Amy Stockwell Mercer
Auteur de The Smart Woman's Guide to Eating Right with Diabetes
A propos de l'auteur
Amy Stockwell Mercer is the best-selling author of The Smart Woman's Guide to Diabetes and a freelance writer in Charleston, SC. She graduated with her MFA in creative writing from Queens University in Charlotte, NC. Her writing has appeared in Charleston Magazine, the Charleston City Paper, afficher plus Charleston Style and Design, skirt! Magazine, A Cup of Comfort for Writers, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Power Moms, Diabetes Monitor, and The DX: Diabetes Experience. Amy has lived with type 1 diabetes for 27 years and is the proud mother to three young boys. You can read more of her writing at www.amymercerstockwell.com. afficher moins
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The Smart Woman's Guide to Eating Right with… par Amy Stockwell Mercer
Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing.While this book had a lot of good information, I found the format scattered. Her numerous "interviews" spread the information out in such a way that the key information was hard to access for me.
Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing.I have to first say that I do not have diabetes. But I do have fibromyalgia and read any book that I can on any condition hoping that it will help me eat right to lose some of this weight I have put on from the fibro. I have to say that I found it useful in ways but really not a good read the way that it is formatted. But I am not saying it was a book I wouldn't read again because I know I will. It had helpful suggestions and I will definitely put it on my bookshelf to refer to it at times.
Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing.I am diabetic (type 1), but not a woman. I wanted to read this book any discussion/information on the subject helps. Bits and pieces, scattered throughout, did give me some approaches to managing this disease that were refreshing and are right now helping me fine tune the ideas I already had. Chapter 9, on snacking, is the entire reason why I'll probably hesitate to pass this book on to another reader any time soon.
Oh, but getting the juice from this fruit takes so much squeezing. Amy Stockwell Mercer shouldn't be listed as the author of these 200-some pages. She should be down as an editor. Fully half of the text, maybe more, is copy-paste from emails, websites, experts' books, and interviews. Page after page you're shifting from one voice to another, to another, with writing that doesn't belong in a professionally published health reference book any more than your average email correspondence. Sloppiness pervades and it's difficult not to resent as a reader, even if all of this really supports the shaky thesis. ("You're going to have to find what works for you because your case is special!", smiley face emoticon.)
The guidance and information you'll get from this book probably doesn't exceed what you might get from two or three months of meetings with a support book. Except this one is a book you can pull off your shelf.
One last note, which took me a few hours after finishing reading to realize, is that this book has nothing whatsoever to say on the subject of pregnancy. Pregnancy is/was a very serious subject for diabetic women. Here is doesn't even rate a listing in the glossary. Which means, all the woman-specific discussion in this book (again, I'm speaking as not-a-woman) is mentions of body image and being a stay-at-home mom. Even I feel cheated.… (plus d'informations)
Oh, but getting the juice from this fruit takes so much squeezing. Amy Stockwell Mercer shouldn't be listed as the author of these 200-some pages. She should be down as an editor. Fully half of the text, maybe more, is copy-paste from emails, websites, experts' books, and interviews. Page after page you're shifting from one voice to another, to another, with writing that doesn't belong in a professionally published health reference book any more than your average email correspondence. Sloppiness pervades and it's difficult not to resent as a reader, even if all of this really supports the shaky thesis. ("You're going to have to find what works for you because your case is special!", smiley face emoticon.)
The guidance and information you'll get from this book probably doesn't exceed what you might get from two or three months of meetings with a support book. Except this one is a book you can pull off your shelf.
One last note, which took me a few hours after finishing reading to realize, is that this book has nothing whatsoever to say on the subject of pregnancy. Pregnancy is/was a very serious subject for diabetic women. Here is doesn't even rate a listing in the glossary. Which means, all the woman-specific discussion in this book (again, I'm speaking as not-a-woman) is mentions of body image and being a stay-at-home mom. Even I feel cheated.… (plus d'informations)
Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing.eating right with diabetes.. find myself reading a chapter now and then, some very helpful comments, few things included that was very helpful to my diet...
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- Œuvres
- 4
- Membres
- 45
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- Critiques
- 22
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