The choices you make every day about food, nutrition, and health can have a major impact on your life. This latest edition helps you navigate the huge and confusing array of food options to make the most healthful decisions for you and your family. Offers smart eating advice for every stage of life, guidance on food for health concerns including heart disease, diabetes, cancer, metabolic syndrome, food allergies, gluten intolerance and lactose intolerance,...

Complementary and alternative medical (CAM) therapies encompass a broad spectrum of practices and beliefs. The NIH National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) defines CAM as "healthcare practices outside the realm of conventional medicine, which are yet to be validated using scientific methods." Integrative medicine refers to ongoing efforts to combine the best of conventional and evidence-based complementary therapies while...

Make menopause a change for the better! Are you entering menopause? Would you like to be prepared for it when it arrives? Whether the change of life is upon you or years away, now is the best time to find out all you can about this natural life process. The more you know, the better you can take care of yourself. And the healthier you are, the easier your menopause is likely to be. Written by two authorities in complementary medicine and women's...

A proven, all-natural method. This breakthrough program to treat and heal allergies and asthma combines a unique nutritional approach and a complementary medical program integrating both traditional treatments and alternative medicine. Dr. Fred Pescatore provides healing nutritional remedies, methods to avoid the many triggers of allergies and asthma, and individualized supplement plans to clear up symptoms and help heal the underlying conditions....

"The startling story of America's devotion to vitamins-and how it keeps us from good health. Health-conscious Americans seek out vitamins any way they can, whether in a morning glass of orange juice, a piece of vitamin-enriched bread, or a daily multivitamin. We believe that vitamins are always beneficial and that the more we can get, the better-and yet despite this familiarity, few of us could explain what vitamins actually are. Instead, we outsource...