Food Is Better Medicine Than Drugs: Don't Go to Your Doctor Before Reading This Book

The definitive guide to feeling better, living longer and staying free from disease without drugs Also by Patrick Holford Copyright About the authors Acknowledgements Guide to Abbreviations, Measures and References Introduction Part 1: The Truth about Drugs 1. The Prescription Addiction Why we need to kick the habit 2. The Dark Side of the Blockbusters What else aren’t they telling us? 3. Full Spectrum Dominance How the drug companies keep control 4. On Guard How to tell good medicine from bad Part 2: A Different Way of Looking 5. How to Regain Your Health Getting to the true causes of disease 6. The Road to Health Six key steps to recapture well-being 7. Your 100% Health Check-up Find out how healthy you are and how healthy you could be Part 3: Drugs vs Food as Medicine 8. Arresting Diabetes Diabetes drugs vs balancing your blood sugar 9. Balancing Hormones in the Menopause The HRT scandal vs natural control 10. Beating Depression ‘Let them eat Prozac’ vs natural anti-depressants 11. Preventing Memory Loss and Alzheimer’s Memory drugs vs natural mind boosters 12. Relieving Anxiety and Insomnia The sleeping pill scandal vs natural insomnia busters 13. Reducing Your Pain Anti-inflammatories vs natural painkillers 14. Eradicating Asthma and Eczema ‘Puffers’ and cortisone creams vs new solutions 15. Helping Your Heart Cardiovascular drugs vs alternative heart medicine 16. Solving Attention and Learning Problems Ritalin vs making kids smarter Part 4: Changing the System 17. The Medicines Act: Catch-22 How non-drug medicines that work are banned 18. The Bad Science behind Attacks on Vitamins Why vitamins are a health essential 19. Too Safe Can Mean Sorry Why the ‘precautionary principle’ may be damaging your health 20. The Medicine of Tomorrow Our vision for the future – how it could be 21. Bringing in the New Medicine How to encourage your doctor to practise food medicine Appendix 1: 100% Health – Creating Tomorrow’s Medicine Today Appendix 2: Breathing Exercise Recommended Reading Resources References Index FOOD IS BETTER MEDICINE THAN DRUGS is an important and potentially controversial book from top nutritionist Patrick Holford and leading health journalist Jerome Burne. Brilliantly researched and based on solid scientific trials and illuminating case histories, Food is Better Medicine than Drugs will revolutionise the way you think about your health and put you back in charge. The authors reveal how modern medicine has become distorted and is now, for reasons largely to do with profit and power, heavily dependent on prescription drugs. They look at common health problems (pain/arthritis, heart, depression, diabetes, memory, hormones, digestion, breathing, infections etc) and compare the effectiveness of nutrition-based approaches with today's potentially harmful commonly used medicines.