100% Health, by best selling author Patrick Holford, provides a whole new way of understanding and achieving optimum health. It reveals the real causes of modern diseases and how to avoid them. At the cutting-edge of research, you will learn how simple changes to your diet, lifestyle and environment can significantly improve your health.

Discover how to:

• Fight infections without antibiotics
• Conquer depression without drugs
• Balance hormones without HRT
• Understand the causes of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, infertility, chronic fatigue, arthritis, alzheimer's and mental illness.
• Develop super immunity
• Slow down the ageing process

This book is about a revolution in healthcare - not just an update on advances in the treatment of modern diseases, but a radical rethink on the whole concept of health and disease, its causes and cures. Reading this book will change your way of looking at health. From this new viewpoint, different questions arise. The answers to those questions define the direction of medicine and healthcare in both the present and the future, and create a new way of living that can take you towards your full potential for health and vitality. Given the threats of future disease epidemics, escalating healthcare costs and ever-increasing stress, this book is an essential survival guide for the twenty-first century. It is a handbook for the health-conscious who want to live longer, feel better and stay free from disease.

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Guide to Abbreviations, Measures and References

Part 1 Quantum health

• A New way of looking
• The drug dilemma
• The genetic myth
• Redefining health
• Adapting to the Twenty-first Century

Part 2 The medicine of tomorrow

• Nutraceuticals vs pharmaceuticals
• Probiotics vs antibiotics
• Neuroanalysis vs psychoanalysis

Part 3 Women's health revolution

• Hormones in havoc
• Balancing hormones naturally
• Osteoporosis - a skeleton in the cupboard

Part 4 The power of prevention

• Halting the cancer epidemic
• A new theory on heart disease
• Say no to inflammation
• Developing super-immunity
• Solving sugar sensitivity
• Unravelling the riddle of chronic fatigue syndrome
• The science of prolongevity

Part 5 Environmental medicine

• The art of chemical self-defence
• Allergies - are you immune?
• The great British sperm disaster

Part 6 Food for thought

• Crime - nourishment or punishment?
• Alzheimer's - is there an answer?
• Smart drugs or nutrients?

Part 7 Food for the future

• Superfoods
• Diet for the new millennium
• Supplements to survive and thrive in the Twenty-first Century
• Recipes for the new millennium

• Recommended reading
• References
• Useful addresses
• Directory of supplement manufacturers
• Index

"100% Health is an essential manual for living in the 21st century."

Patrick Holford is one of Britain's leading nutritional authors. In 1984 he founded the Institute for Optimum Nutrition, a non-profit making independent centre for the research and practice of nutrition. He is the author of several books including the bestselling Optimum Nutrition Bible and the Optimum Nutrition Handbooks.

"Quite simply, 100% Health is essential reading for anyone living in today's world?" - Dr John Briffa, Daily Mail

'Patrick Holford is one of the leading lights in nutritional medicine today He has brought together new research and facts from the world's most respected nutritional scientists. It makes riveting reading — after the first page I was hooked. This book is a must for anyone who wants to become and remain healthy in these challenging times.' - Hazel Courteney, Sunday Times

'There have been dramatic changes over the past decade in our views about healthcare and Patrick Holford has been right at the forefront of many of these changes, particularly with our revised appreciation of nutrition.'

'The road to bad medicine and bad health is built on the foundation of dogma. It is refreshing to have this dogma subjected to fresh examination. I commend this book to you on the basis that it is well researched and written with substantial backing of references from reliable scientific and medical journals. It is certainly a book well worth reading.' - Dr John Marks, Life Fellow and former Director of Medical Studies, University of Cambridge

'100% Health is an excellent book. It is essential reading for the health-conscious and deserves a long success.' - Emanuel Cheraskin, Professor of Medicine and Dentistry, School of Medicine, University of Alabama

'This is an important book which deserves to influence orthodox medical thinking, and is both informative and up-to-date on health and nutrition issues for the lay reader.' - Derek Bryce-Smith, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, University of Reading

'Fascinating and inspiring. This is do-it-yourself health at its best.' - Sheena Miller, Editor of Here's Health