Product Description

You must know by now—since you’ve heard it at least a million times since kindergarten—that eating too much junk food and other poor quality, empty–calorie foods, will make you look and feel lousy and ruin your health. And you also know that eating a balanced diet will help keep you healthy and looking good. But did you know that there are foods that actually heal? Harassed by hay fever? Try garlic or onions, or if you prefer something sweet, try papaya or pineapple. Bugged by dermatitis? Broccoli and kale can stop the itch, so can salmon and tuna. For earaches you might try ginger, walnuts, onions, or papaya. And chili peppers are great for relieving the symptoms of bronchitis.

The delicious way to better health, Healing Foods For Dummies puts the “treat” back in treatment.  Packed with shopping tips, cooking tricks, and more than 60 scrumptious recipes, this bountiful guide shows you how to:

• Harness the healing power of ordinary foods
• Know which foods to avoid for specific problems
• Help reduce the risk of cancer, stroke and heart attack
• Relieve the symptoms of common ailments
• Fight off fatigue and improve your mood
• Get your family eating right

Guided by crack nutritionist and bestselling author of nutritional guides and award–winning cookbooks, Molly Siple, you’ll discover hundreds of healing foods and the vitamins, minerals and therapeutic phytochemicals they contain.

From alfalfa to zucchini, she describes an array of best nutritional remedies, and she supplies:

• Easy–to–follow instructions on how to shop for healthy, good tasting foods
• A Symptom Guide—simple and easy nutritional remedies for more than 80 common conditions, listed alphabetically by symptom
• An A–to–Z guide to 100 healing foods available at your neighborhood supermarket
• More than 60 recipes for easy–to–prepare healing appetizers, beverages, breads, breakfasts, condiments and seasonings, dairy foods, desserts, and more

This friendly, caring, and accessible introduction to the world of healing foods medicine is a fun, fact–filled resource for anyone looking for a safe, easy–to–use alternative, or supplement, to conventional medicine, and who looks forward to a long, healthy life.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #153698 in Books
• Published on: 1999-11-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 356 pages

From the Back Cover
Praise for Healing Foods For Dummies^®

"This magnificent book provides the reader with a comprehensive and incredibly useful guide to healthy eating. Everyone can benefit from the helpful information that Molly Siple includes on how diet affects a variety of health conditions, as will her useful tips on food planning and preparation. She has also included many delicious recipes. I highly recommend this book!" Susan M. Lark, M.D., author of The Chemistry of Success

Food remedies for dozens of common health problems

The delicious way to better health, featuring more than 60 recipes that put the "treat" back in treatment! Pick up an all–natural prescription for health and wellness at your grocery store! Packed with shopping tips, cooking tricks, and tasty recipes, this bountiful guide shows you how the right foods may help you ward off disease, alleviate aches and pains and feel more alive.

Discover how to:

• Harness the healing power of ordinary foods
• Help reduce the risk of cancer and heart disease
• Relieve symptoms of common ailments
• Combat fatigue and improve your mood
• Improve your family′s eating habits

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About the Author
Molly Siple has a Master of Science in Nutritional Science and is also a registered dietitian. Her other books include two on female health, co–authored with Lisa DeAngelis, SOS for PMS, and Recipes for Change: Gourmet Wholefood Cooking for Health and Vitality at Menopause, a Julia Child Cookbook Awards nominee. She is an Advisory Board Member for the Oregon Menopause Network. Molly is also a member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals and founded and managed a corporate catering business in New York City. She lectures on nutrition and is a nutrition consultant to food companies. She lives in Los Angeles. Her Web site is www.wellwoman.com.

Customer Reviews

A book more about Food than Healing Foods.
I was very disappointed when I received this book in the post. I was hoping that the book would be a concise but accurate guide to what we should be eating to suit our bodies. The advice the book gave was I think already quite obvious to anyone who picked up the book.

The book is really a guide to FOOD rather than HEALING FOOD. There is not enough reference to illnesses and ailments and not enough attention to the different characteristics the body may have such as cold, heat, dampness etc...

If you are really interested in Healing Foods then this is not the book for you. If however you want a book with basic advice of what foods we should eat (advice such as avoid caffeine and cola, but drink lots of water) and some nice recipes then this may be the book for you. A real shame.