Food and Healing: How What You Eat Determines Your Health, Your Well-Being, and the Quality of Your Life Paperback – July 12, 1986

When I first borrowed this book from my acupuncturist/naturopath, I didn't think I'd ever actually get through it. But what I found was that I ended up reading it like a novel -- fascinated to learn about foods the way she presented it.For example -- it really helped me to undertand the effects of sugar in a new way. Sugar in small amounts creates individuation and sugar in large amounts creates alientation. Also, Americans eat about 20 times more sugar than we did 100 years ago, and the average juvenile delinquent does 40 times more. And when the juvenile delinquents had sugar removed from their diet and replaced with fruits and vegges, they violence reduced and they began falling into the range of normal.I used to keep it in my cube at work, and refer to it to offer suggestions to handling ailments. One time a guy at work cancelled an appointment because of a migraine. So when he made it in a few days later, we went through the book to see the cause an found some foods he had eaten a day or so before the migraine. He came to me 9 months later and said he had not had a migraine since.This book provides a great model for understanding how diet can be used to help balance us from a physical, mental and emotional perspective.Thanks Dr. Colbin!

This book provides evidence that helped me design a personal diet plan.

I love this book so much, this was given as a gift. It's amazing. Anne Marie Colbin is genius. If I was younger, I would attend her school in NYC. I'm not a writer so don't expect an astounding review other than it's great and wow. She knows so much about food and how it can be used as medicine. And what ends up being poisonous! Get the book if you are interested in food and health.

This book, I suspect, has been overlooked by the majority of people who populate medical doctor's waiting rooms. In this book the author clearly reports food as medicine which helps the body heal, unlike the drugs the m.d.s prescribe which only address symptoms and often result in still another drug to counteract the first drugs' adverse effects.

I'm still reading it but I like what I've read so far. I'm jumping around in the book looking for specific information. I gave it to my sister and she loves it. Very informative; I would recommend it to a friend.

I went to Anne Marie's school in New York. This the best book a woman can buy to learn about nutrition and their bodies as they age. Anne knew her Stuff. Trust me. This book is just an extension of what we learned in the classroom at school there.

Annemarie Colbin has been my go to author whenever any aspect of my diet comes to light. And this it the first author and book I recommend to anyone willing to look at their diet/eating habits and discover the correlation and are willing to make positive change.

I saw this book among others used as reference by a brazilian chef. Loved it so much I'm thinking about buying other books form the same author. Discuss lots of diets that are followed nowadays without trying to convince you that one is better than others.