Healing through Nutrition by Eliza Savage

Healing through Nutrition by Eliza Savage ISBN-13: 9781641528139 Paperback: 212 pages Publisher: Rockridge Press Released: March 24th 2020

Source: ebook review copy from the publisher through NetGalley.

Book Description, Modified from Goodreads:
Natural medicine isn’t just herbs and oils―what you eat every day has the power to support your health and well-being. Healing through Nutrition is your essential guide to 50 plant-based foods packed with vital nutrients like antioxidants and dietary fibers. With this nutrition reference at your fingertips, it’s easy to integrate more plants into your diet―and invite their healing properties into your life. With details for a wide variety of superfoods―vegetables, fruits, whole grains, nuts, herbs and spices, even coffee and tea―you’ll find resources for many common health problems.

Get acquainted with each food’s restorative powers, the medical conditions it may benefit, and how you can use it in your everyday life. 94 nourishing recipes how you to integrate each nutrition source into your life with one or two accompanying recipes, like Apple Cinnamon Ginger Oats, Chickpea-Stuffed Acorn Squash, Grapefruit Avocado Salad, and more.


My Review:
Healing through Nutrition profiled 50 different plants that are known to have healing effects through their nutritional content. The author started by briefly talking about how plants have been used historically all over the world for their healing properties and about how whole food and organic are better choices. She then profiled 15 vegetables, 10 fruits, 10 whole grains, legumes, and nuts, 10 herbs and spices, and 5 coffee, tea, and tisanes. For each plant, she talked about how it had been used traditionally, what compounds are most notable in the plant (like beta-carotene or lutein), what those compounds do, what health conditions the plant is useful for, and what I presume is a suggested serving size. (Her word choice was occasionally confusing.)

She included 1 to 2 recipes for each plant (usually two recipes). She included how many people the recipe serves, prep time, cook time, about the recipe, ingredients and instructions, suggested variations, storage tips, and per serving information (calories, saturated fat, total fat, protein, total carbohydrates, fiber, sodium). There were only a few pictures included of the recipes. These simple recipes usually used only a few ingredients and they were common and easy to find. I'd recommend this book to those new to the idea of plant-based healing.


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