The Food Pharmacy: Dramatic New Evidence That Food is Your Best Medicine
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (505 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0671037366 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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She has written fifteen books, including THE FOOD PHARMACY, FOOD - YOUR MIRACLE MEDICINE and STOP AGEING NOW! . About the Author Jean Carper is a well-known authority on health and nutrition. She is a former senior medical correspondent for CNN in Washington and a former radio and TV on-air reporter
Onion as a heart drug? Broccoli to prevent cancer? Garlic to prevent blood clots? THE FOOD PHARMACY shows how simple foods, consumed by us all, can be used in the fight against ill-health. Brimming with important revelations and practical advice, THE FOOD PHARMACY takes the most healthful and healing foods available in your local supermarket and shows us how we can take charge of our health: Eating cabbage, raw or cooked, only once a week may cut your chances of colon cancer by sixty-six percent; honey helps heal wounds and is also an effective cure for diarrhoea.. Jean Carper outlines how each food behaves as a drug and how best to use them. Once considered folklore, the discoveries being pioneered by our leading scientists are proving that food is our largest and most complex pharmacy
She is a former senior medical correspondent for CNN in Washington and a former radio and TV on-air reporter. Jean Carper is a well-known authority on health and nutrition. She has written fifteen books, including THE FOOD PHARMACY, FOOD - YOUR MIRACLE MEDICINE and STOP AGEING NOW!
"Food as Medicine" according to J. Barak. This great book details information about specific foods, and what ailments it is good for. Included are some fabulous recipes.. Excellent Reference and Fun to Read I was first introduced to this book by an old roommate who happened to have a copy in his book collection. I opened it up just out of curiosity, but found myself sitting with it for quite some time and, then, going back to it frequently. Even though it's over 20 years old now, the information in it is generally still quite applicablethe author was definitely ahead of her time. And it turns what could be an otherwise boring topic into som. "Way ahead of its time" according to E. Karasik. I bought this soon after it was published in 1988 after hearing Jean Carper interviewed, and it has been a mainstay of my health reference library ever since. The recent flood of studies on the health benefits of various foods has only served to confirm Carper's basic premise: that foods are packed with pharmacological compounds that act as potently as many drugs to profoundly affect our health. The book is well organized into chapters a