<b>Spices do more than just flavor food! This introductory illustrated guide shows how spices can maintain optimal health and treat common ailments, and offers healing recipes. </b> Easy to follow, approachable, and authoritative, this is the essential reference to using spices for maximum healt
Healing Spices
โ Scribed by Bharat B. Aggarwal
- Publisher
- Sterling
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
Breakthrough scientific research is finding that spices-even more than herbs, fruits, and vegetables-are loaded with antioxidants and other unique health-enhancing compounds. Studies of dietary patterns around the world confirm that spice-consuming populations have the lowest incidence of such life-threatening illnesses as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer's.
Bharat B. Aggarwal, the world's foremost expert on the therapeutic use of culinary spices, takes an in-depth look at 50 different spices and their curative qualities, and offers spice prescriptions"-categorized by health condition-to match the right spice to a specific ailment.
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102 pages ; 21 cm
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