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Prescription for Nutritional Healing (3rd edition)

Overview of Prescription for Nutritional Healing (3rd edition):

FROM THE PUBLISHE

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.