Passionate nutrition : a guide to using food as medicine from a nutritionist who healed herself from the inside out / Jennifer Adler, MS, CN, with Jess Thomson.

  • Adler, Jennifer
Date:
[2014]
  • Books

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"This power foods healthy living guidebook will inspire readers will eat well, lose weight, and embrace food as medicine. "Food as medicine" is a powerfully healing way to eat and was embraced by nutritionist Jennifer Adler as she recovered from a malnourUished childhood and adolescence. Part power-foods cookbook, part handbook for healthy living and eating, and part memoir, Passionate Nutrition provides digestible information, tips, and techniques for how to find your way to optimal health. She focuses on abundant eatUing (as opposed to restrictive eating), and explores what she calls "the healthy trinity"--digestion, balance, and whole foods. Adler guides and encourages readers to shift their diet to achieve this desirable balUance, introduces power foods we should all eat, and provides healthy ways to lose weight, along with simple recipes to optimize health. With her personal story interwoven, readers will be inspired to embrace the healthy power of food"-- Provided by publisher.

"Food as medicine" is a powerfully healing way to eat and was embraced by nutritionist Jennifer Adler as she recovered from a malnourished and sickly childhood and adolescence. Part power foods cookbook, part guidebook for healthy living and eating, and part memoir, Passionate Nutrition provides digestible information, tips, and techniques for how to achieve optimal health. She focuses on abundant eating (as opposed to restrictive eating), and explores what she calls "the healthy trinity" of digestion, balance, and whole foods. She guides and encourages readers to shift their diet to achieve this desirable balance, introduces power foods we should all eat, and provides healthy ways to lose weight, along with simple recipes to optimize best health. With her personal story interwoven, readers will be inspired to embrace the healthy power of food"-- Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

Seattle, WA : Sasquatch Books, [2014]

Physical description

xv, 271 pages ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-265) and index.

Contents

The background. My story ; Your story -- The basics. The 100-year diet ; A gut feeling ; The protein-sugar connection ; Weight loss and the metabolism miracle ; Food miracles, body miracles -- The essentials. What is your body saying? ; Three ingredients for natural beauty ; Good food, good sex ; Conclusion -- The recipes.

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    History of Medicine
    DFX /ADL
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9781570619458
  • 157061945X