Product Description

One of the most important steps towards self-healing is to take responsibility for your own nourishment. This book provides a set of tools to do this. It takes guidance from the insights of traditional Chinese medicine and makes them accessible to the modern day person. There are over 100 recipes using familiar foods that reflect the cosmopolitan nature of Western cuisine. Each recipe's energetic actions are described to enable the reader to choose recipes suited to their own individual needs. There are no good foods or bad foods: all the reader has to do is listen to the wisdom of their own body. This book can be read alone or as an accompaniment to "Helping Ourselves" and "The Energetics of Food".

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #34695 in Books
• Published on: 1999-09-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

Customer Reviews

Eating to help your body help itself
If you believe that we are what we eat, and you are willing to try to help yourself back to good health through wise eating, this book is worth a read.

The model used to present information is the classic Chinese one, where a liver isn't just the biological organ itself, but very much more. If you have a western mind-set, but are prepared to open yourself to other, historically proven methods of understanding your own body, you should have little difficulty following the clear ideas given here.

The varied, interesting recipes put the fun back into healthy eating too.

If you are an acupuncturist, you could certainly build on the solid foundation of knowledge contained in this book, helping your clients to support and participate in their own recovery.

Peter Bryenton, March 2000

Feeding The Whole Family
Whole Foods Recipes For Babies, Young Children And Their Parents continues to be one of the best "user friendly", family oriented guides to nutritious, delicious, meal-time cookbooks available today. From Whole Grain Baby Cereal, Sage and Rosemary Seitan Sandwiches, and Tempeh Tacos, to Mustard Green Salad with Tofu-Dill Dressing, Sweet Squash Corn Muffins, and Carrot Cake with Apricot Glaze, Feeding The Whole Family offers a wealth of recipes that are as fun to make in the kitchen as they are to consume at the family dining table!

Recipes I return to over again.
I bought this because it had recipes for Beetroot soup and french onion soup. Both of which I made and made again.

The garlic soup was really amazing. One of my colleagues said it was the best soup she'd ever had and she couldn't believe what was in it (a good dose of garlic). The lentil Dahl and some of the others have had regular outings. I've shared recipes, and other information from it, but I've never shared the book.

It's one that I will treasure and adore for a time yet. I am reasonably healthy, but working towards eating more whole foods and reducing the processed in my diet, this book is helping me on my journey and is becoming one of my more often used books. A real find for me.