Food Is Your Best Medicine: The Pioneering Nutrition Classic
About this product
Drugs may not be the only cure for disease . . .
What do Gloria Swanson and Greta Garbo have in common?
They owe their good health to Dr. Henry Bieler's sane, simple, and utterly profound philosophy that food is your best medicine!
You are what you eat, and Dr. Bieler contends, based on over fifty years of practice, that proper diet plays a key role in warding off and curing disease.
Food Is Your Best Medicine features a fascinating interpretation of how the body functions to maintain good health and addresses all kinds of ailments with specific nutritional approaches.
Zucchini and other vegetables, simple broths, nourishing whole grains—all so much better for you than drugs, and they really work! Read more
Editor's Take
Food Is Your Best Medicine: The Pioneering Nutrition Classic appears to be a long-running nutrition title that readers still look up for its diet-and-health ideas. Google Play shows a modest number of ratings and reviews, while Internet Archive indicates ongoing interest from readers browsing the book. A blog review on Stellar Caterpillar discusses the book directly and treats it as an older, influential nutrition text. A Wikipedia summary of Henry G. Bieler notes the book was a bestseller and cites an older review that warned about the risks of self-treatment advice in this kind of book.
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Specifications
| Topic | Nutrition |
Product Details
| Publisher | Ballantine Books |
| Publication date | July 12, 1987 |
| Edition | Reissue |
| Language | English |
| Print length | 256 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0345351835 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0345351838 |
| Item Weight | 4.8 ounces |
| Dimensions | 4.21 x 0.63 x 6.69 inches |
| Best Sellers Rank | #48,347 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #17 in Diet Therapy (Books) #71 in Holistic Medicine (Books) #364 in Nutrition (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (432) |