the environment, our health, our children, our sick or already lost loved ones. If you read this book, perhaps the puzzle will begin to fit together for you too.

Have you noticed how many CHILDREN you see in WHEELCHAIRS these days? I see several children every day in wheelchairs at our elementary school. Was it like that where you grew up as a child?

I picked up a flyer at my son's school last week about dealing with ASTHMA in your school-aged child that's being presented here this week to teachers and parents and families in our county school system. How many children did you know with ASTHMA or DIABETES when you were growing up? I lived in a community where there were 5,000 people in my church alone.

Donna Jackson Nakazawa has written a prophetic book, but not an entirely objective book. She is truly passionate about the topic of autoimmune disease and its potential links to environmental degradation and the lax regulation of foods and consumer products containing harmful substances. Given that she suffers from an autoimmune condition, one can understand her motives. However, the reader must account for that fact and take a step back from what she presents. There are legitimate reasons to suspect that many Americans are increasingly at risk of developing chronic autoimmunity because of "better living through chemistry". But much of the data and research needed to support this theory is incomplete. This is certainly a topic that needs public attention, but one that could be discredited if embraced too quickly.

The author interweaves human stories regarding the angst of having a strange and not fully understood medical condition with a bevy of facts and concepts about autoimmune disease. She also throws in a pinch of politics, as she narrates the struggles of communities seeking bureaucratic acknowledgment of disease clusters occurring near toxic waste sites. Her stories are compelling, and her knowledge of the processes of the immune system and its interactions with harmful substances such as mercury and TCE is extensive. Unfortunately, she fails give her readers "the big picture" of immunity and autoimmunity. As such, her references to CD44 proteins, toll-like receptors and other mechanisms of the immune system are scattered and disjointed.

Ms. Nakazawa provides an extensive notes section that backs up much of what she asserts. However, there are curious gaps for some of her more important and interesting claims.