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Revolutionise your personal cooking and eating habits for optimal energy, health and emotional well-being. This book of mood-savvy tips, tools and delicious recipes guides you step by step through all the essentials. It features dozens of easy-to-understand graphics, lists and charts to help prioritise choices for maximum benefit. Learn how to: Assess your unique digestive style and nutritional needs and develop the diet that's right for you. Substitute problem foods, ingredients and habits with healthy, delectable alternatives. Navigate gluten sensitivity and other allergies. Use smarter, healthier food preparation options for busy schedules. Identify common nutritional complications behind depression, anxiety and other mood challenges. Engage family and friends in nutritional change. And much more. This is the essential dietary road map for anyone interested in improved mental well-being. Explore tasty, life-changing ways to eat healthier-and happier!
This book will inspire you to create meals that are thoroughly delicious and loaded with health-promoting properties to supercharge your health. Wellness warrior Lee Holmes presents over 100 non-boring vegetable dishes that your meat-loving family members will also enjoy. Each recipe features options for veganising your meal, and is accompanied by an icon indicating whether it is wheat-free, gluten-free dairy-free, sugar-free, vegetarian or vegan. An in-depth introduction provides a wealth of supporting information including organic versus conventional vegetables; the low-down on vegetarian diets; top ten supercharged vegetables; and storing, preparing and cooking your vegetables. Eat in-season with Winter vegetable korma or Stuffed summer squash and enjoy hearty soups, such as Creamy mushroom, zucchini and tomato and Snow white vegetable soup. Finish it all off with Pumpkin muffins and Avocado ice-cream.
The Cookbook That Captures the Flavor of This Powerful Fruit! Abundant and delicious, the blueberry is as beneficial as it is juicy. This superfood ingredient is believed to help heart heath, bone strength, mental health, and more! With a flavor that ranges between tart and sweet, blueberries are perfect as a topping, in a blended drink, and on their own. Plus, their versatility goes far beyond the obvious. Blueberries is a cookbook by Julia Rutland that features 50 recipes to please any fruit lover. The author is a professional writer, recipe developer, recipe tester, food stylist, and television/media demonstrator, so you can be certain that every recipe is a crowd-pleaser! There a plenty of desserts, including Blueberry Cheesecake Bars, Blueberry-Buttermilk Pie, and other pies, cakes, cookies, ice cream, and bars. Starters-like Blueberry-Pecan Goat Cheese Ball and Blueberry, Lobster, and Corn Salad-are ideal for whetting an appetite, while the cookbook's beverages, breads, and breakfast foods will become instant family favorites, relished time and again. The book's full-color photography adds to the enjoyment of cooking. Growing tips and the fruit's fascinating history make Blueberries even more useful. People love blueberries because the flavor connects them to loved ones and special memories. It reminds them of family picnics, summers at the lake, and Grandma's homemade pie. Add Blueberries to your cookbook collection, to start new traditions and bring back old favorites with this wonderful variety of dishes.
MORE THAN 150 RECIPES CRAFTED FOR YOUR BLOOD TYPE B DIET Previously published as "Personalized Living Using the Blood
Type Diet (Type B)"
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.
A UK edition of the just-released four-step Paleo diet program that offers optimal nutrition for a lifetime of health. Suffering from chronic illnesses, and unable to get satisfactory treatments for their conditions from doctors, the husband-and-wife scientific team of Paul and Shou-Ching Jaminet decided that they had to take a personal interest in health and nutrition. After embarking on five years of rigorous research, what they found changed their lives - and the lives of thousands of their readers. In Perfect Health Diet, the Jaminets explain how anyone can regain health and lose weight by optimising nutrition, detoxifying their diet, and supporting healthy immune functions. They show how toxic, nutrient-poor diets sabotage health, and how, on a healthy diet, diseases often spontaneously resolve. But they don't just tell you what foods to eat to make you healthier and weight loss easier: they show you why - with a clear, balanced, and scientifically proven plan. Already an international sensation, Perfect Health Diet will change the way you eat - and feel - forever.
THE classic vegetarian cookbook, reissued for a new generation. With helpful notes on techniques, and numerous delicious recipes for soups, starters, salads, dressings, sauces and savouries, not to mention sections devoted to baking, puddings, cereals, preserves, sweetmeats and drinks, the founders of Cranks have put together a book that stands for all that is best in wholefood cuisine. Their aim is to give people the opportunity to experiment with vegetarian food to experience the benefits of a more balanced diet.
