The Living Kitchen: Healing Recipes to Support Your Body During Cancer Treatment and Recovery
Autor Tamara Green, Sarah Grossmanen Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 aug 2019
Spre deosebire de ghidurile nutriționale generice, The Living Kitchen se distinge printr-o abordare profund empatică și practică, transformând bucătăria dintr-un spațiu al incertitudinii într-un instrument activ de vindecare. Remarcăm cum Tamara Green și Sarah Grossman nu se limitează la liste de ingrediente permise, ci construiesc o strategie completă de adaptare a stilului de viață la realitățile dure ale tratamentului oncologic. Cine a folosit The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen, Second Edition va aprecia aici concentrarea pe soluții logistice imediate: rețete care pot fi congelate pentru zilele cu energie scăzută și preparate gândite special pentru a fi tolerate atunci când simțurile sunt afectate de chimioterapie.
Credem că forța acestui volum rezidă în fundamentul său științific tradus într-un limbaj accesibil. Autoarele, nutriționiste cu o vastă experiență clinică, explică mecanismele prin care nutrienții susțin organismul, fără a ignora plăcerea gustului. Dacă în lucrarea lor anterioară, Good Food, Good Mood, se concentrau pe impactul dietei asupra echilibrului mental, în The Living Kitchen extind această filozofie, demonstrând că o masă nutritivă este totodată un act de îngrijire personală care poate reduce anxietatea asociată diagnosticului. Tonul este unul de susținere, evitând promisiunile nerealiste și oferind în schimb controlul înapoi pacientului și îngrijitorului. De la smoothie-uri bogate în super-alimente la supe reconfortante pentru perioadele de recuperare, fiecare pagină este o dovadă de expertiză pusă în slujba calității vieții.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1472144236
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 188 x 252 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.81 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Robinson
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
De ce să citești această carte
Această carte este o resursă esențială pentru pacienții oncologici și familiile lor, oferind mai mult decât simple rețete: oferă un plan de acțiune. Cititorul câștigă claritate într-un moment confuz, învățând cum să gestioneze efectele secundare ale tratamentului prin nutriție. Este recomandarea noastră pentru oricine caută să își întărească organismul și să găsească confort prin mâncare, susținut de sfaturi validate științific și tehnici de gătit fără stres.
Descriere
With nearly 100 recipes - all stress-free, healthy, freezer-friendly and flavorful - specially designed to relieve specific symptoms and side effects of cancer and its therapies (including loss of appetite, sore mouth, altered taste buds, nausea, and more) and to strengthen your body once in recovery, The Living Kitchen is accompanied by stunning photography and a simple, user-friendly design.
In this indispensable guide, certified nutritionists Sarah Grossman and Tamara Green provide easy-to-understand, research-based nutritional information on the science of how food relates to your health and the effects of cancer, and offer strategies to prepare your body, life and kitchen for treatment.
You will find recipes for:
- Energising snacks and breakfasts
- Superfood smoothies, juices and elixirs
- Soups and stews
- Nutrient-rich, delicious main dishes
These are recipes that you, your family, and your caregivers will all enjoy. The Living Kitchen will give you comfort in knowing that your body will be nourished and supported during (and even after) cancer treatment.
A cancer diagnosis can be overwhelming, frightening and uncertain. You'll want to learn what to expect from chemotherapy and radiation, how you'll navigate the often debilitating side effects that come with treatment, and what you should eat to support your body at a time when eating and cooking may be too challenging. The Living Kitchen will help cancer patients and their caregivers navigate every stage of their cancer therapy journey, from diagnosis to treatment to recovery.
Recenzii
The Living Kitchen is a well-researched book and a most welcome alternative for cancer patients and caregivers. It's a useful resource for anyone with cancer or for anyone who will be helping to provide meals for someone with cancer.
The Living Kitchen is a beautiful and important book. With recipes backed in real science that don't disregard elegance and flavor in favor of their therapeutic properties, this is must-have for anyone on a cancer journey. It's mouthwatering but more so, it's filled with empathy and a real understanding of the various types of hardship cancer brings on. Armed with this book, you'll feel comforted, satiated, and (perhaps) even filled with pleasure during one of life's most difficult times.
