For people trying to lose weight and enhance well-being, it's a little miracle: chia, a tiny seed that the Aztecs used for centuries as a super food, provides a complete source of dietary protein with more omega-3 fatty acids than salmon and more fiber--but fewer carbs--than rice, grains, and corn. In fact, chia is a gluten-free natural appetite suppressant that helps regenerate muscle, sustain energy, and balance blood sugar. This definitive work covers the history and benefits of chia, and features a comprehensive daily strategy for weight loss, plus delicious recipes!

Offering a humorous but practical guide for the gluten-intolerant and wheat-allergic, the author tells how to eat nutritiously at home or out in chapters that include information on the latest research into celiac disease, dozens of new recipes, an updated resource section, and other helpful topics. Originally published as Against the Grain. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Celiac disease is a chronic digestive disorder caused by a sensitive reaction to gluten. Using gluten-free flours, breads, and pastas, the recipes here cover everything from the everyday (Chicken Kiev and Spaghetti Bolognese) to the elegant (Rack of Lamb with Mustard Crust and Chicken Risotto with Fennel and Pine Nuts). The book also provides information on diagnosis, lifestyle changes, foods to avoid, and pantry stocking. Black-and-while illustrations are featured throughout.

A nutritional therapist and consultant outlines portable breakfast and lunch alternatives to sandwiches that follow the gluten-free Paleo dietary philosophies, providing 100 simple meal options including Chicken Salad with Fennel and Cranberries, Cherry Tarragon Breakfast Sausages and the Paleo Italian "Sub" with Pesto. Original. 15,000 first printing.

The only whole food cookbook for peoplewith diabetes—featuring 150 recipes Eating with diabetes means eating healthy. But manycookbooks for people with diabetes substituteartificial sweeteners and processed foods at theexpense of great flavor. Now if you want tomake healthier choices, you don’t have to give up goodfood! The All-Natural Diabetes Cookbook features 150 recipesthat focus on whole foods and unprocessedingredients. YOu can enjoy: Blanco HuevosRancheros, Creole-Style Red Beans and Rice, RoastedWild Salmon Fillet with Orange-Miso Sauce,Horseradish Pork Tenderloin on Naan with Arugula,and much,much more!YOu can do away with artificial ingredients that leaveyou feeling unfulfilled! Forget those “fat-free” productsthat are really just flavorless! Healthy eating is not onlygood, it’s also great tasting!

• The first cookbook devoted to the use of super-nutritious hemp seed. • Contains more than 50 low-fat, high-fiber, vegetarian recipes for both hempsters and mainstream cooks. • Nature's best source of protein and EFAs--better even than soy. Born from the flower of the cannabis plant is a seed bursting with vital energy that nourishes, heals, rebuilds, and refuels our bodies. Now this hallowed plant gets to shine in the world's first cookbook devoted exclusively to the delicious and nutritious dishes you can make using hemp seed. Packed with easily digestible proteins that contain the correct proportions of all eight essential amino acids necessary for good health, hemp seed surpasses even soy as the best vegetable protein available. High in dietary fiber but low in saturated fat, this miraculous and ancient food is also the planet's best source of essential fatty acids (EFAs), which a wealth of scientific research has shown help to prevent degenerative diseases, clean the arteries, improve brain function, and boost our immune systems. In The Hemp Cookbook, Todd Dalotto serves up a tantalizing smorgasbord of recipes that combine the unique nutritional advantages of hemp seed with other vitamin- and mineral-rich foods, creating one of the healthiest and most original cookbooks ever offered. From hearty breakfasts of Hemp Pancakes to gourmet dinners of Vegan Cannabis Stuffed Shells and holiday toasts with rich and creamy Hemp Nog, Dalotto has produced a book that will be welcomed by hempsters and mainstream cooks alike. With chapters providing complete nutritional information on hemp seed, a culinary history of cannabis around the world, a listing of sources for hemp foods, and instructions for creating your own hemp oils, flours, milks, and butters, The Hemp Cookbook is the first and last word on cannabis cuisine.

A five-part cookbook that features sections on seasonal cookery and holiday cuisine presents a classic collection of recipes for healthy, low-fat dishes that combine fresh ingredients with savory flavors

500 Low-GI Recipes provides quick and easy low-GI dishes for snacks, main dishes, even desserts! Readers learn how simple food swaps such as sweet potatoes for white potatoes, using whole wheat rather than white pasta and berries rather than bananas can lower the GI index of a dish or meal for healthier eating as well as weight loss. Low-GI versions of traditionally high GI foods such as breads, pastas, desserts and casseroles are included. Forget low-carb, low-fat, low-calorie diets. This is a healthy eating plan that can be used for life to lose weight, feel energized, and be healthy.

Discusses ways to cope with cancer, outlines dietary concerns, provides nutritional information, and offers recipes for breakfasts, snacks, main dishes, side dishes, and desserts.

Presents over four hundred recipes for healthy dishes prepared on the stovetop or in the oven, including spinach pie, mango cashew salad, honey whole wheat bread, and pumpkin cupcakes.