TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hefferon,Kathleen L.
TI  - Let thy food be thy medicine: plants and modern medicine 
SN  - 9780199873982
AV  - RS164 .H335 2012eb
U1  - 615.3/21 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Materia medica, Vegetable
KW  - Herbs
KW  - Therapeutic use
KW  - Ethnobotany
KW  - Diet therapy
KW  - Phytotherapy
KW  - Diet Therapy
KW  - Plant Extracts
KW  - therapeutic use
KW  - Plants, Medicinal
KW  - Phytothérapie
KW  - Herbes
KW  - Emploi en thérapeutique
KW  - Ethnobotanique
KW  - Diétothérapie
KW  - Plantes médicinales
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - Pharmacology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Plants and human health -- Bioprospecting for medicines from plants -- The lure of herbal medicine -- Farming medicines from plants -- Superfood: functional and biofortified foods -- Food security, climate change, and the future of farming -- The future
N2  - Hefferon addresses the myths and popular beliefs surrounding the application of plants in human health, revealing both their truths and inaccuracies, and provides an overview of the technologies scientists are using to further their research; Are herbal medicines effective? Are organic foods really better for you? Will the cure to cancer eventually come from a newly discovered plant which dwells in the Amazon basin? Will medicines ever become affordable and available to the neediest? How will we produce enough food to keep up with an ever-increasing world population? Written with these issues in mind, Let Thy Food Be Thy Medicine is a response to the current flood of conflicting information regarding the use ofplants for both consumption and medicinal purposes. Kathleen Hefferon addresses the myths and popular beliefs surrounding the application of plants in human health, revealing both their truths and inaccuracies, and provides an overview of the technologies scientists are using to further their research. The book covers herbal medicines, functional and biofortified foods, plants and antibiotics, edible vaccines, and organic versus genetically modified foods, discussing each from a scientific standpoint. It these topics together for the first time, providing a much-needed overview of plants as medicine. Intended for scientists and professionals in related disciplines as well as the interested reader educated in the sciences, this book will confront claims made in the media with science andscientific analysis, providing readers with enough background to allow them to make their own judgments
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