The Healthy Indian Diet - Softcover

Raj R. Patel; Anuja Balasubramanian; Hetal Jannu

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1461122139 ISBN 13: 9781461122135

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011

Synopsis

How Indian Food Can Be Good for You...

The latest research reveals why traditional diets are good for you, especially those of South Asia, and what's wrong with food today, much of which is refined and mass produced. While modern diets have been planting the seeds of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and many cancers in America and around the world, the Healthy Indian Diet can help prevent them from ever taking root.

Like the Mediterranean Diet, the Healthy Indian Diet is a way of eating based on natural foods and traditional techniques of preparation. This book aims to be a useful guide of what you can eat to optimize your well-being. In these pages, you'll learn:

• How refined grains and other easily-digestible carbs in modern diets are linked to chronic disease 
• Why wellness experts like Dr. Oz, Dr. Ornish (who showed how to reverse coronary heart disease without medication), and Dr. Servan-Schreiber (of "Anticancer" fame) praise elements of Indian food, especially spices like turmeric 
• How whole-grain breads, certain fruits and vegetables, fermented dairy, and other elements of the Healthy Indian Diet can help you reduce your risk of chronic inflammation, keep your insulin levels in check, and control your weight 

In addition to learning about the Healthy Indian Diet, you'll find 31 mouth-watering recipes ranging from dahi (yogurt) and chana masala (a garbanzo bean curry) to oats-and-brown rice dosa (a savory crêpe) and coriander chutney. In the end, you'll have a better understanding of what's meant by the saying "food is medicine" and how we have control over our health based on what we eat.

About this title

About the Author

Raj R. Patel, M.D. is a resident physician interested in how nutrition can help prevent chronic disease. He scoured the scientific literature on diet and learned what the benefits of the Mediterranean Diet and other traditional cuisines are to human health. His research eventually led him to write "The Healthy Indian Diet." He lives in Houston.

Anuja Balasubramanian and Hetal Jannu, co-founders of ShowMeTheCurry.com, use their step-by-step cooking videos to guide viewers to create delicious and healthy Indian cuisine at home. They provide a modern and practical approach to traditional Indian cooking, much of which appears in "The Healthy Indian Diet." They live and play in Dallas.

Review

"Can a healthy Indian diet help prevent heart disease, diabetes and cancer? The answer is yes, [says] a medical doctor passionate about the power of diet to ward off and even reverse the negative and all-too-common effects of the modern diet... An enthused, accessible argument... complete with recipes."

-Kirkus Book Reviews

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1461122139
• ISBN 13: 9781461122135
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 204