Improve Your Digestion: The Drug-Free Guide to Achieving a Healthy Digestive System (Optimum Nutrition Handbook) [Paperback]

Patrick Holford (Author), Jerome Burne (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2000 | Series: Optimum Nutrition Handbook

You are not what you eat. You are what you can digest. Good digestion helps you absorb health-promoting nutrients and enables your body to stay balanced and free from disease and discomfort. It is vital to keep your digestive system in shape and the key is eating the right food. Understanding nutrition and correctly supplementing your diet really will improve your digestion. In this breakthrough book you will learn how to: prevent indigestion, heartburn, and ulcers; beat Candida and gut infections; conquer food allergies; heal irritable bowel syndrome, Crohns disease, and colitis; prevent wind, bloating, and constipation; and detoxify and cleanse your body.

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About the Author

Patrick Holford is a nutritionist and the advocate of a nutrition-based approach to mental health problems. He is the author of more than 20 books on health, including The Holford Low GL Diet, The New Optimum Nutrition Bible, and Optimum Nutrition for the Mind.

Product Details

• Paperback: 180 pages
• Publisher: Piatkus Books (January 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0749920149
• ISBN-13: 978-0749920142
• Product Dimensions: 0.5 x 5 x 7.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #159,402 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #60 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Disorders & Diseases > Abdominal

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Highly informative!, August 2, 2008

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This review is from: Improve Your Digestion: The Drug-Free Guide to Achieving a Healthy Digestive System (Optimum Nutrition Handbook) (Paperback)

This book goes beyond casual reading, and reveals the authors as truly knowledgable. It goes a lot deeper than what the average reader might expect, but this is not a criticism, as we rarely find more than what we bargained for these days. This is not a diet book, although there are plenty of advice on how to eat healthier. If you want to read about your digestive system, you cannot go wrong by reading this.