Feelgood Food: Recipes and menus for healthier Australian families

Description

So many families find it difficult to sit down to a meal together these days because of health concerns: someone has asthma, another has glucose intolerance. This collection of easy recipes are designed to be delicious and therapeutic for a wide range of chronic illnesses. They not only taste great, they will do your family good. Feelgood Food for Families is a cookbook with a difference: each of these eighty easy recipes has been produced by a skilled chef and leading naturopath to ensure it will be good for you and your family, with easy to read grids that show which meals are beneficial for a wide range of chronic and everyday illnesses from asthma to allergies, food intolerance to tonsillitis. Divided into breakfast, lunch, dinner and treats, with a note on the therapeutic values of the main ingredient each recipe contains, Feelgood Food for Families offers simple healthy food for everyone to enjoy that even a novice cook can attempt. Naturopath Mim Beim also advises on which foods to avoid and which ones to embrace and offers more than thirty home remedies to ease chronic problems and relieve common ailments. Menu planners and shopping lists are also included.

MIM BEIM graduated from Nature Care College with the nutrition prize in 1988 and is the author of seven books, including FeelGood Food, Beaming with Health and The Commonsense Guide to Eating Well for the Nutritionally Bewildered. She is the past Head of Naturopathy for the Australian Traditional Medicine Society (ATMS), Australia's leading society for Natural Medicine. She is also a member of NHAA National Herbalists Association of Australia. She manufactures a range of therapeutic herbal teas called Beaming with Health Herbal Tisanes.

cookery/parenting/health and lifestyle