Healthy Diet and Nutrition: The Complete Guide for Women and Their Families

Susan Richards, M.D., one of the most respected women's alternative medicine experts, has written this complete guide to healthy diet and nutrition to help women create huge health benefits in their lives. This is the most comprehensive and useful guide on diet and nutrition for women. A healthy diet and nutrition plan is an important part of any therapeutic program and successfully restoring your health and wellness.

Healthy Diet and Nutrition: The Complete Guide for Women and Their Families has been divided into five sections:

- Detailed nutritional and health information on foods to eat, foods to avoid and why. It includes many helpful charts, essential information on substitutions, products and shopping lists.

- Nutritional supplements and special nutrients for women's health and wellness, super antioxidant foods for women, the hormonal effects of plant foods and many useful charts on the vitamin and mineral content of foods.

- Therapeutic diets for optimal health including raw food diets, food allergy diets, fermented (cultured) foods, detoxification diets, fasting, acid/alkaline diets, and blenderized meals.

- Special dietary needs of children, families, dining out, and at work.

- Detailed information on food handling, preparation, cooking and food substitutions for recipes. Dr. Lark has included more than 120 new, incredibly delicious and healthy recipes that were created especially for this book.