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Is Your Kitchen a PlantPure Kitchen? The grassroots plant-based nutrition movement inspired by the film PlantPure Nation has helped foster a growing community of whole food, plant-based eaters. Key to its success has been the PlantPure Director of Culinary Education Kim Campbell's inspiring and delicious recipes. In 2015, her cookbook, The PlantPure Nation Cookbook, helped change the way people view the food they put in their bodies. Now, Campbell is back with even more inventive recipes bursting with flavor in The PlantPure Kitchen. Campbell builds on favorites from her last cookbook, turning recipes like the Creamy African Stew into tasty African Wraps, and shares tons of new recipes that will turn any plant-based eater into a chef with ease. With compassion for the challenges of following a plant-pure diet, Campbell lends advice about the best natural sweeteners, the most useful kitchen tools for plant-based cooking, vegan-friendly substitutions for making recipes gluten-free, and a whole lot more. Whether you are new to the lifestyle or looking to expand your own recipe repertoire, The PlantPure Kitchen makes committing to your health through eating plant-based exciting, accessible, and easy! From dips and spreads, like Crockpot Apple Butter, to classic dinners, like Welsh Rarebit, The PlantPure Kitchen's recipes will inspire you to lead a more plant-pure life. Recipes include: Strawberry Rhubarb Streusel Muffins Asian Noodle Salad Southwestern Chili Mac Potato-Crusted Mushroom Quiche Welsh Rarebit Slow Cooker Jackfruit Tacos Hot Fudge Sundae Cake Featuring a foreword by T. Colin Campbell, coauthor of the groundbreaking national bestseller The China Study, this book will become a kitchen staple for PlantPure veterans and newcomers alike.
Protein is the magic bullet to staying lean and strong as we age. Time and again, studies show that eating more protein can help with weight loss, strength building, and energy. Protein shakes are a classic way to consume this important nutrient, but they often get a bad rap for being chalky and hard to swallow. Until now. Pamela Braun has developed recipes for modern and fresh shakes that taste great and truly satisfy. With high-protein ingredients like almond butter, coconut milk, hemp hearts, and yogurt, these shakes will please every taste and budget. More than 50 recipes include: Orange Cream Shake Mocha Shake Mexican Chocolate Shake Pumpkin Spice Shake Start living better and longer, one protein drink a day.
Think a Plant-Based Diet Can't Save Your Life? Think Again
This title features over 100 recipes for every occasion, photographed step by step to guarantee perfect results every time. There are over 100 appetizing vegetarian recipes, from breakfasts and brunches to main meals, side dishes and salads, as well as desserts, bakes and breads. It includes down-to-earth nutritional advice about what to eat and how to achieve the correct balance of foods. It features a directory of ingredients, from herbs, fruit and vegetables to sprouted seeds, grains and cereals. Each dish has clear, step-by-step instructions and useful information on health benefits. It is an authoritative guide with plenty of practical advice. Numerous studies have revealed the health benefits of eating the right balance of natural foods such as fruit, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, seeds and beans. This book is a guide to these ingredients and includes over 100 vegetarian recipes. The first section describes the main wholefoods with essential facts about how each food boosts health, and its nutritional value. You can find out which foods help to lower cholesterol, reduce the risk of heart disease and lower your cancer risk. The second section contains a fabulous collection of recipes to try. This book is ideal if you wish to understand more about natural foods and will inspire every health-conscious cook.
We know that a plant-based, vegan diet is healthy. But how easy is it to incorporate it into our lifestyle? Are there any other steps that need to be taken to ensure our body is getting the nutrients it needs? In Optimum Nutrition for Vegans, Patrick Holford, bestselling author of over 25 health books, shows you how to achieve optimum nutrition while following a vegan diet. This book features 100 delicious, easy recipes that will nourish your body and your brain. Patrick will also show you how to ensure you are getting enough protein and brain fats, control your sugar and energy, and other other steps that need to be taken for overall health for vegans. Whether you already follow a plant-based lifestyle or you simply want to incorporate more meat, dairy and egg-free meals into your week, Optimum Nutrition for Vegans will be your guide for overall health.
The Paleo diet isn't a fad or another weight loss gimmick. It's the way humans were meant to eat. The Paleo Cookbook is a comprehensive collection of recipes from across the globe. Whether you're looking for Paleo-friendly breakfasts, dinners, desserts, or international favorites, you'll find dishes for every taste. The Paleo Cookbook is your guide to a new, healthier way of eating: Enjoy 300 easy recipes for every meal plan including side dishes, snacks, and beverages. Find a wide variety of choices for both meat-eaters and vegetarians. Experience international Paleo dishes such as Curried Shrimp, Chicken Cacciatore, Beef Stir-Fry, and Caveman Fajitas. Make the move to gluten-free eating by using the freshest meats, produce, and spices. Learn helpful tips for cooking with Paleo-friendly ingredients. Transitioning to the Paleo lifestyle is the natural way to increased vitality, weight loss, and overall better health. With The Paleo Cookbook, you'll discover just how easy, delicious, and nutritious the Paleo diet can be.
