The Jungle Effect: A Doctor Discovers the Healthiest Diets from Around the World, Why They Work and How to Bring Them Home - Hardcover

Miller, Daphne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0061535656 ISBN 13: 9780061535659

Publisher: Collins, 2008

Synopsis

Traces the author's tour to the homelands of numerous cuisines in search of foods that incorporate aesthetically pleasing flavors while remaining healthy, in a treasury of travel adventures, food-expert interviews, indigenous recipes, and nutritional secrets. 20,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

"Miller's work is consistently informative and educational...and Miller's practical advice and recipes are all geared for the novice. Anyone unafraid of modifying their diet will find this anthropological diet guide useful." -- Publishers Weekly online

"Daphne Miller is the Sherlock Holmes of healthy eating. The Jungle Effect is an odyssey where she follows clues and food experts to discover some of the healthiest diets around the world -- and how best to recreate those meals and lifestyles in our daily lives."--Juliette Rossant, author of SUPER CHEF

"This fascinating, well researched book explores the health benefits of traditional diets from Iceland to Cameroon. The benefits include reduced risk of heart disease, diabetes and depression."--Miami Herald

"The Jungle Effect was such an enjoyable read that I almost forgot I was being fed a steady dose of valuable nutrition advice--advice that combines the wisdom of our ancestors with the latest nutrition research."--Bradley J. Willcox, MD, co-author of the New York Times bestseller, The Okinawa Program and Clinician-Scientist, Pacific Health Research Institute, University of Hawaii

"In this bracingly hopeful and eminently practical book, Daphne Miller shows us how we can bring the wisdom of traditional diets to our own plates, in the interest of both our health and our pleasure. The Jungle Effect is a fascinating, useful and important book."--Michael Pollan, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food

"Presents us with a unique travelogue of healthy eating."--Gail Altschuler, MD, Medical Director, The Altschuler Clinic, A Center for Weight Loss & Wellness

"The Jungle Effect is a brilliant piece of work. Why? Because it is so gloriously green: indigenous knowledge is recycled and transformed into a comfy, hip, yummy set of food choices. The message is practical, palatable, and pleasing."--Harriet Beinfield, coauthor Between Heaven and Earth: A Guide to Chinese Medicine

"A wonderfully practical tome that explains how folks around the world benefit from the healing power of food."--Mehmet C. Oz, MD, co-author of You: The Owner's Manual

A wonderfully practical tome that explains how folks around the world benefit from the healing power of food. --Mehmet C. Oz, MD, co-author of You: The Owner's Manual"

This fascinating, well researched book explores the health benefits of traditional diets from Iceland to Cameroon. The benefits include reduced risk of heart disease, diabetes and depression. --Miami Herald"

About the Author:

Daphne Miller, M.D., is a practicing physician, author, and professor of family medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. For the past decade, her writing and teaching has explored the frontier between biomedicine and the natural world. Her widely acclaimed first book, The Jungle Effect, chronicles her nutrition adventures as she travels to traditional communities around the globe. A contributing columnist to the Washington Post as well as other newspapers and magazines, Miller holds a medical degree from Harvard University and an undergraduate degree from Brown University. She lives and gardens in Berkeley, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Collins
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0061535656
• ISBN 13: 9780061535659
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 370