Editor's Choice

Textbook of Nutritional Medicine

(Third Line Press, 1999) by Melvyn R. Werbach, M.D.,
with Jeffrey Moss, D.D.S., C.N.S. , C.C.N.

As nutritional medicine makes inroads into mainstream medical practice, physicians and practitioners are looking for definitive sources of accurate scientific data to back the fledgling fields' many claims. This book is revolutionary in that therapies for 82 disease states—from acne to ulcerative colitis—include a Nutritional Treatment Guide. The guide incorporates a unique rating scale that synthesizes current literature about nutritional influences on illness into five degrees of efficacy: generally accepted, demonstrated by controlled human trials, suspected from uncontrolled human trials, suspected from indirect data, and challenged in a study of similar design. Chock full of referenced studies, this book will undoubtedly move the concept of nutritional medicine further into the realm of respectability.