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Title: Healing Foods (DK Living) by Miriam Polunin ISBN: 0-7894-4247-7 Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Publishing Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Enhancing Life
Comment: Food can prevent and treat illness. Food plays a vital role in maintaining our health. Instead of living to eat, we should actually be eating well to live well. The foods are shown in full-color pictures and each has it's own page. The key nutritional values, therapeutic properties, how much to eat, choosing and storing, cooking & eating and recipe page information is provided for each food.

The strength of this book is in the health information that demystifies the scientific evidence as to what will promote health. Yes, there are some recipes and I tried the "Polish Carrot Cake." The taste was more "healthy," and tasted more like a Cliff Bar in many ways. If you like health bars, this could be a less expensive way to go!

The ingredients included honey, yogurt and whole-wheat flour instead of sugar and all-purpose flour. The result is that you feel full eating only a small piece for breakfast. The cake also freezes well. I would say it tastes more like a carrot bread. You could take slices of this cake on a hike! I've been eating this for breakfast each day and already noticed that I don't feel as hungry before lunch.

If you are looking to avoid fats and sugars, this book will show you the way to a healthier lifestyle.

The Contents Include:

The Balance of Health: Interesting discussions on Food as Medicine, The Basics of a Healthy Diet, What's in Food, Digestion and Absorption and Special Dietary Needs.

Food Profiles: Twenty foods that have outstanding health benefits and details of their therapeutic properties.

Good Foods: Thirty delicious foods with health-enhancing powers.

Improving Your Health: Foods that help to relieve particular problems: respiratory system, eyes & mouth, digestive system, bones & joints, circulation & heart health, women's health, skin, the body's defenses, diabetic health, kidneys & urinary system and emotional health.

The recipes are a collection featuring the 20 bonus and 30 good foods for better health. After a discussion on kitchen essentials for a healthy kitchen, you will find recipes for soups, appetizers, salads, main courses, side dishes, desserts, quick breads & cakes and salsas & dressings.

Foods that are not featured in the Food Profiles section are mentioned in the "Directory of Other Valuable Foods" section. A chart with Vitamins & Minerals that are essential to life also shows the importance, effects of a shortage and the major source. The index is wonderful for finding information on foods you already love or ones you are considering adding to your diet.

Recipes that looked tempting: Hot & Sour Soup, Asparagus with Parmesan and Nutmeg, Artichoke Heart Salad, Greek Fish Stew, Broccoli Stir-Fry, Dhal, Baked Ginger Bananas, Oat Bran Muffins and Pineapple Salsa.

A guide to Optimum Nutrition.

"The quest is not so much for extra years in our life, but for extra life in our years." -Miriam Polunin

Rating: 5
Summary: To know what's best for you, read this book
Comment: This is not a collection of recipes, but rather an indepth analysis of what we eat and what effect our food has on our health. That's not to say there aren't any recipes in the book, because there are, but they're not 'spectacular'. This is the type of book you buy when you want to eat genuinely healthy food while knowing exactly what vitamins, minerals, fibers, etc you are getting into your body. It's divided into chapters, beginning with a detailed explanation of a number of 'bonus foods', telling us what they are good for, how they improve our health, their vitamin and mineral content, and a few recipes in which they could be used. The next chapter focuses on a lot more foods, explaining in less detail their benefit to our health. There is also a section in which you could identify any health problems you might have, then follow their suggestions through a customized diet plan. Brilliant color photography makes this book as enjoyable to look at as it is to read.

Rating: 5
Summary: Healing foods
Comment: I'm a high school librarian and had gotten the first edition from a display merchant. I know from doing health research that everything in this book is right on. The color photographs are fantastic. I have purchased 5 copies of the new book as a gift for family members. I think new research would include other foods which may not be in the book. For instance, chocolate and coffee have been found to have some health benefits if taken in moderation because of their caffein content. I was most disappointed that she hardly mentions olives and olive oil. Jean Calment, the former oldest woman from France lived to 122 and she stated that she attributed her longevity to olive oil. She said similar things about chocolate and port wine (non-alcohol drinkers should use purple grape juice). As a non-drinker I would put purple grape juice in moderation because of its high sugar content. Respectfully I would rave review this book at five stars so deserved because it's the best book on the subject that I've seen.