Eating well for optimum health : the essential guide to food, diet, and nutrition : Weil, Andrew : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

viii, 307 pages ; 25 cm

Presents a program designed to help people make informed choices about how and what they eat to improve health and well-being, providing basic facts about nutrition, advice on making decisions about dieting, and weekly menus with eighty-five recipes

Simultaneously published in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-282) and index

The Principles of Eating Well -- A Healing Story: From French Fries to Kale -- A Healing Story: The Knife and Fork Are Powerful Tools -- The Basics of Human Nutrition -- The Macronutrients: An Overview -- Carbohydrates Revisited: Staff of Life or Stuff of Sickness? -- Fat Revisited: The Best Part of Food or the Worst? -- Protein Revisited: How Much Is Enough? -- The Micronutrients -- A Healing Story: A Successful Encounter with Integrative Medicine -- A Healing Story: Overcoming Allergies -- The Worst Diet in the World -- A Healing Story: Learning to Make Healthful Food -- The Best Diet in the World -- A Healing Story: A Healthy Civic Leader -- A Healing Story: I Gave Up Fast Food -- A Matter of Weight -- A Healing Story: Conquering an Eating Disorder -- Buying Food and Eating Out (With a Word About Vibrations) -- A Healing Story: Nothing Is Easy -- An Alchemist in the Kitchen -- A Healing Story: Why I Eat Healthy -- The Recipes -- Soups -- Salads -- Appetizers -- Fish -- Vegetables -- Pasta, Rice, Potatoes -- Desserts -- The Optimum Diet -- Dietary Recommendations for Common Health Concerns -- The Possibility of Surviving Without Eating