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Food and Healing |  | Author: Annemarie Colbin
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 59065
Media: Paperback
Pages: 384
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 1.2
ISBN: 0345303857
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.2
EAN: 9780345303851
ASIN: 0345303857
Publication Date: July 12, 1986
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Ten years ago, Colbin's Food and Healing stood at the forefront of the food revolution, exploring the link between diet and health. In this anniversary edition, she provides updates on recent dietary systems, including low-fat, food combining, and alternative medicine.
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Compendium on Healing and the Wholistic Approach November 19, 2009
Tina Marie (San Mateo, California)
I have given away quite a few copies of this book and refer to it often, both as a fine source to explain and heal (in the most organic, natural way) common ills of the human body in today's world AND to expand the awareness of my friends to include alternative methods or perspective on the subject of health. This woman gets it. She incorporates the Chinese five-phase system, provides the pros and cons of all the various diets people often choose to embrace, and above all else, how to balance your life by listening to and understanding the signals you get from your body's reactions to food, as well as the environment. I was warned when I first received this book years ago that I should not try to read it cover to cover, so I am passing that sage advice on in this review. It is very dense, chock full of very valuable information and yet very easy to read. That said, I would definitely recommend devouring at least the first three chapters from start to finish, and then read what you need. You will know where to go next. In the same manner in which she advocates the employment of one's intuitive powers and truly listening and noticing how the body responds, so too, do I firmly believe you, the reader, will know what to take on for your own health, and what to put down for now. This is a must-have for the library of anybody who is serious about understanding nutrition, at the very least. Happy eating, happy reading, and God Bless Ms. Colbin for writing this book, which I believe is still as important today as when it was first published, and which I absolutely hold up as required reading for anybody who is interested in truly understanding how what we ingest impacts our health, our ability to heal, and indeed our quality and perception of life.
Great Book November 27, 2008
Jim Bo (Upper New York State)
Great bk. on healing and food. This is fifth copy I've purchased for daughters and friends, everyone enjoyed it.
Psyche and Soma January 2, 2008
Draoi (New York USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Food is such an integral dynamic of our lives that we should all at least consider its impact on our bodies. In a modern age of fast food, uninhibited consumption and the cosmetic manipulation of basic commodities we truly need to reflect and refresh our blitzed minds with regard to what is truly good and that which is actually causing us considerable harm.
Ann Marie Colbin does this with methodical and systematic gusto. From the basics of living systems, the inherent energy fields and forces in foods, balance, quality and quantity, and to modern diets, wholeness, food preparation, diets, and food as medicine. Importantly, she concludes that we can employ our natural wisdom of foods to bring a valuable balance between our mind, body and spirit.
Food and healing is a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between good health and the quality of our consumption. This book is one amongst many in a new wave of scientific and natural dietetics that correctly identifies the source of many modern illnesses with the food that we eat. Colbin is objective and knowledgeable in her approach and advice, and I cannot recommend this book enough. Much of the information she offers is of a practical nature, and her seven criteria for food selection is a good example to follow; buy food that is 1)whole, 2)fresh, natural, real, organic, 3)seasonal, harmonic, 4)locally grown, 5)traditional, native, 6)balanced, nutritious, 7)delicious.
Bon appetit!
Loved it. December 23, 2007
Geri (Chicago, IL)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is incredible. I liked it so much I bought a copy for my mom and a friend. So much information, yet still easy to comprehend. Understanding why we crave certain things, learning to listen to your body, and learning how to eat in a way that is enjoyable AND health supportive. Great book, I highly recomend it.
Detective Manual for Food Cures November 13, 2007
Susan Barney (Santa Clara, CA USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
When I first borrowed this book from my acupuncturist/naturopath, I didn't think I'd ever actually get through it. But what I found was that I ended up reading it like a novel -- fascinated to learn about foods the way she presented it.
For example -- it really helped me to undertand the effects of sugar in a new way. Sugar in small amounts creates individuation and sugar in large amounts creates alientation. Also, Americans eat about 20 times more sugar than we did 100 years ago, and the average juvenile delinquent does 40 times more. And when the juvenile delinquents had sugar removed from their diet and replaced with fruits and vegges, they violence reduced and they began falling into the range of normal.
I used to keep it in my cube at work, and refer to it to offer suggestions to handling ailments. One time a guy at work cancelled an appointment because of a migraine. So when he made it in a few days later, we went through the book to see the cause an found some foods he had eaten a day or so before the migraine. He came to me 9 months later and said he had not had a migraine since.
This book provides a great model for understanding how diet can be used to help balance us from a physical, mental and emotional perspective.
Thanks Dr. Colbin!
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