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

by Dr. Andrew Weil MD (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  2000

  $3.24

  Dr Andrew Weil focuses on how food can influence health and well-being. He makes clear that an optimal diet should not only supply the basic needs of the body for calories and nutrients but should also reduce risks of disease and fortify the body's defences and intrinsic mechanisms of healing. Dr Weil establishes that how we eat is an important determinant of how we feel and how we age, and that food can function as medicine to influence a variety of common aliments.

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $3.24

  In Eating Well For Optimum Health Dr Weil satisfies the public's craving for a reliable, practical guide that covers every aspect of diet and nutrition: food - everything you need to know about fats, protein, carbohydrates, minerals and vitamins, and the effects they have on your health; diet - Dr Weil shows how an optimal diet should help reduce the risk of disease; nutrition - the book contains a feast of recipes, conveying Dr Weil's opinion that food should provide pleasure and be satisfying to the senses. Eating Well. Optimum Health. Dr Weil has the answers to both.

• Used

  Hardcover
  2000

  $3.24

• New

  Paperback
  2008

  $12.24

  From the best-selling author of Eight Weeks to Optimum Health, an original, reassuring and practical book on food, diet and nutrition, including 75 - 100 recipes. In his new book, the immensely popular and hugely trusted Dr Andrew Weil focuses on how food can influence health and well-being. He makes clear that an optimal diet should not only supply the basic needs of the body for calories and nutrients but should also reduce risks of disease and fortify the body's defenses and intrinsic mechanisms of healing. Dr Weil establishes that how we eat is an important determinant of how we feel and how we age and that food can function as medicine to influence a variety of common aliments.