Nourishing health-preserving medicinal diets

Author: Hao Aizhen
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Publish Date: 1999-03-01
Features: "The Family Health and Diet Therapy Series" is a large-scale popular science book that integrates beauty and health care, nourishing the body, and preventing diseases. This series is divided into six volumes: Children's Health and Diet Therapy, Women's Health and Diet Therapy, Men's Health and Diet Therapy, Nourishing Health and Diet Therapy, Common Disease Health and Diet Therapy, and Difficult and Chronic Disease Health and Diet Therapy. It collects approximately 3,000 dietary therapy recipes, including ancient famous formulas, folk empirical formulas, and experiential formulas. The author combines modern nutrition, traditional Chinese medicine, and modern medicine to scientifically organize and revise the dietary therapy in the book, making the selection and categorization more scientific, rational, and practical. The book is rich in content, comprehensive in categories, and easy to understand. The selected recipes emphasize easily obtainable ingredients and simple preparation methods, making them suitable for ordinary families as well as for reference by nutrition professionals, traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, and healthcare workers. It is worth mentioning that although diet therapy has therapeutic and health benefits and is safe to consume without side effects, it is still just a dietary approach. Therefore, patients with severe or acute conditions should seek medical treatment promptly to avoid delaying their condition. Diet therapy is most suitable for the maintenance and supplementary treatment of general and chronic diseases, helping to enhance the immune system, provide nutrition, strengthen the body, promote recovery, and prevent diseases. When consuming diet therapy, patients can choose recipes based on their individual conditions or under the guidance of a doctor. Most diet therapy recipes use herbs and foods with mild properties and minimal side effects or unpleasant tastes, making them easy to accept and adhere to.