Healing With Whole Foods

This book offers a comprehensive guide to the theory and healing power of traditional Chinese medicine, and it serves as a primer on nutrition--including facts about green foods, such as spirulina and blue-green algae. The information on Chinese medicine is useful for helping to diagnose health imbalances, especially nascent illnesses. The book's healthy-eating programs are designed to alleviate symptoms of illness by changing your diet in order to bring you back into balance. For example, if you have low energy and pale skin (a yin deficiency), the book advises you to avoid bitter foods and eat more sweet foods such as soy, black sesame seeds, parsnips, rice, or oats. The author's relaxed tone makes this sound less like a textbook than a friendly chat with an expert.