Foods For Mind And Body: A Complete Guide to Positive Foods and How to Choose and Use Them - Hardcover

Straten, Michael Van

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0004140281 ISBN 13: 9780004140285

Publisher: Collins, 1997

Synopsis

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

About this title

From the Back Cover:

FOODS FOR MIND AND BODY

Is a complete guide to positive foods, what they can do for you, and how to choose and use them. Use it to help you tailor a daily diet that will deliver high energy, mental flexibility and spiritual balance. For all the stages of your life, here you will find:
· a clear and concise explanation of nutrition
· nourishment for the physical, mental and spiritual state
· a comprehensive, full-colour food index
· specific food-based help for specific ailments
· practical charts showing vitamin and mineral requirements

Food is much more than just fuel. The link between nutrition and health, mood, and appetite are now well established; when we eat well, in nutritional terms, we feel good all over; a poor diet saps the constitution, producing low-grade performance, mental lethargy, vague aches and pains. Eastern cultures have long understood that food can be a positive agent for health and that different mental, physical and spiritual states need different kinds of nutrition. Now it is being recognised in the West that choosing foods that sustain and heal, and learning to avoid foods that harm, can promote well being and optimum functioning in all aspects of our lives.

'Foods for Mind and Body' shows you how to harness the healing power of food successfully and how you can adapt your eating pattern to prevent disease and promote positive health. Divided into three sections, it covers the nutritional needs of people of all ages, offers an index of positive foods, and lists ailments that can be helped by a change in eating habits.

Part One, Food for Life, examines the physical, mental and emotional aspects of daily living from the teens to the third age. It offers dietary and nutritional advice, suggests self-help ideas and encourages suitable exercise for the promotion of health in all three aspects.

Part Two, The Food Index, presents a directory of positive foods in their natural groupings, introduced by an explanatory essay on the nature of nutrition. Energy values for each food are supplied, together with an at-a-glance list of what they can help. Not all positive foods are good for everybody or every condition, and so caution boxes warn of possible side-effects; there are also Fast Food Aid boxes and tips on how to raid the larder for simple yet effective first aid remedies.

Part Three, Ailments that Food Can Help to Heal, is an A-Z of common ailments. Symptoms are listed, specific foods recommended and advice offered on what to eat more of and what to cut down on. A selection of simple recipes shows how appetising a nutritional cure can be and clearly marked Health Warnings indicate when to consult your doctor. A system of cross referencing helps the reader to connect with relevant information in Part One.

Lastly, Part Four, Useful Information, steers the reader through the vitamin maze, demystifies minerals, lists which drugs can have an inhibiting effect on nutritional uptake, and explains the nature and function of food additives; there is also a recommended reading list and an index of useful contacts.

About the Author:

Michael van Straten is a practising naturopath, osteopath and acupuncturist, a career which he combines a range of media activities including regular health slots on radio and television. He writes extensively for magazines such as Ideal Home, Woman, Cosmopolitan. His books include The Complete Natural Health Consultant, Bodytalk and The New Bodytalk and he was consultant to Foods that Harm, Foods that Heal.

About this edition

• Publisher: Collins
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0004140281
• ISBN 13: 9780004140285
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224