Prescription for Dietary Wellness by Phyllis A. Balch

Prescription for Dietary Wellness Reviews

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  Christine Kenney

  I plan to revisit this periodically to offset the inundation of marketing we get about the healthiness of heavily processed [high margin] products. The appendix of suggested foods to address specific complaints seems pretty useful. I probably won't get around to the more elaborate stuff in the detox and food combination chapters because it seems there is so much low hanging fruit [pun intended] just by incorporating more plants into our western diet. It seemed like there should be more discussion about home gardening considering how quickly Balch feels the nutrient content of harvested plants degrades and the uncertainty about what chemicals were used during cultivation and shipping, but I understand that this topic has a lot of regional variation and she was probably trying to write for a more global audience.
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  Dannie Lane

  While it "looks" like it would have good information in it, the book or more so the author is extremely one sided on there view of nutrition! The way she puts thing it is vegetarian or nothing, and everyone, no mater what needs to be one. As a ex vegetarian for 4+ years and as someone that had seen there health decline over that 4 years as a vegetarian I know it is not the healthy lifestyle for everyone. So if you find this book in a used bookstore for cheap I would get it. Just keep in mind that it is not the end all of nutrition books. Also some of the info, even in the new second edition is about 5 years out if date and some has been disproven.
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  Jenava

  I love this! It is great to have on hand, I use it a lot when I am sick...
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  Craig

  A very good guide to the proper use of nutritous foods in achieving optimal health.