Joy Bauer's Food Cures: Treat Common Health Concerns, Look Younger and Live Longer »

JOY BAUER, MS, RD, CDN, is the founder of Joy Bauer Nutrition in New York City and can be seen regularly on the Today show as well as other national television programs. Joy is the nutritionist for the New York City Ballet and writes a monthly column for Self magazine. Joy is also the official nutrition/diet and weight-loss expert for Yahoo's millions of readers. She lives in New York City.

Carol Svec is an award-winning health writer and author of four previous books. She lives in North Carolina.

The ultimate guide to using food as medicine from the Nutrition expert for the Today Show, Joy Bauer.

Nutritional healing has gone mainstream and researchers at top universities are publishing studies that show how the right foods can help prevent, manage, and sometimes entirely reverse the defining symptoms of a wide range of health issues. Whether it's unwanted pounds or high blood sugar, mood swings or digestive trouble, the cure can be what you eat every day.

Now Joy Bauer, a nutrition consultant to celebrities from actors to gold-medal winning athletes, explains exactly what to eat to lower high cholesterol and blood pressure, improve skin tone, sharpen memory, sleep better, and take charge of PMS, arthritis, and more. Each chapter focuses on one of the many conditions that drive people to seek Joy's professional help and simulates a personal consultation. Readers walk away with up-to-the-minute, scientifically researched recommendations on particular foods to seek out and which ones to avoid, plus grocery lists, meal plans, recipes, and supplement recommendations presented in easy-to-follow 4-step prescriptive plans.