Healing with Whole Foods

In an era when many people are reevaluating their diet, this whole foods encyclopedia takes an integrative approach to personalized nutrition, merging modern models with ancient Asian traditions. Featured here are guidelines on nutrition basics including "green foods"; clear discussions on the Chinese healing arts; tips on making appropriate dietary transitions; sections on weight loss, women's health, food combining, fasting, pregnancy, children, aging, and physical and emotional disorders; and detailed "regeneration diets" designed for cancer, AIDS, and other ailments. This authoritative source on East/West nutrition is completely revised and updated, including new research on the benefits of whole foods for overcoming degenerative diseases; the parasite purge program; and Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs).

Reviews
review1:
I owned the first edition of this book for many years until a student "borrowed" it and never returned it. That's the problem with a valuable reference book such as Healing with Whole Foods. Six years ago I was in search of a greens product. Thinking that all greens products were similar, I perused Paul Pitchford's book with the notion that chlorophyll is chlorophyll. Wrong! Twenty-seven pages later, I learned that too much bitter flavor on a cold and deficient person could produce negative effects. Pitchford delineates general guidelines for determining the best greens products for one's own constitution, be it "excessive," "deficient," "cold," "heat," or "dampness." Pitchford has done the research from which I benefit on a daily basis. I could not be without this virtual Bible. - Mimi G. Clark, vegan cooking instructor (May 27, 2003).

review2:
This is an encyclopedia covering all facets of natural health...Healing with Whole Foods provides lots of information, is very well organized, superbly written and simple to understand - even by a novice. A valuable reference text to have in your library (Making Scents magazine, March 1, 2003).

review3:
An 800-page guide to every aspect of food as medicine, lifestyle, and transitions in diet. This encyclopedia has sold well over 100,000 copies and is available to look up anything from recipes for better health to treating the most serious medical conditions. Pitchford, the director of the clinic at Heartwood Institute in Garberville, California, took seven years to carefully research and write this book. It is a masterpiece of conscious, compassionate, profound advice. This new edition has been updated and examined (September 13, 2002).

review4:
Used as a reference by students of acupuncture, this is a hefty, truly comprehensive guide to the theory and healing power of Chinese medicine. It's also a primer on nutrition--including facts about green foods, such as spirulina and blue-green algae, and the "regeneration diets" used by cancer patients and arthritics--along with an inspiring cookbook with more than 300 mostly vegetarian, nutrient-packed recipes...Overall, this is a wonderful book for anyone who's serious about strengthening his or her body from the inside out (Amazon, January 1, 2002).

review5:
Healing with Whole Foods contains a wealth of information on health, diet, alternative medicine, natural food presentation, and recipes, researched by an expert in the field. Readers will learn how to apply Chinese medicine and the five-element theory to a contemporary diet; treat illness and nervous disorders through diet; and make the transition to whole vegetable foods.

The most detailed source book yet published on preparing food and eating consciously, Healing with Whole Foods includes complete sections on Ayurvedic principles of food-combining; the treatment of disease conditions through meals; transition from animal products to whole vegetable foods; micro-algae; selection of waters and salts; the extremely complex varieties of oils, sugars, and condiments; vitamins and minerals; fasting and purification; food for children, food presentation and proportions; vibrational cooking; the physiology of nourishment; color diagnosis and therapy; consciousness in diet changes; plus descriptions of the nature and uses of various grains, legumes (Midwest Book Review, January 1, 2002).

review6:
This exhaustive book has the feel of a life's work: it is packed with information essential for anyone seriously investigating the relationship between food and healing (Yoga Journal, June 1, 1998).