The Sunday Times Vitality Cookbook: A Practical Guide for Healthy Living - Softcover

Clark, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007110545 ISBN 13: 9780007110544

Publisher: HarperCollins Illustrated, 2000

Synopsis

Learn the basics of a delicious diet for life: discover how to boost immunity, promote a healthy heart and build strength and stamina.

The Sunday Times Style’s health editor and nutritionist Susan Clark shows you how to learn the basics of a delicious diet for life; how to eat to boost immunity, promote a healthy heart, build strength and stamina, release energy, and encourage flexibility. The Sunday Times Vitality Cookbook explains which foods can specifically help each body system and, best of all, shows how you can painlessly instill good eating habits into your children and keep junk food in its place. Above all, The Sunday Times Vitality Cookbook is a practical cookbook, with over 100 recipes to show how you can put good nutritional theory into culinary practice.

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Review:

If healthy eating conjures up images of hearty bean stews, and a life living on soya, then this guide by Sunday Times writer and health journalist of the year Susan Clark will radically change your view. "Knowing what is on your plate is the key to this book and why you need to read it", says Clark in her introduction.

Recipes are sandwiched between the opening section detailing what a healthy diet consists of, and the final Eating for Health which covers specific problems. The end product is consequently more of an introductory health book amplified with recipes (all of which come with details on nutrients) rather than the other way round. With the educational sections punctuated with bright visuals of healthy foods, and dishes looking like they've come out of a regular cookery book, this is a very user-friendly book with a charming almost childlike quality.

The fact that the recipes have been devised by a French chef (Erick Muzard, who sadly gets the tiniest of credits) means that they are refreshingly adventurous and exotic. From the Dandelion and Pancetta Salad to the innovative Strawberry Soup with Red Wine, with even tempting meat options (usually banned from health books!) in between, Muzard proves there is a healthy twist to virtually anything. --Lorna V.

Review:

“Full of very useful information and the way forward for anyone wishing to enjoy eating healthily.”
Dr Adam Carey, The Centre of Nutritional Medicine for Vitality.

“If you want to eat yourself to health read this book. Excellent recipes and information.”
Patrick Holford, co-author of Optimum Nutrition Cookbook.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins Illustrated
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0007110545
• ISBN 13: 9780007110544
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192