Mystical Diets

By: Jack Raso

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Hardcover | 1 June 1993 | Edition Number 1

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The staggering growth in the numbers of people who believe in New Age spiritualities and paranormal phenomena - combined with the American appetite for diets, food fads and exotic cure-alls - draws millions each year to answer the siren song of unorthodox nutrition practices. Usually based on supernatural underpinnings or the pronouncements of charismatic gurus, these diet regimes often fly in the face of well-grounded, scientific dietetics.

In writing Mystical Diets, author Jack Raso, trained in scientific reasoning and a registered dietician, offers an accessible yet authoritative tool to assist laypersons and health professionals in making sound decisions regarding the appropriateness (or inappropriateness) of a number of fringe nutritional programs. With Mr. Raso's help, these decisions can now be based not only on scientific standards of scientific validity, but on the likelihood of subjective benefits as well.

Mystical Diets details the history, philosophy, and manifestations of macrobiotics, Natural Hygiene, the Edgar Cayce tradition, Ayurvedic medicine, Anthroposophical medicine, the Gerson therapy, the Matol movement and much more. Through the generous use of quotations, proponents of the various alternative-nutrition systems, past and present, are allowed to speak for themselves. And the author's thorough discussion of the most up-to-date research into health and diet helps readers make up their own minds about foods, herbs, vitamins, minerals, and the claims made by proponents of alternative dietetics.

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Non-Fiction Family & Health Fitness & Diet Diets & Dieting, Nutrition Psychology Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Interdisciplinary Studies General Studies Medicine Medicine in General Public Health & Preventive Medicine Personal & Public Health / Health Education

Dietetics & Nutrition Mind, Body, Spirit Complementary Therapies, Healing & Health Traditional Medicine & Herbal Remedies Chinese Medicine & Acupuncture

Acknowledgments
From Believer to Skeptic: My Personal Odyssey	p. 1
The "Holistic" Bandwagon: Defective Parts and a Supernatural Chassis	p. 9
Macrobiotics: "Livin' Large" ... or Largely Living?	p. 23
Hazardous "Hygiene"	p. 45
"Esoteric Stuff": The Edgar Cayce Tradition	p. 63
The Ayurvedic Medicine Men	p. 79
What Price FAIM?: Vitalism Revisited	p. 97
The "Weird Science" of Anthroposophy	p. 115
Gerson Therapy: Method or Madness?	p. 129
The Matol Movement: "The Mission Is Nutrition"	p. 143
The Shady Business of Nature's Sunshine	p. 159
Nutripathy: Theologic Nutrition or Yellow Snow Job?	p. 181
Mail-Order Nutrition: Journey into Mystery	p. 193
Chiropractic Nutrition: The "Supplement Underground"	p. 213
"Nontraditional" Health Education: Reading, Writing, and Religion	p. 225
Glossary	p. 251
Recommended Reading	p. 275
Index	p. 279
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