Prescription for Dietary Wellness

by Phyllis A. Balch

Like its companion books--the number-one bestselling Prescription for Nutritional Healing and the newer Prescription for Herbal Healing -- Prescription for Dietary Wellness offers authoritative information that is research-based and clearly written, making it easy for the reader to quickly find the subjects in which he or she is interested and to incorporate the dietary recommendations into his or her daily life.

Updates in this second edition

Genres: Health, Nonfiction, Reference, Food, Diets, Textbooks

320 pages, Paperback

First published May 26, 2003

About the author

Phyllis Balch, a certified nutritional consultant, was a leading nutritional counselor for more than two decades, and came to the field from after experiencing in her own life the health benefits of diet and nutrition.
Convinced that nutrition was, in many cases, the answer to regaining and maintaining health, Ms. Balch opened a health food store called Good Things Naturally, testified before Congress on the efficacy of natural healing, and in 1983 she published what is now known as Prescription for Nutritional Healing. Through four editions, this book has had millions of readers in many different countries, and has been translated into six foreign languages.

Ms. Balch died in December 2004.

Reviews

[Paige · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome book on healing properties of certain foods...and what to eat to help with different ailments ect..

[Christine Kenney · Rating 4 out of 5]

I plan to revisit this periodically to offset the inundation of marketing we get about the healthiness of heavily processed [high margin] products. The appendix of suggested foods to address specific complaints seems pretty useful. I probably won't get around to the more elaborate stuff in the detox and food combination chapters because it seems there is so much low hanging fruit [pun intended] just by incorporating more plants into our western diet. It seemed like there should be more discussion about home gardening considering how quickly Balch feels the nutrient content of harvested plants degrades and the uncertainty about what chemicals were used during cultivation and shipping, but I understand that this topic has a lot of regional variation and she was probably trying to write for a more global audience.

[Stefani Clark · Rating 5 out of 5]

I picked this book up at a Library's old books "give away". I love and read extensively on the topic of health and wellness. As I was reading this book, fascinated by the information, and sensible ways to add a big scoop of foods, spices, and recipes and better living endeavors. What shocked me was checking out the date published, the 90's! Many of the "wise'm" found in this book, I'd read in recently published books by well-known and marketed Authors e.g., the ones who have authored books, and then created their own product lines. Wow, to see the same "knowledge" as available not only in the 90's but even long before. This book for me was like discovering an old recipe book, on healing one spoonful at a time.

Tigre

[Dannie Lane · Rating 2 out of 5]

While it "looks" like it would have good information in it, the book or more so the author is extremely one sided on there view of nutrition! The way she puts thing it is vegetarian or nothing, and everyone, no mater what needs to be one. As a ex vegetarian for 4+ years and as someone that had seen there health decline over that 4 years as a vegetarian I know it is not the healthy lifestyle for everyone. So if you find this book in a used bookstore for cheap I would get it. Just keep in mind that it is not the end all of nutrition books. Also some of the info, even in the new second edition is about 5 years out if date and some has been disproven.

[Peyton Jones · Rating 3 out of 5]

Supports a mainly vegetarian diet - still has some other good stuff in there.

[Jenava · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this! It is great to have on hand, I use it a lot when I am sick...

[Craig · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very good guide to the proper use of nutritous foods in achieving optimal health.