The Anti-Inflammation Diet and Recipe Book : Protect Yourself and Your Family From Heart Disease, Arthritis, Diabetes, Allergies — and More

The connection between inflammation and heart disease, arthritis, and other chronic ailments has become increasingly clear. Many food allergies and poor dietary choices over stimulate the immune system and cause inflammatory responses that erode the body’s wellness and pave the path for ill health. Based on her naturopathic practice, Jessica Black has devised a complete program for how to eat and cook to minimize and even prevent inflammation and its consequences. The first part of the book explains the benefits of the anti-inflammatory diet with an accessible discussion of the science behind it. The second half contains 108 recipes. The author offers many substitution suggestions and includes a healthy ingredient tip with each recipe. Most of the dishes can be prepared quickly and easily by even novice cooks. A week of sample menus for summer months and another for winter are included, as well as a substitutions chart, allowing readers to modify their favorite recipes to increase their healing potential. Recently, the connection between inflammation and heart disease, arthritis, and other chronic diseases has become established. Many food allergies inefficiently and overabundantly stimulate the immune system to react and cause inflammatory responses. Any inflammation in the body interferes with and slows down metabolism and the healing response. Chronic inflammation within our bodies erodes our wellness and paves the path for ill health.What is an anti-inflammatory diet? It eliminates many common allergenic foods that may promote inflammation in the body and reduces intake of pesticides, hormones, and antibiotic residues. The diet is full of whole foods, eliminates processed foods, sugars, and other man-made foods such as hydrogenated oils, and encourages ample vegetable intake for essential nutrients. The anti-inflammatory diet therefore promotes simpler and easier digestion and offers less insult on the body by reducing intake of toxins and other difficult to digest foods. If the blood and lymph are properly supplied and difficult to digest or assimilate foods are eliminated, cellular function, or in other words, metabolism, improves. Therefore the body is supported in such a way as to facilitate cellular regeneration and not cellular degeneration which may promote disease.The author, a naturopathic doctor, has helped many people on their way back to health with this anti-inflammatory diet. THE ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DIET AND RECIPE BOOK is the first book to give the complete program with specifics on how to eat and cook in order to prevent and counter inflammation. The purpose of the book is to act as a guide to help people learn to cook healthily. The first part of the book explains the benefits of the anti-inflammatory diet, gives the science. The second half of the book contains 108 recipes.Many of the recipes can be used as a template for even greater meals. The author offers many substitution suggestions and includes healthy tips with each of the recipes. Most of the recipes take very little time to fix. A week's sample menu for summer months and another for winter months is included as well as a substitutions chart, so that you can modify your favorite recipes to make them more healthy.This is a book for every healthy kitchen. Contents 6 Foreword 8 Preface 10 Acknowledgments 12 Why an Anti-Inflammation Diet? 14 CHAPTER 1. Modern Health Paradigms 15 The Role of Primary Care 16 What Is Naturopathic Medicine? 17 How Disease Begins 19 The Flaw in Germ Theory 20 The Health of Our Children Equals the Health of Our Future 21 What Do We Mean by “Anti-Inflammation Diet”? 22 CHAPTER 2. Inflammation: What’s the Big Deal? 25 What Is Inflammation? 25 Inflammation and Chronic Disease 28 Stress and Inflammation 32 The Harm in Chronic Use of Anti-Inflammatory Medication 34 CHAPTER 3. The Importance of Diet 36 Mitigating the Effects of Toxic Overload 36 You Really Are What You Eat 37 Food Allergies, Food Intolerances, and Inflammation 38 Certain Foods That Contribute to Inflammation 41 Symptoms of Food Allergies 45 Other Common Food Allergies 45 CHAPTER 4. The Anti-Inflammation Diet 47 The Building Blocks 47 Eat More of These Foods 54 Lifestyle Choices 57 Mealtime Recommendations 58 A Few More Suggestions 59 CHAPTER 5. How to Use This Book 61 Converting Yourself and Your Family 61 Be Prepared 62 Modifying Recipes 62 Helpful Items to Have in the Kitchen 63 Sample Menus 64 Recipes 68 Appetizers, Side Dishes, Seasonings, and Spreads 69 Breads, Muffins, and Tortillas 102 Breakfasts 112 Teas and Other Beverages 129 Entrées 138 Grains 176 Salads 180 Soups 203 Sweet Things 220 APPENDIX: Substitutions Chart 239 References 241 Online Resources 245 Index 246 The connection between inflammation and heart disease, arthritis, and other chronic ailments has become increasingly clear. Many food allergies and poor dietary choices overstimulate the immune system and cause inflammatory responses that erode the body's wellness and pave the path for ill health. Based on her naturopathic practice, Jessica Black has devised a complete program for how to eat and cook to minimize and even prevent inflammation and its consequences. The first part of the book explains the benefits of the anti-inflammatory diet with an accessible discussion of the science behind it. The second half contains 108 recipes, offering many substitution suggestions and including a healthy-ingredient tip with each recipe. Most of the dishes can be prepared quickly and easily by novice cooks. A week of sample menus for summer months and another for winter are included, as well as a substitutions chart, allowing readers to modify their favorite recipes.--From publisher description