Food Cures: Fight Disease with Your Fork!

by Reader's Digest Association

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
* 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.

Genres: Nonfiction, Cookbooks, Health, Food

375 pages, Paperback

First published December 28, 2008

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

[Miriam Sternlicht]

Very informative and a fantastic, regularly used reference book.

[Missy Eldridge]

Entertaining to read, easy to use, informational, recipe ideas and even full color photos make this reference book a must have. Not just a fad diet book, this will help educate you to a healthier lifestyle.

[Marathon County Public Library]

This is the best resource I've found so far for anyone looking for natural and healthy ways to fight and prevent numerous health issues. As someone with four health issues that very much affect my everyday life, I'm always looking for books that touch on the nutrition factor of foods to fight disease or help with ailments, or, sometimes even more important, those foods that should be avoided depending on certain illnesses. This is the most comprehensive resource I've found so far on nutrition and the power of food to treat and prevent illnesses ranging from cancer to migraines to memory loss. I appreciated that this book had specifics on how much of each food we should aim for depending on our goal and ailment, along with a ton of helpful hints. It even included a chapter of healing recipes at the end as well.

Sarah M. / Marathon County Public Library
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[Linda]

I want to get my own copy of this book, it is really helpful and I want to remember all the great healthy foods it talks about.

[Donna]

Lots of good information in this book. Have referred to it several times.