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Author Raso, Jack.

Title Mystical diets : paranormal, spiritual, and occult nutrition practices / Jack Raso ; edited by Stephen Barrett
Published Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1993

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 W'PONDS  613.26 Ras/Mdp  AVAILABLE
Description viii, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Consumer health library
Consumer health library.
Contents 1. From Believer to Skeptic: My Personal Odyssey -- 2. The "Holistic" Bandwagon: Defective Parts and a Supernatural Chassis -- 3. Macrobiotics: "Livin' Large" ... or Largely Living? -- 4. Hazardous "Hygiene" -- 5. "Esoteric Stuff": The Edgar Cayce Tradition -- 6. The Ayurvedic Medicine Men -- 7. What Price FAIM?: Vitalism Revisited -- 8. The "Weird Science" of Anthroposophy -- 9. Gerson Therapy: Method or Madness? -- 10. The Matol Movement: "The Mission Is Nutrition" -- 11. The Shady Business of Nature's Sunshine -- 12. Nutripathy: Theologic Nutrition or Yellow Snow Job? -- 13. Mail-Order Nutrition: Journey into Mystery -- 14. Chiropractic Nutrition: The "Supplement Underground" -- 15. "Nontraditional" Health Education: Reading, Writing, and Religion
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-278) and index
Subject Alternative medicine.
Diet therapy.
New Age movement.
Nutrition.
Author Barrett, Stephen, 1933-
LC no. 92040828
ISBN 0879757612