Fight Back with Food

by Reader's Digest Association

By now everyone knows: Good nutrition is the key to good health.

What's new and exciting, however, are findings that the right diet can actually act as preventive medicine. Experts have discovered how vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals, and other substances in foods work in the body to treat and even prevent serious ailments-including arthritis, diabetes, and heart disease.

Divided into 3 sections, this A-Z comprehensive guide lays out all the nutrients and other compounds currently known to researchers that help fight disease.

Part 1 reveals the 50 foods with the most potential to treat and prevent disease and how to cook and store these healing foods to maximize their many benefits.
Part 2 provides the reader with a powerful food arsenal to help fight 50 common ailments including a list of recipes that incorporate disease-fighting foods.
In Part 3, get 100 healthy and tasty recipes for treating and fighting off disease."Meals that Heal" are an everyday prescription to better health.

FIGHT BACK WITH FOOD will give the reader practical tips and information to turn three square meals a day into something that can help you live longer and healthier.

A guide to the most powerful disease-zapping nutrients
50 superstar disease-fighting foods, from apples to poultry to winter squash
What to eat to manage and prevent 50 common ailments, from asthma to osteoporosis
100 delicious disease-combating recipes

Genres: Cookbooks, Nonfiction, Health, Reference, Food

352 pages, Paperback

First published December 30, 2002

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

[Cat · Rating 5 out of 5]

The more I learn about the body and food, the more I believe that FOOD is HEALTH care and pharm is SICK care. This book is packed with information on how you can use food to help with all sorts of ailments. It is divided into sections (eat to beat disease, foods that fight back, what ails you, and recipe rx) so you can search by food or ailment. It is easy to use and a wonderful resource.

[Isabel Rebelo da Silva · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very good book of high qualirty, with amazing pictures and very well structured. It contains, in a very simple and clear way, the main benefits of each food, how to cook it to obtain better results, and has suggestions how to eat it. It also lists several common illnesses and how to fight it with food. At the end it has offers good recipes, which ones I am planning to try it. This is a great reference book, too.

[J. Rowan · Rating 4 out of 5]

There has been a huge movement lately with using foods and other natural sources to help with health issues and conditions. This book not only goes through detailed descriptions of specific foods with health benefits (and why they are so beneficial), it also provides information about a couple dozen health conditions that can be impacted by food. Each condition includes information about the vitamins and minerals, and which foods they are found in, that help with the condition, and a list of recipes. And the best part - the whole reason I bought the book - is the collection of recipes in the back of the book. They look so yummy!

[Daleine · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great book. It has information on the vitamins and other benefits that foods give us. It also gives information on different illnesses and what foods are beneficial in helping fight the illness or foods that might help prevent the illness. It also has some great recipes. I learned a lot from reading this book.

[Erin · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is packed with information to start anyone on their journey to better health. Easily used as a reference guide, this book is organized into foods, ailments, and lastly recipes. I will be using this book as a nutrition guide until the binding wears out!

[Jenny Clark · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love this book. The pictures are great and I learn so much everytime I pick it up! I learned recently that I crave mushrooms because they help with migraines.

[Mackenzie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great resource to look up all sorts of different foods and their nutrients. It's divided into a few sections...nutrients/vitamins, foods, ailments/conditions, adn recipes.

[Devon]

i saw this in my doctor's office and wanted to read it the second i saw it...

[Fredrick Danysh · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reader's Digest has complied a collection of foods that are reputed to prevent of fight certain medical conditions. Recipes are also provided.