The Top 100 Healing Foods - Softcover

If you suffer from ailments such as eczema, asthma, migraines, high blood pressure, diabetes, or allergies; if you are plagued by stress and insomnia; if you feel depressed and tired all the time, or if you simply seek to boost your physical and mental health, nature’s wonder foods can provide the answers! With this portable handbook, you’ll discover that bananas and turkey can help you to sleep, flax seeds will help control your blood pressure, and ginger will treat the coughing and fever of a cold or flu. Flip through the color-coded sections to find authoritative information, delicious and easy recipes, lists of nutrients, at-a-glance symbols, and tips for each of the 100 featured foods. Illustrated throughout with full color photography.

"Paula Bartimeus is a health writer and editor, specializing in food and nutrition. She has written widely in this area for many publications including Here's Health, Healthy Eating and Yoga, and has edited Optimum Nutrition magazine. Paula is a trained nutritional therapist, an editorial panelist for the Health Sciences Institute and a member of the Guild of Health Writers."