The Medicinal Chef: Eat Your Way to Better Health

by Dale Pinnock

Overview

In this best-selling cookbook, TV's nutrition expert Dale Pinnock presents his unique and inspiring approach to healthy cooking.

With 80 simple, tasty recipes, Dale shows how easy it can be to use food to benefit your health and complement conventional treatment. Alongside the recipes there is a glossary of key ingredients and the nutritional benefits they can bring, as well as advice on how food can make a real difference to more than thirty ailments and nine key bodily systems. Dale's delicious dishes, such as his date and walnut Energy Bombs and Pineapple Zing Smoothie, really can help give a boost to all of your body's systems and improve energy levels.

Try the filling Tuna Steaks with Sweet Potato Wedges and Spring Greens packed full of Omega 3 which reduces inflammation caused by arthritis and even helps alleviate depression. From the The Famous Flu Fighter soup to Greek Pitta Pizza, and even decadent desserts such as Cheating Chocolate-Orange Delight, every recipe is easy to shop for and quick to prepare.

With simple symbols to indicate which conditions each recipe can help, eating your way to good health has never been easier or more delicious.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787137103
Publisher:	Quadrille
Publication date:	03/04/2021
Series:	The Medicinal Chef
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	40 MB
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About the Author

ITV Eat Shop Save's Dale Pinnock is The Medicinal Chef and the UK's pre-eminent voice in eating for good health. He has degrees in Human Nutrition and Herbal Medicine and a Masters in Nutritional Medicine, so he knows what foods really do your body good, and why. He has worked as a chef and knows the importance of using affordable, accessible ingredients to make it easy for everyone to unlock the full potential of the nutrients. He also collaborates regularly with GPs and other health professionals to teach people that good diet is instrumental in good health. He is the author of several best-selling cookbooks, including the recent The Nutrition Bible.

The Medicinal Chef, Dale Pinnock, is the pre-eminent voice in eating for good health. He has degrees in Human Nutrition and Herbal Medicine and a Masters in Nutritional Medicine, so he knows what foods really do your body good, and why. He has worked as a chef and knows the importance of using affordable, accessible ingredients to make it easy for everyone to unlock the full potential of the nutrients. He also collaborates regularly with GPs and other health professionals to teach people that good diet is instrumental in good health. Dale is the author of the best-selling The Medicinal Chef: Eat Your Way to Better Health, The Medicinal Chef: Healthy Every Day (winner of the Guild of Food Writers Miriam Polunin Award for Work on Healthy Eating), The Power of Three and the ground-breaking series of books to target specific ailments – Diabetes, Heart Disease, Digestion, Anxiety & Depression.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

Ingredients

Fruit 12

Vegetables 14

Dairy & fish 20

Grains 22

Nuts & seeds 23

Basics & flavorings 24

Recipes

Breakfast & brunch 30

Soups 46

Light bites 60

Small plates, sides & sharing 74

Handy, healthy snacks 90

Quick main courses 102

Weekend main courses 122

Sweet treats 144

Drinks 154

Conditions

Skin

Acne 164

Eczema 164

Psoriasis 165

Joints & bones

Arthritis (rheumatoid) 166

Bursitis 167

Osteoporosis 167

Rickets & osteomalacia 168

Respiratory system

Asthma 168

Immune system

Colds & flu 169

Metabolic system

Diabetes (Type 2) 170

Mental health & nervous system

Anxiety 171

Depression 171

Insomnia 172

Migraine 172

Stress 173

Heart & circulation

High cholesterol 174

High blood pressure 175

Digestive system

Bloating 176

Constipation 177

Crohn's disease 177

Hemorrhoids 178

IBS 179

Reproductive & urinary systems

Cystitis 179

Endometriosis 179

Menopause 180

Problematic periods 181

PCOS 181

Prostate health 182

Well-being

Hangover 183

Fatigue 183

Index 184

Further reading 191