The Complete Illustrated Guide to Nutritional Healing: A Practical Approach to Nutrition for Healthy Living

Antioxidants and phytochemicals are achieving wide recognition as healers and preventives. Which ones work? Which are dangerous? What dosage is too low or too high? This heavily illustrated book is divided into five 1) principles of nutritional healing; 2) what is really meant by a balanced diet; 3) personal assessment questionnaires; 4) specific conditions likely to be helped; 5) nutritional help for female problems. The author, an internationally recognized nutritional therapist, presents an up-to-the-moment no-nonsense approach to food and supplements as body-repair agents. She makes a firm Nutritional imbalances can lead to disease. For example, how does one avoid having too much calcium in one part of the body and too little in another? A key proposal is the"New Food Pyramid Program." Before you make any new decisions about gaining or losing weight or feeling more energetic, read this book. 8" x 12". Color photos & illus.

"'You are what you eat' is obviously not the whole truth, but what you eat cannot help but contribute to how you are," writes British nutritional therapist Denise Mortimore in The Complete Illustrated Guide to Nutritional Healing, a beautifully designed and photographed book about enhancing health with diet, vitamins, minerals, and herbs.

Mortimore details the detrimental effects of the typical Western diet's overabundance of animal fat, salt, sugar, processed foods, stimulants, and chemicals. She also goes into detail defining a well-balanced diet--so much detail that only serious students of nutrition will attempt to absorb it all. For optimum health, "every meal should be a balance of carbohydrates, protein, and essential fatty acids, and at the same time attempt to achieve 80 percent alkaline-forming and neutral foods to 20 percent acid-forming foods," Mortimore recommends. One section includes descriptions of 39 important vitamins, minerals, and trace elements; how each is utilized and needed; and where each is found in food. The book includes helpful chapters on how diet affects health, including allergies and food intolerance, blood sugar balance, and weight management. The "Nutritional Healing for Common Ailments" section covers almost 100 afflictions, describing the nutritional considerations, diet, and suggested supplements for each. You may not read every word, but it's a good-looking, comprehensive reference book that you'll want to keep handy. --Joan Price