Onions as a heart drug? Garlic to fight blood clots? Chili peppers to fight colds? Broccoli to prevent cancer? These are just a few of the revelations from new research about food. Health and nutrition authority Jean Carper explores these findings about food, possibly the most important in decades. Few people realize that common foods - their everyday diets - contain many of the same properties as laboratory produced pharmaceutical drugs, that our natural and extensive "food pharmacy" possesses the power to combat illness and prolong life. Once considered folklore, the discoveries being pioneered by today's leading scientists and physicians are creating an advanced understanding of diet's impact on disease, proving that food is our largest, most complex pharmacy.
- ISBN10 0553345249
- ISBN13 9780553345247
- Publish Date 1 January 1989 (first published 1 June 1988)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 20 May 2017
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
- Imprint Bantam USA
- Edition Bantam Trade PB ed.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 367
- Language English