That was followed by The Big Book of Miracle Cures. And then there's Food Your Miracle Medicine, Healing Foods, Nutritional Healing, The Healing Power of Foods, and The Food Pharmacy. These books are not by whackos, but are often written by respected journalists, scientists, and other experts. These claims for the healing and sometimes miraculous power of foods are flooding in from respected medical authorities. Along with herbal medicines, so-called nutraceuticals are the rage.
Herbal medicines are simply plants used as medicines.
Nutraceuticals are foods used as medicines, for treatment or prevention. We've already devoted four past columns to herbal medicines, so now we turn to the closely related nutraceutical revolution which could transform our entire food supply. Nutraceuticals may dwarf the drug industry itself after the industry fully develops. There is some overlap between herbal medicines and nutraceuticals. But the latter is much broader covering the use of any foods for treatment or prevention of disease, and beginning to encompass much of the marketplace for food.