This is a health education manual with a difference First, it is clearlywritten, in a friendly and easy to follow manner that will make itinvaluable for the layman who does not have a full understanding ofhow the human body functions, to come to grips with the essentialcauses of diseases and medical cures.The writer, himself a medical doctor, often writes from theperspective of his own early background in a rural village in Ghana, and, indeed, for anyone growing up in an African context, this bookwill be a wonderful guide to better health.Then again, this book is unique in so far as it is addressed largely to the Christian reader.The writer's explanation of the nature of disease makes abundantsense, tracing, as he does, its origin to the fall of man in Eden, wherethe Creator made everything perfect and saw that "all was good."From a medical and Christian point of view this book will advocatea lifestyle that will best serve the reader to prevent disease, forprevention is always better than cure And where a cure is needed, the right mental attitude, not forgetting the unlimited power ofprayer, is probably the most important resource.