Encyclopedia of Healing Foods or Sweety Pies

Encyclopedia of Healing Foods

Author: Michael Murray

From the bestselling authors of The Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine, the most comprehensive and practical guide available to the nutritional benefits and medicinal properties of virtually everything edible

As countless studies have affirmed, diet plays a major role in both provoking and preventing a wide range of diseases. But just what is a healthy diet? What does the body need to stay strong and get well? In The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods, Michael T. Murray, N.D., and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D., two of the world№s foremost authorities on nutrition and wellness, draw on an abundant harvest of research to present the best guide available to healthy eating.

Make healthy eating a lifetime habit.

Let The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods teach you how to:

• design a safe diet
• use foods to stimulate the body№s natural ability to rejuvenate and heal
• discover the role that fiber, enzymes, fatty acids, and other dietary components
• have in helping us live healthfully
• understand which food prescriptions will help you safely treat more than 70 specific ailments, including acne, Alzheimer№s disease, immune system depression, insomnia, migraine headaches, PMS, and rheumatoid arthritis
• prepare foods safely in order to prevent illness and maximize health benefits
• select, store, and prepare all kinds of healthful foods

Providing the best natural remedies for everyday aches and pains, as well as potent protection against serious diseases, The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods is a required daily health reference.

Table of Contents:

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Part I Basic Principles of a Good Diet

1. Human Nutrition: An Evolutionary Perspective

2. Designing a Healthy Diet

3. Safe Eating

Part II Food Components

4. Protein

5. Carbohydrates and Dietary Fiber

6. Fats

7. Vitamins

8. Minerals

9. Accessory Nutrients and Phytochemicals

Part III Compendium of Healing Foods

10. The Healing Power of Vegetables

11. The Healing Power of Fruits

12. The Healing Power of Grains

13. The Healing Power of Legumes (Beans)

14. The Healing Power of Nuts, Seeds, and Oils

15. The Healing Power of Herbs and Spices

16. The Healing Power of Fish and Shellfish

17. The Healing Power of Milk and Other Dairy Products

18. The Healing Power of Meat and Poultry

19. The Healing Power of Miscellaneous Foods

Part IV Food Prescriptions for Specific Diseases

20. Promoting Health and Healing with Food

Appendix A Glycemic Index, Carbohydrate Content, and Glycemic Load of Selected Foods

Appendix B Acid-Alkaline Values of Selected Foods

Appendix C Pesticide Content of Popular Fruits and Vegetables

Appendix D Oxalate Content of Selected Foods

Appendix E Food-Drug Interactions

Appendix F Nutrient Content of Selected Foods per 31/2-Ounce (100 Gram) Serving

References

Index

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Sweety Pies: An Uncommon Collection of Country Pies and Womanish Observations

Author: Patty Pinner

“Women sharpen women. I’m convinced that you can learn a lot about a woman based on what she feeds herself and the people she loves; a woman’s recipes—especially her prized recipes—are a revelation of who the woman is: what she thinks, how she behaves, what she values, and how she lives her life.”
This is a collection of 70 such pie recipes, gathered from the women in author Patty Pinner’s life—family, friends, women who are part of her own personal history. What distinguishes this book is its utterly beguiling storytelling—each recipe is accompanied by a story told on the woman known for making the pie, from Sister Baby’s Buttermilk Pie to Miss Hatfield and Her Jelly Pies. It also filled with the truths handed down by our mothers (or that we wish had been handed down by our mothers) like: “An unhappy husband will ask for toasted snow” and “You don’t want a man who is jealous of nothing or everything.” This is a cookbook that’s about love, life, family, friendship, and community as much as it is about the recipes.

Judith Sutton - Library Journal

Pinner, who works for the post office in Saginaw, MI, comes from a large family of cooks and bakers. Her first book, Sweets: Soul Food Desserts & Memories, includes some of her favorite pie recipes, and here are even more, along with memories and anecdotes about the women who contributed the recipes. There's a story about each pie and lots of homespun wisdom ("An unhappy husband will ask for toasted snow") from Pinner's mother and other bakers. While some readers may find the small-town tales a bit wearying, others will find them an amusing reflection of a mostly bygone era. For larger baking collections.