Why Our Health Matters shows what has gone wrong with the American way of health to create the crisis in which our country is embroiled. Dr. Weil goes to the root of the problem, showing how medical schools fail to give future doctors the best education to care for patients, how insurance companies have destroyed our opportunity to get excellent care, and how pharmaceutical companies have come to rule our lives. He offers a realistic vision of how we can achieve optimum health through a heightened sense of personal responsibility and a new model of medicine. (September 8, 2009)

Weil offers a convincing portrait of aging as a natural part of life that can be active, productive and satisfying. He explores common Western beliefs and attitudes about aging and urges readers to develop healthier perspectives. He assesses the growing field of anti-aging medicine, taking the position that aqing is not reversible, and offers many ways for readers to prevent conditions and illnesses that limit mortality and ensure well-being into the later years.

(Source: Publishers Weekly)

Eight Weeks to Optimum Health features a practical, step-by-step program that sets up a foundation for healthy living that is preventative in the broadest sense. Not only does Dr. Weil provide information with which you can keep your body's inherent healing system in peak working order as you encounter the challenges of day-to day- life; he also shows you how to construct a lifestyle that will protect you from premature illness and disability, and teaches practices and skills that will enable you to prepare for any eventual health crisis you may face. Dr. Weil guides you in fine-tuning your current eating habits so that your diet becomes more nutritious and increasingly beneficial to general health.

(Source: Publisher)

In this revolutionary book, Dr. Weil, one of the most authoritative, articulate and important voices in the field of health and healing, makes clear the reality of spontaneous healing. He illuminates the mechanisms and processes of the body's healing system, delineates the ways in which an individual can optimize the functioning of his or her own system, and outlines the alternative medicines and treatments available to aid the healing system, not only in the remission of life-threatening diseases but also in reponse to everyday illnesses and in day-to-day upkeep of basic health.  

(Source: inside flap, Knopf, 1995)

In Eating Well For Optimum Health, Dr. Weil makes clear how an optimal diet can both supply the basic needs of the body and fortify the body's defenses and mechanisms of healing. He always stresses that good food -- and the good feeling it engenders at the table -- is not only a delight, but also necessary to our well-being so that eating for health means enjoyable eating. Eating Well for Optimum Health is a hugely practical and inspiring book about food, diet and nutrition that stands to change -- for the better and the healthier -- our most fundamental ideas about eating.  

(Source: back cover, Harper Collins, 2000)

Two of America's most popular authorities on healthy eating and cooking join forces in this inspiring, easy-to-use cookbook. The Healthy Kitchen is not a diet book. It is a lively guide to healthy cooking, day-by-day, packed with essential information and, above all, filled with enticing food. Dr. Weil brings to this perfect collaboration (with Rosie Daley) a comprehensive philosophy of nutrition grounded in science.  

(Source: inside flap, Knopf, 2002)