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The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods
by Michael T. Murray, JOSEPH PIZZORNO
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Paperback: 912 pages
Publisher: Atria (September 20 2005)
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Chapter 1: Human Nutrition: An Evolutionary Perspective
In order to answer the question 'What is a healthy diet?,' it is important to first take a look at what our body is designed for. Is the human body designed to eat plant foods, animal foods, or both?

Chapter 1: Human Nutrition: An Evolutionary Perspective
In order to answer the question 'What is a healthy diet?,' it is important to first take a look at what our body is designed for. Is the human body designed to eat plant foods, animal foods, or both?

Chapter 1: The Government and Nutrition Education
Throughout the years, various governmental organizations have published dietary guidelines, but it has been the recommendations of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that have become the most widely known.



Book Description

From the bestselling authors of The Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine, the most comprehensive and practical guide available to the nutritional benefits and medicinal properties of virtually everything edible

As countless studies have affirmed, diet plays a major role in both provoking and preventing a wide range of diseases. But just what is a healthy diet? What does the body need to stay strong and get well? In The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods, Michael T. Murray, N.D., and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D., two of the world's foremost authorities on nutrition and wellness, draw on an abundant harvest of research to present the best guide available to healthy eating.

Make healthy eating a lifetime habit.

Let The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods teach you how to:

  • design a safe diet

  • use foods to stimulate the body's natural ability to rejuvenate and heal

  • discover the role that fiber, enzymes, fatty acids, and other dietary components

  • have in helping us live healthfully

  • understand which food prescriptions will help you safely treat more than 70 specific ailments, including acne, Alzheimer's disease, immune system depression, insomnia, migraine headaches, PMS, and rheumatoid arthritis

  • prepare foods safely in order to prevent illness and maximize health benefits

  • select, store, and prepare all kinds of healthful foods

Providing the best natural remedies for everyday aches and pains, as well as potent protection against serious diseases, The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods is a required daily health reference.

About the Author

Michael Murray, N.D.Michael Murray, N.D.

Michael Murray, N.D., is an educator, lecturer, researcher, and consultant to the health food industry. He has written more than twenty books..

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Joseph Pizzorno

Dr. Joseph Pizzorno is cofounder of Bastyr University, the first accredited multidisciplinary university of natural medicine in the United States..

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Lara Pizzorno

Lara Pizzorno, M.A., L.M.T., is a health writer and medical editor with more than twenty years of experience..

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