Traditional Foods Are Your Best Medicine

Author : Ron Schmid
Publisher : Healing Arts Press
ISBN 13 : 9780892817351
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Traditional Foods Are Your Best Medicine written by Ron Schmid and published by Healing Arts Press. This book was released on 1997-04-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the cause of many chronic health problems to our modern diet and shows how a return to traditional foods can improve one's well-being. Modern medicine now recognizes that the present-day Western diet is responsible for many of today's chronic illnesses. Nutritionists and anthropologists have noted the decline in health that accompanies indigenous peoples' transition from traditional to modern diets. In Traditional Foods Are Your Best Medicine, Ron Schmid explains how a return to a traditional diet can help you reduce your risk of heart attack by 50 percent; fight allergies, chronic fatigue, arthritis, skin problems, and headaches; recover from colds and flu in a day or two; and increase your life-expectancy. Chapters focusing on the major food groups, common diets, and health goals enable you to tailor a diet to your special needs. New edition, previously titled Native Nutrition.

Author : Ronald F. Schmid
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 9780345357373
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Traditional Foods Are Your Best Medicine written by Ronald F. Schmid and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1988-12 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study shows the differences between traditional and modern foods, and how the body creates its own resistance to disease

Author : Ronald F. Schmid
Publisher : Ocean View Books
ISBN 13 : 9780941145039
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Traditional Foods are Your Best Medicine written by Ronald F. Schmid and published by Ocean View Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study shows the differences between traditional and modern foods, and how the body creates its own resistance to disease

Author : Andrea Pieroni
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1482293617
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eating and Healing written by Andrea Pieroni and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2006-03-15 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover neglected wild food sources—that can also be used as medicine! The long-standing notion of “food as medicine, medicine as food,” can be traced back to Hippocrates. Eating and Healing: Traditional Food As Medicine is a global overview of wild and semi-domesticated foods and their use as medicine in traditional societies. Important cultural information, along with extensive case studies, provides a clear, authoritative look at the many neglected food sources still being used around the world today. This book bridges the scientific disciplines of medicine, food science, human ecology, and environmental sciences with their ethno-scientific counterparts of ethnobotany, ethnoecology, and ethnomedicine to provide a valuable multidisciplinary resource for education and instruction. Eating and Healing: Traditional Food As Medicine presents respected researchers’ in-depth case studies on foods different cultures use as medicines and as remedies for nutritional deficiencies in diet. Comparisons of living conditions in different geographic areas as well as differences in diet and medicines are thoroughly discussed and empirically evaluated to provide scientific evidence of the many uses of these traditional foods as medicine and as functional foods. The case studies focus on the uses of plants, seaweed, mushrooms, and fish within their cultural contexts while showing the dietary and medical importance of these foods. The book provides comprehensive tables, extensive references, useful photographs, and helpful illustrations to provide clear scientific support as well as opportunities for further thought and study. Eating and Healing: Traditional Food As Medicine explores the ethnobiology of: Tibet—antioxidants as mediators of high-altitude nutritional physiology Northeast Thailand—“wild” food plant gathering Southern Italy—the consumption of wild plants by Albanians and Italians Northern Spain—medicinal digestive beverages United States—medicinal herb quality Commonwealth of Dominica—humoral medicine and food Cuba—promoting health through medicinal foods Brazil—medicinal uses of specific fishes Brazil—plants from the Amazon and Atlantic Forest Bolivian Andes—traditional food medicines New Patagonia—gathering of wild plant foods with medicinal uses Western Kenya—uses of traditional herbs among the Luo people South Cameroon—ethnomycology in Africa Morocco—food medicine and ethnopharmacology Eating and Healing: Traditional Food As Medicine is an essential research guide and educational text about food and medicine in traditional societies for educators, students from undergraduate through graduate levels, botanists, and research specialists in nutrition and food science, anthropology, agriculture, ethnoecology, ethnobotany, and ethnobiology.

Author : Yifang Zhang
Publisher : Shanghai Press
ISBN 13 : 193836869X
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Your Guide to Health with Foods & Herbs written by Yifang Zhang and published by Shanghai Press. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choosing the foods and herbs that are right for you is essential to achieving and maintaining good health. Over thousands of years, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has accumulated knowledge about using foods and herbs therapeutically, providing a natural way to boost energy and immunity, extend longevity, enhance beauty, reduce toxins, regulate mood and treat other health conditions, externally and internally. This book will help you put the wisdom of TCM to use, guiding you with case studies, treatment details, recipes and illustrations.Inside you'll find practical and easy-to-understand information about the features of food according to TCM and how to assess your body constitution, to customize your selection of foods and herbs, to use food to treat or prevent health problems and to improve your appearance and mental outlook.This book also features a handy chapter on nearly 90 functional foods and herbs. Arranged alphabetically, with quick facts and photos, this resource will help you plan your strategy for healthy living by using foods and plants specifically suited for your body, lifestyle and goals. Let TCM help you better understand your body and show you how to make the choices that are best for you!

