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Prayers are added to food to ward off illness. The author traveled across the country in pursuit of the amazingly diverse world of food, disease, and prayer. Seaweed, ginger, loofah, konjac, radish, mandarin oranges... What diseases can be prevented by eating? Throughout our long history of being at the mercy of disease, how have people faced it through familiar foods? This book is an ethnography by the author who traveled around the country to solve this mystery!

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• Categories->Books
• Languages->World Languages->Japanese
• Subjects->Health
• Subjects->Treatment through food