Product Description

A practical approach to the role of diet in promoting health and preventing and curing disease. The topics include: phytochemicals and antioxidants; foods that boost immunity; food combining; designing an individual diet; healthy food preparation; and more. This edition is revised and updated.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #56864 in Books
• Published on: 2003-05-13
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

From Amazon.com
As Hippocrates said, "Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food." Seems people didn't listen to him, because as the U.S. Surgeon General said more than 2,000 years after him, "Two-thirds of all deaths in 1997 in this country could be attributed to diet." They'd both likely advocate the information contained in Prescription for Dietary Wellness, a massive reference aimed at preventing and treating disease through diet. The Balchs, authors of the 3-million-plus bestseller Prescription for Nutritional Healing, which focuses mainly on supplements and herbs, have created another masterpiece. This book gives a solid education in nutrition basics, with references to the latest research. It also includes flavorful, antioxidant-packed recipes, and adds advice that has been proven effective for treating various ailments using specific foods and supplements. The book also includes:

• Charts with warning signs of disease and nutrient deficiency, along with guidelines to help start the healing process
• Charts that detail the nutrient needs of various organs, and which foods best supply the nutrients
• Lengthy chapters on specific categories of foods, such as beans, cruciferous vegetables, oils, and grains, explaining how best to cook them and the health benefits they confer
• More than 100 pages of quick, healthy, mostly low-fat recipes designed to pack the most nutritional punch for the calories

The Balchs add advice about live juice and herbal preparations and cleansing (i.e., fasting and enemas, including a specific six-day cleansing diet). While this guide can feel a bit overwhelming at times (there are so many nutrients to consider, so many veggies and whole grains to consume), it's certainly not too technical, even for folks who could use a copy of Nutrition for Dummies, and it certainly succeeds in its mission of helping foster better dietary habits for good health.

Ingram
Relating health directly to diet, this book explains how to eat well in order to stay well. Balch explains the vital roles of vitamins and minerals in the body and describes specific actions that foods can take. Illustrations. 30 charts.

Book Info
(Avery) Consumer guide shows how to attain optimum health, overcome disease, and prevent illness through good nutrition. Discusses how to select, store, and prepare food to maximize it's healing potential. Shows how to design a diet for people with special dietary needs and the importance of food combining. Also offers advice on cooking methods. Previous edition: c1998. Softcover.

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Customer Reviews

Great Reference Book
I have both this book and the other(Pres. for Nutritional Healing). I have found this book to be a great resource. I recommend it to all my friends and family whom I am trying to turn on to nutrition. It is a great "starter book" for people just into diet and nutrition and want to be educated about the things they put into their bodies. It is very informative and an easy read. It is a must for everybody out there wanting to learn about food, their bodies, and how they interact. A wonderful book.

Excellent reference book
This book should be an intregal part of anyone's library, because it is full of information for every being's (including pets) health. The information is vital for one's wellness.

empowering information
I fond the information in Balch's book empowering. I try to eat a
balanced diet, but I can tell my body isn't getting "enough"
. Her book, although poorly organized in places, gave me the
knowledge about which vitamins, minerals and supplements would be best
for me to add to my diet in order to give it "enough"....