About the Author Beth M. Ley, Ph.D., has been a science writer specializing in health and nutrition since 1988 and has written many health- related books, including the best sellers, DHEA: Unlocking the Secrets to the Fountain of Youth and MSM: On Our Way Back to Health With Sulfur. She wrote her own undergraduate degree program and graduated in Scientific and Technical Writing from North Dakota State University in 1987 (combination of Zoology and Journalism). Beth has her masters (1998) and doctoral degrees (1999) in Nutrition from Clayton College of Nutrition.
Beth does nutrition and wellness counseling and speaks on nutrition, health and divine healing locally and nationwide.
She is a member of Resurrection Apostolic International Network (RAIN), Brooklyn Park, MN.
Owner Reviews, Ratings, Comments and Criticism
Bilberry & Lutein is replete with words and phrases like "ischaemia reperfusion injury", "artiolar tone", and "vasomotion". But mostly they are not anywhere defined. Evidently the reader is supposed to dope out their meaning from context. Lotsa luck.
Again, there are sentences like, "Italian researchers also showed that bilberry anthocyanosides was beneficial against on ischaemia reperfusion injury...."
And there are facts like, "Corn is the vegetable with the highest quantity of lutein...". (According to the USDA database, spinach, kale, and various other kinds of greens contain many times as much lutein per unit weight as corn.)
I read a lot of health literature. I found Lutein & Bilberry exceedingly difficult to puzzle out, and to the extent I managed to do so, rather unreliable. It reads as though written by someone whose first language is not English, whose knowledge of the subject matter going in was zero, and whose "research" consisted of reading abstracts of journal articles and copying out sentences from them not too carefully. I find the pamphlet (at 28 pages of large-print text, it certainly is not a book) so bad that I have strong doubts about the genuineness of the three enthusiastic reviews that are standing as I write this one. Bilberry and lutein are undoubtedly good for you, but if you want the details, look elsewhere.
At the end of the pamphlet is a full-page, 30-item, list of titles (including Bilberry & Lutein), all but two by Beth Ley, offered for sale by BL Publications. For me, this author's name on any publication is sufficient reason to reject it without further consideration.
For info on the significance of Ms. Ley's "Ph. D.", see:
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