Product InfoThe Optimum Nutrition Cookbook by Patrick Holford and Judy Ridgway

Optimum Nutrition is so delicious you'd never guess it was good for you!

If you thought healthy food was tasteless and boring, think again! Here are over 200 recipes using the ultimate in amazing superfoods. Whether you want to produce exotic feasts, fantastic fast food, hearty winter warmers or sumptuous desserts, these dishes are guaranteed to appeal to everyone. World-renowned nutritionist Patrick Holford has teamed up with top cookery writer Judy Ridgway. Together they prove that Optimum Nutrition can taste amazing, look exciting and be very simple to make.

'A bang up-to-date health food guide, full of taste and goodness' - Lesley Waters

Contents

The Optimum Nutrition Cookbook

Contents

• What is optimum nutrition?
• What's in your food?
• Defining the perfect diet
• Balancing your diet
• Why drinking is good for you
• Eating for energy
• The fats of life
• Anti-ageing antioxidants
• Why colour is good for you
• Boosting your immune system
• Hormone-friendly foods
• Eating for a healthy heart
• Choosing, storing and preparing food
• Cooking — the best methods
• Vegans, vegetarians and fishitarians
• Allergy-free food
• Breakfasts
• Light meals
• Snacks
• Soups
• Starters
• Main courses
• Desserts
• Drinks

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The Optimum Nutrition Cookbook

What is optimum nutrition

You can have your cake and eat it. You can eat delicious food, great snacks, delightful dinners and desserts and enhance your heath. So, why not do it? The purpose of this book is to combine 'what tastes good' with 'what does you good' in a straightforward way that you can easily put into practice.

Optimum nutrition simply means giving your body the best possible intake of nutrients to allow it to be as healthy as possible and to work as well as it can. This is a subject I've been researching since 1980 and, together with colleagues at the Institute for Optimum Nutrition, since 1984. We have learnt that being optimally nourished can:

• improve your clarity and concentration
• increase your IQ
• enhance your physical performance
• improve your quality of sleep
• increase your resistance to infection
• protect you from disease
• slow down the ageing process
• more than halve your risk of cancer, heart disease, diabetes and arthritis

These might sound like bold claims, yet each has been proven by proper scientific research. Change what you eat and you not only change your health but also your day-to-day vitality. You add life to your years and years to your life.

If you could achieve all this by eating food that tastes great wouldn't you do it? Of course — and that is what this cookbook is all about. The following pages explain what you need to eat, and how you need to store, prepare and cook food to keep its nutrient content to the maximum. You'll also want to know how to achieve optimum nutrition if you're a vegan, vegetarian or fishitarian or are on a restricted diet, perhaps because of allergies. The recipe chapters put all these principles into practice, giving you a delicious collection of mouthwatering recipes to choose from.