Product Description

Miriam Polunin profiles the top 50 foods with outstanding therapeutic properties describing for example how broccoli may reduce the risk of heart disease cancer stroke and cataracts and how garlic can aid the circulation and the body's resistance to infection. She explains why each food is so beneficial and suggests balanced eating plans that combine key foods to safeguard health. Featuring a collection of mouthwatering recipes to help you enjoy the top 50 foods this book is the essential guide to good food for improving health and alleviating illness. Representing outstanding value for money this stylish and contemporary series has been specially created for everyone with a busy lifestyle. Highly practical and inspiring the "DK Living" series embraces every aspect of a wide range of popular topics from gardening and cookery to beauty and sports. Each title covers both basic and more advanced information including a clear explanation of the subject equipment and preparation. Detailed step-by-step photographs and instructions take the reader systematically through all the techniques. The highly visual approach combined with clear uncluttered presentation make each title exceptionally easy to follow.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #100275 in Books
• Published on: 1999-04-08
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
Tea may be a cure for flu. Globe artichokes have a beneficial effect on the gallbladder, liver and kidneys. Carrots appear to have a role to play in preventing lung cancer. Recent research indicates that shellfish are not, after all, linked to high blood cholesterol levels. In Healing Foods Miriam Polunin profiles 20 key foods with demonstrable therapeutic properties and a further 30 with "health-enhancing powers", listing their health benefits in fascinating detail. An impressive scientific bibliography lends weight to sometimes unexpected contentions (bilberries can help treat varicose veins).

Despite the title, Healing Foods is less about healing than prevention and the role that healthy foods as part of a well-balanced diet can play in fighting off disease and generally mitigating the wears and tears of modern existence. A brisk and informative introduction deals with the principles of such a diet; it's followed by the food profiles and a section examining in detail their benefits to the body and its systems. Finally a really delectable selection of recipes puts it all in context. Food, after all, must be about pleasure as well as health and Healing Foods vindicates itself here. The Dorling Kindersley illustrative style, which involves picturing every single foodstuff mentioned, pays occasionally curious dividends, such as the list of healthy starches accompanied by helpful photographs of a couple of twists of pasta, a potato and a slice of bread. An appetising bowl of porridge makes more than one appearance. --Robin Davidson

Customer Reviews

Factual and easy to use guide, packed with great information
This is one of those indispensible books - a must have in every household! Well laid out in the typical Dorling Kindersley style, the information is factual, sensible and extensive. The book will not go out of date because it gives the basics of a healthy diet, vitamin and mineral contents of individual foods, together with details on their health and nutritional value. It tells you which foods are good to help combat different health problems and even gives some great recipes. I seem to be forever buying copies to give to friends and family who see it in my kitchen, and I can't give a better recommendation than that!

Helpful and sensible food advice
Like all the DK books this is beautifully illustrated and everything looks delicious The book concentrates on the foods you should eat for health that have special benefits, rather than what you shouldn't eat. It also covers advice for specific disorders as well as explaining the digestive system. My main criticism was the lack of more specific advice for specific diseases as well as clearer distinctions between the benefits of supplements and the real foods Overall it is one of the best nutrition books I've read and is both inspiring and informative

Healing Foods
Wanted information on foods that would help in various symptoms. Book has given lots of good tips