Salt Sugar Fats and Oils SEVEN: THE EFFECTS OF FOOD PREPARATION Cooking Fermenting EIGHT: CHANGING THE WAY WE EAT How Do You Feel? When to Change Your Diet How to Change Your Diet Tuning in to Your Body Signals How Fast? Which Way? NINE: WHAT TO EXPECT FROM A CHANGE IN DIET Withdrawal Symptoms How Long, Oh, How Long? Can Health Food Make Us Sick? TEN: CRAVINGS AND BINGES: WHAT DO THEY MEAN? Addiction / Allergy Discharge Imbalance of Systems Part Three: HEALING ELEVEN: HEALTH AND ILLNESS: NEW DEFINITIONS What Is Health? What Is Illness? TWELVE: FOOD AS MEDICINE Can Food Be Medicine? The Law of Remedies Home Remedies External Remedies Fasting How to Fast How Will It Feel? Breaking the Fast Basic Rules of Successful Fasting Conditions That Respond to Dietary Management and Home Remedies Headaches Fevers The Common Cold Coughs Sore Throats Earaches Skin Problems Hair and Nails Digestive Problems Eating Disorders Female Disorders Serious Illness In Conclusion THIRTEEN: THE EFFECTS OF FOOD ON MOOD FOURTEEN: THE EFFECTS OF FOOD ON SEX Levels of Experience The Effects of Vegetarianism The Effects of Sugar and Dairy The Effects of a Change in Diet Food for Men and Women: Should It Be Different? FIFTEEN: A HEALTH NUT IN THE HOSPITAL A Proposal for Unifying the Opposites Afterword Dedication Acknowledgments