Foods for Mind and Body: A Complete Guide to the Preventative and Healing Properties of Food by Michael van Straten
Food is much more than fuel. The links between nutrition and health, mood and appetite are now well established: when we eat well, we feel good all over; a poor diet saps the constitution, produces low-grade performance, mental lethargy, vague aches and pains. Foods for Mind and Body is a complete guide to positive foods and how to use them. Let it help you tailor a daily diet that will deliver high energy, mental stability and spiritual balance; and learn the specific foods or food combinations that can help with a wide range of ailments. Contents * Food for fuel, thought and soul -- strength, stamina, mobility, efficient nutrition * Food for every stage in your life -- from preconception to old age * Index of foods, each with profile of benefits, recommended daily/weekly intake, what ailments particularly useful for * A -- Z of ailments, foods that can help, foods to avoid * Vitamin and mineral charts; additives index