Elizabeth Vierck - The Complete Idiots Guide Anti-Inflammation Cookbook

by Elizabeth Vierck and Lucy Beale A member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. From Betsy: To Jacqueline Schwartz LeClairFrom Lucy: To my husband, Patrick PartridgeALPHA BOOKS Published by Penguin Group (USA) Inc. Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario M4P 2Y3, Canada (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Books Ltd., 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Ireland, 25 St. Stephens Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd.) Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty. Ltd.) Penguin Books India Pvt. Ltd., 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi110 017, India Penguin Group (NZ), 67 Apollo Drive, Rosedale, North Shore, Auckland 1311, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd.) Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty.) Ltd., 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd., Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Copyright 2012 by Elizabeth Vierck and Lucy Beale All rights reserved.

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ALWAYS LEARNING PEARSON This cookbook offers you answers.

Publisher:Mike Sanders	Cover Designer:Kurt Owens
Executive Managing Editor:Billy Fields	BookDesigners: Rebecca Batchelor, William Thomas
Acquisitions Editor:Tom Stevens	Indexer:Tonya Heard
Development Editor:Jennifer Bowles	Layout:Ayanna Lacey
Senior Production Editor:Janette Lynn	Senior Proofreader:Laura Caddell
Copy Editor:Krista Hansing Editorial Services, Inc.

ALWAYS LEARNING PEARSON This cookbook offers you answers.

Not just the answer to the ongoing question, Whats for dinner?, but the answer to a larger and more serious question. You need to know what to cook for dinner that will help you feel better. You want to lighten your bodys inflammation levels. You want to feel at peace about your food selections, without giving up appetizing and satisfying tastes and flavors. With the recipes in this book, you can do all that and more. Youll find recipes for all times of day: breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks.

Plus, youll find recipes for all occasions, from family dinners, to eating alone, to preparing a fancy dinner party for all your friends. Yes, these recipes stand alone as delicious, regardless of the condition of ones health. Eating simple meals works to sustain life and works well when youre too busy to fix more elaborate fare. Ah, but eating with rich flavors and textures adds gustatory interest to meals and puts smiles of satisfaction on your face. You find both kinds within these pages. This cookbook offers meals that provide you with clean eating.

Youll select organic produce, drug-free meat, organic dairy, and pure cold-expeller pressed oils. You can be confident that the ingredients in each recipe offer you foods that dont increase your body burden of toxic chemicals, as do artificial preservatives, artificial flavorings, artificial colorings, artificial sweeteners, and other mystery ingredients. Youll be eating foods that your body was biologically designed to digest and assimilate for fuel and health. The recipes give you the means to lower inflammation levels, to lose weight naturally, and to know youre doing what it takes to improve your life, energy levels, and health. Bon appetite! How This Book Is Organized The cookbook is divided into four parts: , All About Inflammation, we discuss the basics you need to know about inflammation. Youll understand how it originates and learn about its good purposeto keep you aliveand its harmful side: too much inflammation can lead to serious health concerns and chronic conditions.

Youll learn about the body fat connection to inflammation and how to make lifestyle and dietary changes to reduce inflammation. We also review the seven principles of the anti-inflammation diet developed by noted cardiologist Christopher Cannon, MD, and Elizabeth Vierck, co-authors of