Food is Your Best Medicine

By Henry G. Bieler,

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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.…

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1 author picked Food is Your Best Medicine as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Dr. Bieler discusses the use of food as medicine in lieu of using medicine, enabling one’s body to heal itself through nutritional therapy provided by vegetables and whole foods. His thesis is that improper, or nutrient-deficient, foods cause disease and proper foods heal disease.

It is the first book I read on nutrition shortly after entering the seminary. In his book, he makes the nutritional case for fresh vegetables and fruits as essential to a healthy human diet. 

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