Key Takeaways:

• Compiles Rodale’s wide‑ranging natural‑health philosophy into an A–Z reference covering diet, vitamins, exercise, home remedies, and everyday lifestyle practices.
• Promotes the idea that prevention through wholesome food, organic farming, and moderate living is more powerful—and safer—than relying on drugs and surgery once disease appears.
• Encourages readers to become self‑educated lay experts in their own health, reinforcing the Rodale message that ordinary people can reclaim authority from medical and industrial institutions.