What is the value of nutritional counseling vs. just buying supplements at a health food store?
In the book, Why Your Doctor Offers Nutritional Supplements, Stephanie Selene Anderson writes a beautiful answer to this question. This is an answer that took me much time, money and health to find and so I make this book available to all of our clients in our lending library. There probably hasn’t been a civilization in recorded history that did not have dietary beliefs about food and health. But, to our knowledge, the health food store is a phenomenon unique to this current civilization and to our time. Apothecaries, herbal, medicinal and healing shops have occupied their place in business over the centuries, but a shop dedicated to selling “whole” foods or “organic”, “natural”, fresh”, or “alternative” foods is evidence that we are split between an awareness of what healthy food is and is not. Unfortunately, the original vision of health food stores supplying honestly whole, fresh, organic and unadulterated foods came and went with the sixties. What we have instead are new ways of m
