Health & Healing - The Natural Way: The Healing Power Of Food

by Reader's Digest Association

160 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

The Reader's Digest Association, Inc. is a global media and direct marketing company based in Chappaqua, New York, best known for its flagship publication founded in 1922, Reader's Digest. The company's headquarters are in New York City, where it moved from Pleasantville, New York.

The company was founded by DeWitt and Lila Wallace in 1922 with the first publication of Reader's Digest magazine, but has grown to include a diverse range of magazines, books, music, DVDs and online content.

Reviews

[Kym Moore · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a good reference book for not only making healthy choices to improve your health, but it also emphasizes the direct medicinal effects that can be achieved with food. While this book does not seek to challenge orthodox medical practices, it brings the growing trend to bring alternative therapies and mainstream medicine together.

This book introduces you to food and as medicine, how to prevent disease with food, the healing components of food, superfoods, and how to make strategic plans for your health and well being and food intolerances. Poor lifestyle and food choices are risk factors related to many diseases and disorders like cancer, strokes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, and heart disease.

Using a food diary can help you to track how you feel after eating, what you ate, and whether or not certain triggers causing ill health could be food-related. Look for hidden ingredients, especially if you are avoiding a particular food. It may be present under an unfamiliar name. For example, Casein and whey are milk proteins.

This book is one of the many guides I keep in my kitchen to reference certain recipes, foods to embrace or avoid, and to refer to when I need to be reminded of the foods and behaviors critical to my good health and that of my family's.