The Plant Programme: Recipes for Better Health - Softcover

* Dietry advice for preventing and fighting some common diseases. * help with cardiovascular, digestive tract and skin diseases and many more health problems. * Packed with delicious, healthy, nutritious easy-to-make recipes. Jane Plant's breast cancer recurred five times before she learned of the relationship between diet and the disease. The lifestyle of non-dairy eating and healthy living she adopted to complement her conventional medical treatment overcame her cancer and she wrote about those food and lifestyle factors in her internationally bestselling book Your Life in Your Hands and, with follow scientist Gill Tidey, in the recipe book The Plant Programme. Now Jane Plant and Gill Tidey show that this diet can also be beneficial in the prevention and treatment of several other common diseases. The authors have expanded the information about their diet to look at a variety of illnesses - some common, some minor and some more serious. They clearly explain the principles of the diet before discussing the illnesses and aspects of the diet that will help (including what foods and products to avoid). Key sections on cardiovascular, digetstive tract and skin diseases and bone problems are followed by delicious, easy-to-make and nutricious recipes to help you follow and keep tio healthy diet. This is an essential book for better health for everyone.

Professor Jane Plant CBE is one of Britain's preeminent scientists sitting on many influential government and international committees, and Chief Scientist of the British Geological Survey. Gill Tidey is Director of the Nottingham Energy Partnership. Both manage high-level careers, look after their families and homes, and entertain, and are therefore aware of the complexities and stresses of modern day life, but both know it is easy to create meals that minimise the risks to health inherent in modern dairy and convenience-food-rich diets.