Introduction to Nutritional Healing
The concept of Nutritional Healing or the Healing Power of Food refers to the idea that the foods we consume can have a significant impact on our physical, mental, and emotional well-being. It suggests that certain foods and nutrients possess therapeutic properties that can contribute to the prevention, management, and even treatment of various health conditions.
Advocates of nutritional healing believe that choosing a balanced and nutrient-rich diet can play a crucial role in promoting health, supporting the body’s natural healing processes, and potentially alleviate symptoms or prevent diseases. This concept emphasizes the idea that food is not just a source of calories, but also a source of essential vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and other bioactive compounds that can influence our health outcomes.
This is a fascinating topic to me as I hope it is to you. I encourage you to check out my series on Nutritional Healing,, which is an 8 part series that gives a detailed look at this phenomenon. If you would like to learn more on your own, here are some suggested books as well as other resources:
Book Resources
The Wisdom and Healing Power of Whole Foods: The Ultimate Handbook for Using Whole Foods and Lifestyle Changes to Bolster Your Body’s Ability to Repair and Regulate Itself
The Ultimate Handbook for Using Whole Foods and Lifestyle Changes to Bolster Your Body’s Ability to Repair and Regulate Itself America is at the brink of a health care meltdown. Whole foods and harnessing nature’s wisdom may provide the answers to many of our health challenges. In this landmark book, an internationally respected nutritionist and author tackles the complex subject of how foods can prevent and even reverse common health ailments.
This book offers the best of science without complex terms, and conveys the simple message that whole foods contain an elegant array of known essential nutrients that can bring the body above surviving, through illness, and into thriving through wellness. Dr. Quillin uses case studies to explain how we can develop good judgment in choosing foods wisely. The book includes an alphabetic listing of the health benefits of whole foods, nutritious and delicious recipes, advice on general wellness, weight loss, and diabetes control, and how whole foods can dramatically reduce the risk for cancer.
Medical Medium Life-Changing Foods: Save Yourself and the Ones You Love with the Hidden Healing Powers of Fruits & Vegetables
The highly anticipated new release from the groundbreaking, New York Times best-selling author of Medical Medium!
Experience the next level of medical revelations. Packed with information you won’t find anywhere else about the Unforgiving Four—the threats responsible for the rise of illness—and the miraculous power of food to heal, this book gives you the ability to become your own health expert, so you can protect yourself, friends, family, and loved ones from symptoms, suffering, and disease. Unleash the hidden powers of fruits and vegetables and transform your life in the process.
The Nutritionist’s Kitchen: Transform Your Diet and Discover the Healing Power of Whole Foods
The ultimate guide to healthy meals with the healing benefits of whole foods and the latest science-backed nutritional guidelines.
With more than 60 seasonal recipes that celebrate invigorating and restorative foods, The Nutritionist’s Kitchen offers an approachable guide to support optimal health and wellness through everyday meals. Learn from Carly Knowles, registered dietitian nutritionist, who shares her expertise to support you on your health journey.
Organized by season, this book includes recipes like Yellow Pumpkin Curry with Toasted Cashews, Wheat Berry Salad with Butternut Squash and Maple Vinaigrette, Baby Spinach and Spring Onion Frittata with Goat Cheese, Salt and Pepper Grilled Prawns with Chimichurri Corn, and Blueberry Açaí and Coconut Ice Pops. Each recipe contains a descriptive food-as-medicine themed headnote including valuable health information. Revitalize your meal planning with this accessible cookbook and find trustworthy nutrition information and wholesome recipes based on the latest scientific recommendations.
Prescription for Nutritional Healing, Sixth Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs, & Food Supplements (spiral bound)
The nation’s #1 bestselling guide to natural remedies, totally revised and updated.
This fully revised edition includes both time-honored, proven strategies and the latest science to arm you with the best natural therapies for your health. In this volume—a reference work of unparalleled authority—the updated material includes:
- Natural ways to lessen the severity of Alzheimer’s symptoms
- Cutting-edge information about COVID-19 and other viral infections as well as practical ways to help your body cope with acute and long-term symptoms
- Nutritional information on menopause and breast and prostate cancers
- Science about chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and fibromyalgia (FMS) and how you can gain more control over your symptoms
- Prescription for Nutritional Healing, Sixth Edition, is the source for accessible, evidence-based information that serves as a guide for using natural nutritional remedies to achieve and maintain wellness.
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“You may have seen a super food list in a magazine or online or heard people you know talking about healthy super foods. In many cases, these foods are exotic, fairly difficult to come by and decidedly expensive – not to mention tending to come and go, quickly replaced by a new super food of the week. It’s already easy enough to be confused about just what is and isn’t healthy, much less whether a given superfood cookbook you see on store shelves is something that you can actually use.
That’s why this super foods cookbook was written. It’s a super food cookbook designed for the average person, featuring healthy, wholesome foods which are packed with vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and more – and that you can find at your local supermarket. Some of the most super super foods of all aren’t some exotic South American berry or herb that you’ve never heard of before.
As you’ll learn when you read this practical superfoods book, sweet potatoes, beans, salmon, berries, walnuts and many other readily available foods which you’re already familiar with are, in fact, super foods which can help you to gain better health and help prevent illnesses, as well as making you feel your absolute best. As healthy recipe books go, this is one cookbook which you’ll be able to use right away.
You may be surprised by just how easy it actually is to eat a diet rich in superfoods and by how much you love the recipes in this cookbook!”
Website Resources for Nutritional Healing
- Food as Medicine: The Healing Power of Nutrition
- The Hidden Healing Power of Food
- Food as Medicine Initiative
- Global Wellness Institute – Nutritional Healing
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