“Foods That harm, Foods that Heal”— Book readings and reviews

Recently my mom purchased a book called Foods That Harm, Foods That Heal: An A - Z Guide to Safe and Healthy Eating. This book was purchased through our ‘Reader’ Digest’ magazine subscription. Usually when you subscribe to reader’s digest they would be sending you some promotional offers from time to time. We have a lot of Music CDs, Books and other gifts that we got from being a loyal Reader’s digest subsciber for many years. So this time it was this book about ‘an A-Z guide for healthy living’ that caught my mom’s eye. And so we bought it. It doesn’t come cheap in India, we paid about 1000 Rs for the book (about $25)….you could easily buy this book for $10 or less from amazon.com…….

It wasn’t until one day a discussion on heart disease came up, so i picked it up and looked to find something on it for Heart and found useful info on several other ailments as well. I have to call the book a table-top collection; It is more of a reference book than a fast-read book. Lots of of vegetables, fruits and other food and cooking related artistic photos are included in most of the pages. You can look up info on foods and on ailments in a dictionary like format along with information in side bars related to specific topics along with photos ofcourse. I even found a topic on “food cravings’ .

For certain topics on the book, ’side-boxes’ provide useful information , for example if i was looking up in the sectio for Headache, apart from the information provided, a side-box presents youi with what foods to avoid and wnhat to eat, when to consult a doctor and other info.Each topic begins with benefits and drawbacks( for Foods) and for Ailments, the topic begins withwhat to eat and what to avoid…

Overall a very informative book, can be used as a reference book and more than that it is interesting and fun toread with its photos and layout.

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