The bestselling husband and wife team are back with 100 more simple, delicious and slimming recipes that are sure to be loved by everyone in the family and won't blow your shopping budget! When Gina and Karol set out to lose weight, they wanted to create recipes that everyone in their busy home could enjoy, whether they were keeping an eye on their waistline or not. From breakfast inspiration like Italian Baked Eggs to speedy midweek meals like Crispy Beef Tacos and Buttermilk Chicken Burgers, slow-cooker and air-fryer favourites to recipes that kids can cook themselves, each recipe is packed full of Gina and Karol's trademark bold flavours. This book is all about creating comforting, homely food that is big on taste but easy on the waist - and on the wallet!
From Myron Mixon, a new book showing you can eat barbecue, lose weight, and be healthy if you know how to do it right What does the winningest man in barbecue, the best damn smoker in the world, know about living a healthy lifestyle? Well, after more than 30 years of winning contest after contest for his smoked hogs, beef, and chicken and traveling the country talking, cooking, and eating barbecue, bestselling barbecue cookbook author Myron Mixon has figured out a few things about how to combine what he loves to do with his desire to be healthy. And he's figured that out with Keto BBQ. It lets him live the barbecue lifestyle without getting fat or inching closer to death’s door in the process―and he's learned how to keep the weight off. Myron has lost more than 100 pounds and managed to not gain it back for over a year and a half while still doing what he likes. Here’s what he's found out: You can eat barbecue and still be healthy if you know how to do it right. And that’s what he's going to show people in this book. What he's going to talk about is a series of real―and real simple―changes you can make that allow you to continue enjoying barbecue and other southern foods but to do it in a healthier way.
Find the right balance in your life: over 150 delicious wholefood recipes for maximum health, wellness, energy and vitality, from YouTube cooking sensation, Guy Turland. One for fans of Jessica Sepel, Lola Berry, Sarah Wilson and Pete Evans. If Jamie Oliver was fifteen years younger and had grown up in Australia, surfing, diving and cooking by the beach, you'd have Guy Turland from Bondi Harvest. Guy is a chef, surfer, health fanatic, free-diver and an Australian YouTube cooking sensation. He runs the Depot cafe in Bondi Beach and the Bondi Harvest cafe on Santa Monica Beach (yes, Gwynneth Paltrow is a fan) and his new Bondi Harvest cookbook, Balance, is all about eating for energy, vitality, wellness and wellbeing, with over 150 simple and simply delicious recipes. This is wholefood food that's not only good for you, but is delicious, seasonal, vibrant, and full of zingily fresh flavours, designed to be eaten and enjoyed by friends and family. After working as a chef in some of Australia's top restaurants, Guy Turland, together with Mark Alston, started their Bondi Harvest cooking show on YouTube in 2012, with only a surfboard, a camera and a camp oven, cooking food al fresco in some of Australia's most iconic beauty spots. Now BONDI HARVEST is a hit weekly YouTube cooking show, with over 74,000 subscribers. Guy's recipes are featured on The Guardian's website and the two men have opened a Bondi Harvest restaurant in Sydney in addition to the Depot cafe in Bondi. Guy has also cooked live on NBC's Today Show. Find out more at http://bondiharvest.com/about/
The bestselling second cookbook from Hemsley + Hemsley, including recipes from Jasmine and Melissa's Channel 4 series Eating Well with Hemsley + Hemsley. Good + Simple celebrates the pleasure of delicious food that is simple to make, a joy to share and just so happens to be good for you. Jasmine and Melissa Hemsley's principles of healthy home cooking built around gut health, whole foods and affordable ingredients show how tasty and achievable eating well can be. The sisters have created 140 nutritious and exciting new recipes - reworked classics, prepare ahead dishes, fast suppers with leftovers for packed lunches, energising breakfasts and snacks, satisfying breads, desserts and bakes. Infused with Jasmine and Melissa's love of cooking and eating, Good + Simple includes plenty of practical tips and down-to-earth advice to help you gain confidence in the kitchen, plan for the coming week and cook for you and your family with ease. Enjoy real food. Look and feel amazing every day.
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.
