Inflammation is a serious problem for many. As you grow old, inflammation around joints can affect your mobility and restrict movement, which in turn can push you toward lifestyle diseases. But it not just the joints. Inflammation or swelling is body’s natural reaction to any kind of injury or infection. Inflammation is both useful and harmful. But chronic inflammation is a serious condition. Anti-inflammatory medicines can help you control that, but long-term use is best avoided. In The Anti-inflammation Cookbook, Amanda Haas joins forces with Dr. Bradly Jacobs to give you a list of anti inflammatory foods that can help you control inflammation through dietary means.
Amanda Haas is the culinary director for Williams-Sonoma. Dr. Bradly Jacobs is an integrative medicine physician who is focused on helping people optimize their health, sense of well-being, and vitality.
The Anti-Inflammation Cookbook: The Delicious Way to Reduce Inflammation and Stay Healthy
Author: Amanda Haas, Bradly Jacobs, Erin Kunkel (Photographer)
Hardcover: 192 pages
Publisher: Chronicle Books; 1 edition (February 2, 2016)
ISBN 1452139881, 978-1452139883
The Anti-Inflammatory Cookbook Summary
Amanda begins with sharing her personal experience with pain and chronic inflammation with symptoms similar to Rheumatoid Arthritis. She explains how after trying many different things, she zeroed in on a diet that helped control inflammation and made her life better and less painful. We eat different things, some natural and increasingly, ones which are made in factories than in nature. Some of these foods trigger things that are harmful to our body. Natural and fresh produce consumption can greatly reduce that toxins that we ingest and keep our bodies healthy.
The author explains the Four R program that aims to Remove the the toxic elements from your diet, Replace them with those that supplement good health, Restore you gut health, and Repair the inner lining of your gut to facilitate nutrient absorption.
The author believes in the Mantra ‘Food is Medicine’. Right kind of whole foods can be the best medicine to keep your body healthy and improve immunity. And healthy food doesn’t necessarily have to be bland and boring. The authors begin with a list of anti inflammatory foods that you should include in your diet and how they help in different ways. Greens, Fruite, Chillies, and spices all help you enhance important biological function and improve your overall health, when used in the right way.
And to help you do this the authors have compiled various easy and flavorful recipes. From one that you can make in advance to save time to some elaborate recipes for weekends, everyone will love. The recipes are also classified into different meal courses, so that you can easily pick the ones you want at the time.
The Anti-Inflammation Cookbook Reviews
Most readers like the photographs and easy accessibility of information in the book. They also like that the recipes shared by the author are delicious and a good way to introduce new veggies and whole foods to your family members who do not like the idea.
“Everything in moderation is a mantra, and with the exception of gluten — which is completely absent — the recipes are not restrictive.” Amanda Gold, San Francisco Chronicle
Amanda Haas on The Anti-Inflammation Cookbook at Google
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