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| Crisis Preparedness Handbook: A Complete Guide to Home Storage and Physical Survival | 
 enlarge | Author: Jack A. Spigarelli
Publisher: Cross-Current Pub.
Category: Book
Buy New: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  50 reviews
Sales Rank: 2049
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 0.5
ISBN: 0936348070
EAN: 9780936348070
ASIN: 0936348070
Publication Date: April 2002
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| Customer Reviews:
 Dissapointing July 26, 2007
4 out of 18 found this review helpful
This book has very little practical information on too many subjects. I have read much better books with more practical information in fewer pages.
Poor Editing. July 19, 2007
11 out of 21 found this review helpful
I am no grammar Nazi, but this book constantly confuses "looses" with "loses". For example page 55 states: "...air dried tends to loose nutrients more slowly...". This editing error is constant, and happens often in the book. It makes me question all the other information in the book. If something so common (top 10 internet misspelling) can slip in, what other mistakes abound? I could forgive one instance, but this one is repeated at least 10 times.
This book is great! Mr Hahn who wrote a bad review of this is WRONG! July 6, 2007
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
In reference to the 1 star rating and review by the user below my review... The book is really a 5 star book had it added some more important medical/first aid information. To give the book only one star and complain about the diabetes statement... You are WRONG Master Hahn, the writer did not state that he really recommended any sort of high carb/sugar intake by diabetics, and his statement about the findings of diabetics gettings better from higher intakes of high carbs/sugars IS COMPLETELY true. The writer states that neither low or high is 'bad', he's giving his thought on the fact that the evidence/research on the subject is conflicting... The show 20/20 even had almost an entire episode dedicated to the findings that higher carb/glucose intake (which is frowned on by most of western medicine) has actually been PROVEN to improve the problems assosiated with diabetes or COMPLETELY rid the person of the mal-symptoms.
Whoever reads this review; know that any one-book with important and sensitive information contained in it such as a disaster preparedness book, should be taken into consideration BUT not considered the ultimate law of the universe. An author can always get something wrong or tell you to prepare a certain food a way that you dont happen to like or find meaningful...So, you should ALSO read at least one or two MORE disaster prep books in order to get a better overall perception of what seems to hold true across the board and seems more applicable to you. This book though, is worth it, trust me, I'm U.S.Army Infantry and all of what this book teaches holds true!
 Dangerous Book July 2, 2007
17 out of 38 found this review helpful
In reading the section on Individual Storage Foods, I read a section that was actually shocking. It is bad enough that most food storage plans are centered around grains and beans (and toxic soybean especially!), but the one section that I read... and one of the first that I stumbled on in scanning the book stated that "Contrary to popular opinion that a high intake of sugar causes diabetes, hypoglycemia, cardiovascular diseases, etc., the predominance of scientific evidence provides no proven cause and effect relationship. In fact, considerable evidence indicates that diets high in carbohydrates, whether from starches or sugars, result in improved glucose tolerance for diabetics... "!
That statement is completely unreal. It is not only false, but is exactly 180-degrees opposite of the truth. The overabundance of carbohydrates - especially sugars and starches - has led this country to now be officially declared as having a diabetes epidemic! And diabetics are universally put on low carb to ultra low carb diets! Just as one source, go to Dr. Mercola's web site (mercola.com) and run a search on sugar (also while you are at it, run searches on "grains" and "soybeans".. prepare to be shocked).
The best survival food ever was good old-fashioned pemmican. Not the Yuppie type, but the real McCoy with ground up jerky mixed with beef fat. Explorers not only survived on it, but thrived on it for months at a time.
The author may have some other really good pieces of information in there, but that "error" was simply too serious for me to give the book any further thought. I returned it otherwise unread.... fortunately I had just borrowed it and didn't have to go through the hassle of returning a purchased book!
 Well researched food storage - lacking on health knowledge June 5, 2007
20 out of 23 found this review helpful
Although I only have three other books to compare this too, this was perhaps the most informative and realistic of all of them. It goes the extra mile to help you plan out your actual requirements and discusses the realistic ways to get there.
If you are pretty savvy in the health food area you will quickly recognize the blanket 'institutionalized health' statements like "white sugar is just as nutritious as any other sugar". As is so often with these statements they are supported by 'numerous studies' but not a single footnote or reference. Still, the book has solid merits on realistic food storage within reasonable bounds.
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