Book Review: How to Get Yourself Infected by Chronic Good Health
How to Get Yourself Infected by Chronic Good Health by Carl J Hagelstam My rating: 4 of 5 stars Love the premise of the book, hate the title and the cover. How To Get Yourself Infected by Good Health is a good motto, but a mouthful of a title, and only slightly less awkward than the author picture for the cover. While I think it’s not a terrible pic of the author and his wife, I think that should be reserved for the author bio at the end, or maybe the back flap. As the premise of the book is basically to eat yourself healthy, a nice pic of appetizing whole fruits and veggies seems like a more appropriate choice to me. However, the information provided is pretty solid, and I wish more people would read and apply. The initial story is of the author, Capt. Carl Hagelstam’s journey to a quintuple bypass, and how he healed remarkably quickly and staved off further heart disease by doing his own research and changing his diet, lifestyle and approach to healing. It is followed by his