Meals That Heal: A Nutraceutical Approach to Diet and Health - Softcover

Turner, Lisa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0892816252 ISBN 13: 9780892816255

Publisher: Healing Arts Press, 1996

Synopsis

Can a regular diet of tomatoes, soy products, and cruciferous vegetables help ward off cancer and heart disease? Can meals really heal? With increasing frequency scientific studies are responding with a resounding "yes." It has been general knowledge for years that vitamin C prevents scurvy and calcium helps build strong bones. But this pales in comparison to recent discoveries concerning phytonutrients and nutraceuticals. Garlic, for example, contains compounds that may reduce blood pressure and lower cholesterol levels. Broccoli contains substances that may help prevent cancer. Meals That Heal takes the latest scientific data on these substances out of the lab and puts it into the kitchen.

Presents a compilation of the most recent research on the proven benefits of various foods along with charts and graphs that relate this research to specific diseases.

More than 100 recipes for creating healthy and delicious meals include the healing properties of the foods and the benefits we can obtain from them.

About this title

From the Author:

Lisa Turner has been researching and writing about nutrition, and cooking great meals, for more than 20 years. She has written five books on health and nutrition, and her monthly food columns are featured in several national magazines. Lisa has appeared on national and local television and radio shows, teaches cooking classes at Whole Foods Market and Culinary School of the Rockies, and has lectured on health and nutrition across the country. She is also a co-founder of Boulder Organic Foods company in Boulder, Colorado.

From Library Journal:

The value of food as a weapon against disease is becoming increasingly recognized, as evidenced by the number of recent books on the subject (e.g., Eileen Behan's Cooking Well for the Unwell and Rachel Keim and Ginny Smith's What To Eat Now: The Cancer Lifeline Cookbook, both LJ 5/1/96). Turner, a traveling chef with the Kushi Institute of Macrobiotics, explains nutraceuticals as foods or parts of foods that aid in preventing or ameliorating disease. Whole foods are advocated over supplements and are analyzed for their healing chemical components. Unfortunately, some of these "foods," such as wheat and barley grasses, may be unattainable or unpalatable to the general reader. More than 120 dairy-free, meat-free recipes are included. Most are simple to prepare, although certain ingredients may be difficult to locate. While Maureen Keane and Daniella Chase's What To Eat If You Have Cancer (LJ 10/1/96) is geared toward those already ill, its information is more concrete and lucid. This book is for larger collections only.?Janet Schneider, James A. Haley Veterans Hosp., Tampa, Fla.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Healing Arts Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0892816252
• ISBN 13: 9780892816255
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248