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9780028604428: The Healing Diet

Synopsis

Examines genetics' role in susceptibility to disease and shows how diet can counteract obesity, heart disease, cancer, and more

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Review

With all the talk about "genetic risk" and family history for disease in the news these days, it's easy to be confused. This book explains what those concepts mean. How human beings in different cultures have adapted to their environments. Included is a questionnaire designed to ferret out your own genetic history. Armed with an understanding of your own personal physiology, you can design your own nutritional plan.

About the Author

Artemis P. Simopoulos, M.D., is President of the Center for Genetics, Nutrition, and Health of the American Association for World Health. For nine years she chaired the Nutrition Coordinating Committee at the NIH. Victor Herbert, M.D., J.D., F.A.C.P., teaches at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and is the author of several books, including The Mount Sinai School of Medicine Complete Book of Nutrition, for which he served as editor. He is one of the country's leading nutrition educators and advocates. Writer Beverly Jacobson is the co-author of The Woman's Guide to Good Health.

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