Foods That Fight Pain

Did you know that ginger can prevent migraines and that coffee sometimes cures them? Did you know that rice can calm your digestion, that sugar can make you more sensitive to pain, that evening primrose can ease the symptoms of arthritis? Drawing on new and little-known research from prestigious medical centers around the world, Neal Barnard, M.D., author of Eat Right, Live Longer and Food for Life, shows readers how they can soothe everyday ailments and cure chronic pain by using common foods, traditional supplements, and herbs. Dr. Barnard reveals which foods regularly contribute to pain and how to avoid them. He guides the reader to specific pain-safe foods that are high in nutrition but don't upset the body's natural balance, as well as foods that actively soothe pain by improving blood circulation, relieving inflammation, and balancing hormones. Complete with delicious recipes, Foods That Fight Pain is a revolutionary approach to healing that will transform your life.

Like Jean Carper's national best-seller, Foods Your Miracle Medicine, this vitally important book offers a dramatic new approach -- one that works naturally, effectively, and with the best possible side effects A wealth of new research from prestigious medical centers around the world shows that food can counteract pain -- even powerful pain. Since no company stands to make lots of money from this news, it has been slow to reach the pubic, and even doctors. As Neal Barnard reveals, these foods not only address painful symptoms, but they can fight underlying sources of pain by reducing damage from injury and inflammation, providing analgesia to nerves, and by working within the brain to reduce pain sensitivity. Foods That Fight Pain speaks to the needs of the millions of Americans who suffer from cancer, carpal tunnel syndrome, and even aches and pains from fatigue. Neal Barnard provides three major strategies -- choosing pain-safe foods, adding foods that soothe pain, and using food supplements -- which he then tailors to meet the reader's specific needs. The result is a book that draws on nature's own miracle drugs, whose side effects are effortless weight loss and renewed vitality, to restore the pleasures of pain-free living.

For years Jacqueline Lagacé suffered from debilitating chronic arthritis pain in her hands, spine, and knees. Conventional medicine failed to provide any relief, and Lagacé, a medical researcher, began searching for alternatives. That search brought her to the work of Dr. Jean Seignalet, an expert in nutrition therapy, who used targeted nutrition to treat patients suffering from chronic inflammatory diseases. His approach was called the hypotoxic diet, and he achieved an 80 percent success rate with it. By following his dietary regime, Lagacé experienced alleviation of the pain in her hands within ten days and regained the use of her hands in 16 months. Her severe back and knee pain were also greatly reduced. In The End of Pain, Lagacé explores how our bodies are at war with our modern Western diet. She thoroughly investigates the science behind treating inflammatory disease with nutritional therapy and explains why consuming wheat, dairy products, and animal proteins cooked at high temperatures disrupts the balance of intestinal flora and spurs the growth of pathogenic rather than beneficial bacteria, citing recent scientific studies showing how and why these foods are potentially pro-inflammatory. The End of Pain is where relief begins.

If you are one of the 6 million people suffering from fibromyalgia, what you put on your plate can make or break your health. Featuring the most up-to-date nutritional research currently available, Foods that Fight Fibromyalgia provides you with nutritional guidelines and 100 recipes that will put you on the road to recovery. This updated edition of Food That Helps Win the Battle Against Fibromyalgia includes new information on the link between food allergies and fibromyalgia, how to use nutrition to balance neurotransmitters for less pain and depression, and food combining for optimal nutrition. In addition, Foods that Fight Fibromyalgia includes new and updated recipes that have been precisely developed to include the specific nutrients needed to bolster immunity and fight fatigue, depression, pain, and “brain fog.”

INSIDE THE COVERS - Dr. Ouellette's Poison-Food List - Five stories that explain how this diet works - Fifty nine lists to help you with good health - TWENTY WAYS to check for food reactions - TEN THINGS you can do to help yourself with a food problem - Factors that increase your need for vitamins and minerals - Fifteen TOP phyto foods - The top five WORST foods - Animal, plant, and herbal sources of Omega 3 oils - Quick tips to reduce aging - Some menus to help you get started - Better body function - Better brain function - How to slow up weight loss on Dr. Ouellette's Anti-Inflammatory Pain Relief Diet For People in desperate pain. Anybody can give this diet three days. Try it and see how you feel

Olive oil protects your heart. Mushrooms fight free radicals. Ginger can combat rheumatoid arthritis Why live with chronic pain when the remedy can be as simple as changing the foods you eat? Diets high in processed, fatty, and sugary foods are the main cause of chronic inflammation, which wreaks havoc on your body and contributes to heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer's--and even cancer. But with this easy-to-use guide, you will learn how to modify your diet to reduce your risk of developing these serious, life-threatening conditions. Inside, nutrition expert Karlyn Grimes shows you how to: Identify inflammatory foods Add inflammation-fighting foods to any diet Create an anti-inflammation plan you can live with Get the whole family on board This book includes flexible meal plans, 150 delicious recipes, and time-saving shopping and preparation tips. It's all you need to create balanced meals using fresh, unprocessed foods that nurture your body and soul.

The brain is the most complex organ in our body. Indeed, it is perhaps the most complex structure we have ever encountered in nature. Both structurally and functionally, there are many peculiarities that differentiate the brain from all other organs. The brain is our connection to the world around us and by governing nervous system and higher function, any disturbance induces severe neurological and psychiatric disorders that can have a devastating effect on quality of life. Our understanding of the physiology and biochemistry of the brain has improved dramatically in the last two decades. In particular, the critical role of cations, including magnesium, has become evident, even if incompletely understood at a mechanistic level. The exact role and regulation of magnesium, in particular, remains elusive, largely because intracellular levels are so difficult to routinely quantify. Nonetheless, the importance of magnesium to normal central nervous system activity is self-evident given the complicated homeostatic mechanisms that maintain the concentration of this cation within strict limits essential for normal physiology and metabolism. There is also considerable accumulating evidence to suggest alterations to some brain functions in both normal and pathological conditions may be linked to alterations in local magnesium concentration. This book, containing chapters written by some of the foremost experts in the field of magnesium research, brings together the latest in experimental and clinical magnesium research as it relates to the central nervous system. It offers a complete and updated view of magnesiums involvement in central nervous system function and in so doing, brings together two main pillars of contemporary neuroscience research, namely providing an explanation for the molecular mechanisms involved in brain function, and emphasizing the connections between the molecular changes and behavior. It is the untiring efforts of those magnesium researchers who have dedicated their lives to unraveling the mysteries of magnesiums role in biological systems that has inspired the collation of this volume of work.