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Food Is Your Best Medicine By Henry G. Md Bieler ( Ballantine Books )
Release Date: 1987-07-12
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Product Description
A fascinating interpretation of how the body functions to maintain good health and addresses all kinds of ailments with specific nutritional approaches. A pioneering nutrition classic.
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 A Good Go To Book ( rami_books )
Medical doctor Henry Bieler begins his book with both a warning, and perhaps the most important point in his book. He writes,
"As a practicing physician for over fifty years, I have reached three basic conclusions as to the cause and cure of disease.
The first is that the primary cause of disease is not germs.
The second conclusion is that in almost all cases the use of drugs in treating patients is harmful. Drugs often cause serious side effects, and sometimes even create new diseases. The dubious benefits they afford the patient are at best temporary.
My third conclusion is that disease can be cured through the proper use of correct foods."
Let me repeat that last section because it is so important. Disease can be cured through the proper use of foods.
Dr. Bieler's book is bit light on practical advise if you are looking for specific dietary plans, but heavy on revealing the truth behind both medicine and the cause of several different diseases. His basic dietary recommendation is to fast on vegetable soup consisting of string beans and zucchini. He advises patients to eat a diet filled with vegetables and rare cooked meat.
What's awesome about Dr. Bieler's book is that he's a doctor who wants to help people. He has an in depth understanding of the endocrine system, which is at the heart of the real cause of disease. I gained a wealth of knowledge from Dr. Bieler's book and refer to it again and again when I want to understand what a disease really is.
Ramiel Nagel, author of Cure Tooth Decay: Heal and Prevent Cavities with Nutrition
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 Potentially Dangerous Advice
Be careful with this book. Some of the advice is sound - anyone would do well to eat more veggies and less processed food. But my issue with this book is that it takes a moralistic approach to food. It ascribes diet as the key factor causing many of today's diseases, and it prescribes mostly very radical dietary changes. Although it's not explicitly stated, I feel that Food is the Best Medicine tries to make the case that food - and the pursuit of health - is a moral issue. In some parts, it seems very apocalyptic and even scary. The final case study that Bieler mentions, about a mayor who achieved better health after abstaining from white flour, only to die suddenly after eating one slice of cake on his birthday, is prbably intended just to hammer home the importance of diet in health, but using it to end the book, as Bieler does, it's also saying, "If you want to stay alive, you'll have to radically change your diet according to my principles. The price of failure is death." In that sense I find it very puritanical and demeaning. Anyone reading this review should take my words with a grain of salt, though, because the advice in this book (along with Gandhi's writings) led me to equate food with health and moral well-being in such a strong sense that I developed a serious eating disorder. Certainly, the book didn't cause my eating disorder, which was my way of coping with my emotional problems, but it was an important trigger. So be wary. After studying nutrition at Cornell University, I can now say the science in this book isn't totally sound; in fact, in some parts it is absolutely wrong. I think the main thing I'd want to assure anyone reading this book is that, even though diet is important, it isn't the most important thing in life. Being fulfilled, being content and being a good person - those are more important. Health is about finding balance. So, it's OK to eat a cheeseburger every now and then. In fact, it's better than OK - it's necessary. Guilt should never be associated with food. A great mediator for those who are overwhelmed by the "Food is the Best Medicine" approach is a recent book called Health Food Junkies.
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 Food for Thought
Dr Bieler has a wonderful no nonsense & practical approach to life and health. Better than anything I ever learned in Biology, great explanation as to how our body functions.
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 Too old, too weird
I got this book becasue of some good reviews but I did not enjoy reading it, by the color code book if you want to know about nutrition.
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This book is your best medicine
If you are wondering why you've never heard of this book, it's because the pharmaceutical industry and medical profession are not making any money off of Dr. Bieler's recommendations. The style of the writing may also make people think that this book is oversimplified or not valid, based on unscientific methods or dated terminology. However, nothing could be farther from the truth. Everything is based on empirical evidence that Dr. Bieler quantified and validated. With very straightforward methods, Dr. Bieler leads his patients through recovery, allowing their bodies to heal themselves. This book is by far the most important testimonial to the secret of health that the food/pharma/med industries do not want you to know about. Dr. Bieler was a pioneer before his time, probably scorned by his peers, and yet he had the key to health and longevity that industry wishes they could market. If you are opposed to the corporate control of your access to information, limitations on the availability of decent and affordable health care or are just plain tired of the propaganda and blatant lies that are perpetuated to make windfall profits at the expense of your health, then you need to read this book.
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