Eating Well for Optimum Health The Essential Guide to Food, Diet, and Nutrition

Name: Eating Well for Optimum Health The Essential Guide to Food, Diet, and Nutrition
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ISBN: 9780375407543

ISBN-10: 0375407545

ISBN-13: 9780375407543

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Authors: Andrew Weil

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At last, a book about eating (and eating well) for health -- from Dr. Andrew Weil, the brilliantly innovative and greatly respected doctor who has been instrumental in transforming the way Americans think about health. Now Dr. Weil -- whose nationwide best-sellers Spontaneous Healing and Eight Weeks to Optimum Health have made us aware of the body's capacity to heal itself -- provides us with a program for improving our well-being by making informed choices about how and what we eat. He gives us all the basic facts about human nutrition. Here is everything we need to know about fats, protein, carbohydrates, minerals, and vitamins, and their effects on our health. He equips us to make…

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List price: $25.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/7/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Dr. Andrew Weil, Dr. Andrew Weil graduated from Harvard University. He has taught at the University of Arizona in Tucson, specializing in alternative medicine, medical botany and mind/body interactions. He is the founder of the Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona Health Services. Dr. Weil is the author of several books which includes the titles "The Natural Mind" (1972), "From Chocolate to Morphine" (with Winifred Rosen, 1983), "Natural Health, Natural Medicine" (1990), "Spontaneous Healing" (1995), and "Eating Well for Optimum Health: The Essential Guide to Food, Diet, and Nutrition" (2000).



Introduction



The Principles of Eating Well


A Healing Story: From French Fries to Kale


A Healing Story: The Knife and Fork Are Powerful Tools



The Basics of Human Nutrition



The Macronutrients: An Overview



Carbohydrates Revisited: Staff of Life or Stuff of Sickness?



Fat Revisited: The Best Part of Food or the Worst?



Protein Revisited: How Much Is Enough?



The Micronutrients


A Healing Story: A Successful Encounter with Integrative Medicine


A Healing Story: Overcoming Allergies



The Worst Diet in the World


A Healing Story: Learning to Make Healthful Food



The Best Diet in the World


A Healing Story: A Healthy Civic Leader


A Healing Story: I Gave Up Fast Food



A Matter of Weight


A Healing Story: Conquering an Eating Disorder



Buying Food and Eating Out (With a Word About Vibrations)


A Healing Story: Nothing Is Easy



An Alchemist in the Kitchen


A Healing Story: Why I Eat Healthy



The Recipes


Soups


Salads


Appetizers


Fish


Vegetables


Pasta, Rice, Potatoes


Desserts



The Optimum Diet



Dietary Recommendations for Common Health Concerns



Answers to Common Questions About Food and Nutrition



The Possibility of Surviving Without Eating



Sources of Information, Materials, and Supplies


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index