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Giant Book of Kitchen Counter Cures: 117 Foods That Fight Cancer, Diabetes, Heart Disease, Arthritis, Osteoporosis, Memory Loss, Bad Digestion and ... Problems! (Jerry Baker Good Health series)

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Five HEALTHFUL Stars!! In this great compendium Jerry Baker's expert nutrition team, Karen Cicero and Colleen Pierre, shows that many foods can not only taste good and be the source of healthful nutrients, but have healing powers that many of us may not be aware of and can apply in specific cases of need. In an age when we hear so many individual news stories on the benefits of a particular food, it's hard to remember them over time. Now we have one place to look for many common foods available to us all that pack a nutritional punch and HEAL. Not exhaustive to be sure, but a great reference book nonetheless that outlines common foods that it claims can fight cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, osteoperosis, memory loss, etc. And the benefit cited in most of the listed foods is the #1 killer in the US: heart disease.

This book is practically a summary of the healing powers and cures of a wide variety of specifically targeted foods. In addition, there is a "Shop and Serve Solutions" area for each food with tips on selecting, storing, and preparing them. And there are 111 easy-to-prepare healthful healing recipes. It also has great tables comparing the benefits of the varioius types of berries, another table on the benefits of various types of beans, and yet another on the various types of oils.

I know that a well-known health newsletter held a "Healthiest Vegetable" contest and their tests revealed the "Sweet Potato" (no skin) is the king of veggies, so I checked for it first and it's here, along with a great 'sweet potato fries' recipe. Incidentially, "Raw Carrots" and "Cooked Carrots" (yes, listed separately) come in second & third respectively among veggies and they are likewise listed with a really simple "Sugar Baby Carrots" recipe. The rest of the health magazine top five are: "Spinach", and "Collard Greens" (a great fighter against cataracts and macular degeneration). And they are all listed in this book with extensive data on their benefits. So this book is on target in the comparison with the health newsletter's extensive research results.

Laid out in alphabetical order, literally from A to Y, with a 'bullet list' of what each food "Battles", what it "Bolsters", and a table of it's nutritional value (calories, fat, saturated fat, sodium, cholesterol, etc..). Naturally, the first food is "Apples", which "Battles" cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, and stroke. Apples "Bolsters" (bowel) regularity. And so on, all the way through 117 foods to "Yogurt" on p 485. On p. 490, there is a "Super-charged Menus" list of breakfasts, lunches and dinners for 7 days using recipes contained in the book. Very practical! it's a very readable book that may have you looking at some rather common foods differently and stocking up on them because of their benefits. It did so for me! This book could vastly improve your health or unknowingly save your life!! Five HUGE NUTRITIONAL Stars!!
(Hardcover, 510 Illustrated pages with large type fonts.)

This is a simple, yet excellent book for someone who wants to improve their health with healthy eating and needs to learn a little about nutrition. The big surprise for me was that the recipes appear to be quite good. Usually when a book covering nutrition includes recipes, they are average at best. Although I have not made any of the recipes in the book yet, I have been cooking long enough to know that there are some very good ones included. I was very impressed that the authors took the time to include recipes that actually will taste good, and are simple to prepare as well as being nutritional. I can guarantee from my own experience that anyone who switches from the regular American diet of sugar-laden and fried foods to a healthy diet like this, will see a significant improvement in their health. This is the diet my children and I had while they were growing up. They were almost never sick while at home, except for a rare cold (less than once every three years.) Once they were on their own, the ones who continued this diet remained healthy and the ones who started eating the regular fatty, sugary diet of most people had their health decline. Now they are all back on the healthy eating and their health reflects it. And the food - it tastes great. Once you start eliminating fatty fried foods and sugar, you will wonder how you ever ate it in the first place.

This is an excellent reference source! It's not only well put together in the ease of finding information, it's also fun to read from cover to cover. It's a great motivator and inspiration to eat healthier, be it fresh, frozen, dried or canned fruits and vegetables.

The book was received very timely and in excellent shape. The book was easy to read and contained excellent information.

This is a very informative book. It only cost me pennies and was worth every one of them...

Fast servoce as always from Amnazon.Item in great condition greAT BOOK FOR KNOWING HOW TO CHOOSE CERTAIN FOODS FOR HEALTHY EATING.

I have found out that I don't like any of Jerry Baker books. I also have the Supermarket book and everything I have tried doesn't work. I will stick to the methods I have always been using. Save your dough!

The information is life saving. I am so happy with it. My sisters were impressed with the info. 1 sister ordered the book right away, she went online to Amazon.com . We all could eat healthier now with this book. I am so thankful my friend Ruth had it at our Diet Class 1401.I can't stop talking about it or telling my friends where they can get it. Wonderful information. Could save many lives with good food.

This is a great book u will learn a lot buy it its cheap just like buying cotton candy and it last forever lol, recommended.

I bought this book after reading many reviews on similar books but well, was I wrong to do it..... My first mistake was to buy it used but I always thought that it would be exactly the same book as mentioned on the details.... well, mine is 3 years older! Is the information different, maybe as advice on nutrition changes rather fast! I find that Amazon should state that on the sellers details about a book, not fair to have someone save a bit of money thinking one is buying the same book while that is not correct! As I said I have no idea whether the information on both editions is the same but it is very outdated anyway and the writers seem to think that they need to patronize people in order to pass on the information because that is the only way they would ever understand it. Terrible.... many times I don't know whether to laugh or to throw the book away. First I even wondered whether it had been written for children or maybe people who have problems understanding normal language..... I read the comments on Amazon.com and I find that the four people highly over rate this book but then you never know whether they are genuine. Anyway, they got an extra person to buy it: Me!

As far as the information goes,they talk quite a bit about canned soup, for example, which I don't think it is a good example of healthy food, milk products which in the meanwhile doesn't have a good name anymore, whipped cream for example and the recipes (in case you needed any anyway) are not worth much. I won't say that there isn't some useful information but I wish that I had bought a more up to date book and also a more serious one. Another inconvenient is that this book is very big (therefore the say it is huge!), difficult to take somewhere or to read in bed for example, very heavy but there is no need for it. Why make the print so big, the pages so thick and the cover so heavy? I had never heard of this guy Jerry Baker but I can tell you one thing.... I won't be buying one of his books any time soon. The subject is interesting though so I would love to buy a really good book but I don't know whether I will be able to trust the comments or Amazon again. One really should be told if a used book is outdated or not! If I ever buy a used book through Amazon again I will contact the vendor and check the date!