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Embrace Healty Living and Eliminate Pain,
One Meal at a Time
Julie Daniluk, R.H.N.
Hay House
June 15, 2012 / B007B9EAA4 (Kindle Edition)
Nutrition/Cooking
Amazon
Reviewed
by Beth E. McKenzie
Chronic Inflammation
is BAD for you. Though a necessary part of the healing process,
if you never have any relief (deflammation?) you will never be healthy.
Inflammation has six basic triggers: injury, toxicity, allergies,
, infection, nutritional excess or deficiency and emotional trauma.
You can combat many of these through a diet that is less irritating
to your digestive system, which allows your body to take on problems
more efficiently.
Ms. Daniluk is quick to say there is no one perfect diet for everyone,
and that made me read her book more closely. I've been fat for decades
and have read and implemented more diet and life-style change advice
than I can remember. She advocates knowledge of my personal health
as opposed to just saying overweight people need to exercise and
quit eating foods that make them fat.. A lot of the health advice
is standard, like keeping a food journal and correlating your moods
to what you eat, consider a vegan diet, quit smoking, limit alcohol
consumption, get a check up by a health care professional prior
to changing your life, but there are other parts that are insightful
and clever. Get tested for allergies, both food and environmental
and consider the results carefully. Have your water tested. Just
because it isn't poison doesn't mean it isn't aggravating your system.
But the reason I really wanted this book was for the recipes. I
am of the school of thought that if I get two good recipes from
a cookbook, I have a good one. Not only did I find two recipes I
will regularly incorporate in our household routine (Slow-Cooked
Swiss Steak and Sweet Potato Frittata), there is enough PRACTICAL
nutritional information that I can effectively modify others. A
bonus for me is thorough information about bean and rice proteins,
and a second is utilization of a seriously ignored vegetable, the
sweet potato. There are many ways to eat a sweet potato (or yam,
or pumpkin) that does not include brown sugar and a marshmallow,
and now I have more of them.
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