num_pages: 191
description: The first half of this book is a description of Pfeiffer's program for total health based on recognition of the importance of trace elements in the diet. The second half contains recipes formulated by Jane Banks (co-author of The Arthritic's Cookbook). Pfeiffer, director of the Brain Bio Center in Princeton, is known for his biochemical work on schizophrenia; here he rightly points out that nutritional deficiences go unchecked because doctors don't know how to test for them. But then he contends that it's impossible to obtain an ideally balanced diet from food alone because of depletion of nutrients through processing, improper cooking, and soil exhaustion. Thus we should all take supplements which provide the (probable) 16 essential trace elements. The authors explain what little is known of the functions of these nutrients. Pfeiffer's prime purpose is to ""educate the reader so that he can educate his doctor. . . . The reader should encourage his general practitioner to have him tested by such means as blood, hair, and nail studies." Also included are general chapters on good eating habits.
language: English
title: Dr. Pfeiffer's Total Nutrition
titlecomplete: Dr. Pfeiffer's Total Nutrition
publisher: Simon & Schuster