'This book has the feel of a life's work: it's packed with information essential for anyone seriously investigating the relationship between food and healing' - Yoga Journal.

Completely updated, Healing with Whole Foods is a classic reference for a spectrum of physicians, nutritionists, and therapists, plus an growing worldwide audience of readers who want to improve their health and well-being.

This comprehensive reference work brings together traditional Asian medicine with modern Western research to create the most detailed sourcebook available on planning and preparing an optimal diet.

'I am grateful to Paul Pitchford for updating the classic Healing with Whole Foods. If I could choose one book to recommend to students of the healing arts, this would be the one. Even more important than the wealth of botanical information is Pitchford¹s alignment with spiritual purpose‹to inspire peaceful, balanced diet and life patterns as a viable antidote to stress and dissipation' - Edward Bauman, Ph.D., Director, Partners in Health, Cotati, California.

'This magnificent and highly accessible reference work brings together Western nutritional science and Chinese medicine, with a rare and welcome spiritual sensibility throughout. This book belongs in every household where there is a desire to develop a natural, traditional approach to food and health.' - New Dimensions Radio

Paul Pitchford is a teacher and nutrition researcher at the Heartwood Institute, where he directs the Asian Healing Arts and Integrative Nutrition Program and leads healing retreats. For more than three decades, he has applied the unifying wisdom of Far Eastern thought to the major dietary therapies available in the West to create a new vision of health and nutrition.

Features:
>Clear discussions of nutrition basics & the Chinese healing arts
>A guide to transition from a diet based on animal products to one on whole grains & fresh vegetables
>Coverage of topics from weight loss & digestive problems, to pregnancy & aging
>Detailed 'Regeneration Diets' & herbal treatments for illness, addiction, & other ailments.

280 x 215mm.

750pp

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Diet/dietotherapy