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| ChefMD's Big Book of Culinary Medicine: A Food Lover's Road Map to Losing Weight, Preventing Disease, and Getting Really Healthy | 
 enlarge | Authors: John La Puma, Rebecca Powell Marx
Publisher: Crown
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  34 reviews
Sales Rank: 606
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 7.2 x 1.3
ISBN: 030739462X
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.2
EAN: 9780307394620
ASIN: 030739462X
Publication Date: April 29, 2008
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Product Description
What Dr. Andrew Weil is to herbal medicine and Dr. Phil is to TV psychology, Dr. John La Puma is to culinary medicine. At thirty-five, after eating too much of the Standard American Diet (SAD, isn’t it?), Dr. La Puma had become SADly paunchy. So he decided to research the science of nutrition while also going to culinary school to learn to cook. He created the revolutionary new concept of “culinary medicine”–recipes, foods, and meals that prevent or control common health conditions without sacrificing restaurant-quality taste.
Now you can use culinary medicine too. In ChefMD’s Big Book of Culinary Medicine, you’ll learn to stock the medicine chest in your kitchen, use the doctor inside of you, and create dishes that give you lifesaving benefits and truly dazzling flavor.
Dr. La Puma serves up a step-by-step eight-week plan to motivate you and help you change your life. Try Saffron Scallop, Shrimp, and Chickpea Paella. Or Sicilian Pasta with Swiss Chard, Goat Cheese, and Basil. Or Spicy and Rich Sausage and Kidney Bean Chili.
Anyone who loves food, wants to have more energy, wants to reverse his or her family health history, or wants to know what to eat to get and stay healthy should read this book. Its recipes, meals, and menus can work within minutes of eating them.
Experience food you can’t wait to make, and grab the energy and good health to reclaim your life.
Doctor, What Do I Eat for That?
Your kitchen needs a ChefMD. Renowned physician and professionally trained chef Dr. John La Puma has just the person for the job–you! By following the ChefMD Eight-Week Plan, you’ll find your inner doctor and learn to eat for optimal health and maximum satisfaction. Use ChefMD’s Big Book of Culinary Medicine to:
• Discover what and how to eat for forty health conditions–starting with Acne, ADD, Alzheimer’s, Arthritis, and Asthma
• Build a “culinary medicine chest” with fifty amazing foods that prevent or control common health conditions without sacrificing restaurant-quality taste
• Conquer fatigue, supercharge your immune system, and look and feel younger
• Get the most nutrition from the foods you eat
• Find the ChefMD Essentials–thirty-six healthful and flavorful brand-name foods in boxes, bags, and cans
• Fall in love with food again with fifty easy ChefMD recipes–and no guilt!
Eat and cook the ChefMD way and discover just how delicious life can be!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 29 more reviews...
 Spread too thin.... May 1, 2008
77 out of 92 found this review helpful
I like the topics this book covers, recipes and medicine but the combination offers lots of medical trivia on recipes I can find anywhere.
My suggestion, stick with "Prescription for Nutritional Healing" for a more thorough reference on the health benefits of food
and "The World's Healthiest Foods" for great recipes. (Love the Indian Curry Green Beans (p181))
 Better elsewhere May 1, 2008
66 out of 87 found this review helpful
This book is okay only if you are brand new to the whole notion of nutrition for better health. I was interested in information on how to lower cholesterol and blood pressure and found nothing I hadn't seen in a more complete discussion elsewhere. The books The Spectrum by Dean Ornish, Cholesterol Down by Janet Brill, and Neil Barnard's Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Diabetes do a much better job in getting to specifics. Before you buy this book, check out a library copy to see if it will cover what you need in the depth you need. I learned nothing new in this book and would not buy it over again.
 Brilliant new approach--definitely worth it May 5, 2008
48 out of 48 found this review helpful
I bought this book after I heard Dr. La Puma give a women's workshop in San Francisco. Though he had the audience at "Dark Chocolate", the book is even better!
I have a lot of health books, including You on a Diet and the Zone ... and a ton of cookbooks too: Mark Bittman, Deborah Madison, Fannie Farmer, Joy of, James Peterson, and of course, Harold McGee's On Food and Cooking.
But ChefMD's Big Book condenses the best of each, and makes it easy. Plus it is pretty funny too: "What can perfume, some massage lotions, and a sex toy lead to? I know what you're thinking, but that's not it." (hint: plastics).
His approach totally makes sense: Eat broccoli with meats to detoxify carcinogens. Marinate for flavor and protection. Store your watermelon on the kitchen counter for extra beta carotene. Go organic when it counts: milk, potatoes, peanut butter, ketchup, apples. No microwaving fatty food in soft plastics (the phthalates sneak in). And 25 pages of scientific papers and books to back it up.
The fact that it has 50 recipes and a diet plan is just a bonus. I've already made the 4 ingredient Chocolate Blackberry Breakfast Smoothie (for depression) from The Today Show (how cute is that?), and Pasta e Fagioli (a perfect easy soup, very rich and thick and quick--for hair/skin/nails).
Plus there are more recipes for cholesterol, blood pressure, and losing weight that my family will eat, and are quick: most are less than 30 minutes, start to finish.
I think he is a next generation Dr. Oz, and his recipes are actually way better, but he doesn't overstate the case. Blend the art of cooking with the science of medicine, but keep the medicine too--and all the flavor-- too. Works for me!
Intelligent and readable May 1, 2008
45 out of 54 found this review helpful
This book is a guide to improved health through informed food choices. Certain foods contain healthful components that can be used to combat specific medical problems. Food can play an important role in getting well.
Healthful foods are best appreciated when served in delicious meals. That's where the word "Chef" in the title comes from. Recipes are provided for presenting these foods in chef-quality meals.
The book has a pleasant tone; it's enjoyable to read. A companion website - chefmd.com - provides supplementary information.
Disappointed May 1, 2008
34 out of 48 found this review helpful
My girlfriend had heard about this book and I ordered it for her as a surprise, as we both try to eat healthy...This book was a disappointment to both of us in that, like the lady above said, the information here can be found elsewhere, and more in-depth. But if you're unfamiliar with eating healthier,etc, maybe this is a good starting point, I don't know... But that leads into the biggest problem I immediately noticed with this cook book...
There's NO pictures, aside from the author. Maybe I missed them? Every other cookbook we own has beautiful pictures of each dish, to give you an idea of what you're in for. Some of the dishes/recipes listed...don't sound good because...well, you can't see them. Some of the dishes sound good...but overall, it was a let-down.
I too suggest borrowing a copy, or flip through it at a store so you can check it out more in-depth for yourself. Maybe it just wasn't "our kind" of cook book. Any cook book to help people live better is a good thing, so it has at least THAT going for it...but in my opinion, there's better ones out there.
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