The United States spends more money on health care than any other industrialized nation, yet it ranks thirty-eighth in the World Health Organization's analysis of world health systems. Many Americans are uninsured, obesity is a national epidemic, and the very government that encourages people to eat fruits and vegetables subsidizes and gives free rein to GMOs and food companies that provide much of the nation's junk food.

Something, clearly, is very wrong.

After twenty years in both conventional and integrative health care, wellness expert Joan Lusco Gugerty has seen the US health...