Prescription for Nutritional Healing: A Practical A-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs, and Food Supplements (Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 3rd Ed)

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Summary: This is the book for the wholistic health care provider
Review: I use the nutritional information in this book on all of my patients. I am a chiropractor located in Long Island and I recommend it to doctors and patients so they can better understand conditions and how to naturally treat them as well.

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Summary: An eye-opener of a "Self-Help" book that puts you track!
Review: This is a terrific place to begin when you finally decide to intelligently and sensibly take responsibility for the general quality of your health. It provides the basics for learning about natural, if not organic, approaches that fall out of any mainstream category you'd hear about from your doctor. It provides insights that let you intelligently explore how feeding your body dictates your general ability to sustain good health. It has clear, concise info about nutrients, disorders, remedies and manufacturers. It falls short on the completeness of supplement descriptions and, judging by the revisions made since the first edition, can easily become obsolete in various areas. This is still a must for my home library.

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Summary: This book helps with asthma, allergies, and chronic fatigue!
Review: This book helped solve a chemical sensitivity my wife had to a paint primer. They suggest an air purifier that gets rid of all indoor air pollution. We got one, and are feeling 1000% better in our house. Buy the book, and then buy the air purifier.

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Summary: Over-The-Counter Healing!
Review: On a scale of 1-10, this is a 55! Belongs in every home library, right there next to the Merck Manual. Common diseases/symptoms are clearly explained and linked to possible nutritional deficiencies. For beer lovers like me, this book is a God-send. Its recommendations cured the numbness in my hands, decreased the age-spots on my skin and strengthened my hair and nails. Although I'm fortunate to have a doctor in my house, I've noticed that nutritional healing is lost on them (credits in Nutrition were not required in medical school). Use this book to learn about nutrients, examine your own diet, and be your own doctor with dietary changes and supplements. Your body will thank you.

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Summary: Absolutely must to have if you care about yourself!
Review: Thank you, authors! This book makes many things clear, specially when the doctors tend to care just about charging you and do not listen to you enough. Sometimes the information in the book is even excessive. This book would never get a layer of dust on your bookshelf!

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Summary: If I could have only one medical refence book, this would be
Review: Absolutely the greatest book! It has all of the information which your doctor does not give you. (The doctors are not lobbied by vitamin and herbal sellers as they are by the drug companies.) Lists cautions to watch for, combinations of herbs/vitamins that may be helpful or hurtful, recommended therapies such as exercise, etc.. I give it absolutely the highest recommendation, and I have alot of vitamin, mineral, herbal, naturopathic and medical refence books!

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Summary: The Best Book I've ever Purchased
Review: This Book is James F. Balch's Second Edition,His First was Published in 1933. I would not be here, if I did not Buy this Book,it has saved My Life,It helped me, a diabetic to Drop 170 Lbs, and for me to use Natural sources, to have No Need to inject Insulin to Live!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Summary: CERTAINLY PROLONGED MY LIFE!!
Review: I WAS DIAGNOISED IN 1993 WITH HEPATITIS C AND WAS TOLD THER WAS NO CURE FOR THIS. i TOOK INTERFERON INJECTIONS TWICE WITH THE LAST TIME BEING 3 INJECTIONS A WEEK FOR A YEAR. SO I HAD NOTHING TO LOSE WHEN I TRIED THESE HERBS FOR HEPATITIS. I STARTED THE HERBS IN MARCH OF 1997 AND WHEN I HAD MY USUAL MONTHLY BLOOD WORK DONE IN JUNE THERE WAS NO SIGN OF HEPATITIS FOUND. IN A FEW HOURS IT WILL BE NOVEMBER 5TH, 1997 (MY BIRTHDAY) AND THANK GOD I HAD ANOTHER BLOOD TEST DONE A FEW WEEKS AGO AND THERE IS STILL NO HEPATITIS TO BE FOUND!!! THIS BOOK MAY NOT HAVE SAVED MY LIFE BUT IT CERTAINLY HAS PROLONGED IT. ANYONE WITH ANYTHING WRONG WITH THEM SHOULD JUST LOOK UP THEIR PROBLEM IN THIS BOOK AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THEY FOLLOW WHAT IT SAYS. WHAT HAVE YOU GOT TO LOSE? DARLENE HOLT [e-mail]

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Summary: My most dog-eared, well-used "medical" reference book!
Review: If you can only have one book to guide you about living a healthy lifestyle and treating conditions using herbs, vitamins and natural supplements, THIS is the book to have. It is well-organized, thorough, and easy to read and understand. The book first covers the basics about the vitamins, herbs, minerals, other supplements and healthy eating. A large portion of the text is devoted to detailed information about common conditions and illnesses. The book concludes by going over different therapies; how they are done, what they correct, and the authors are careful to caution the reader where appropriate. I use this book very often, and with good results

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Summary: Good Guide to Nutrition and IBD
Review: Recently revised and written by a husband-and-wife team, a medical doctor and a certified nutritionist, this book is useful guide to dealing with more than 250 health disorders, including Crohn's and UC, through dietary, herbal, and supplemental therapies. I was given this book as a gift in its first edition. I have found a lot of practical advice here and I think the author's recommendations are given with necessary caution