by Jean Carper · tapa dura · ISBN 9780553052800
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«The Food Pharmacy» is a nutrition and health essay by Jean Carper, published by Bantam in 1988 in hardback (367 pages, in English).
Carper argues that food can act as medicine and presents more than fifty common foods with their therapeutic properties, nutritional benefits, and possible adverse effects. The book also explains research on how certain foods help prevent or relieve ailments, and includes a final guide linking specific diseases to recommended foods.
Subtitled «Dramatic New Evidence That Food Is Your Best Medicine», the work includes a foreword by Mark Bricklin, editor of Prevention, as well as an index and bibliography (pp. 328-349).
For readers who want to understand the relationship between diet and health from an accessible perspective.
Jean Carper is a New York Times best-selling author, an American medical journalist, contributing editor to USA Weekend, and author of 24 books.
