The New Whole Foods Encyclopedia - About
About the Book
The New Whole Foods Encyclopedia is a One Spirit, Quality Paperback Book Club selection.
Discovery Channel's Home Matters show featured Rebecca and her spectacular resource for healthy eating.
There are many influences on how and what we eat: convenience, familiarity, dietary restrictions and weight maintenance goals. Wouldn't it be nice if instead of reaching for a quick-fix candy bar, a diet shake or a cardboard rice cake we could reach for something healthy, delicious and enjoyable? Rebecca Wood, author of The New Whole Foods Encyclopedia can lead us to expand our minds and menus while we achieve optimal health benefits the natural way.
Winner of the James Beard and Julia Child/IACP (International Association of Cooking Professionals) awards, Wood provides a spectacular resource for healthy eating. From alfalfa to Zucchini -- The New Whole Foods Encyclopedia explores how to select, prepare, and store more than 1,000 familiar and unusual healthful foods. In addition, Wood provides tips on health and healing using the ideologies of Western Nutrition, Chinese medicine and the Indian medicine Ayurveda. Very simply, Western Nutrition analyzes the nutrient properties of the food, Chinese medicine uses the principles of yin and yang to determine the properties of a food and the science of its functional relationships and Ayurveda uses a plant-based diet of whole, fresh, seasonal and regional foods for medicinal purposes. Wood provides these alternative health options so that readers have a wider base of wisdom from which to chose and learn.
It has many unique features including:
- A complete index, organized so readers can research treatments by ailment as well as by the food itself.
- Illustrations of the more unusual foods so that readers may recognize them in stores.
- A list of resources for harder-to-find foods.
- Many wonderful and healthy recipes.