Adelsberger - Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis Cookbook: Delicious recipes for living well on a low saturated fat diet

Note: As the Australian Food Standards Code prohibits using a gluten-free claim on oat-containing products, we have not specified gluten-free rolled (porridge) oats in the recipes in this book. However, in Europe and the United States, oats can be marketed as gluten-free. First published in Australia and New Zealand by Allen & Unwin in 2017 First published in the United States in 2017 Copyright Ingrid Adelsberger 2017 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publisher. The Australian Copyright Act 1968 (the Act) allows a maximum of one chapter or 10 per cent of this book, whichever is the greater, to be photocopied by any educational institution for its educational purposes provided that the educational institution (or body that administers it) has given a remuneration notice to the Copyright Agency (Australia) under the Act. Allen & Unwin 83 Alexander Street Crows Nest NSW 2065 Australia Phone: (61 2) 8425 0100 Email: Web: www.allenandunwin.com Cataloguing-in-Publication details are available from the National Library of Australia www.trove.nla.gov.au ISBN 9781760113742 eISBN 9781952535604 Internal design by Kate Frances Design Index by Puddingburn Publishing Services Set by Post Pre-press Group, Australia Cover design: Emily ONeill Cover photographs: Stephen Mark Sullivan (banana bread and salmon); Shutterstock/MursikNata (sorbet); Shutterstock/Nataliya Arzamasova (curry); Getty Images/Steve Brown Photography (dip) OVEN GUIDE: You may find cooking times vary depending on the oven you are using.

For fan-forced ovens, as a general rule, set the oven temperature to 20C (70F) lower than indicated in the recipe. Well, it is finally here! For nearly two decades I have been promoting a plant-based wholefood diet plus seafood as the optimal dietary approach to overcoming multiple sclerosis (MS). Over that time, I have received countless requests to produce a cookbook so people with MS can easily access recipes for wholesome, delicious food that is in keeping with these guidelines. Although I cook such food regularly, I have resisted because my expertise is in science, not cooking. The definitive OMS cookbook had to wait for the right person, someone with passion, enthusiasm and a love of food, and importantly, someone with the drive to initiate and stick with the project through the inevitable ups and downs of such an important endeavour. no small achievement. no small achievement.

Ingrid was ably supported by Jack McNulty and Sandra Perry. Sandra attended the first ever OMS retreat run outside Australia, in New Zealand in 2007, and Ingrid and Jack attended the first retreat run outside Australasia. In July 2013, OMS broke new ground when Dr Sandra Neate, Dr Craig Hassed and I facilitated the first UK retreat at Launde Abbey in Leicestershire, inspiring not only a lifelong bond between those who attended but also the creation of this wonderful cookbook. With the help of our willing publishers at Allen & Unwin, we decided that a crowd-sourced recipe book was the ideal way to create this resource for people with MS, reflecting the real-life cooking and eating experiences of our expanding group of people overcoming MS worldwide. With Jacks experience as a professional chef providing culinary oversight, and Sandras nutritional knowledge ensuring appropriate dietary oversight, Ingrid drove the project from day one, proceeding to garner the best of the submitted offerings from the international OMS group. And arent they beauties! From breakfast to snack and energy bar ideas, soups, salads, sides and seriously healthy seafood dishes, through to the category people with MS ask about most oftendesserts! Yes, a range of delicious OMS-friendly sweets rounds out what I am sure will become a very practical and much-used addition to the OMS kitchen.

But there is much more than that. Ingrid provides good advice, based on personal experience, about ones approach to food and what we eat, how to substitute healthy for unhealthy ingredients, how to set up a kitchen and pantry, and a variety of cooking methods that might need a bit of tweaking to ensure food is optimally healthy. In our quest to bring the tools enabling recovery to as many people with MS as we can, we at OMS strongly endorse this important new resource for the OMS family. Supported by wonderful information on nutrition and step-by-step instructional videos on how to prepare some of these dishes on the OMS website, the barriers to adopting the OMS dietary approach that some may encounter should now be much easier to overcome. Ingrid, Jack and Sandra, you have done a wonderful job in getting this collection of mouth-watering and wholesome recipes together. Be well. Be well.

Professor George Jelinek Founder of Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis The Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis Cookbook has been written for people living with multiple sclerosis, especially for those following Professor George Jelineks Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis Recovery Program. About the Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis diet The Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis (OMS) diet is a plant-based wholefood diet with seafood and very low saturated fat. Several long-term studies show a close connection between saturated fats and the development and progression of multiple sclerosis (MS). For people with MS who avoid saturated fats (such as meat or dairy fat) but consume unsaturated fats (such as those from fish and flaxseed) the progression of the disease is typically reduced; in many cases they experience minimal effects from the disease. The OMS diet is a very healthy diet for the whole family, unless a family member has other special dietary needs. It is likely to prevent many chronic Western diseases.

Professor Jelinek advises that the recipes in this book and the OMS diet may also be beneficial for people with a variety of chronic Western diseases, including inflammatory, degenerative and auto-immune diseases, such as heart disease, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. Why do we need a special cookbook for people with MS? No other type of cookbook completely caters to the needs of people following the OMS diet. With the Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis Cookbook you can be confident that every recipe fully complies with the OMS diet. Once you become familiar with cooking in the OMS style, youll be able to adapt other recipes and create your own new ones. Where do the recipes and tips come from? The recipes and tips in this cookbook have been crowdsourced, contributed by people all around the world who are following the OMS Recovery Program. Youll see the name of each contributor at the top of each recipe and also where they live.

Everyone who has shared a recipe or a tip is helping to make it easier for others to enjoy tasty meals on the OMS diet and to follow the diet guidelines at home, at work and when eating out. Measurements in the recipes appear in both metric and imperial. The menu plan Also included, is a , using recipes that appear in the book. The menu plan shows how you can create a nutritionally balanced diet while following the OMS Recovery Program. More information about Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis For a complete explanation of Professor George Jelineks OMS diet and his research-based approach to lifestyle management, see his book, Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis: The evidence-based 7 step recovery program