Eating Well for Optimum Health
by Andrew Weil
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Cooking & Food. Health & Fitness. Nonfiction. HTML:From one of our most trusted authorities on health and alternative health care, a comprehensive and reassuring book about food, diet, and nutrition.Building on the scientific and philosophical underpinnings of his enormous bestseller Spontaneous Healing, the body's capacity to heal itself, and presenting the kind of practical information that informed his 8 Weeks to Optimum Health, Dr. Weil now provides us with a program for improving our show more well-being by making informed choices about how and what we eat. He explains the safest and most effective ways to lose weight; how diet can affect energy and sleep; how foods can exacerbate or minimize specific physical problems; how much fat to include in our diet; what nutrients are in which foods, and much, much more. He makes clear that an optimal diet will both supply the basic needs of the body and fortify the body's defenses and mechanisms of healing. And he provides easy-to-prepare recipes in which the food is as sensually satisfying as it is beneficial.
Eating Well for Optimum Health stands to change - for the better and the healthier - our most fundamental ideas about eating. show less
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I think this is the second most important book I have read on food and health. I bought this book about 10 years ago and just got around to reading it. The information has held the test of time well. Barbara Kingsolver's book, Animal Vegetable, Miracle, was the first book on food that really revolutionized the way I was feeding my family - I rate this book a close second - only because it is more scientific and technical in nature.
Gets a little to scientificy for me at times but the general nature of the book is pleasing and easy to follow and makes more sense than a diet book.
I've ben a fan of Weil for years now and before he was considered mainstream. This book is interesting although I have found it impossible to do his first task which is to raid the cabinets and throw a ton of food that is not preservative-laced away. I refer back to this every few months and try and take certain parts that I feel are do-able to implement and try again.
Gets a little to scientificy for me at times but the general nature of the book is pleasing and easy to follow and makes more sense than a diet book.
This book was very eye opening for me. Things I have assumed all of my life were turned around by Dr. Weil explaining the science of nutrition.
Dr. Weil mentions many correlations, but is careful to explain that just because there is a correlation it doesn't mean there is a causation.
Dr. Weil mentions many correlations, but is careful to explain that just because there is a correlation it doesn't mean there is a causation.
Gets a little to scientificy for me at times but the general nature of the book is pleasing and easy to follow and makes more sense than a diet book.
This gentleman cannot necessarily be trusted to tell you the truth. After reading http://www.quackwatch.org/11Ind/weil.html it becomes suggested that he is a quack doctor.
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Andrew Weil, one of America's best known advocates of alternative medicine and holistic healing, attended Harvard Medical School. He has worked for the National Institute of Mental Health and the Harvard Botanical Museum. He is the founder of the Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center and Associate show more Director of the Division of Social Perspectives in Medicine, University of Arizona. Weil's books include Spontaneous Healing and Natural Health and Eight Weeks to Optimum Health and Wisdom of Failure: How to Learn the Tough Leadership Lessons Without Paying the Price -which made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012. (Bowker Author Biography) Dr. Andrew Weil, Dr. Andrew Weil graduated from Harvard University. He has taught at the University of Arizona in Tucson, specializing in alternative medicine, medical botany and mind/body interactions. He is the founder of the Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona Health Services. Dr. Weil is the author of several books which includes the titles "The Natural Mind" (1972), "From Chocolate to Morphine" (with Winifred Rosen, 1983), "Natural Health, Natural Medicine" (1990), "Spontaneous Healing" (1995), and "Eating Well for Optimum Health: The Essential Guide to Food, Diet, and Nutrition" (2000). (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Eating Well for Optimum Health
- Alternate titles
- Eating Well for Optimum Health: The Essential Guide to Bringing Health and Pleasure Back to Eating; Eating Well for Optimum Health: The Essential Guide to Food, Diet, and Nutrition
- Original publication date
- 2000
- Dedication
- To my colleagues in Integrative Medicine
- First words
- When I use the words 'eating well', I mean using food not only to influence health and well-being but to satisfy the senses, providing pleasure and comfort.
Introduction: In the course of my work, questions always come up about food and nutrition, diet and health. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)If so, it is, at least, an anomaly not explainable by prevailing scientific and medical paradigms.
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- Health & Wellness, Nonfiction, Food & Cooking, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 613.2 — Applied science & technology Medicine & health Personal health and Fitness Dietetics
- LCC
- RA784 .W425 — Medicine Public aspects of medicine Public aspects of medicine Public health. Hygiene. Preventive medicine Personal health and hygiene
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