How to Eat to Beat Disease Cookbook: 75 Healthy Recipes to Protect Your Well-Being

Recipes are not too complicated. I haven't actually cooked any of them but I can see that the ingredients are foods commonly found and judging from what I have read, I will actually use this bood.

I discovered this just surfing YouTube. What caught my attention was that the ingredients were things that I already use or try to use and the combination just made sense. I'm not great at cooking. I'm trying to learn how to eat healthy and like it. This book comes with several meals that are just delicious and I can make enough for a meal for my family, or just make enough to portion out for lunch meals at work. I really like the 5-Minute Salmon Salad, the Peaches & Cream Oatmeal, and the Avocado Chickpea Salad. I also really like that the recipes use a lot of the same ingredients so you can mix and match to save on groceries. I'm big on trying to not waste food, so I really appreciate that aspect.

The idea of this book is a good one. Food and health are strongly related. But so is genetics and environment. Beyond hyperbole, "beating" a disease like pancreatic cancer, for instance, may require more than following recipes and other regimens in a cookbook. So the authors can, and to some extent, do temper their language with tentative claims, but I find they are still too strongly expressed. Worse, while there is a good reference section, these references are not indexed to specific recipes and diet plans. E.g., if you want to stick with coffee but you want to see what the upper limit of daily consumption is that was tested in experiments, you'll need the reference. And you'll find, of course, that many of the references, if not most, are behind publisher pay walls. (Not the fault of the authors, of course.) The references are important, and well done, but you may find the digital version of this book easier to use, because presumably the hyperlinks are directly linked. OVERALL This cookbook can definitely improve your health if you are cooking your own food and planning your diet proactively. But the book is positioned at the intersection of science and self-help where bibliographically referenced claims need to range judiciously between suggestion, opinion and proof. Maybe in the second edition?

I love how this cookbook is color coded for the different benefits and directs you to the pages for the recipes on the 14 day plan. The shopping list is so helpful also. This book was put together nicely and so you can successfully follow a healthy 14 day plan and teaches you about the foods.

Love this cookbook. Easy to follow health conscious recipes and the groceries fit on a bought easily.

This is one of those cookbooks that piggybacks off a health book that sells well. Though it refers you to William Li’s book repeatedly, you’ll still get a good overview of the main points here. It’s accessible (other than the meal plan with a gargantuan shopping list) and generally follows a whole foods, clean eating philosophy, though the emphasis is more on creating recipes where a few ingredients are on William Li’s list more than on eliminating foods that have little or no health benefit (other than some forms of sugar and red and processed meat). So there’s still plenty of eggs and dairy and even an entire chapter dedicated to chicken. I don’t understand how anyone could still argue that chicken is a healing and protective food, rather than just a step up from red meat, so I’d advise you to take the author’s suggestion to replace all the chicken in her recipes with tofu or tempeh. It looked like that could work well enough in most of the chicken recipes. If you like seafood, there’s a whole chapter on that too, with advice on sourcing it so you’re eating fish with not quite as much mercury toxicity as the average. Some of the recipes looked pretty simple, but a number were more complicated than I’d want to bother with (lots took up two pages with no photos). I received a free digital review copy from the publisher.

Great recipes and details on healthy food.

Forget all of your other cookbooks. This has it ALL. The BEST foods to use based on scientific FACTS, flavor and ease of preparation. I'm thrilled and forwarding a copy to all family members. Really, FORGET the other cookbooks. This is the one...with more to follow, i'm certain. Recipes I have tried thus far include: "Raspberry, Ginger, and Hazelnut Chia Pudding" (perfect), Cinnamon-Pecan Baked Apples, Herb Stuffed Mushrooms, Lemony White Bean Dip, Chicken in Mango-Cashew Curry (I substituted tofu), Spicy Salmon Burger Patties, Savory Vegetarian Navy Bean Soup and Apricot Energy Balls. Once again: This is THE ONE!

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Book is set out well. Overview of health benefits and table of healthy ingredients with benefits at front. Two week meal plan is helpful and each week comes with a shopping list. It’s an American book so as long as you know what an egg plant or a zucchini is, you’re good to go. I just wish there were photos of each meal. Most meals are not photographed. Shame. I think I will try some of the recipes for sure but likely use the book as a means of re-educating myself on what to buy and cook!

My cousin is not well and this book was for her. She said it is giving her hope and will finish reading the book and eat the proper food Thank you.

Many thanks - book arrived safely when expected. Excellent service.

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