Tom Walton is renowned for his low-fuss, max-flavour, family-friendly food. More Fish, More Veg is a collection of his go-to recipes that helps you put meals featuring sustainable seafood and seasonal veg on high rotation at your place. Some people are a little nervous about cooking fish, but with a few super simple techniques in your toolkit you'll be confident to give it a go. Tom walks you through these key cooking methods step-by-step, plus he provides pointers on sustainability and seasonality that will take the guesswork out of what fish to buy. He'll also show you how to make veg the star of the show with his vibrant veg-driven dishes that are full of life, colour and deliciousness. Season by season, this book is bursting with easy-to-make recipes that celebrate the abundance of top-quality ingredients and make it a breeze for you to eat more fish, more veg.
Embrace the keto lifestyle with over 200 effective and delicious recipes designed to improve your health. Unlike other diets, ketogenics is all or nothing. You need to be committed in order to convert your body from a carb-burning to a fat-burning mechanism. By building your meals and snacks around "good fat" and high-protein foods, you will not only lose weight but improve your overall health and mental focus. Eating in a very specific way doesn't mean you can't eat well. Sahil Makhija is a keto cooking rock star. But his band isn't the star of this show. With over 300,000 YouTube subscribers, the people have spoken about his yummy and accessible recipes. Inside this cookbook you'll find: - Over 200 recipes covering all meals, snacks, and desserts from Almond Flour Waffles to Buffalo Wings, Pulled Pork, Indian Butter Chicken, and Berry Swirl Cheesecake - A detailed explanation of ketogenics and tips and tricks for incorporating this lifestyle into your life - All original photography Whether you're new to this way of eating or are in need of fresh recipes to keep up ketosis, as well as keep your taste buds happy, embrace Keto Life!
Supercharged Food is a simple and inspiring guide to eating for optimum health. It features more than 90 recipes that are gluten, wheat, dairy, yeast and sugar-free, each bursting with nutrient-rich or 'super' foods that will help nourish and heal your body. Whether you have coeliac disease, food allergies or you just want to improve your health, this is your one-stop shop for easy, vibrant and flavourful meals that will jump-start your immune system, boost your energy levels and maintain your long-term wellbeing.
New York Times Bestseller Discover the critical link between your brain and the food you eat and change the way your brain ages, in this cutting-edge, practical guide to eliminating brain fog, optimizing brain health, and achieving peak mental performance from media personality and leading voice in health Max Lugavere. After his mother was diagnosed with a mysterious form of dementia, Max Lugavere put his successful media career on hold to learn everything he could about brain health and performance. For the better half of a decade, he consumed the most up-to-date scientific research, talked to dozens of leading scientists and clinicians around the world, and visited the country's best neurology departments-all in the hopes of understanding his mother's condition. Now, in Genius Foods, Lugavere presents a comprehensive guide to brain optimization. He uncovers the stunning link between our dietary and lifestyle choices and our brain functions, revealing how the foods you eat directly affect your ability to focus, learn, remember, create, analyze new ideas, and maintain a balanced mood. Weaving together pioneering research on dementia prevention, cognitive optimization, and nutritional psychiatry, Lugavere distills groundbreaking science into actionable lifestyle changes. He shares invaluable insights into how to improve your brain power, including the nutrients that can boost your memory and improve mental clarity (and where to find them); the foods and tactics that can energize and rejuvenate your brain, no matter your age; a brain-boosting fat-loss method so powerful it has been called "biochemical liposuction"; and the foods that can improve your happiness, both now and for the long term. With Genius Foods, Lugavere offers a cutting-edge yet practical road map to eliminating brain fog and optimizing the brain's health and performance today-and decades into the future.
BOOK 3 OF THE #1 BESTSELLING LOW-CARB DIETThe CSIRO Low-Carb Diet has proved phenomenally successful in helping Australians lose weight and transform their health through a low-carb eating plan in combination with regular exercise. Due to popular demand, this new book contains over 100 brand new, low-carb-friendly recipes that can be cooked in 20 minutes or less, making it easier than ever to incorporate this way of eating into a busy lifestyle. It includes: * an update on the science* answers to all your FAQs * two weekly meal plans with shopping lists * plenty of ideas for meal builders, drinks and snacksThis is a fully researched approach to better eating and improved health from Australia's peak science organisation.
