Prescription Alternatives: :Hundreds of Safe, Natural, Prescription-Free Remedies to Restore and Maintain Your Health
Author(s): Earl Mindell
"For those who need to know what doctors and pharmaceutical companies are doing to people's health ...this belongs in the library of every home." -- Lendon H. Smith, M.D., author of Feed Your Body Right Prescription Alternatives is an easy-to-use, immediate reference for all the information you need about how medications affect your body, what you can do to counteract imbalances, and what alternative treatments work best. "FDA approved" doesn't mean it's safe! Prescription drugs can deplete the body of essential vitamins and minerals Studies show that H2 blockers for heartburn can cause bone loss Drugs to treat diabetes can increase risk of heart disease and death Covering the major prescription drugs in use today and their dangerous side effects, natural health expert Dr. Earl Mindell lays the foundation for a sound body with safer alternatives to these medicines. New drugs and natural alternatives for: Heart disease Diabetes Obesity-related ailments Asthma ADD
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Earl Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D., is an internationally recognized expert on natural health and nutrition. He is the author of more than thirty books, including the international bestseller The Vitamin Bible. Virginia Hopkins, M.A., has written or coauthored more than thirty books on alternative health and nutrition, including the bestselling What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Premenopause and What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause (with John Lee, M.D.).
Part 1: Laying the Foundation for Good Health 1. Changing the Pill-popping Mindset 2. Avoid Prescription Drug Abuse 3. How Your Body Processes Drugs 4. How Drugs Interact with Food, Drink, and Supplements 5. How Drugs Interact with Other Drugs 6. Surgery, Drugs, and Nutrition 7. How to Read Drug Labels and Information Inserts Part 2: Prescription Drugs and their Natural Alternatives 8. The 6 Core Principles for Health 9. Drugs for Heart Disease 10. Drugs for the Digestive Tract 11. Cold, Cough, Asthma and Allergy Drugs 12. Drugs for Pain Relief 13. Antibiotics and Antifungals 14. Drugs for Insomnia, Anxiety, and Depression 15. Diabetes Drugs and Obesity Drugs 16. Drugs for Eye Disease 17. Drugs for the Prostate 18. Synthetic Hormones 19. Drugs for Osteoporosis 20. Drugs for Herpes 21. Drugs for Impotence 22. Drugs for ADHD
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- : McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
- : McGraw-Hill Contemporary
- : 0.739
- : 31 July 2009
- : 232mm X 188mm X 25mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : Earl Mindell
- : Paperback
- : 4th Revised edition
- : 615.5
- : 448
