The Sarno family, with a history of practicing the alternative medicine of ‘cupping’, is entrenched in New York’s lower East Side. Celia is eager to break away from her life and family and when Ben Ivey shows an interest, she sees him as a means of escape. Ben needs the ‘cupping’ to recover from a withdrawal, both physical and mental. When he recovers he fades from the Sarno’s lives only to reappear later to ask Celia to marry him. She comes to Oregon to see him bringing Julie, her sister. The twists and turns, anger and resentment continues until Julie is needed to help Ben with an important World War II assignment. Complex and multi-situational; this is not necessarily an easy read, but is worth the effort.

From two leading authorities in naturopathic clinical nutrition comes this consumer-health and patient-care book, diagnosing the dangers of our modern low-fibre and high-carbohydrate diet, while prescribing an optimum diet of nutrient-rich food and supplements for better health. The authors identify the nutritional deficiencies and dependencies caused by our 'junk-food' diet that lead to malnutrition and other serious dietary diseases and disorders. They recommend a diet that is whole, alive, fresh, and varied, rather than processed, dead, stale, and monotonous. For individuals with nutrient deficiencies and dependencies, they recommend appropriate vitamin, mineral, essential fatty acid, and amino acid therapy. The book features a 12-step program for developing an individualised diet and a 30-page analysis of the nutrient content of common foods. This collaboration between Dr Abram Hoffer (MD) and Dr Jonathan Prousky (ND) offers a unique complementary and alternative approach to good nutrition.