In an era when many people are reevaluating their diet, this whole foods encyclopedia takes an integrative approach to personalized nutrition, merging modern models with ancient Asian traditions. Featured here are guidelines on nutrition basics including "green foods"; clear discussions on the Chinese healing arts; tips on making appropriate dietary transitions; sections on weight loss, women's health, food combining, fasting, pregnancy, children, aging, and physical and emotional disorders; and detailed "regeneration diets" designed for cancer, AIDS, and other ailments. This authoritative source on East/West nutrition is completely revised and updated, including new research on the benefits of whole foods for overcoming degenerative diseases; the parasite purge program; and Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). |
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I owned the first edition of this book for many years until a student "borrowed" it and never returned it. That's the problem with a valuable reference book such as Healing with Whole Foods. Six years ago I was in search of a greens product. Thinking that all greens products were similar, I perused Paul Pitchford's book with the notion that chlorophyll is chlorophyll. Wrong! Twenty-seven pages later, I learned that too much bitter flavor on a cold and deficient person could produce negative effects. Pitchford delineates general guidelines for determining the best greens products for one's own constitution, be it "excessive," "deficient," "cold," "heat," or "dampness." Pitchford has done the research from which I benefit on a daily basis. I could not be without this virtual Bible. - Mimi G. Clark, vegan cooking instructor (May 27, 2003).
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This is an encyclopedia covering all facets of natural health...Healing with Whole Foods provides lots of information, is very well organized, superbly written and simple to understand - even by a novice. A valuable reference text to have in your library (Making Scents magazine, March 1, 2003).
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An 800-page guide to every aspect of food as medicine, lifestyle, and transitions in diet. This encyclopedia has sold well over 100,000 copies and is available to look up anything from recipes for better health to treating the most serious medical conditions. Pitchford, the director of the clinic at Heartwood Institute in Garberville, California, took seven years to carefully research and write this book. It is a masterpiece of conscious, compassionate, profound advice. This new edition has been updated and examined (September 13, 2002).
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Used as a reference by students of acupuncture, this is a hefty, truly comprehensive guide to the theory and healing power of Chinese medicine. It's also a primer on nutrition--including facts about green foods, such as spirulina and blue-green algae, and the "regeneration diets" used by cancer patients and arthritics--along with an inspiring cookbook with more than 300 mostly vegetarian, nutrient-packed recipes...Overall, this is a wonderful book for anyone who's serious about strengthening his or her body from the inside out (Amazon, January 1, 2002).
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Healing with Whole Foods contains a wealth of information on health, diet, alternative medicine, natural food presentation, and recipes, researched by an expert in the field. Readers will learn how to apply Chinese medicine and the five-element theory to a contemporary diet; treat illness and nervous disorders through diet; and make the transition to whole vegetable foods.
The most detailed source book yet published on preparing food and eating consciously, Healing with Whole Foods includes complete sections on Ayurvedic principles of food-combining; the treatment of disease conditions through meals; transition from animal products to whole vegetable foods; micro-algae; selection of waters and salts; the extremely complex varieties of oils, sugars, and condiments; vitamins and minerals; fasting and purification; food for children, food presentation and proportions; vibrational cooking; the physiology of nourishment; color diagnosis and therapy; consciousness in diet changes; plus descriptions of the nature and uses of various grains, legumes (Midwest Book Review, January 1, 2002).
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This exhaustive book has the feel of a life's work: it is packed with information essential for anyone seriously investigating the relationship between food and healing (Yoga Journal, June 1, 1998).
Introduced to the martial arts and Far Eastern philosophy at the age of ten, Paul Pitchford later studied and apprenticed with masters of Zen Shiatsu acupressure and acupuncture, T'ai Chi and Zen meditation, and nutrition and herbology. For more than three decades, Paul has applied the unifying wisdom of Far Eastern thought to the major dietary therapies available in the West to create a new vision of health and nutrition. When possible, he takes an integrative approach that touches many facets of the human personality, and enjoys teaching diverse programs composed of any of his long-term practices: meditation, food and herbal therapy, Zen shiatsu healing touch, and tai chi movement.
Paul finds spiritual awareness and the resulting guidance to be the essence of life in all its aspects, including diet. For the last thirty years, Paul has followed a vegan diet devoid of animal products by preference, and in order to learn more about the nutritive value of plant foods. As a result of this and his extensive healing practice, he has gained insights into the therapeutic nature of virtually every type of diet. His approach is well-respected and received: "important ... is Pitchford's alignment with spiritual purpose to inspire peaceful, balanced diet and life patterns as a viable antidote to stress and dissipation." Edward Bauman, Ph.D., Director, Partners in Health, Cotati, California.
Paul has lectured extensively on his unique dietary teachings and on healing and awareness throughout the United States and Canada over the last 25 years, appearing at colleges, schools of acupuncture, and on radio and television. He is the director and an instructor at the Heartwood Institute's Asian Healing Arts and Whole Foods Nutrition Program. Paul lives in the Northern California coastal mountains, where the Heartwood Institute is located.
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