Overview of Prescription for
Nutritional Healing (3rd edition):
Prescription for Nutritional Healing
(3rd edition) by Phyllis Balch, James Balch
Paperback
Publisher: Avery
(October 23, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN: 1583332367
FROM THE PUBLISHER
Natural health's number-one bestseller for more than twenty years,
completely revised and updated.
With more than five million copies sold, Prescription for
Nutritional Healing is the most trusted, comprehensive source
on dietary supplements, vitamins, minerals, and herbs. A pioneer
in the field of nutritional healing, Phyllis Balch passionately
and meticulously researched and compiled this groundbreaking book.
Now, a generation later, her message has more relevance than ever:
consume fresh foods, avoid processed foods and those high in
saturated fat, and optimize your intake of essential nutrients
with the right supplements. Today's well-stocked vitamin and
natural-health stores can be confusing, and people need Balch's
clear, concise, landmark guide.
To help them make sense of the mind-numbing array of choices that
are available, readers of Prescription for Nutritional Healing
will:
learn the basics of good nutrition;
find out how to balance vitamins and minerals so that the body
can properly absorb both;
determine how best to treat 250 problems-from abscesses to
wrinkles-using herbs, nutrition, and supplements; and
get the facts on other complementary therapies, like ayurveda,
biofeedback, chiropractic care, and more. Prescription for
Nutritional Healing is an essential resource for every
health-minded consumer.
About the Authors:
Phyllis
A. Balch, CNC, was a leading nutritional counselor for
more than two decades. Convinced that nutrition was, in many
cases, the answer to regaining and maintaining health, Ms. Balch
testified before Congress on the efficacy of natural healing.
JAMES F. BALCH, M.D., is one
of the bestselling health book authors of all time with his
coauthored landmark Prescription for Nutritional Healing,
which was one of the first major books to show how food and
supplements can improve health. He has made numerous appearances
on TV and radio and regularly lectures around North America. Dr.
Balch writes a monthly newsletter, Prescriptions for Healthy
Living, which is read by 50,000 subscribers; he also has a
weekly Internet radio program called Prescriptions for Healthy
Living on www.wsradio.com.
Customer Review
One of the best health books out there.
This monolithic 800+ book, or probably or more accurately,
encyclopedia gives you all sorts of information about
vitamins, minerals, amino acids and herbs such as Echinacea
and Ginseng (and even tells you that Siberian ginseng is the
best quality ginseng you can buy).
This book is a proactive way to take care of your health. This
is all about a branch of medicine called naturopathy or
nutritional medicine which uses vitamins and mineral
supplements to recover, and even prevent, illnesses. And
begins where mainstream medicines stops.
The book is split into three main sections. The first section
describes all the basic vitamins, minerals and amino acids and
where good sources can be found. There is a chapter on all the
major herbs, the Latin names their properties and
contraindications and dangers. There is also an interesting
chapter on water and how to improve its quality.
The second section, and by far the largest, details with major
illnesses; their main characteristics and a brief description
of each of them. Then it tell you how they can be treated by
vitamins, minerals and each of the subheading of usefulness
being Essential, Very Important, Important and lastly helpful.
Along with several important herbs that are advised. There are
also good general recommendations and considerations to help
you recover.
The last part of the book details with complementary therapies
that will keep you in the best of health. It starts off with
an overview of the therapy. And goes on to tell you what they
may help and what sort of treatment you should expect.
This is a fabulous book and should be on every proactive
health conscious person’s shelf. But one thing to remember is
that it’s not a tool for diagnosing but for treating (although
there are several self tests in the descriptions of illnesses
to help you). I believe every G.P. in the country should use
this with every diagnosis. It is one of the few absolutely
indispensable books you need to take care of your health. So
stop wasting time and order it now!!!
A point I must add is I bought my copy about 18 months ago and
it cost £15 but now I've bought another copy for my uncle and
the price had come down to £9.15!!! (this is from amazon btw)
so make sure you shop around for the best price.
