Meals That Heal: Over 175 Simple, Everyday Recipes That Help Prevent And Treat Disease (Hardcover)

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Editorial Reviews

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revention magazine examines the healing properties of foods in Meals That Heal: Over 150 Simple Everyday Recipes That Help Prevent & Treat Disease. Anne Egan and Regina Ragone have assembled nutrition-packed dishes that are both salutary and delicious. The easy-to-use format groups recipes by meal (including dessert) and type of food. Recipes include Pasta Salad with Shrimp and Broccoli, and Pan-Seared Red Snapper with Olive Crust. Each has a sidebar listing the health problems it helps and/or treats and its nutritional value, along with health warnings when applicable. The index lists recipes according to the health problems they ameliorate. To help stimulate the taste buds are 150 b&w photographs and 30 b&w illustrations.

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Review

"Quicker than you can pop the top off a bottle of tamper-proof ibuprofen, you can find a delicious recipe to boost your health in Meals That Heal. The recipes are designed to demystify why certain foods are especially nutritious choices for helping common health problems. I loved the "quick" labeled recipes-- they're fast, fun, and tasty."--Susan Learner Barr, M.S., R.D., senior editor, Self magazine

"Meals That Heal shows you how to use whole foods to prepare simple, delicious dishes that can cure common maladies, fight off chronic disease, and help you maintain good overall health. It's the best food for whatever ails you."--Susan McQuillan, M.S., R.D., author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Losing Weight and former food editor, American Health magazine

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 416 pages
• Publisher: Rodale Books (October 5, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1579544193
• ISBN-13: 978-1579544195
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.7 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #673,746 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The only cookbook you may ever need!, December 19, 2002

By A Customer

This is such a fabulous cookbook that it is one of the few I have left in my kitchen. I am a women's health care nurse practitioner and am very interested in the way nutrition and diet affects health. This book is right-on by recommending a varied diet, rich in whole grains, vegetables, fish, etc. It doesn't limit any type of food and includes meat dishes and desserts. My favorite is the soup section, full of easy-to-make and delicious comfort foods (the pasta e fagiole soup is excellent). I am a fan of Dr. Andrew Weil's books and this cookbook is an excellent accompaniment to his diet and lifestyle advice (better than the cookbook he co-authored this year). The authors also include up-to-date information on the importance of eating omega-3 fatty acids, which many books leave out even though it is so important (for more on this read the excellent "The Omega Diet" by Dr. Artemis Simopoulos). This book does not advise skimping on fat either...it just emphasizes eating healthy fats. This book deserves a spot in everyone's kitchen!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Tasty Addition to Modern Medicine, February 9, 2006

By	C. Zellmer "Empress Candice" - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Out of all of the books I have seen in the "home remedy" category, this is one of the few that actually gives you recipes and examples of how to use the various foods and herbs to help treat different ailments. I originally ran across this book in a bargain bin at a discount store when shopping with my mother. She wound up with it and I with another book. After reading through it one day I found it was well worth the $4 she spent and decide I had to have a copy. Amazon Ho!! The layout is easy to read and wonderful to quickly find a tasty home remedy for a wide variety of aliments. Good Job Anne Egan!

5.0 out of 5 stars I liked Meals that Heal, August 25, 2009

By	Jeffrey Crossley - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I checked this book out at the library and wanted to own a copy. I found it on Amazon and the bookseller that shipped it only took a couple of days. It's a great reference book for eating healthy for your specific needs. It has a lot of information about what different foods will do for you. The recipes are easy to follow and use fairly basic ingredients. They show the breakdown of calories, carbs, fat etc per portion for each recipe.