Cooking for Life: A Guide to Nutrition and Food Safety for the HIV-Positive Community - Softcover

Lehmann, Robert H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0440507537 ISBN 13: 9780440507536

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group, 1996

Synopsis

This groundbreaking, compassionate, and medically sound sourcebook is a food bible for the HIV community and their caregivers.

One single factor can have life-or-death importance for someone with HIV: food. The right diet and nutrition can boost the immune system, and most important, maintain lean body mass. Cooking for Life contains all the information you need about one of the safest, most effective, yet underutilized, weapons for staying well.

Find out why food poisoning, even a mild case, is highly dangerous . . . and what steps will protect you at home or while eating out. Discover what liquid nutritional supplements can do for the HIV-positive person . . . and how to make them taste better. Learn how to identify the fundamental components of a sound diet—including soluble and insoluble fiber, complementary and complete proteins, and much more.

“An excellent, very readable book, full of practical information. It belongs in all collections on AIDS care.”—John S. James, editor and publisher, AIDS Treatment News

About this title

From the Back Cover

One single factor can have life-or-death importance for someone with HIV: food. The right diet and nutrition can boost the immune system, and most important, maintain lean body mass. This groundbreaking, compassionate, and medically sound sourcebook is a food bible for the HIV community and their caregivers. Cooking for Life contains all the information you need about one of the safest, most effective, yet underutilized, weapons for staying well.

Reviews

This work is much more than just a cookbook, as the title might suggest. It is a comprehensive guide to nutrition and food safety for HIV-positive people and their caregivers. The author, a longtime chef who began the nutrition program at the Metropolitan AIDS Neighborhood Nutrition Alliance (MANNA) in Philadelphia, has called upon the expertise of a team of advisers including a physician, a nurse who specializes in nutrition, and a registered dietitian. The result is a very thorough, solid, and practical guide, firmly grounded in sound nutritional principles. Included are sections on basic nutrition, safe food-handling practices, ways to deal with specific nutritional concerns of those living with HIV/AIDS, and, yes, recipes. Written in a friendly and accessible yet authoritative style, the book contains information helpful to everyone. Both informed readers and those working with HIV/AIDS patients will find it useful. Highly recommended.?Linda Gleason, Univ. of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey Lib., Newark
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0440507537
• ISBN 13: 9780440507536
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276