Handbook of Preventive & Therapeutic Nutrition

by James M. Gerber

This is a pocket guide to nutrition therapy for chiropractors. It provides the information needed to integrate nutrition therapy into health care practice. This reference provides clinical protocols... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0834203189
• ISBN13: 9780834203181
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Aspen
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

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The forward by Jonathan Wright, MD, and the protocols are worth the price of the book. What Wright calls "the currently dominant form of medical care" is said to pervert the science and knowledge of nutrition for "higher markup modalities" referring to drugs, surgery, ionizing radiation, and chemo. Wright regards these as radical means of last resort only if or after nutrient therapeutics (applied human biochemistry) fail. Combining principles of diagnosis with commonsense, the book's author, Dr. James Gerber, MD, divides the book into clinical protocols, clinical nutrition assessment, and clinical aspects of application, including macro and micronutrients. Disease prevention, therapeutic intervention and the "leading edge of nutrition science" are hallmarks of the book. The book is invaluable in its breakdown of disorders by incidence, signs & symptoms, initial Lab workup, aetiology, assessment, and treatment. Where detoxification to remove accumulated metabolic waste is necessary, organ sites are enumerated, with specifics. Appendices for prostaglandin modification and free-radical prevention facilitate and complement dietary therapeutics, as pantothenate acid supplementation in rheumatoid arthritis. I welcome Dr. Gerber's synergistic consideration of 15,000 chemicals added to the US food supply, under Foodborne carcinogens, and note the sharp contrast in publications by Dr. Bruce Ames, and associates, who disregard medical precautions in favor of industry prerogative. Psychosomatic aspects of cancer (p19) provides a complete understanding of disease aetiology. Target populations also help to further render aetiology within a socioeconomic context as bladder cancer (lower class) and endometrial (upper class) delineate the who and why--among other considerations. Factors in melanoma include low Vitamin A, petrochemicals, and EXCESS sunlight. Otherwise, please remember sun is good for you and is contributory to overall good health. In GI complaints, there is a very good breakdown of substances presenting with upper GI symptoms such as sphincter inhibitors, gastric secretagogues, mucosal irritants (p47). Many gynecologic disorders are covered including nutrient therapies for abnormal PAP smears (cervical dysplasia), including Folic Acid, Vitamin A, Beta Carotene, Vitamin C, Vitamin E, and Selenium. PMS indicates the need for B6, Mg, and E therapy. Dr. Gerber correctly notes the relationship between alcohol and breast cancer but errs on notion of so-called "healthy benefits of moderate intake." (If you're looking for an excuse--it's in this book). "Moderate" does not exist. You either pay now or pay later as alcohol is a known carcinogen. That the handbook's 4 Parts each has its own Bibliography, contributes to this excellent reference. The section on sugar substitutes (p207) includes carcinogenicity, neurologic damage, and diarrhea properties. What else needs to be said? Also, most common vitamins are discussed as mic

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Although probably written for clinicians such as Chiropractic and Naturopathic Physicians, it is straightforward enough for most laypersons with an interest in non-pharmeceutical approaches for the prevention AND treatment of a large number of both chronic and acute conditions. I am a Chiropractic Physician with a strong interest in "Natural Medicine", rarely does a day go by when I do not at least glance at some reference in Dr. Gerber's book. Whenever I leave it in my exam room, my patients will invariably be found with their noses buried in it when I walk in to greet them. The public is literally 'dying' for this information (or lack thereof)!Although the wonderful forward by Jonathan V. Wright, MD seems to toll the demise of conventional American medicine, with its high-tech/low-touch approach, Dr. Gerber's own forward better sets a more sober and cautionary tone. The handbook itself is a compact and well-bound and very comfortable to thumb through.:-)