The Complete Book of Nutritional Healing: The Top 100 Medicinal Foods and Supplements and the Diseases They Treat

by Deborah Mitchell

Part of the Home Health Library, The Complete Book of Nutritional Healing is a comprehensive reference book for the most common health issues Americans face and what you can do about them, using diet and natural methods. Take charge of your health with these dietary methods proven to prevent or alleviate health challenges of all kinds. Author Deborah Mitchell has compiled:

- A-to-Z, cross-referenced entries of common health conditions,...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312945116
• ISBN13: 9780312945114
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 4.1" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

A Starting Point

THE COMPLETE BOOK OF NUTRITIONAL HEALING is for the reader whose knowledge of nutrition is a limited one. This approach can be either good or bad, but in this case Deborah Mitchell has made the right choice. Mitchell divides the book into three parts: In the first section, she lists alphabetically some eighty-three common ailments. She describes the general characteristics of each, using a level of detail that is reasonably bereft of jargon. Mitchell adds their causes and how diet and supplementation may prove useful. Readers who are health care professionals will find little to grouse about since Mitchell's advice is thoroughly conventional. In the second section, she lists one hundred and seven medicinal foods ranging alphabetically from apples to yogurt. She presents each food with an historical overview of its origins, followed by a listing of its nutritional components, ending with its health benefits. Again, the level of complexity and detail is designed for the lay person. The final section lists twenty-five common commercially available supplements. I have a slight problem here since Mitchell omits very many others that can be quite useful such as Carnosine, grapeseed, and Acetyl L-Carnitine. Overall, this book is a worthwhile starting point for the nutritional novice.