Detailed item info | Synopsis | Working from the common knowledge that diet and exercise can reduce weight and increase endurance, Barnard's book offers a variety of diet strategies for conditions ranging from metabolic disorders to poor circulation and even cancer pains. As certain elements like coffee and alcohol can help some problems and exacerbate others, the book addresses both the helpful and harmful properties of common food products, as well as how they affect respiratory, glandular, and immune systems. There are also several chapters of various healthy menus, specifically utilizing those foods that actively soothe pain. Easily understood through accessible language and clear diagrams, FOODS THAT FIGHT PAIN looks at diet in a whole new way, where some foods can increase pain (meat, eggs, bananas) and others are "pain-safe" (brown rice, spinach, cooked cranberries). Barnard offers alternatives to traditional ideas about how pain operates, which should make this book a true boon to chronic sufferers.
| | Size | | Length: | 347 pages | | Height: | 10.0 in. | | Width: | 6.5 in. | | Thickness: | 1.2 in. | | Weight: | 24.0 oz. |
| | Publisher's Note | Did you know that ginger can prevent migraines and that coffee sometimes cures them? Did you know that rice can calm your digestion, that sugar can make you more sensitive to pain, that evening primrose can ease the symptoms of arthritis?Drawing on new and little-known research from prestigious medical centers around the world, Neal Barnard, M.D., author of Eat Right, Live Longer and Food for Life, shows readers how they can soothe everyday ailments and cure chronic pain by using common foods, traditional supplements, and herbs.Dr. Barnard reveals which foods regularly contribute to pain and how to avoid them. He guides the reader to specific pain-safe foods that are high in nutrition but dont upset the body's natural balance, as well as foods that actively soothe pain by improving blood circulation, relieving inflammation, and balancing hormones. Complete with delicious recipes, Foods That Fight Pain is a revolutionary approach to healing that will transform your life.
This vitally important book offers a wealth of new research from prestigious medical centers around the world that shows how food can counteract pain--ever powerful pain.
| | Industry reviews | A physician and author of several diet and health books, . . . Barnard has written an extensive consumer book. . . . Raymond has incorporated Barnard's pain-control foods into her easy recipes and even tried them on family and friends. Compared with other books on diet therapy, which focus mainly on arthritis pains, this book has a wider coverage, touching on issues such as poor circulation, food sensitivities and inflammatory pain, hormone-related pain, and metabolic and immune problems. A highly informative book for consumers seeking alternative therapy for chronic pains.
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Jacobs
A physician and author of several diet and health books (e.g., Eat Right, Live Longer, LJ 4/15/95), Barnard has written an extensive consumer book on diet therapy for pain. Each chapter discusses a different type of pain, complete with scientific evidence and explanations of the origins of the pain, foods that trigger it, and foods that reduce it. The last chapter offers pain-control recipes contributed by Jennifer Raymond, the author of numerous health-related recipe books (e.g., Fat Free & Easy, Heart & Soul, 1997). Already familiar with cholesterol-lowering recipes, Raymond has incorporated Barnard's pain-control foods into her easy recipes and even tried them on family and friends. Compared with other books on diet therapy, which focus mainly on arthritis pains, this book has a wider coverage, touching on issues such as poor circulation, food sensitivities and inflammatory pain, hormone-related pain, and metabolic and immune problems. A highly informative book for consumers seeking alternative therapy for chronic pains. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 2/1/98.] Lily Liu, Arkansas Children's Hosp. Lib., Little Rock
Chafe
Although the strategies laid out by Barnard have, despite the subtitle's claim, been presented in other health books, they've seldom been explained this succinctly. According to Barnard (Food for Life), certain foods and nutritional supplements can alleviate pain as well as or better than prescription drugs. From backaches to bowel problems, cancer to canker sores, Barnard offers clear explanations of the physical processes involved as well as practical dietary and nutritional advice. No matter what the problem, for starters he recommends a low-fat, high-fiber, strictly vegetarian diet, the same as the one prescribed for heart patients by Dr. Dean Ornish, whom he quotes extensively. Citing scientific studies as well as anecdotal evidence, Barnard tells how powdered ginger, for example, can prevent motion sickness, alleviate migraines and the pain and swelling caused by osteoarthritis. Vitamin B6 can be used to treat carpal tunnel syndrome as well as menstrual pain. Lists of "trigger" foods to avoid for various health conditions are valuable, if sometimes daunting: for example, the trigger foods for arthritis include all dairy products, all meat (including fish), wheat, citrus fruit, potatoes, tomatoes, nuts and coffee. A hefty section of menus and recipes by Jennifer Raymond makes it easier to practice what Barnard preaches a technical sermon whose main message is: eat your veggies. Author tour. (June)
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