Kurzbeschreibung:

Earl L. Mindell draws on his encyclopedic knowledge of pharmacology, nutrition, and natural healing to present a comprehensive survey of more than 1,000 simple, safe, and nature-based remedies that can replace the most commonly used prescription drugs in the treatment of depression, heart conditions, cancer, digestive problems, obesity, arthritis, anxiety, colds, and more. In this updated, second edition of the authoritative guide to personal health control, Mindell shows that you can solve your health problems without using drugs and teaches you how to be a knowledgeable and conservative drug user as well as how to monitor your health as you switch from drugs to natural health.
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Each year, 140,000 Americans die from the adverse effects of prescription drug use, and 938,000 Americans are "injured" due to prescription and dispensing errors. Eleven million people are abusing prescription drugs. Drug companies are forming "alliances" with HMOs to control the drugs you take, often at the expense of simpler, cheaper, and healthier lifestyle changes. No wonder alternative-medicine crusader Earl Mindell, author of and , wants you to inform yourself and take control of your treatment. "Physicians ... are trained to diagnose a disease and find a pill to treat it with," he says. Its up to us, the patients, to investigate the potential side effects of our prescription drugs and alternatives to taking them.
Prescription Alternatives is a laypersons crash course in prescription drugs and alternative treatments, such as dietary changes and nutritional supplements. Mindell covers drug interactions, how to read labels and inserts, and how to avoid abuse. He discusses prescription drugs and alternative treatments in detail for heart disease, digestive diseases, respiratory illnesses, pain relief, infections, sleep disorders, depression, diabetes, eye diseases, prostate enlargement, hormone replacement, osteoporosis, and herpes. This is information you wont get from your HMO--and in this case, what you dont know can hurt you. --Joan Price

Product Description
"For those who need to know what doctors and pharmaceutical companies are doing to peoples health . . . this belongs in the library of every home.
-- Lendon H. Smith, M.D., author of Feed Your Body Right
Prescription Alternatives is an easy-to-use, immediate reference for all the information you need about how medications affect your body, what you can do to counteract imbalances, and what alternative treatments work best. _"FDA approved doesnt mean its safe!

Prescription drugs can deplete the body of essential vitamins and minerals
Studies show that H2 blockers for heartburn can cause bone loss
Drugs to treat diabetes can increase risk of heart disease and death

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Covering the major prescription drugs in use today and their dangerous side effects, natural health expert Dr. Earl Mindell lays the foundation for a sound body with safer alternatives to these medicines.
New drugs and natural alternatives for:

Heart disease
Diabetes
Obesity-related ailments
Asthma
ADD