Earl Mindell's Food as Medicine: What You Can Eat to Help Prevent Everything from Colds to Heart Disease to Cancer [Mass Market Paperback]

Earl Mindell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 21, 2002

There is Good Medicine in Your Kitchen!

Earl Mindell's Food as Medicine clearly shows how common fruits, vegetables, grains, and fish can help you fight, prevent, or treat everything from acne to yeast infection to cardiovascular disease to osteoporosis. Check your kitchen for:

Cherries, grapes and strawberries, which may deactivate carcinogens

Parsley, licorice, cereal grains, and citric fruits -- they can protect against heart fisease and stroke by preventing clots

Salmon, halibut, and albacore tuna -- they lower cholesterol and are also useful in treatment of arthritis

Cabbage, broccoli, Brussel sprouts, and soy products, which are defenses against breast cancer

Apples and grapefruit -- known to protect against diabetes

From fighting aging to easing menopausal symptoms, Earl Mindell's Food as Medicine is your tutor as you learn to eat right and stay healthy.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Mindell ( Earl Mindell's Vitamin Bible ), a professor of nutrition at Pacific Western University, is well known for his health advisories. Here he concentrates on food as "strong medicine"--a means of preventing, alleviating, and maybe even curing some maladies. Always systematic, the author outlines types of vitamins and chemical compounds found in food that can serve useful purposes (e.g., capsaicin, an anti-inflammatory that has aided treatment of headaches) before launching into a full-scale listing of the "hot hundred" foods, noted for their capacity to heal: salmon, low-cal and low-cholesterol, which "may help retard the growth of cancerous tumors"; ginger, traditionally used to soothe upset stomachs, as well as the nausea induced by chemotherapy. Mindell goes on to survey illnesses and debilitating conditions, alphabetically, and provide appropriate dietary recommendations. For tooth decay, for instance, drinking green tea or chewing on cardamon seed after eating may be helpful. So is the book in general: clear, common-sensical, avoiding technical intimidation, Mindell is an agreeable authority. Author tour .
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About the Author

Earl Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D., is the bestselling author of Earl Mindell's New Herb Bible, Earl Mindell's Vitamin Bible for the 21st Century, Earl Mindell's Peak Performance Bible, Earl Mindell's Supplement Bible, Earl Mindell's Secret Remedies, Earl Mindell's Anti-Aging Bible, and Earl Mindell's Soy Miracle. He is a registered pharmacist, a master herbalist, and a professor of nutrition at Pacific Western University in Los Angeles; he also conducts nutrition seminars around the world. He lives in Beverly Hills, California.

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: Pocket; Reprint edition (May 21, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0743226623
• ISBN-13: 978-0743226622
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.4 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,004,908 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This review is from: Earl Mindell's Food as Medicine: What You Can Eat to Help Prevent Everything from Colds to Heart Disease to Cancer (Mass Market Paperback)

I originally purchased this book when it was first published in 1994, and have begrudgingly kept all these years, through my periodic culling of my library. When I looked at this book yesterday for the first time in years, I conclusively realized for the first time that this book contains exactly the type of "food is medicine" information I am keenly interested in. I needed those 15 years to educate myself to the point when I could truly appreciate and acknowledge the intrinsic quality of this book. My hunch was right to retain this book.

This book's reasoning is very accessible for readers, and its text is cogent and insightful

This book's "Hot Hundred" selection of certain foods is an inspired and highly informative - if not brilliant - compositional act, and the author's reasoning for selecting the "Hot Hundred" provides an instructive method which people can employ as a starting point in selecting any foods, as nutritional "medicine."

I have a couple of good books on the subject of nutrition, but this book takes a "food is medicine" angle. This book's author is a registered pharmacist, which explains his book's unique "food is medicine" perspective, and the credentials this author has to write about that unique "food is medicine" perspective.

This book's first, 1994 edition, is published on high-quality paper, which enhances the text of this extremely deserving book's high attractiveness.