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THE FOOD PHARMACY : Dramatic New Evidence That Food is Your Best Medicine
by Carper, Jean
- Used
- Near Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0553052802
- ISBN 13
- 9780553052800
- Seller
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Berkeley, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Bantam, 1988. First Edition, 8th Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated boards/NF; w/trace dent to upper back edge of back cover. DJ/None. Man has long attributed magical qualities to foods. With modern science (consulting some 5000 scientific papers & abstracts) "in hand", health and nuttrition writer, journalist Jean Carper explores the world of folklore relating to food & disease. How about yogurt as fast cure for diarrhea? Garlic compounds match aspirin in preventing blood clots!. Few tablespoons of sugar before bed and no sleeping pills? And, joy, red wine knocks off bacteria about as well as penicillin!. 367 pgs in 4 parts: I, The New Food Frontier; II, How Foods Fight Disease; III, The Food: A Modern Pharmacopoeia; and IV, Disease & Food.
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- Bookseller
- 100 POCKETS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017990
- Title
- THE FOOD PHARMACY : Dramatic New Evidence That Food is Your Best Medicine
- Author
- Carper, Jean
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, 8th Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0553052802
- ISBN 13
- 9780553052800
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- Foods/Herbs/Therapeutic Use/Resource
- Bookseller catalogs
- Reference/Resource;
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