The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods
The Condensed Encyclopedia of Healing Foods - Book Review
Feb 6, 2008
This little fat book -The Condensed Encyclopedia of Healing Foods by Michael Murray N.D., Joseph Pizzorno N.D., and Lara Pizzorno M.A.,L.M.T., is a wealth of information for the person wishing to increase his nutritional intake, change to better eating habits and concentrate on eating more vitamins or mineral-rich food to combat disease.
It is more than an encyclopedia; it offers prescriptions as to which foods to eat for more than seventy common ailments ranging from the common cold to hives and gout to asthma.
The aim of the book is to help us understand how foods can be used to rejuvenate the body and heal symptoms of body disorders.
Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food…. wrote Hippocrates.
Michael Murray, Joseph Pizzorno and Lara Pizzorno of The Condensed Encyclopedia of Healing Foods live themselves by the same motto and write to encourage everyone to make healthy eating a lifelong habit.
Habits are unfortunately easier to form than to break but this book will go a long way in helping our understanding of the power of food to not only keep us well and endow us with long-life but to heal the years of abuse the body has taken.
It’s all possible through knowledgeable and sensible eating, and this book is a great help to show us on our way. Its layout is a very easy to use format, with each individual food having a section on its history, nutritional highlights, health benefits, how to select and store, tips for preparing, quick serving ideas and safety.
A real plethora of information in one source makes this a really good buy if you’re only considering one book on nutrition - this is a good one!
If you’re wondering how to improve your diet for maximum help with gum disease, premenstrual syndrome or Insomnia you’ll find it all within the 948 pages of this book.
Not only do you get information and advice to improve your daily eating habits but it’s loaded with tips on how to easily increase the 5 a-day fruit and vegetable portions with tips and quick to prepare recipes that help the busy person eating healthily and quick - not quick and unhealthily.
This book sits on the shelf in the cookbook section, as that is where it’s needed to help whoever is cooking to serve the best possible dishes with the highest nutritional content possible. To protect and insure ourselves and our families not just for today or this year, but to do our utmost possible for our tomorrows, all the advice given here is invaluable.
It’s a good book at a good price but a huge investment into healthy living.
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