Food Cures by Editors Of Reader's Digest

Food Cures by Editors Of Reader's Digest

Discover cures for common conditions from allergies to gum disease, from insomnia to lowering your cholesterol. Includes 75 immune-boosting recipes.

Clean out your medicine cabinet and restock with healing and appealing items from the grocery store. Treat the most common ailments naturally, safely, and deliciously-and live pain free, disease free, and worry free

Rely less on pills and more on real food. How much? How often? Here you'll find all the answers, the research-validated treatments, and successful cures for dozens of common conditions. The past few years have been filled with intriguing announcements from the world of medical research. Forget about wonder drugs-we're living in a time of wonder foods. The foods described in this book are nutritional powerhouses bursting with compounds that have specific and well-defined health benefits-included are 75 healthy recipes that will please every member of the family.
Healing foods section includes information about:
* How a rainbow of fruits and vegetables (8 to 9 servings a day)-the wider the variety the better-will lower the risk of an array of cancers
* How dark chocolate contains hefty amounts of disease-fighting flavonoids and can significantly improve blood pressure
* How olive oil lowers bad LDL cholesterol and raises good HDL cholesterol
* How spinach, in addition to protecting your eyes from macular degeneration, is a valuable source of vitamin K, which can help maintain bone density

Discover cures for common conditions from allergies to gum disease, from insomnia to lowering your cholesterol. Changing your diet won't guarantee that you'll never get sick or need drugs, but eating the right food can help heal what ails you and can bolster your body's defenses against disease, treat disease directly, and even slow the aging process.

Editors of Reader's Digest: - A trusted friend in a complicated world, Reader's Digest brings big ideas to your kitchen table, shares stories you can't put down, offers clever ways to live your life and the chance to laugh and cry together about what makes us all human.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780762107971
ISBN 10	0762107979
Title	Food Cures
Author	Editors Of Reader's Digest
Series	Reader's Digest Healthy
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Fox Chapel Publishing
Year published	2008-12-28
Number of pages	375
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.