The field of food quality assurance has evolved substantially over the past decade, and certain key developments have become widely accepted. These include Quality Systems (e.g., ISO 9000) and HACCP. Consequently, it has become essential for undergraduate Food Science and Food Technology students preparing for careers in the food industry to have some basic training in these systems as part of the curricula in their university or college programs.
This book is a lifesaver for the average busy person who needs to get tasty, healthy meals on the table on time, add spice and variety, and would like to enjoy doing it. Jan Thomson has turned simplicity, time saving, and culinary fun into an art all its own. In this book she offers hundreds of light and hearty "meals in a bowl" and a nearly endless choice of breads to be served on the side. She has tested and retested each recipe to reduce it to essential steps while preserving flavor, flair, and good healthy eating. The book includes 450 recipes, from elegant bisques to hearty stews, soups both meaty and vegetarian, and quickbreads plain, sweet, or tangy. Recipes are presented in a clear, convenient format that reduces the errors that are the common result from cooking in a hurry. She offers a wealth of practical information about a variety of subjects, such as shortcuts for making soup stocks, substituting ingredients, and secrets that produce never-fail quickbreads. Thomson's book will become a standard for busy cooks who want to offer up lively eating without fuss and bother.
From world-class marathoner and three-time Olympian Shalane Flanagan and culinary nutritionist Elyse Kopecky comes a whole foods, flavour-forward cookbook that proves food can be indulgent and nourishing at the same time. Finally here's a cookbook for runners that shows fat is essential for flavour and performance and that counting calories, obsessing over protein, and restrictive dieting does more harm than good. Packed with more than 100 recipes for every part of yourday, nutritional wisdom, and inspiring stories, Run Fast, Eat Slow has all the bases covered. Fitness-minded readers will find delicious meals, satisfying snacks, thirst- quenching drinks, and wholesome treats. Fan favorites include Can't Beet Me Smoothie, Arugula Cashew Pesto, High-Altitude Bison Meatballs, Superhero Muffins, and Double ChocolateTeff Cookies. Packaged as a beautiful, full-colour hardcover cookbook, Run Fast, Eat Slow, will please Flanagan's fervent fans as well as the 42 million runners nationwide who will discover the recipes she eats to break records and live well.
With every recipe calorie counted, this title deals with low-fat, health-conscious eating to keep readers in great shape. It contains all original material not simply resourced from existing titles. It features clever and imaginative recipes which produce a better figure all round! This series has been so successful that it has now established itself as a brand. Here we turn our research to healthy eating for a well-toned body. This brilliant and diverse range of recipes provides a completely fat-reduced, calorie-controlled lifestyle. With this book you may be on a diet, but the food won't keep reminding you of it. Everything you eat is figure-friendly and health giving. Here is the book that provides the answer for weight-watching families. With it they will never again have to find themselves anxiously back on the scales.
Join the journey to natural wellness and treat yourself with this handy book of herbs and homemade remedies. Introducing Neal's Yard Remedies Healing Herbs - a one-stop gardening guide with everything you need to know about herbs, featuring a detailed layout of 100 medicinal herbs and over 70 recipes for effective herbal treatments. A must-have volume for green-fingered gardeners, Neal's Yard Remedies Healing Herbs features tonnes of tips and tricks on planting and propagating a diverse range of herbs with the core focus on improving your health and treating your ailments with a little help from nature! This herbal medicine book offers expert advice you can trust, with an in-depth directory of a plethora of plants and herbs, including hemp, lavender, thyme, aloe vera, and lemongrass. With passion in every page, this handy herbalism book includes: -An illustrated directory of 100 medicinal herbs with instructions on how to use each one -At-a-glance guides to help reader quickly find the right herbs for their health needs -Over 70 recipes featuring medicinal herbs to use in soups, salads, face masks and more. Alongside the directory, the book features more than 70 recipes designed to heal the body from the inside out, all of which can be prepared in the comfort of your own kitchen! Try a fennel and chamomile tea to aid digestion, a cranberry and apricot power bar to boost energy levels, or a beeswax and calendula balm to combat stretch marks. Whatever your ache or ailment, you can discover the treatment potential for each plant, and how you can prepare and use them to best effect. A recent study suggests 38% of British adults use their gardens to grow herbs and vegetables. However, the ever-growing pressure of balancing family life with a career leaves a lot of room for aches and ailments, including stress and anxiety, not to mention a lot of today's green-fingered gardeners simply lack time for growing herbs! We believe it's time to change that! Dive deep into the pages of this handy herb book and discover easy-to-follow guides to exploring g a plethora of plants and herbs that will change your life for the better! The ideal gift for the green-fingered gardener in your life with a niche for natural remedies, or those who prefer complementary therapies over conventional medicines. This easy reference book is well-suited to herbal medicine practitioners and students alike. From researching how medicinal plants work, to making your own herbal remedies and nurturing natural skincare, from aloe vera to avocado, this one-stop herbal handbook has it all and will leave you feeling healthier and more energized than ever before. A newly-updated book with a fresh design and easy-to-use treatment guides to help you find the herbs you need at a glance, Neal's Yard Remedies Healing Herbs is a comprehensive guide to staying healthy the natural way. At DK, we believe in the power of discovery. So why not explore other books in the Neal's Yard Remedies collection, craftily curated to suit your natural needs! Revolutionise your beauty regimen with Neal's Yard Remedies Natural Beauty and explore the awe-inspiring aromas within best-selling book Neal's Yard Remedies Essential Oils.
