Eat for Immunity
by Kirsten Hartvig (9781848990029)

Lift your spirits and gently restore balance to both mind and body with these tasty recipes designed to enhance your body's natural defenses. This authoritative, interactive guide shows how the right choice of healing foods can help you fight off illness, look and feel your best, and increase overall vitality. Information is organized by theme--food, ailment, and recipe--making this your complete go-to source for immunity-boosting nourishment.

A new paperback edition of Kirsten Hartvig's bestselling book, with more than 300 immunity-boosting foods and recipes for a healthy body and mind. - Presents detailed, easy-to-follow profiles of the immunity-boosting properties of 150 common foods. - Includes 9 special feature 'star foods' of particular dietary importance. - Provides in-depth information about 20 common ailments and serious illnesses with expert advice on how to arm the body to protect itself. - With more than 180 specially devised recipes as well as complete daily menus and diet plans. - Uses colour-coded symbols and detailed cross-referencing, for clarity and immediate accessibility.

Never before have we been so aware of the relationship between diet and immunity. Our bodies have a truly remarkable ability to heal themselves and to ward off illness, but it has been undermined by our reliance on processed and nutrient-depleted foods. This informative and practical book shows how you can incorporate tasty, immunity-boosting recipes into your diet, to enhance your body's defence systems and not only feel better but look better and enjoy increased vitality too.

The structure of the book has been carefully devised so that you can source information in various ways according to your needs, by food (look up the immunity-enhancing properties of more than 150 different foods), by ailment (find out which foods will address a particular ailment, allergy or disorder) and by recipe (choose from more than 180 delicious and and imaginative recipes). Through this unique combination of practical health and medical reference resource, health-conscious food-buyers guide and immune boosting cookbook, learn how the right choice of healing foods can help you fight off illness, lift your spirits and gently restore balance to mind and body for complete heath.

About The Author
Kirsten Hartvig is an acclaimed nutritionist whose main interest lies in helping people take charge of their health by using easily available foods and simple naturopathic techniques. She is a member of the British Naturopathic Association and the National Institute of Medical Herbalists, and author of DBP's The New Complete Guide to Nutritional Health and The Healthy Diet Calorie Counter.

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