Food Is Your Best Medicine The Pioneering Nutrition Classic [Paperback]

Drugs may not be the only cure for disease . . . 

What do Gloria Swanson and Greta Garbo have in common?

They owe their good health to Dr. Henry Bieler's sane, simple, and utterly profound philosophy that food is your best medicine!

You are what you eat, and Dr. Bieler contends, based on over fifty years of practice, that proper diet plays a key role in warding off and curing disease.

Food Is Your Best Medicine features a fascinating interpretation of how the body functions to maintain good health and addresses all kinds of ailments with specific nutritional approaches.

Zucchini and other vegetables, simple broths, nourishing whole grains—all so much better for you than drugs,and they really work!Henry G. Bieler, MD,studied medicine at the University of Cincinnati, where he came under the lifelong influence of Dr. Martin Fischer, the great physiologist and philosopher. For more than 50 years Dr. Bieler treated great motion-picture stars, coal miners, politicians and professional men, farmers and Pasadena dowagers. He brought thousands of healthy babies into the world, including his own children and grandchildren. He died in October 1975.1
 
The Cure Is Worse than the Disease
 
 
To live by medicine is to live horribly.
—CARL LINNAEUS (1707–1778)
Eighteen times in every second a prescription is filled by a white-coated pharmacist at one of the fifty-six thousand drugstores in the United States. The staggering cost of these pink, violet, yellow, white, and green tablets, capsules, lozenges, and ampules amounts to $3 billion * a year.
—MARGUERITE CLARK, MEDICINE TODAY, 1960
 
 
Twenty-five hundred years ago on the island of Cos in classical Greece a bearded physician-teacher, Hippocrates, sat in the shade of an Oriental plane tree on a lovely hillside and admonished his wide-eyed circle of medical students in onlãM