A comprehensive guide to the healing powers of food. More than 300 delicious recipes have been specially chosen for their healing properties.

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Yes, you are what you eat. For everyone who wonders why, in this era of advanced medicine, we still suffer so much serious illness, Food and Healing is essential reading. “An eminently practical, authoritative, and supportive guide to making everyday decisions about eating that can transform our lives. Food and Healing is a remarkable achievement.”—Richard Grossman, Director, The Health in Medicine Project, Montefiore Medical Center Annemarie Colbin, founder of New York's renowned Natural Gourmet Cookery School and author of The Book of Whole Meals, argues passionately that we must take responsibility for our own health and rely less on modern medicine, which still seems to focus on trying to cure rather than prevent illness. Eating well, she shows, is the first step toward better health. Drawing on an impressive range of thinking—from Eastern philosophy to current medical journals—Colbin shatters many myths not only about the “Standard American Diet” but also about some of the quirky and unhealthy food fads of recent years. What emerges is one of the first complete works on: • How food affects our moods • The healing qualities of specific foods • The role of diet in preventing illness • How to tailor a diet approach that is right for you “I recommend it to my patients. . . . It's an excellent book to help people understand the relationship between what they eat and how they feel.”—Stephen Rechtstaffen, M.D. Director, Omega Institute for Holistic Studies “Have a look at this important, well-thought-out book.”—Bon Appetit

From apples (sunburn relief) and avocados (cardiovascular health) to tomatoes (fighting tumors) and walnuts (relief for cold symptoms) here’s an incredible “pharmacopoeia” of foods that puts real curative power in your hands for today’s most common health conditions. These healing foods—all of which can be found at your local supermarket or health food store—have been proven effective in relieving scores of ailments. They’re simple, safe, inexpensive, and easy to use to treat or prevent health problems. This health-giving guide also gives you dozens of simple-to-prepare recipes, menus, and nutrition plans that show you how to put super healing nutrition into action, a comprehensive chart of the body’s 10 target healing zones to help you zero in on the exact foods and recipes that could help a certain health condition, and innovative nutrition and support exercises to help you stay healthy and energetic. In short, this is your total guide to using the incredible power of super healing foods to relieve whatever ails you and gain better health!

A guidebook to incorporating healing diets into busy lifestyles. Includes explanations on how food can create and reverse disease, and what to expect when healing naturally.

Take control of your life and your health through what you eat with Healing Foods — an indispensable resource that shows you exactly what foods are best, and how to optimize their super-food potential. With more than 200 healing foods, from carrots to clementines, and 150 easy-to-prepare recipes that heal, Healing Foods empowers readers to practice optimum nutrition, and shows how certain foods can be incorporated into daily life to target specific health issues.

Cutting out processed and junk foods from your diet and introducing the superfoods listed in this book will help you boost your immune system, fight illness, and increase your energy levels. Superfoods are rich in vitamins, minerals and anti-oxidants. This book lists them individually and explains why they are so good for you and how they can help keep you healthy. It also lists a number of spices which have medicinal benefits in their own right. By combining these spices with some of the superfoods, this book includes some simple but delicious recipes that have their roots in the Mediterranean, Asian and African regions, all of which are known to be among the world s healthiest diets. There are mouthwatering salads, wholesome soups, delicious main courses and vegetable dishes, fresh juices, and nutritious smoothies. You really are what you eat. With this book to guide you, you can change your eating habits for the better and make a difference to your general health.