This revised and updated edition of The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth reveals the best foods for your body and how to prepare them. Why get your nutrients from expensive supplements when you could simply enjoy delicious, nourishing foods instead? Highlighting everything from almonds to yucca, The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth, Revised Edition presents you with: Nutrition information Which form contain the most nutrients The food's ability to combat diseases Where to find How to prepare Optimal amount to eat All of this, plus wonderful recipes using these sometimes obscure foods! Indexes by nutrient, by disease, and by food make finding what you need a snap. And the the at-a-glance format makes the information as easy to digest as the foods themselves. Whether you're looking for healthy beverages to enjoy after a workout, want to add beans and legumes to your diet, or are a pescatarian looking for new fare, The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth has something for you.
Guru to a new generation of chefs from Chicago to Copenhagen, Spain’s Ferran Adrià has been featured on Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people of our times and touted by the press as an alchemist and a genius. His restaurant, El Bulli, was ranked first on Restaurant Magazine’s Top 50 list in 2006, 2007, and 2008, and has retained this title in 2009. Considered food’s preeminent futurist, a mad Catalonian scientist, and the godfather of culinary foam and other gastronomic advances, the Alicia Foundation distills Adrià’s culinary knowledge into a practical handbook that will more often be found face up on the counter than collecting dust on a shelf.
THIS IS THE BOOK EVERY TRIATHLETE NEEDS TO FUEL THEIR TRAINING-FROM AMATEUR TO ELITE ATHLETE* Translates the hard science of sports nutrition into practical eating advice* Decodes the claims of commercial sports products and offers healthy homemade alternatives* Meal plans and delicious, easy recipes to enhance your performanceThe ideal guide tailored specifically for triathletes to achieve their goals, prevent injuries and fuel their body efficiently and effectively.
This superfood meal planner is the easy, stress-free way to get all the vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals you need into your daily diet.Make healthy eating quick and simple for all the family.Provides a wealth of delicious, filling and nutrient-rich meals for everyday eating to help support and protect the body.Features at-a-glance symbols for every recipe to show how many full portions of fruits and vegetables are contained in each serving.Includes a comprehensive introductory chapter, plus a handy portion checker table and targeted menus for specific health and dietary requirements.
Lose at least 5lbs in 5 days with Jason Vale's newest, easiest and most effective juicing programme ever. Jason Vale aka The Juice Master - and the man responsible for turning around the lives (and diets) of celebrities and top athletes from around the world - has designed a brand new programme to reshape and reinvigorate your body in just 5 days. Lose the weight you've always dreamed of without restricting what you can eat or drink at the weekend. The culmination of over a decade's worth of research, 5lbs in 5 Days is a new and fresh approach to juicing and the ultimate guide to kickstarting rapid and healthy weight loss, boosting your energy levels and motivation, and maintaining optimum health. Follow Jason's plan and you'll lose at least 5lbs in 5 days (the average is actually 7lbs) and be recharged on both a physical and a mental level. Packed full of juicy recipes and tips for getting started, it's simple to start and straightforward to follow. Start juicing today!
Soup is the ultimate in healthy eating. Studies have shown that food, when blended with water, performs a remarkable nutritional trick: it remains in your stomach for longer, allowing the absorption of maximum nutrients while at the same time keeping you feeling full.In Just Soup, Henrietta Clancy shares the secrets of some of the world's best soups, from punchy Asian broths to the slow-cooked comfort foods of our childhood. Her delicious recipes are based on centuries of nutritional wisdom, and show that soup, so often overlooked as a starter or side dish, can take pride of place as the main meal.This book will quite simply change the way you eat.
When you're in training, aiming to beat personal goals, what you eat can make all the difference to your performance. This is the book every amateur athlete needs to fuel their training; a practical, enjoyable, real diet that fits in with your everyday life. Renee McGregor works with elite athletes to enhance their performance, and in Part 1 of the book she shares the cutting edge science behind sports nutrition in an accessible way, so that you can achieve the results you want, whatever your sport and regardless of what level you train at. To help you incorporate the advice, Renee also provides plans to follow, to show you what and when you should be eating during your training regime. In Part 2 you'll find over 100 delicious recipes, including nutrient-packed breakfasts such as Sunflower Seed and Chia Porridge, or lunches that will keep you fuelled up throughout training. Great recovery dinners include Coriander Lamb with Quinoa, while there are plenty of options for portable snacks to eat on the go and even desserts such as Potted Lemon Cheesecake to help you achieve optimum nutrition for your training. |
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