Food as Medicine Cooking for Your Best Health

Food as Medicine : Cooking for Your Best Health
ISBN: 9781925044621
Publication Date: 1 October 2016

Good nutrition-and good health-starts in your kitchen! And this beautiful cookbook offers 150 delicious plant-based recipes developed by a nutritionist and cook for your best health, addressing the underlying causes of our most-common lifestyle diseases.

"In my earliest memories of cooking, I picture my grandmother at her wood stove and kitchen garden in Croatia-and me climbing her sour cherry trees! She was always teaching me the value of homemade food and 'unsprayed' produce," says author Sue Radd.

"Whether you are looking to stay well and prevent disease or influence the progression of an advanced medical condition, it's never too late to start reaping benefits. Your diet is the cornerstone of health improvement. So here is my gift to you: 150 of my best recipes showing you how to use food as medicine in your own home and, at the back of the book, a summary of the current scientific evidence of how and why these recipes can transform the health of you and your family."

About the Author

Sue Radd is an Advanced Accredited Practising Dietitian and one of Australia's leading nutritionists and health communicators. Recognised by her peers as an expert on plant foods and phytonutrients, Sue is co-author of the internationally published Eat to Live, Winner of "Best Nutrition Writing" at the Vittoria Australian Food Media Awards for The Breakfast Book, and was awarded the Dietitians Association of Australia President's Award for Innovation for her Culinary Medicine Cookshops. Sue passionately believes that to live well you need to eat well!