The Transitional Cookbook: Eating For a Longer, Healthier Life - Softcover

McLaren, Dorrel; Allsop, Inskip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1478720840 ISBN 13: 9781478720843

Verlag: Outskirts Press, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

The Standard American Diet (S.A.D.) has been implicated in the Diabesity epidemic now ravaging America. We have come to recognize that a proper diet is akin to good health and that we need to change the way we eat if we are to reverse this deadly trend in the health of our nation. Yet, many persons, concerned about their health, and wanting to eat more sensibly and healthfully find themselves overwhelmed by the prospect of transitioning to a healthier diet. "Where do we start, where do we find the recipes, and how do we prepare such menus?" they ask themselves. There are also many persons whose idea of healthful food is that of a tasteless mishmash of vegetables on a plate and they recoil from what they feel would be a boring, unenjoyable way of eating. However, eating healthfully is not synonymous to following a diet in which the joy of eating has been removed. Far from it. In fact, for all those wanting to transition to a more healthful diet, and who wonder if they would still enjoy their food, we have two words of encouragement: 1) People like what they eat, not necessarily eat what they like. In other words, it is the custom of eating certain foods that create the taste for them in the first place. So the person who makes the conscious effort to eat more fruits and vegetables will find him/herself liking these fruits and vegetables after a while; and 2) there is a cookbook on the market that blends familiar tastes to new, healthier substitutes to give you the jumpstart you need to start eating for health, rather than simply taste. That book is The Transitional Cookbook, by Dorrel McLaren and Inskip Allsop. The Transition Cookbook has been designed to help all those seeking to change from the SAD (pun intended) diet to one that would return the vigor and vim to bodies debilitated by years of refined, processed and denatured food. This book will teach you the principles that should guide you in your shopping, menu-planning and food preparation. It will also show you how to prepare healthy, tasty dishes on limited time and budget. The authors of this book recognize the intense emotional connection that we all have to those foods that we like, and the struggle most of us go through to change our unhealthful eating habits even after being intellectually convinced that we need to. Many of us even make the effort to reform, but end up going back to the old ways after a while. Why? Because the pleasure, enjoyment and emotional connection to the foods we love overpower our intellectual conviction to change. Understandably, we all have our "not too healthy" food cravings that resist our best efforts to reform. This cookbook seeks to fill the gap between conviction and eating in a more healthful manner, thus creating a platform for maintaining a healthful dietary lifestyle. We have titled this book The Transitional Cookbook because its recipes and menus span both the traditional diets of its readers and a new healthier diet. This is done by maintaining the textures and flavors of the traditional meals that we love through food substitutions with more nutritious ingredients prepared in a healthier manner. In fact, some of the recipes in this book utilize meat substitutes to help those who love meat and are not quite ready to "go plant-based". Those following the principles and recipes found in this cookbook will find that the journey to a healthier lifestyle is not that difficult after all.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Outskirts Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1478720840
• ISBN 13: 9781478720843
• Einband: Taschenbuch
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