Food Is Your Best Medicine: The Pioneering Nutrition Classic

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Drugs may not be the only cure for disease . . . What do Gloria Swanson and Greta Garbo have in common They owe their good health to Dr. Henry Bieler's sane, simple, and utterly profound philosophy that food is your best medicine! You are what you eat, and Dr. Bieler contends, based on over fifty years of practice, that proper diet plays a key role in warding off and curing disease. Food Is Your Best Medicinefeatures a fascinating interpretation of how the body functions to maintain good health and addresses all kinds of ailments with specific nutritional approaches. Zucchini and other vegetables, simple broths, nourishing whole grains-all so much better for you than drugs, andthey really work!

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Henry G. Bieler, MD, studied medicine at the University of Cincinnati, where he came under the lifelong influence of Dr. Martin Fischer, the great physiologist and philosopher. For more than 50 years Dr. Bieler treated great motion-picture stars, coal miners, politicians and professional men, farmers and Pasadena dowagers. He brought thousands of healthy babies into the world, including his own children and grandchildren. He died in October 1975.