Author : John La Puma
Publisher : Harmony
ISBN 13 : 0307394638
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ChefMD's Big Book of Culinary Medicine written by John La Puma and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2009 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrating nutritional science with culinary expertise, a physician explains how to prevent disease, shed pounds, and promote overall health by using foods that tempt the palate while promoting the body's immunity.

Author : Pamela A. Popper
Publisher : BenBella Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1937856577
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Food Over Medicine written by Pamela A. Popper and published by BenBella Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes recipes from Chef Del Sroufe, author of the bestselling Forks Over Knives—The Cookbook and Better Than Vegan Nearly half of Americans take at least one prescription medicine, with almost a quarter taking three or more, as diseases such as diabetes, obesity, and dementia grow more prevalent than ever. The problem with medicating common ailments, such as high blood pressure or elevated cholesterol, is that drugs treat symptoms—and may even improve test results—without addressing the cause: diet. Overmedicated, overfed, and malnourished, most Americans fail to realize the answer to lower disease rates doesn't lie in more pills but in the foods we eat.With so much misleading nutritional information regarded as common knowledge, from “everything in moderation" to “avoid carbs," the average American is ill-equipped to recognize the deadly force of abundant, cheap, unhealthy food options that not only offer no nutritional benefits but actually bring on disease. In Food Over Medicine, Pamela A. Popper, PhD, ND, and Glen Merzer invite the reader into a conversation about the dire state of American health—the result of poor nutrition choices stemming from food politics and medical misinformation. But, more important, they share the key to getting and staying healthy for life. Backed by numerous scientific studies, Food Over Medicine details how dietary choices either build health or destroy it. Food Over Medicine reveals the power and practice of optimal nutrition in an accessible way.

Author : Tieraona Low Dog, M.D.
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1426209614
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life Is Your Best Medicine written by Tieraona Low Dog, M.D. and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The division between conventional and traditional medicine is as artificial as the division between science and nature. They can be woven together in a fashion that meets our physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. This is the foundation upon which integrative medicine is built." -- Tieraona Low Dog, M.D. In Life Is Your Best Medicine, Dr. Low Dog weaves together the wisdom of traditional medicine and the knowledge of modern-day medicine into an elegant message of health and self-affirmation for women of every age. This is a book that can be read cover to cover but also dipped into for inspiration or insight about a particular physical or mental health issue or remedy. We learn that, despite the widespread availability of pharmaceutical medications, advanced surgical care, and state-of-the-art medical technology, chronic illness now affects more than 50% of the American population. The evidence is overwhelmingly clear that much of the chronic disease we are confronting in the United States has its roots in the way we live our lives. Research shows that if Americans embraced a healthier lifestyle, which includes a balance between rest and exercise; wholesome nutrition; healthy weight; positive social interactions; stress management; not smoking; limited alcohol use; and no or limited exposure to toxic chemicals; then 93% of diabetes, 81% of heart attacks, 50% of strokes, and 36% of all cancers could be prevented! This means that each one of us has the power to shift the odds of being healthy in our favor. And if you do get sick, being fit gives you a much better chance for getting well. Your health has a great deal more to do with your lifestyle and a lot less to do with taking prescription drugs than most people realize. Part I. The Medicine of My Life is a personal and passionate introduction to the book Part II. Honoring the Body includes Food, Supplements, Illness, Wholeness Part III. Awakening the Senses includes Nature, Garden, Music Part IV. Listening to Spirit includes Humor, Relationships, Play, Meditation, Animals Epilogue. Contentment

Author : Michael A. Weiner
Publisher : New York : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780020824909
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Earth Medicine--earth Food written by Michael A. Weiner and published by New York : Macmillan. This book was released on 1980 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the wild and cultivated plants used by American Indians for food and medicinal purposes

Author : Sally Fallon
Publisher : Pro Perkins Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781887314152
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nourishing Traditions written by Sally Fallon and published by Pro Perkins Pub. This book was released on 1995 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: