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Summary: Useful, encourages taking responsibility for one's health
Review: I would love a CD rom version of this book....I am frequently typing out info for friends and relatives with various conditions. If they had a hardcopy of an excerpt maybe they'd be inclined to buy this useful reference.
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Summary: saved me from extreme pain.
Review: i was given an excert from this wonderful book by a co-worker to help me with the extreme pain of gout. all it took was eating cherries! i had been in pain for over a month, taking pills and getting no relief. sleepless nights and many tears. i ate a half pound of cherries and within hours my pain was gone. i now eat them daily and keep the pain away. i have now bought my own copy.
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Summary: I call this book my Nutritional Bible.
Review: Everything I need to know is in this book. I sell nutritional supplements and this is the greatest reference I have. It gives breakdowns of all of the herbs, vitamins minerals, amino acids, and supplements that you need. It is extremely easy to read and understand. I started with the 1st publication and bought 5 of the 2nd edition for Christmas gifts in 98. Every home should have this book.
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Summary: Great Health Begins with You
Review: This book has been my Bible for several years now and I have used its vast information in taking charge of my own health and in helping others understand the basics of health through proper diet and supplementation. I've learned so much that my interests in integrated medicine has encouraged me to return to school. Good health is easier than we realize when basic knowledge is available to everyone. With all the pomp and deception surrounding new pharmaceuticals and healthcare insurance, we've come to rely on a bureaucracy that has too much control of our bodies without enough CARE and teaching. If everyone kept this as their in-home reference replacing other family medical guides, the world would be a healthier family of people.
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Summary: It's the best alternative health care book I have!
Review: I purchased this book approx. 2 years ago. I became very interested in alternative health after my daughter had bouts of sickness that was not helped via medical doctors and specialists but was helped alternatively. I since have been diagnosed with a chronic disease and read the ideas that this book had. I also saw an alternative health care doctor. He put me on various things. When I went to refer back to my book, the items he prescribed were almost the same as what was in my book. I am constantly referring to it for one thing or another and have recommended it highly. My sister, who is a nurse, also went out and bought the book and has found it very informative and helpful. The book is excellent!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Knowledge is Power!
Review: My mom bought this book for herself. I liked it so much that I bought it for our family! I sometimes wonder if I could possibily do all that the book recommends, but it has given a new prospective to diagnosis and helps me to stay involved with my own health. I wish my father and mother in law would take charge of their own health instead of leaving it all up to the doctors. Sometimes, I think it's the doctors that are killing us!!!
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Summary: Extremely helpful in my weight management practice
Review: I have owned this book for over a year, and it has helped both me and my clients with various conditions and disorders. Recommendations for menopause symptoms and fatigue have been especially helpful, as has the general information of various conditions. I recommend it highly to anyone who wants to use natural methods for healing and possibly avoid growing old with a medicine chest full of drugs.
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Summary: Excellent alternative health guide. Comprehensive, packed.
Review: Prescription for Nutritional Healing is an excellent natural healing and general health book. This publication shows clearly the tremendous advances in the health industry in the last twenty, ten and even five years. The Balch's are to be commended, and the ailing public stands to benefit. Very well written and organized.As a complement to Prescription for Nutritional Healing, I highly recommend Dr. Ralph Golan's Optimal Wellness. Optimal Wellness has one advantage: while remaining very much an "alternative health book," Dr. Golan shows a little more of a medical background and leaning than do the Balchs. For instance, he clearly admits that normally the most effective treatment for hypothyroidism is prescription thyroid. Likewise he often recommends prescription cortisone (in low, sub-pharmaceutical doses) to assist those with hypoglycemia and adrenal exhaustion. This is brilliant thinking, and shows a bias not toward one branch of healing or the other, but toward getting the patient much needed relief. This is not to take away from the value of Prescription for Nutritional Healing. It is an excellent book and deserves, unquestionably, 5 stars.
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Summary: I am constanting referring to this book - it's great!
Review: This is a truly wonderful reference tool for nutritional healing. I am constantly referring to it. My daughter suffers from cough asthma and I really wanted to get her off of daily inhalers. Through this book, I found the herb "lobelia" which opens up bronchial tubes. My daughter has not used her inhaler since! The book also helped my mother's cat. He suffers from cystitis and has been helped through the use of horsetail tea. Give this book a try. I'm sure you'll be pleased with what you find in it.
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Summary: Really Not that Great.
Review: I thought this book was a bit overdone. No one person is ever going to need all of the information in this book. It goes into what I feel is minute details about colds, canker sores, heart disease, cancer, etc. I think a much better book, a book that you can actually use on a day to day basis is The Real Vitamin and Mineral Book by Shari Lieberman. This book goes into detail and discussions about all of the specific minerals and vitamins that yor body needs to survive. It also has great information about supplements. It also explains the RDA, RDI and ODI figures in excellent detail as well. After reading this book you will be able to actually map out your own vitamin, mineral and supplement program. A program that will definitely help you in hte long run and will help you maintain optimal health. Now I am biased when it comes to nutrition and supplementation because I sell them via a home based business. But for my money, it is definitely the better book of the two.
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