Healing with Whole Foods brings together authentic traditions of Asian
medicine with current Western research on health and nutrition to create
the most detailed sourcebook available on planning and preparing an
optimal diet. This comprehensive reference work features:

Current guidelines on nutrition basics, such as the protein/vitamin B12
group, fats and oils. sugars and sweeteners, water, salt, seaweeds, "green
foods" (micro-algae and cereal grasses), calcium, oxygen, and other
nutritional concerns.

Clear discussions of the Chinese healing arts applied to physical and
emotional conditions, including the Eight Principles (Six Divisions of
Yin and Yang), Five Elements, and syndromes of the internal organs.

Information on making a gentle transition from a diet based on animal
products to one centered on whole grains and fresh vegetables. Over
300 hearty, purely vegetarian (vegan) recipes, as well as the healing
properties of plant and animal foods.

Sections on weight loss, heart and vascular renewal, female health,
digestive problems. Candida yeast infections, root canals, food com-
bining, fasting, children, pregnancy, and aging. Includes insights from
Ayurvedic medicine of India.

Detailed "Regeneration Diets" and herbal treatments for cancer,
arthritis. mental illness, drug and alcohol abuse, AIDS, and other
degenerative conditions. Also features a "Parasite Purge Program"
tailored to specific body types.

"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 heal-
ing arts, this would be the one. Even more important than the wealth of
botanical information is Pitchford's 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

"Paul Pitchford reminds us that all nutrients are available in unadulterated
whole foods. It couldn't be any simpler; the basis of life is a whole foods
diet."

—Carolyn Dean, M.D., N.D., author of Natural Prescriptions for Common Ailments