"Food as medicine" is a powerfully healing way to eat and was embraced by nutritionist Jennifer Adler as she recovered from a malnourished and sickly childhood and adolescence. Provides digestible information, tips, and techniques for how to achieve optimal health. Focuses on abundant eating (as opposed to restrictive eating), and explores what she calls "the healthy trinity" of digestion, balance, and whole foods. Guides and encourages readers to shift their diet to achieve this desirable balance, introduces power foods we should all eat, and provides healthy ways to lose weight, along with simple recipes to optimize best health"-- Provided by publisher.