Medicinal Cookery

The fully revised and updated 'bible' on eating for health, from the medicinal chef Dale Pinnock. Medicinal Cookery is the only book you will ever need to understand and maximise health. Fully revised and updated as a beautiful full colour cookbook, it is packed with brand new photography and delicious recipes that target many of today's common chronic complaints, including digestive problems, heart and circulation conditions, issues concerning the immune and nervous systems and skin disorders.

Dale Pinnock explains how the healing power of foods stretches even beyond the realms of vitamins and minerals, and involves a far more complex and beautifully wondrous group of biological compounds - phytochemicals. He shows how, when delivered in the right way, many of these compounds can work in a very similar way to medicinal plants and even pharmaceutical drugs, but minus the side-effects. He highlights the benefits of each food and shows how to prepare dishes and recipes that are not only delicious but have a medicinal property that makes them a powerful addition to someone's overall disease treatment plan, be this orthodox medical treatment or natural therapies. He includes recipes for all common health disorders, including problems with digestion, the heart and circulation, the immune and nervous systems, joints and skin disorders.

In this best-selling cookbook, TV's nutrition expert Dale Pinnock presents his unique and inspiring approach to healthy cooking. With 80 simple, tasty recipes, Dale shows how easy it can be to use food to benefit your health and complement conventional treatment. Alongside the recipes there is a glossary of key ingredients and the nutritional benefits they can bring, as well as advice on how food can make a real difference to more than thirty ailments and nine key bodily systems. Dale's delicious dishes, such as his date and walnut Energy Bombs and Pineapple Zing Smoothie, really can help give a boost to all of your body's systems and improve energy levels. Try the filling Tuna Steaks with Sweet Potato Wedges and Spring Greens packed full of Omega 3 which reduces inflammation caused by arthritis and even helps alleviate depression. From the The Famous Flu Fighter soup to Greek Pitta Pizza, and even decadent desserts such as Cheating Chocolate-Orange Delight, every recipe is easy to shop for and quick to prepare. With simple symbols to indicate which conditions each recipe can help, eating your way to good health has never been easier or more delicious.

This book is mainly based on the latest research results and applications of sorghum food in human diet and gets good health benefits from it. Sorghum has several medical properties and cures several diseases as mentioned in the index. Sorghum grains can be converted in various indigenous food products and include in the daily human diet. Some of the specific sorghum components when added to foods, antioxidants control rancidity development, retard the formation of toxic oxidation products, maintain nutritional quality and extend the shelf-life of products. Sorghum diet is useful for curing cancer, diabetic disorder and so many other aliments also. In addition, sources of other beneficial components of sorghum are also discussed in detail. Sorghum is the only one cereal sustain under drought situation and gives definite yield under rain-fed condition. During current climate change situation sorghum is the best drought resistant crop for getting definite amount of grain yield.

Dale Pinnock has created 80 new, tasty recipes for every lifestyle and every time of day. From graband- go breakfasts to tempting snacks, lunchbox treats, quick-fix suppers and special dinners with friends, Healthy Every Day has a practical solution to every possible challenge to eating well. Short texts alongside every recipe explain the incredible nutritional benefits of a wide range of ingredients we all know and love, and easy-to-use symbols show which bodily systems and conditions each recipe can help with. For instance the B-vitamin booster wraps that will supercharge your nerve system or even the Skin-boosting seafood one-pot that will not only taste delicious but will revitalise your skin. It also includes a new A-Z Food Pharmacy section that explains how the powerful nutrients in our food can boost our health. Dale feels passionately that making a long-term change to the way you eat is a far better path to good health than short-lived, difficult-to-follow diets. Simple, tasty, good for you - now it's never been easier to be healthy every day.

From TV’s Eat Shop Save’s resident chef and nutritionist, Dale Pinnock, comes the only book you will ever need to learn the basics of healthy cooking at home. Medicinal Chef Dale is the perfect teacher. He starts by explaining the benefits of types of ingredient like wholegrains, oils and meat and poultry, as well as cooking methods like stir-frying. The second part of the book is packed with 80 easy, everyday recipes that anyone can make and adapt in order to take a healthier path, now and forever. “The purpose of this book is to help you make sense of what healthy dishes look like, how they are composed, and what cooking methods you can use to create a healthy dish and get the best out of your ingredients.” – Dale Pinnock, BSc Human Nutrition, BSc Herbal Medicine, PgDip Nutritional Medicine

The new book from the bestselling Medicinal Chef, Dale Pinnock, provides 80 new recipes to eat healthily day-in day-out. Dale acknowledges that breakfast is, for many people, the first hurdle in a healthy diet as time pressures force us to make unhealthy choices. Here Dale provides ideas from eggs royale, chilli chocamocha breakfast bomb, to an indulgent brunch of beetroot and smoked mackerel frittata. Throughout the day, snack on choc & nut oat bars or sesame chocolate fudge. Lunchbox ideas include Roast root and rocket salad with honey mustard dressing, Cheeky chicken & lettuce roll-ups and Miso mushroom noodle soup. The need to get food on the table quickly in the evening is answered with family-friendly dishes such as pad thai, green curry salmon burgers, cholesterol-busting chicken curry or one-pot Moroccan vegetable tagine. This new book also includes several healthy meat-based recipes such as a Chicken & pink grapefruit powerhouse salad or a healthy kebab to lure you away from the takeaway. Short explanations alongside every recipe highlight the incredible nutritional benefits of a wide range of ingredients we all know and love, and easy-to-use symbols show which bodily systems and conditions each recipe can help with. A special index lists recipes by the area of health they aid, including: Skin Joints and Bones Respiratory system Immune system Metabolic system Heart and circulation Digestive system Reproductive & urinary systems Dale feels passionately that making a long-term change to the way you eat is a far better path to good health than short-lived, difficult-to-follow diets. Simple, tasty, good for you - now it's never been easier to be healthy every day.