Gillian McKeith's Food Bible: How to Use Food to Cure What Ails You [Paperback]

Gillian McKeith (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 27, 2009

From the author of the 2-million- copy international bestseller You Are What You Eat?the essential guide to health and nutrition

The celebrated clinical nutritionist, author of the internationally bestselling You Are What You Eat, and host of the BBC America show of the same name offers a comprehensive and fully illustrated guide to the health effects, uses, and benefits of the foods we eat and how nutrition affects our general health, aging, ability to fight disease, and quality of life. Gillian McKeith?s Food Bible is as user-friendly as it is thorough, featuring food based treatments for common illnesses and diseases, from arthritis to diabetes and chronic fatigue syndrome to migraines. For example:

· Almonds can assist in weight loss.
· Wild yams help promote fertility.
· Berries, spinach, romaine lettuce and broccoli combat dry skin by stimulating oil and collagen production.
· Tomatoes contain an antioxidant that can help prevent cancer.

Gillian provides cutting-edge Food Action Plan Prescriptions incorporating the right foods, herbs and quick tips for over 100 everyday ailments. The solutions in this book are tried and tested and based on more than 15 years of consulting with clients in private practice.

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About the Author

Gillian McKeith, Ph.D., is the internationally acclaimed clinical nutritionist and director of the renowned McKeith Research Centre in London. Her extensive clientele includes professional and Olympic athletes, members of the royal family, and famous celebrities. Dr. Gillian is the presenter of You Are What You Eat, a smash hit prime-time TV show in the UK, and the author of the number-one bestselling book You Are What You Eat, which is now being translated into other languages around the world.  She is also the author of Living Food for Health (Piatkus/Basic). Raised in Scotland, Gillian now travels extensively, giving lectures and seminars to packed audiences.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Plume; 1 Original edition (January 27, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0452289971
• ISBN-13: 978-0452289970
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 7.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #25,724 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #36 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Diets & Weight Loss > Food Counters
  • #88 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Reference

More About the Author

Gillian McKeith (PhD) is an internationally acclaimed holistic nutritionist and presenter of the hit Celador prime time television programme for Channel 4, You Are What You Eat, watched by millions of viewers in more than 34 countries around the world.
Gillian McKeith has written ten books, including the number one, best-selling books based on the series: You Are What You Eat and You Are What You Eat Cookbook. There are more than 3 million copies of Gillian McKeith books now in print in more than 35 countries around the globe. She is the top selling health author of the last five years.

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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Everyone should have this book!, April 9, 2009

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Kitty Walker (Culver City, CA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Gillian McKeith's Food Bible: How to Use Food to Cure What Ails You (Paperback)

I don't know how this book hasn't been in my life earlier, but I am so grateful it is now. You can read the whole thing or just flip through it. I enjoy discussing issues with my friends and looking through "The Food Bible" to help them get through their issues. The first part is explanation of nutrition and the second half is all broken up into sections of food to cure what ails you. You can look up Hangovers to Anxiety and it will tell you what you should avoid eating and what you should be eating with some recipes as well. I love Gillian and am so grateful for her passion to improve our lifestyles.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best of it's kind ..., April 1, 2009

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This review is from: Gillian McKeith's Food Bible: How to Use Food to Cure What Ails You (Paperback)

For me, Gillian McKeith's take on what eating the right foods, the right combinations of foods can do to improve every aspect of your health is better than other books of it's kind that I have found before. I've been to her web site, done her profile questionaire, received her,specific to me advise and have done the detox eating plan she laid out for me. In 2 weeks time I felt 10 years younger. It is now 8 weeks later and with little effort other than combining the right foods I am 25 pounds lighter, I have all the energy one could need and now I feel 25 years younger. When you are more than half a century old, that is saying something.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Praying for good health? Gillian McKeith's Food Bible helps too!, April 9, 2009

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Lynette R. Fleming "Coauthor of Lunch Buddies... (Decatur, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gillian McKeith's Food Bible: How to Use Food to Cure What Ails You (Paperback)

Each of us has health concerns, although some might not be willing to admit it. In my family, the concern is diabetes . . . it can be traced all the way back to my great, great grandfather. My grandpa, my dad, his two brothers and my sister were unlucky enough to be afflicted by this disease, a disease which frequently damages each and every one of our major organs. My grandpa often had just ice cream or pancakes for dinner, and died at only 55 of a heart attack. Perhaps a better diet could have extended his life.

Gillian McKeith has presented a comprehensive, factual, and useful manual on food, food which helps determine whether we acquire diseases and conditions such as diabetes and obesity. I am sure each and every one of you has a disease to which you may be genetically predisposed, and if you're wise you'll try to do something about it before it is too late. You will find each of the four sections of this book to be quite helpful in your quest for prevention and cures simply through careful selection of the foods you eat. Whatever your concern, from acne to Alzheimer's, or breast cancer to bronchitis, you'll find tools to help. Buy this book for you and anyone you care about. Eating right is our most controllable factor to achieve good health.

Lynette Fleming, Coauthor of Lunch Buddies
Buddy Up for a Better Diet