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The Top 100 Immunity Boosters: 100 Recipes to Keep Your Immune System Fighting Fit | 
 enlarge | Author: Charlotte Haigh
Publisher: Duncan Baird
Category: Book
List Price: $9.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 66799
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 5.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 1844831116
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.2
EAN: 9781844831111
ASIN: 1844831116
Publication Date: July 28, 2006
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Product Description
Eat well today for a healthier tomorrow! With proper nutrition, we can actually bolster our immune system—and, as these 100 recipes prove, it’s not only easy to do, it’s also delicious. Here are foods rich in important vitamins, such as A, B complex, C, and E; in minerals, including zinc, selenium, and calcium; in Omega-3 and -6 fatty acids; and in protein and fiber. For each choice, there’s a tasty recipe, and information on its beneficial nutrients. Enjoy a sweet potato summer salad (with lots of betacarotene); cholesterol-lowering guacamole; broccoli stir-fry (a potential cancer-fighter); and a tasty blueberry smoothie. An ailment directory makes it simple to locate the right food for any problem.
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 Excellent book September 8, 2008
Very interesting book it helped me a lot to understand what I should eat to fight an specific sickness and improve my immune system
HEALTHY FOREVER June 20, 2008
THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS I HAVE EVER OWNED. I REFER TO THIS BOOK ALL THE TIME.
Great quick reference and over view. June 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My girlfriend has had this for a while and I'm always reading it. As someone with a couple health conditions, this is a great reference to get a simple low down on various food and how they can help you.
Sure, there are more in depth books out there, but as a quick reference, the short descriptions and the friendly index help adjust your diet for certain ailments. This book is perfect for people who are just starting to get into diet and how it can improve their lives beyond just "dieting". It's short, easy to read, and comes with healthy recipes.
Of course, if you're REALLY serious, you should be talking to a nutritionist or certified doctor in homeopathy/herbology. I've seen a few western medicine doctors already and none of them even took my diet into account as part of the problem/cure. But they did blindly recommend some pills as specified from a computer. Yea health!
So the bottom line for me (IMO), see a doctor, double check with a homeopathy/herbology doctor, and get this book as the reference.
Nice thumbnail volume about immunity boosting foods December 6, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a short book; it doesn't have too much that one would call revolutionary in it. But it's a nice, economical listing of some of the best immunity-boosting foods out there. As the author, Charlotte Haigh, says at the outset (page 8): "To keep the body's immune organs and cells healthy, it is vital to eat the right foods."
There are also some thumbnail recipes going with each of the immunity boosters. It's not really a cookbook, but some of the recipes might be interesting to readers (e.g., gazpacho for the tomato, rosemary tea, broccoli stir fry).
Much of what appears here, many people already know. But a compilation of 100 items in a short book like this is a nice resource. Some examples?
Onions: they have lots of one specific flavenoid, and it helps against cholesterol, h. pilori, and serves as an anti-inflammatory agent.
Chili pepper: Red chili peppers contain the antioxidant beta-carotene; another chemical may give some a bit of relief from headaches.
Broccoli: Unlike President George H. W. Bush, I love broccoli! And it's a very healthful food, with antioxidants, fiber, and so on.
Walnuts: They are rich in antioxidants, omega fats, and vitamins. Crunchy and tasty. I'm trying, parenthetically, to have a handful of handfuls of mixed nuts each day--with walnuts among those.
Rosemary: It contains flavenoids, has oils that are healthful to one, and various minerals.
And so on and so on. Again, not much new here, but there's a lot of information in a small volume, so its portability is attractive.
 Not many surprises, but a good overview November 18, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I would have liked more in-depth info on these immunity boosters. Instead, this book has a brief overview of the items chosen plus a recipe for incorporating it into your diet.
Not surprisingly, most of the foods are various fruits & veggies, but some herbs, meat and fish, and yogurt are included, too. The 100 are also not listed by importance or in any heirarchy, either, and I think that would have been helpful, at least for me. They are categorized by type, and I found cauliflower included with green leafy vegetables, which I found surprising.
I do like the ailment directory in the back of the book, though. You can look up what's "ailing" you and get suggestions and specific foods to add to your diet for that specific ailment.
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