A family doctor's unconventional guide Published 1st May 2006
Concerned by the problems of an ageing population and disturbing health trends in younger generations - the rising incidence of asthma, depression, obesity, and younger diagnoses of many cancers - general practitioner Carole Hungerford, began to question a health industry based on a model of "curing disease". Her response is Good Health, this encyclopaedic health guide based in a sound understanding of biochemistry and nutrition combined with up-to-date knowledge of the latest medical research, that provides an extraordinary amount of easily understood information and a radically different way of maintaining wellbeing.
Rejecting the routine cocktails of medication, with their complicated interactions and side effects, Dr Hungerford shows how to provide a chance for minerals, vitamins, and essential fatty acids to do their health-giving work.
The subjects covered in Good Health include asthma, arthritis, cancer, obesity, and cardiovascular disease, mental health and neurological disorders; hormone-replacement therapy and vaccination; and macronutrients and minerals, vitamins, and essential fatty acids. This monumental work will be used by parents, patients, and doctors for many years to come.
Dr Carole Hungerford became a general practitioner in 1975. She has worked in London and Australia and has helped educate young graduates for the Royal Australasian College of General Practitioners. She is also a fellow of the Australian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine.