There is no question that after undergoing a major cancer surgery and reconstruction, patients who are systematically well nourished heal faster and suffer fewer wound complications than those deficient. In today's era of empowering patients to make cancer-related treatment decisions for themselves, The Living Kitchen serves as an important guide. The topics of 'what can I eat after a cancer diagnosis?' and 'what foods may help me during wound healing after surgery?' commonly arise with my patients. Having read this informative book, I feel far better educated and equipped to engage my patients in these types of important dialogues about food as medicine for our bodies.
The Living Kitchen is brilliant, beautiful, and so incredibly needed. With so many questions that come with a cancer diagnosis, one mighty area that can empower those suffering and their caregivers is to know that the foods we prepare and enjoy are part of the solution-part of healing and recovery, as well as prevention. From how to eat to prepare for treatment to what to eat after, with meal plans and accompanying recipes, this book isn't just for patients; it will nourish the whole family. This book is an essential resource for every kitchen, whether your home has been touched by cancer or not. I truly can't recommend it more highly.
Finally, a book to answer the question, 'What should I eat now that I have cancer?' The information in The Living Kitchen is presented in such a clear, positive, and visually beautiful way that it will be easily digestible no matter where you are in your cancer journey. This way of eating-mindfully, organically, and supporting the body's own healing mechanisms-is how we should all be eating throughout our lives. Food is indeed the best medicine.
The Living Kitchen brings together the how and why of eating for self-care and recovery. Sarah Grossman and Tamara Green take us from science to practical, and then to delicious, on a journey that teaches us the importance of food for physical and mental health.
The Living Kitchen is a beautiful testament to the power of real food during and following a cancer diagnosis. Prioritizing healthy eating during cancer can be exhausting and difficult, but Sarah and Tamara have taken this stress away by curating an exquisite guide of informative yet easily digestible material and accompanying recipes that are simple and deeply nourishing for the body and soul. This book is an authentic, mindful collection of wholesome food and wholesome information that simply strives to empower those that wish to improve their nutrition during cancer. Having personally been through cancer, and seeing patients daily in an adjunctive cancer care setting, I know this book will be a welcome and crucial ally in anyone's cancer journey.
The mouthwatering pictures of recipes in The Living Kitchen will inspire any reader, with or without a diagnosis of cancer, to pursue healthier eating. I will have copies of this book available in our clinic so that all of our patients, whether chronically ill, obese, or fit, have access to these simple, luscious, and health-promoting recipes.
The Living Kitchen is a beautiful reminder that no one should face this diagnosis alone. Tamara and Sarah's compassion, empathy, and knowledge shines through every page of this book.
The Living Kitchen brought me to tears, not because of the tenderness and brilliance that fill each page, and not because of the deliciousness of the recipes-but because I immediately saw how much easier it would have made my mother's life (and my own, as one of her primary caregivers) during her battle with cancer. Here is a book that gives those healing, and their families, that most sought-after of gifts during an illness: immediate, tangible, and practical support.
A stylish recipe book containing healing and nourishing dishes for during and after cancer treatment
A stylish cookbook with an unusual angle . . . there's never a more important time to embrace the healing power of food
This book's recipes are stress-free, healthy, freezer-friendly and flavoursome
This is such a clever book that offers advice, empowerment and understanding to everyone at every stage of the cancer journey
An inspiring, informative and empowering guide to the healing power of food for anyone experiencing cancer
A cancer diagnosis can be overwhelming, frightening and uncertain. Like many others, you may be unsure about what to do next. From two experts in cancer care cooking, The Living Kitchen will help you navigate every stage of your cancer therapy journey, from diagnosis to treatment to recovery.
Certified nutritionists Sarah Grossman and Tamara Green provide easy-to-understand, research-based nutritional information on the science behind how food relates to your health and the effects of cancer, and offer strategies to prepare your body, life and kitchen for treatment.
The Living Kitchen contains nearly 100 stress-free, healthy, freezer-friendly, and flavourful recipes specially designed to relieve specific symptoms and side effects of cancer and its therapies - including loss of appetite, altered taste buds, nausea and more - and to strengthen your body once in recovery.
With energizing snacks and breakfasts; superfood smoothies, juices and elixirs; southing soups and stews; and nutrient-rich, delicious main dishes, these are recipes that you, your family and your caregivers will all enjoy. The Living Kitchen will give you comfort in knowing that your body will be nourish and supported during (and even after) cancer treatment. It is an indispensable guide that will help educate and support anyone experiencing cancer, undergoing treatment or in remission.