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Author: M.D. Miller Daphne
ISBN : 0062103156
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In Farmacology, practicing family physician and renowned nutrition explorer Daphne Miller brings us beyond the simple concept of "food as medicine" and introduces us to the critical idea that it's the farm where that food is grown that offers us the real medicine.
By venturing out of her clinic and spending time on seven family farms, Miller uncovers all the aspects of farming—from seed choice to soil management—that have a direct and powerful impact on our health. Bridging the traditional divide between agriculture and medicine, Miller shares lessons learned from inspiring farmers and biomedical researchers and artfully weaves their insights and discoveries, along with stories from her patients, into the narrative. The result is a compelling new vision for sustainable healing and a treasure trove of farm-to-body lessons that have immense value in our daily lives.
In Farmacology you will meet:
- a vegetable farmer in Washington State who shows us how the principles he uses to rejuvenate his soil apply just as well to our own bodies. Here we also discover the direct links between healthy soil and healthy humans.
- a beef farmer in Missouri who shows how a holistic cattle-grazing method can grow resilient calves and resilient children.
- an egg farmer in Arkansas who introduces us to the counterintuitive idea that stress can keep us productive and healthy. We discover why the stressors associated with a pasture-based farming system are beneficial to animals and humans while the duress of factory farming can make us ill.
- a vintner in Sonoma, California, who reveals the principles of Integrated Pest Management and helps us understand how this gentler approach to controlling unwanted bugs and weeds might be used to treat invasive cancers in humans.
- a farmer in the Bronx who shows us how a network of gardens offers health benefits that extend far beyond the nutrient value of the fruits and vegetables grown in the raised beds. For example, did you know that urban farming can lower the incidence of alcoholism and crime?
- finally, an aromatic herb farmer in Washington State who teaches us about the secret chemical messages we exchange with plants—messages that can affect our mood and even keep us looking youthful.
In each chapter, Farmacology reveals the surprising ways that the ecology of our body and the ecology of our farms are intimately linked. This is a paradigm-changing adventure that has huge implications for our personal health and the health of the planet.
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- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition (April 15, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0062103156
- ISBN-13: 978-0062103154
- Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches
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This book may not change your life, but if you already realize that how your food is grown has some effect on your health, it will add a whole new dimension to that understanding. This is not just another book telling you that the quality of your diet is important - a fact so self-evident that the author, a practicing physician and professor of family practice medicine in San Francisco, refers to it only in passing. What it does tell us about, according to the jacket blurb, are "the hidden connections between how we care for our bodies and how we grow our food."
This message is also one that is self-evident to those of us who have been long time practitioners of and advocates for organic agriculture. But it is a message that is mostly unknown in the world of mainstream medicine -- as anyone who has had the misfortune to be placed at the mercy of our increasingly expensive and malnourished health care system well knows. What induced me to read this book is that Dr. Miller contacted me a few months ago to request a technical review of her section on soil health - and went on to explain that my 30 year old book, The Soul of Soil, had been the inspiration for her to embark on the journey chronicled in this one.
So you could say that I had some motivation to like it, and like it I did. Not just because of the ego gratification of it all (always a pleasant thing), but because she really gets it. The `it' here is the connection between soil health and human health that goes beyond the similar chemical constituents and ecological relationships found in both. I also liked it because of Dr. Miller's unpretentious, personal approach.