Healing Spices: How to Use 50 Everyday and Exotic Spices to Boost Health and Beat Disease

Breakthrough scientific research is finding that spices - even more than herbs, fruits, and vegetables - are loaded with antioxidants and other unique health-enhancing compounds. Studies of dietary patterns around the world confirm that spice-consuming populations have the lowest incidence of such life-threatening illnesses as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer's. Bharat B. Aggarwal, the world's foremost expert on the therapeutic use of culinary spices, takes an in-depth look at 50 different spices and their curative qualities, and offers spice "prescriptions" - categorized by health condition - to match the right spice to a specific ailment.