Natural remedies for physical ailments are well known; now hitting the scene are supplements-made from berries, mushrooms, herbs and other plants-that can help the body and mind adapt to stress. These "adaptogens" work towards restoring balance, enhancing focus and stamina, boosting energy and improving mood. In Super Powders Katrine van Wyk takes 20 adaptogens and describes what they are and how to use them. Then Van Wkyk shares the recipes she's developed. Adaptogens should be part of every healthy person's routine. Super Powders reveals everything you need to know to get started.
In Leozette Roode’s second book, she pays homage to all her favourite recipes. Discover new vegan favourites like courgette and lemon tea loaf, couscous roulade, lemon pepper pasta, polenta fries and green couscous salad with tzatziki, as well as much-loved classics that she has veganised, like her version of a Peppermint Crisp tart, a lentil shepherd’s pie and paptert with chakalaka. If you are starting your vegan journey, then this collection of delectable recipes will make your time in the kitchen effortless.
Are you confused about whether to go pegan, paleo, ketogenic or vegan? No 1 New York Times bestselling author Dr Mark Hyman sorts through the conflicting research on food to give us the truth on what we should be eating and why. Did you know that porridge isn't actually a healthy way to start the day? That perhaps you should be eating a Mediterranean diet? And that milk doesn't build bones, and eggs aren't the devil? In WTF Should I eat? - Dr Hyman looks at every food group and explains what we've gotten wrong, revealing which foods nurture our health and which pose a threat. He also explains the crucial role food plays in functional medicine and how food systems and policies affect our environmental and personal health. With myth-busting insights, easy-to-understand science, and delicious, wholesome recipes in every chapter, WTF Should I Eat? is an invaluable resource for cooking, eating and living well. 'WTF Should I Eat? offers a masterpiece of truth-telling, a subversive reproach to the industrial systems that threaten our very health - and how each of us can flourish by making better food choices. This could be the most useful book you will read.' - Daniel Goleman 'I find that many people are confused about what constitutes a healthy diet. This is an easy-to-follow guide to the foods that harm us and the foods that heal us. If you want to take all of the guesswork out of eating a real, whole foods diet, read this book!' - Dr Rangan Chatterjee
Stir-frying is one of the quickest and easiest ways to cook - and one of the healthiest, using little oil and retaining more nutrients than many other methods. It also requires very little equipment - all you need a wok, a knife and a chopping board. Learning what separates a good stir-fry from a great one, however, is not always so easy to master. Indeed, it is all about timing, knowing when to add what and how to get the best out of each ingredient. With tips on everything from controlling the heat to using the right oil, bestselling author Ching-He Huang has gathered together a collection of delicious dishes, simple enough for every day and with nutrition, taste and affordability in mind. Many are gluten and dairy free, as well as suitable for vegans and vegetarians, and include both Asian and Western ingredients readily available in any supermarket. So whether or not you eat meat, love carbs or prefer to avoid them, want something special or find yourself having to feed your family, Stir Crazy will do the trick.
Embrace a plant-based diet in 2021 with Angela Liddon's classic vegan cookbook, containing over 100 easy and delicious recipes 'A colourful compendium of plant-based recipes' Daily Telegraph _______ Angela Liddon's irresistible and foolproof recipes have become the gold standard for plant-based cooking. Filled with over 100 family-friendly recipes, Oh She Glows Every Day is the classic vegan cookbook for simple, easy and tasty plant-based cooking. These tasty recipes include . . . - ENERGY-BOOSTING BREAKFASTS such as glowing rainbow smoothie bowl, roasted breakfast hash and apple pie overnight oats - TASTY ENTREES such as chilli cheese nachos, sun-dried tomato pasta and comforting lentil and chickpea curry - SIDES AND SALADS such as protein power rainbow quinoa salad, marinated italian tofu and miracle healing broth - SNACKS AND DESSERTS such as chocolate-dipped macaroons, spiced buttercream frosting, lemon cheesecake with strawberry-vanilla compote - HOMEMADE STAPLES such as vegan mayo, almond-hazelnut butter and coconut whipped cream A beautiful go-to cookbook from one of the internet's most most popular voices in food, Oh She Glows Every Day proves that it's possible to cook simple, nourishing, and tasty vegan meals for every day of the week. 'You will want to make everything' Independent 'Glowing with goodness' Vegetarian Living |
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