The Whole Life Nutrition Cookbook: Whole Foods Recipes for Personal and Planetary Health, Second Edition [Perfect Paperback]

Alissa Segersten (Author), Tom Malterre MS CN (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 19, 2007

The Whole Life Nutrition Cookbook offers readers and foods lovers a new and in-depth look at foods found in their whole form and how to prepare them. Learn to prepare foods that promote optimal health, decrease inflammation, prevent disease, and energize your body. There are over 200 delicious, nourishing recipes in this cookbook that will delight your taste buds and satisfy your soul.

The Whole Life Nutrition Cookbook includes:
Evidence-based information on whole foods
Information on food sensitivities, including ways to adapt recipes with gluten, dairy, eggs, or soy
A complete guide to stocking your whole foods pantry
Sweet and savory whole grain baked goods that are gluten, dairy, egg, and soy-free
Scrumptious vegetarian recipes along with delicious fish, poultry, and meat recipes
A schedule for introducing solid foods to infants
A proven 28-day elimination and detoxification diet

The Whole Life Nutrition Cookbook provides a diverse array of recipes for every taste bud and eating style. Recipes include Minty Green Smoothie, Sweet Rice Cereal, Root Vegetable Pancakes, Easy Gluten-Free Biscuits, Orange Currant Millet Bread, Quinoa Zucchini Bread, Fall Pinto Bean and Yam Soup, Creamy Butternut Squash Soup, Turkey and Wild Rice Soup, Raw Sauerkraut, Autumn Harvest Salad, Braised Kale with Garlic and Ginger, Curried Vegetables, Buckwheat Soba Noodle Salad, Thai Fried Rice, Coconut Quinoa Pilaf, Spinach and Tofu Enchiladas with Spicy Ancho Chili Sauce, Tempeh Fajitas, Lentil and Spinach Dal, Sunny Sunflower Seed Burgers, Spiced Citrus Salmon, Coconut Lime Chicken, Lemon Blueberry Pudding, Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies, Raw Chocolate Hazelnut Brownies, Zesty Lemon Tart, Decadent Chocolate Bundt Cake, and Berry Peach Iced Nut Cream. There are also recipes for healing teas, nut milks, and smoothies, as well as recipes for salad dressings, dips, and sauces. With so many recipes to choose from, the question: What's for Dinner? can easily be answered every time.

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About the Author

Alissa Segersten received her Bachelor's of Science from Bastyr University in Kenmore, Washington. She is the previous owner of a Personal Chef business in Seattle, Washington that successfully addressed the health and lifestyle needs of many families with her delicious, healthy cooking. She is currently a cooking instructor, empowering people with cooking skills and knowledge of whole foods so that they may reconnect with the pleasure in eating delicious, nourishing food.

Tom Malterre received both his Bachelor's and Master's of Science in Nutrition from Bastyr University and is licensed by the state of Washington as a Certified Nutritionist. Tom empowers people through classes, seminars, and private counseling with his insight and depth of knowledge on the biochemical interactions within our body and their relationship to our diet.

Whole Life Nutrition is located in beautiful Bellingham, Washington and offers Nutritional Counseling, Cooking and Nutrition Classes, Health Food Store Tours, and Support Groups to supply the necessary life skills needed to make lasting, positive change a reality. For more information, visit WholeLifeNutrition.net or visit their popular recipe blog, NourishingMeals.com.

Product Details

• Perfect Paperback: 440 pages
• Publisher: Whole Life Press; 2nd edition (October 19, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0979885906
• ISBN-13: 978-0979885907
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 6.9 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (83 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,762 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #2 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Special Diet > Whole Foods
  • #15 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Special Diet > Allergies

More About the Author

Alissa Segersten received her Bachelor's of Science from Bastyr University in Kenmore, Washington. She is the previous owner of a Personal Chef business in Seattle, Washington that successfully addressed the health and lifestyle needs of many families with her delicious, healthy cooking. She is currently a cooking instructor, empowering people with cooking skills and knowledge of whole foods so that they may reconnect with the pleasure in eating delicious, nourishing food. For sample recipes and to view her blog, please visit WholeLifeNutrition.net.

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100 of 100 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars BEST RECIPES EVER!!!, October 25, 2007

By 

Jenna Boudreau (Bellingham, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Whole Life Nutrition Cookbook: Whole Foods Recipes for Personal and Planetary Health, Second Edition (Perfect Paperback)

Ali is an extremely talented whole foods chef, and master of user friendly recipes, one who definitely should be writing cookbooks. Tom is a walking encyclopedia of up to date nutrition information. If you are going to own one cookbook, this is the one to own. These recipes have benefited my family so much-I don't know what I would have done without them!

