Recipes for Life: From the Fitonics Kitchen [Hardcover]

Marilyn Diamond (Author), Lisa Neuwirth (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1998

Recipes for Life makes your commitment to healthy eating easier than ever. After over two decades of collaboration in the search for the most pleasurable, yet wholesome, eating lifestyle, Marilyn and Lisa understand that it's not just healthy food you're after, but taste-explosive, big-flavored, state-of-the-art eating that's contemporary, gourmet, practical and affordable. These "recipes for life" will become lifelong favorites because they bring about physical health as well as mental and emotional balance...a regeneration of all of you. You'll be lighter, more energetic and radiant, without ever feeling deprived by a diet.

Recipes for Life presents recipes for all occasions. Stoke your morning energy with imaginative, slenderizing tonics, super-nutritious prescriptions for meals-in-a-glass, such as refreshing Island Tonic. Enjoy a variety of energizing high protein midday Power Lunches, from Pan-seared Salmon with Wilted Greens and Cucumber Relish to New York Steak Super Salad Goat Cheese and Grainy Mustard Vinaigrette. Vegetarians and non vegetarians alike will delight in the cleansing Soothing Supper concept of heart-healthy New World Lasagna or Winter Vegetable Stew in Hearty Brown Gravy. You'll find wholesome soups and super salads for speedy weight loss, and a delightful selection of sweets for every taste, including muffins, cookies, cakes, pies and tarts that will make you healthier than ever!

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Recipes for Life can be used on three levels. First, it is a cookbook full of healthful dishes bursting with flavor and color. Second, it can guide you through eating fresh, raw foods and other practices that Diamond endorses and millions of people swear have improved their health. And finally, it is a holistic guide for living, which recommends nine Fitonic principles for creating a lifestyle that enhances your spiritual and emotional, as well as your physical, well being.

On the holistic level, Diamond's recommendations are similar to the positive thinking and meditative routines presented by other popular New Age gurus. On the dietary level, advice includes when, what, and how to eat. For example, Diamond suggests eating your main meal at midday and gives guidance for using carbohydrates for a mellowing effect. Her main emphasis, however, is on consuming raw foods. She claims that raw food is so full of nutrients and enzymes that "it digests on its own, without requiring any ... digestive energy from your body." The result is that you have increased vitality for everything from thinking more clearly to losing weight.

Much as Diamond favors raw foods, the meat, fish, and poultry recipes created by her daughter, Lisa Neuwirth, who is a graduate of Culinary Institute of America, are as impressive as those for grain-free Fruesli, spicy Gazpacho Arizona, and a whole-grain Lemon-Chocolate Bread Pudding. --Dana Jacobi

About the Author

RECIPES FOR LIFE
FROM THE FITONICS KITCHEN

MARILYN DIAMOND, co-author of Fit For Life, the best-selling diet and health book in publishing history, has been a leading spokesperson in the natural health movement for more than two decades. Her recently published FITONICS FOR LIFE, co-authored with her husband Dr. Donald Burton Schnell, takes the Fit for Life message to a new level with a total wellness program that includes exercise, diet, and spiritual awareness.

RECIPES FOR LIFE: From the Fitonics Kitchen, co-authored with Marilyn's daughter Lisa Neuwirth, continues the mind/body/spirit connection, making healthy eating more attractive than ever with delicious easy-to-prepares for all occasions.

Ms. Diamond has reached out beyond her writing to become a tireless worldwide emissary for healthy living. In frequent demand as a lecturer, she has made multiple appearances, on "Oprah," "Donahue," "The Merv Griffen Show, "Sally Jessy Raphael," "Live with Regis and Kathie Lee," "The Home Show," "Larry King Live," "The Today Show," and many others. Her other books include: TheAmerican Vegetarian Cookbook and A New Way of Eating from the Fit for Life Kitchen.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 353 pages
• Publisher: Avon Books (T); 1st edition (May 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0380974878
• ISBN-13: 978-0380974870
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.7 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #563,175 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Harvey and Marilyn Diamond are also the authors of the bestselling Fit For Life 2. And, Marilyn also penned The American Vegetarian Cookbook and A New Way of Eating. She is co-author with Dr. Donald Schnell of Fitonics. Marilyn Diamond lives in Beverly Hills, CA. Havery Dimond lives in Florida.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I love Marilyn's Recipes, October 21, 2010

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This review is from: Recipes for Life: From the Fitonics Kitchen (Hardcover)

I absolutely love this cookbook. I have had it for about 10 years... and I use her recipes for dinner parties... everyone loves the food. (or so they say) ;)