Eating Well for Optimum Health: The Essential Guide to Bringing Health and Pleasure Back to Eating

Customized dietary advice is included for dozens of common ailments, among them asthma, allergies, heart disease, migraines, and thyroid problems. Dr. Weil helps us to read labels on all food products and thereby become much wiser consumers. Throughout he makes clear how an optimal diet can both supply the basic needs of the body and fortify the body's defenses and mechanisms of healing. And he always stresses that good food—and the good feeling it engenders at the table— is not only a delight but also necessary to our well-being, so that eating for health means enjoyable eating.