Eat to Boost Your Immunity: The Practical Guide to Strengthening the Body's Defense Systems - Softcover
Lift your spirits and gently restore balance to both mind and body with these tasty recipes designed to enhance your body's natural defenses. This authoritative, interactive guide shows how the right choice of healing foods can help you fight off illness, look and feel your best, and increase overall vitality. Information is organized by theme--food, ailment, and recipe--making this your complete go-to source for immunity-boosting nourishment.
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Kirsten Hartvig is an acclaimed nutritionist whose main interest lies in helping people take charge of their health by using easily available foods and simple naturopathic techniques. She is a member of the British Naturopathic Association and the National Institute of Medical Herbalists, and author of DBP's The New Complete Guide to Nutritional Health and The Healthy Diet Calorie Counter.
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A healthy eating book with a difference - specifically geared to explaining and boosting the immune system, the body's first line of defence against illness. Hartvig, naturopath co-author of You Are What You Eat and The Detox Box, taps into the growing interest in self-healing and also in counteracting allergies, although her recommendations work alongside other treatments rather than replacing them. All the foods are plant-based, including unusual ones packed with fortifying nutrients like nettle, curly kale and Brazil nuts among the more obvious fruit, veg and pulses. She has specific antidotes for common ailments and a good variety of recipes which requires some dedication in terms of juicing or chopping up ingredients. But enhanced health should be worth the effort and this is a sound, if specialised, book on the subject.
The importance of good nutrition in preventing, and even curing, disease, is well known, and increasingly accepted even by the most hide-bound practitioners of conventional medicine. Yet, apart from the general principles of eating less processed food and more fruit, vegetables and wholegrains, most of us know very little of the specifics of eating well, let alone the health-giving properties of common herbs and spices used as home remedies by our grandparents. This mine of information contains not only a comprehensive listing of 150 key superfoods we should be eating, each with a checklist of the vitamins, minerals, other nutrients and special properties contained within, but also suggests 180 tempting ways to use these ingredients - a welcome addition, given that some of them may be unfamiliar. Hearty main courses such as sweet potato and French onion tart are suggested, alongside raspberry gateau and a mouth-watering selection of juices. However, as befitting a medical herbalist and accredited naturopath, the author has provided her own twist to the subject, with sections on a range of common ailments, from the minor, such as ear, nose and throat infections, to more serious, such as HIV and cancer. She does not suggest that nutrition is a cure-all, but suggests that some contribution to preventing or managing many of these conditions can be made by eating the right food. There are plenty of books around of this nature, some of which are too evangelical to appeal to the general reader, and some of which sound plain unscientific, but Hartvig strikes the right note, somewhere between authoritative and inspirational, and her advice certainly seems spot on. In addition to the food recipes, she has a wonderful section on herbal preparations to help with anything from sore throats to joint pains. The book's beautiful photography and design, and the delicious recipes, would almost sell it on its own merits; the health angle is an added bonus. (Kirkus UK) --Kirkus UK
The importance of good nutrition in preventing, and even curing, disease, is well known, and increasingly accepted even by the most hide-bound practitioners of conventional medicine. Yet, apart from the general principles of eating less processed food and more fruit, vegetables and wholegrains, most of us know very little of the specifics of eating well, let alone the health-giving properties of common herbs and spices used as home remedies by our grandparents. This mine of information contains not only a comprehensive listing of 150 key superfoods we should be eating, each with a checklist of the vitamins, minerals, other nutrients and special properties contained within, but also suggests 180 tempting ways to use these ingredients - a welcome addition, given that some of them may be unfamiliar. Hearty main courses such as sweet potato and French onion tart are suggested, alongside raspberry gateau and a mouth-watering selection of juices. However, as befitting a medical herbalist and accredited naturopath, the author has provided her own twist to the subject, with sections on a range of common ailments, from the minor, such as ear, nose and throat infections, to more serious, such as HIV and cancer. She does not suggest that nutrition is a cure-all, but suggests that some contribution to preventing or managing many of these conditions can be made by eating the right food. There are plenty of books around of this nature, some of which are too evangelical to appeal to the general reader, and some of which sound plain unscientific, but Hartvig strikes the right note, somewhere between authoritative and inspirational, and her advice certainly seems spot on. In addition to the food recipes, she has a wonderful section on herbal preparations to help with anything from sore throats to joint pains. The book's beautiful photography and design, and the delicious recipes, would almost sell it on its own merits; the health angle is an added bonus. (Kirkus UK) --Kirkus UK
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- PublisherNourish
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1780280289
- ISBN 13 9781780280288
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages244
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