Reader's Digest

Foods That Harm, Foods That Heal: What to Eat to Beat Disease and Live Longer (Reader's Digest Healthy)

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Reader's Digest

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An updated edition of the groundbreaking, best-selling guide to the vital link between food and health—now featuring more than 50 recipes for good health.
The first edition of Foods That Harm, Foods That Heal changed the way we view food and its impact on our bodies. More than 7 million copies of the book have been sold worldwide since then, and interest in food as medicine has only grown as researchers have continued to discover the crucial connections between diet and chronic conditions such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and other serious illnesses, as well as the impact of food on stress, insomnia, and other common complaints.
In this newly updated edition, you’ll find:
*More than 100 health condition entries from arthritis to insomnia to heart disease, with quick tips on what to eat to prevent or treat each ailment naturally
*More than 170 food entries from apples to zucchini, plus simple ways to eat, cook, and store each food to maximize its healing potential
*More than 50 delicious and easy-to-make recipes featuring the healing foods
*Special features on the potential dangers of pesticides, food additives, and genetically modified crops; the many benefits of vitamin D; the real deal on high-fructose corn syrup; the dangers of mixing food and medicine; and much more Read more

Editor's Take

Amazon-style and book review sources describe this Reader’s Digest title as a practical, reference-style health book with broad coverage of foods, ailments, and diet advice. Goodreads reviewers are mostly positive, often praising it as a helpful, easy-to-use guide for learning how foods may affect health, while some review pages describe it as well organized and useful for meal planning. A few reviewers note that it is more of a general nutrition reference than a deep medical text, but the overall impression is favorable. On ThriftBooks, the only visible customer comments focus more on item condition than the book itself. No real YouTube watch URLs were available in the gathered results, so no video IDs are included.

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Topic Nutrition

Product Details

Publisher Trusted Media Brands
Publication date April 10, 2018
Edition 1st
Language English
Print length 432 pages
ISBN-10 1621453820
ISBN-13 978-1621453826
Item Weight 2.6 pounds
Dimensions 7.75 x 1.1 x 10 inches
Best Sellers Rank #38,348 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #15 in Food Counters #252 in Other Diet Books #320 in Nutrition (Books)
Customer Reviews 4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars (379)