The Food Bible: The Ultimate Reference Book for Food and Your Health - Softcover

Judith Wills

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844004430 ISBN 13: 9781844004430

Publisher: Quadrille Publishing Ltd, 2007

Synopsis

A definitive manual about food and health, this book presents recent investigations about all aspects of nutrition and diet. It includes sample diets for specific health problems like arthritis and heart conditions. El manual definitivo acerca de la comida y la salud. Con un lenguaje sencillo presenta las investigaciones mas recientes de las principales autoridades mundiales sobre todos los aspectos de los alimentos y las dietas. Incluye dietas completas para problemas de la salud, por ejemplo artritis y las afecciones cardiacas.

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Review

"What you eat and what you drink really are vital parts of what you are--and what you will become," writes British nutritionist and weight-loss expert Judith Wills in The Food Bible. "Food is not only vital fuel but also vital medicine." This book is packed full of nutritional information. Section 1 details how to get the modern version of a balanced diet, including the latest information on fiber, fat, protein, vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals (health-protecting compounds in fruits and vegetables), food safety, and how to put all this together with food and menu choices. In section 2, we get a discussion of food as medicine. Specific ailments are paired with helpful foods, herbs, and vitamins, plus foods to avoid; Wills also gives menu suggestions for avoiding certain conditions and discusses supplements, herbs, and detoxification. In the next section, Wills explains what foods to eat at different stages of your life to meet different nutritional challenges. Section 4 is a sensible discussion of weight-control strategies with a four-week plan. Cooking tips, charts, and about 100 recipes comprise section 5. Each recipe comes with an extensive nutritional breakdown (calories, fat, saturated fat, fiber, protein, carbohydrate, vitamins, and minerals) and information about whether the recipe is helpful in disease prevention and whether it is vegetarian, low-calorie, quick, budget, or free of gluten/wheat, yeast, or dairy. Section 6 offers the nutritional components of 400 foods, designating 50 of these foods as "superfoods."

Whatever your dietary constraints or goals, this is an essential book to own and read often. It's also a pretty book, with creative food photos and an attractive layout, making this a good gift. --Joan Price

About the Author

One of England's best known and most knowledgeable nutritionists and weight-loss experts, Judith Wills is the author of Take Off 10 Years in 10 Weeks and Light and Healthy Mediterranean. She has made three bestselling videos and frequently appears on television and radio in the United Kingdom, where she lives.

Edition details

• Publisher: Quadrille Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1844004430
• ISBN 13: 9781844004430
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320