Eating Well for Optimum Health: The Essential Guide to Food, Diet, and Nutrition (U)

Presents A Program Designed To Help People Make Informed Choices About How And What They Eat To Improve Health And Well-being, Providing Basic Facts About Nutrition, Advice On Making Decisions About Dieting, And Weekly Menus With Eighty-five Recipes. The Principles Of Eating Well -- A Healing Story: From French Fries To Kale -- A Healing Story: The Knife And Fork Are Powerful Tools -- The Basics Of Human Nutrition -- The Macronutrients: An Overview -- Carbohydrates Revisited: Staff Of Life Or Stuff Of Sickness? -- Fat Revisited: The Best Part Of Food Or The Worst? -- Protein Revisited: How Much Is Enough? -- The Micronutrients -- A Healing Story: A Successful Encounter With Integrative Medicine -- A Healing Story: Overcoming Allergies -- The Worst Diet In The World -- A Healing Story: Learning To Make Healthful Food -- The Best Diet In The World -- A Healing Story: A Healthy Civic Leader -- A Healing Story: I Gave Up Fast Food -- A Matter Of Weight -- A Healing Story: Conquering An Eating Disorder -- Buying Food And Eating Out (with A Word About Vibrations) -- A Healing Story: Nothing Is Easy -- An Alchemist In The Kitchen -- A Healing Story: Why I Eat Healthy -- The Recipes -- Soups -- Salads -- Appetizers -- Fish -- Vegetables -- Pasta, Rice, Potatoes -- Desserts -- The Optimum Diet -- Dietary Recommendations For Common Health Concerns -- The Possibility Of Surviving Without Eating. Andrew Weil. Simultaneously Published In Canada By Random House Of Canada Limited, Toronto. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 281-282) And Index.