The Complete Book of Alternative Nutrition (Paperback)

by Prevention Magazine editors (Author)

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Book Description
Health pioneers from around the world have advocated a vast array of diets that can have remarkable healing power. Now the health experts at Prevention provide you with dozens of nutritional programs that can help heal ailments--and directly benefit your whole-body health. This comprehensive guide includes: * An anti-arthritis diet so successful that patients in a medical test voluntarily continued it after the test was over * Specific targeted diets that can reduce risk of breast cancer from 1 in 18 to 1 in 100 * An alternative diet that can conquer migraine headaches * A nutritional program that's been called the single most effective intervention against high blood pressure--without using drugs * A meal strategy that has proved "magical" in the fight against asthma * A diet so powerful it may let your body dispose of benign tumors * An ingredient in Indian cooking that can help fight harmful cholesterol and ward off cancer * The sweet-tasting natural tea that's a tonic for menstrual cramps * The food ingredient that can help prevent yeast infections and raise immunity * The chemical in garlic that's known to combat stomach cancer

Card catalog description
Explore the healing potential of the world's most extraordinary diets. The editors of PREVENTION magazine interviewed scores of leading health pioneers from around the world for their advice on diets ranging from Ayurveda to Pritikin, from ancestral nutrition to the soy-rich diet. Discover the remarkable healing power of these ancient and modern diets - how thousands of foods can "perform miracles." With meal plans and resource lists to help you find direct sources of hundreds of special foods, The Complete Book of Alternative Nutrition is a self-help guide to thousands of foods and menus that can help cure disease relieve pain and add years to your life. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

• Paperback: 464 pages
• Publisher: Berkley Trade (October 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0425165116
• ISBN-13: 978-0425165119
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
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