Clean out your medicine cabinet and restock the shelves of your kitchen pantry with healing and appealing items from the grocery store. Rely less on pills and more on real food. How much? How often? In Food Cures, you'll find all the answers, the research-validated treatments, and successful cures for dozens of common conditions. Forget about wonder drugs; we're living in a time of wonder foods. The foods described in this book are nutritional powerhouses...

A resource that first helps readers discern whether or not a problem can be treated at home offers information on treating common ailments through natural alternatives and provides basic instruction in emergency care.

Distinguishes medical falsehoods from evidence-backed truth on topics including exercise, supplements, diets, alternative medicine, vaccines, and more. There is a lot of misinformation thrown around these days, especially online. Headlines tell us to do this, not that---all in the name of living longer, better, thinner, younger. In Hype, Dr. Nina Shapiro distinguishes between the falsehoods and the evidence-backed truth. In her work at Harvard and...

"Long before the age of high-tech medicine and health insurance companies, people healed themselves at home using time-tested techniques, many of which are still valuable today. With the help of our board of medical advisors and modern-day scientific research, we've selected the very best herbs, foods, and household healers to help you feel better fast, without expensive drugs and with fewer side effects"--Page [4] of cover.

The comprehensive 5th edition of the Mayo Clinic Family Health Book draws upon the knowledge and expertise of more than 4,500 physicians, scientists and researchers. Prior editions of this trusted medical reference guide have sold more than 1.5 million copies. And with 38 chapters and almost 1,400 pages, this new, updated edition will provide the information people need to check symptoms; understand prevention and treatment options, and so much more....

Includes index.