My daughter is gluten intolerant, and we also avoid dairy products-this book makes it so easy to eat delicious food, special diet or not-you will eat better than you ever have! Be sure and use the handy pantry list for shopping...I have given several as gifts-always very well received!!!

The chapters are as follows:
Part One: Introduction
1. Welcome
2. How to Use This Book
3. What's up with Gluten, Dairy, and Eggs?

Part Two: Eating Whole Foods
4. The Basics of a Whole Foods Diet
5. Organics, Your Health, and the Planet
6. Diet and Global Warming
7. Making the Change
8. Sample 7 Day Whole Foods Menu

Part Three: Your Whole Foods Kitchen
9. Stocking Your Whole Foods Pantry
10. Essential Cooking Equipment
11. Definition of Cooking Techniques

Part Four: The Recipes
12. Breakfast
13. Fresh Breads & Muffins
14. Soups
15. Fresh Salads and Vegetables
16. Whole Grains
17. Vegetarian Main Dishes
18. Fish, Poultry, & Meat
19. Dressings, Dips, & Sauces
20. Nutritious Desserts
21. Scrumptious Snacks
22. Delicious Drinks

Part Five: Appendix
Measurement Equivalents
Food Allergy Substitution Charts
Hidden Food Sources of Gluten
28-Day Elimination and Detoxification Diet
Introduction Solid Foods to Infants
Useful Resources

173 of 180 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A simple answer to difficult illness, March 8, 2008

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S. Clark "alive at last!" (Washington) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Whole Life Nutrition Cookbook: Whole Foods Recipes for Personal and Planetary Health, Second Edition (Perfect Paperback)

I am a difficult patient
I don't give up
I keep trying
I keep looking for answers
I keep an open mind
I know the answer may come from anywhere
-"chance favors the prepared mind" Louis Pasteur
I collect exceptional physicians
creative, think-outside-the-box docs
I always ask "Why?"
I always ask "How?"
I have high expectations
I don't accept less than 100% function
I expect an answer

Who would have thought the answer was in the food I eat?

Since the late '80's, perhaps for my entire life, I have struggled with physical and mental illness. In 1997, depression, mood swings and debilitating chronic fatigue overwhelmed me.

For ten years my Psychiatrist and my husband kept me alive.

By 2006, I had the mental illness medically controlled and had resigned myself to spending the remainder of my life managing the chronic fatigue by living five hours a day.

Beginning late in 2006, my doctor recommended I look at the food I eat, and find a good Nutritionist. I said, " What? Food cause all the different problems I am dealing with? I find that hard to believe." But, I am always looking for an answer, and I had nothing to lose but a non-functioning life, so I committed to the process 100%.

I was fortunate that the Nutritionist's Elimination and Detoxification process was included in the newly published Whole Life Nutrition Cookbook. The book also included recipes WITHOUT foods I would soon discover made me ill.

Within twelve days of beginning the Elimination and Detoxification process, the mental issues and the fatigue dramatically diminished. When I finally understood how food was affecting me, I said, "All these years I have been working very hard to eat the best food I can...whole grains, organic, locally produced...But I was poisoning myself every day/all day long, each time I ate. I might as well have been eating the dollar bills for all the nutrition I was getting!" The inability to absorb nutrition that was the basis for all my chronic medical problems - Simply, I was malnourished.

March 1, 2008 marks the 16th month since beginning the identification and elimination of foods I react to. I have never before experienced sixteen consecutive months where I have not had the cold or flu. My immune system is now functioning.

I am now off all medications.

There are times when I say, "I don't know who I am any more" because I feel so different.

Different in a good way.

My life is before me now, unknown and inviting.

Thank you, Ali and Tom, for creating this book.

46 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Much more than a cookbook...., October 26, 2007

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Lisa Wachholz "health nut" (Madison, WI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Whole Life Nutrition Cookbook: Whole Foods Recipes for Personal and Planetary Health, Second Edition (Perfect Paperback)

I was very pleased to see this second edition of the Whole Life Nutrition Cookbook come out, since I have been a loyal fan of the first edition for a year (and my copy is looking very appreciated)!

The reader will find the first eleven chapters of this book filled with well-written current information about why eating whole foods will improve your health and how to make the change. The authors have carefully spelled out how to stock your kitchen, basic cooking techniques and introductions to foods you may not be familiar with.

I have begun using this book as a text for my wellness and nutrition classes. It has been well received by people who know that they should eat better but don't know where to begin.

And the recipes...mmmm, delicious! I own many "health food" and "natural cooking" type cookbooks, and these are by far the most flavorful and simple to prepare recipes that I have found. It's all in the liberal use of the seasonings.

I especially appreciate the gluten free/dairy free options that are a necessity for my family. And I am hooked on "Tom's Fruity Medicine Chest Smoothie"; who ever thought that something that green could taste so good?

Thanks to Alissa and Tom for this gift of fun cooking and better health!