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Reveals how simple changes in diet and lifestyle can prevent and reverse many causes of disease-related deaths.

"Each recipe also does double or even triple duty, being suitable for healing multiple ailments. Sample meal plans for almost 100 ailments: For each of common ailments, from acne to cataracts to kidney disease, a complete daily meal plan using recipes from the book shows readers how to combine all the healing foods into an easy-to-follow sample meal plan. There is also tips on making the most of healing foods: An A-Z summary of healing foods gives buying and storing tips for the almost 100 healing foods, plus information on how to cook them to best preserve their nutrients. For instance, eating apricots raw gives you the most vitamin C but cooked apricots deliver more beta carotene"--.

Describes the good and bad results of eating more than one hundred seventy foods, with nutritional tips for more than one hundred health conditions, an overview of nutrition and food safety, and includes special features on the benefits of vitamin D, the dangers of mixing food and medicine, and more.