Abstract
This book is the definitive “go-to” textbook for any practitioner who is interested in nutritional therapy. At almost 1400 pages and with more than 15 000 references, the book provides a practical and comprehensive overview of how to use diet and nutritional supplements for the prevention and treatment of more than 400 health conditions.
Key Words: Nutrition, therapy, diet, supplements, disease, hypoglycemia, food allergy, hypothyroidism, hypertension, osteoporosis, osteoarthritis
This book is the definitive “go-to” textbook for any practitioner who is interested in nutritional therapy. At almost 1400 pages and with more than 15 000 references, the book provides a practical and comprehensive overview of how to use diet and nutritional supplements for the prevention and treatment of more than 400 health conditions.
Dr Gaby's goal was to offer healthcare practitioners a comprehensive, reliable, and easy-to-use reference book— based on published research and his extensive clinical experience—on how nutritional medicine can help our patients recover from both physical and mental illness and have a healthier life. Mission accomplished!
Nutritional Medicine reviews and analyzes nearly all of the clinically relevant research on the relationship between food, supplements, health, and disease. For instance, in Part 1, Dr Gaby presents useful information on four conditions he considers underdiagnosed and undertreated: reactive hypoglycemia, food allergy, hypothyroidism, and Candida-related complex. Part 1 also provides important information on sucrose, high-fructose corn syrup, food additives, and the cooking and storage of food. This will be valuable information for many practitioners who are new to the field of nutritional therapy.
The highlight of the book for most readers will be the concise, informative, and well-documented nutritional approach to more than 400 diseases. That part of the book is slightly over 1000 pages, and it details and summarizes all the research for or against using food and nutritional supplements for each problem.
For instance, if I have a patient with osteoarthritis, I can read the six pages discussing that topic, glance at the 93 accompanying references, and then suggest to the patient the five recommendations, nicely summarized at the end of the chapter, that have been demonstrated to be helpful in treating osteoarthritis. I can do the same thing with hypertension, osteoporosis, and 400 other conditions. This is the only way that I know of to truly practice evidence-based medicine by using all the research that has been published on nutritional medicine.
This is an invaluable, one-of-a-kind book that will hopefully be used as a reference by every health-care practitioner when dealing with the wide array of problems and diseases challenging our patients and us.
ABOUT THE REVIEWER
Bill Manahan, MD, is assistant professor emeritus in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota Academic Health Center, Minneapolis.