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From the best-selling author of Eight Weeks to Optimum Health,
an original, reassuring and practical book on food, diet and
nutrition, including 75 - 100 recipes. In his new book, the
immensely popular and hugely trusted Dr Andrew Weil focuses on how
food can influence health and well-being. He makes clear that an
optimal diet should not only supply the basic needs of the body for
calories and nutrients but should also reduce risks of disease and
fortify the body''s defenses and intrinsic mechanisms of healing. Dr
Weil establishes that how we eat is an important determinant of how
we feel and how we age and that food can function as medicine to
influence a variety of common aliments.
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Dr Andrew Weil is the author of Eight Weeks to Optimum Health
and Spontaneous Healing. He is the leader in the new field of
Integrative Medicine, which combines the best ideas and practices
of conventional and alternative medicine.
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Introduction
1. The Principles of Eating Well
A Healing Story: From French Fries to Kale
A Healing Story: The Knife and Fork Are Powerful Tools
2. The Basics of Human Nutrition
i The Macronutrients: An Overview
ii Carbohydrates Revisited: Staff of Life or Stuff of
Sickness?
iii Fat Revisited: The Best Part of Food or the Worst?
iv Protein Revisited: How Much Is Enough?
v The Micronutrients
A Healing Story: A Successful Encounter with Integrative
Medicine
A Healing Story: Overcoming Allergies
3. The Worst Diet in the World
A Healing Story: Learning to Make Healthful Food
4. The Best Diet in the World
A Healing Story: A Healthy Civic Leader
A Healing Story: I Gave Up Fast Food
5. A Matter of Weight
A Healing Story: Conquering an Eating Disorder
6.--Buying Food and Eating Out With a Word About
Vibrations
A Healing Story: Nothing Is Easy
7.--An Alchemist in the Kitchen
A Healing Story: Why I Eat Healthy
8.--The Recipes
Soups
Salads
Appetizers
Fish
Vegetables
Pasta, Rice, Potatoes
Desserts
Appendix A: The Optimum Diet
Appendix B: Dietary Recommendations for Common Health
Concerns
Appendix C: Answers to Common Questions About Food and
Nutrition
Appendix D: The Possibility of Surviving Without Eating
Appendix E: Sources of Information, Materials, and
Supplies
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