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My Kitchen Cure: How I Cooked My Way Out of Chronic Autoimmune Disease with Whole Foods and Healing Recipes
My Kitchen Cure is a book about overcoming chronic autoimmune disease, preventing cancer, and transcending a hereditary setup for a life of illness and a diminished existence. This book is about foods for healing, cooking for cures, and eating your way to wellness. My Kitchen Cure is also about recovering strength, regaining balance, reclaiming empowerment, and restoring vitality.
My Kitchen Cure is a book about Mee Tracy McCormick , and it's a book about you if you're looking for an alternative to living with a chronic autoimmune disease for the rest of your life.
Mee Tracy McCormick first started cooking her way out of chronic autoimmune disease as a last resort. Hereditary Crohn’s disease, an intestinal ulceration, a diagnosis of cancer waiting to be confirmed, and debilitating daily pain had knocked her down. Medical tests, treatments and medicines that threatened to kill her before they cured her had backed Mee Tracy into a health crisis corner.
When it seemed like she only had two options – a slow and painful death or a sudden and quick death – Mee Tracy looked at her husband and two small children and decided to find a third option, and if one didn’t exist, to create it. Mee Tracy did find her third option in a place that surprised her - in her kitchen.
When Mee's autoimmune dis-ease was at its worst and she was suffering the most, she was well aware of the long list of foods that would put her on the floor writing in pain. What she didn't know then - and had to discover for herself - was the list of foods that would not only keep her out of her sick bed but also have a positive healing influence on her body. It was when Mee shifted her focus from avoiding what would hurt her to consuming what would help her that the real healing began.
She cooked her way out of her chronic autoimmune disease, she used whole foods to prevent the imminent cancer diagnosis, and in the process she created healing recipes that combine foods in a way that is more nutritious and delicious than she could have ever imagined before.
What makes Mee Tracy’s REAL FOOD healing recipes different from others is the broad scope of foods that she incorporates. She doesn’t limit her cooking to raw, vegan, vegetarian, or macrobiotic foods. She cooks and recommends all of them, along with French and classic American cuisine that she transforms with whole, REAL FOOD to make them recipes for healing.
Diabetes, Lupus, Celiac, Crohn's, multiple sclerosis, psoriasis, and rheumatoid arthritis are just a few of the more than 100+ health conditions that are classified as autoimmune disorders. Mee has written her book to raise awareness about the growing autoimmune epidemic in the U.S. and to give hope and solutions to those who are caught in that epidemic, whether they are aware of it or not.
Through individual Food Makeovers, public presentations, media appearances, and non-profit community kitchen projects Mee Tracy is paying her good health forward by helping others find their own autoimmune cure in their kitchen too. My Kitchen Cure is chockfull of Mee Tracy’s tireless research, health-restoring strategies and more than 300 recipes that are both healing and appealing. My Kitchen Cure is a complete how-to guide for living a REAL FOOD Life , and using the healing properties of foods to regain control over your health and your life.
Having traveled down the REAL FOOD healing path herself, Mee Tracy shows you the way—step-by-step, meal by meal, and recipe by recipe. Mee’s kitchen cure can become your kitchen cure too!
My Kitchen Cure is a book about Mee Tracy McCormick , and it's a book about you if you're looking for an alternative to living with a chronic autoimmune disease for the rest of your life.
Mee Tracy McCormick first started cooking her way out of chronic autoimmune disease as a last resort. Hereditary Crohn’s disease, an intestinal ulceration, a diagnosis of cancer waiting to be confirmed, and debilitating daily pain had knocked her down. Medical tests, treatments and medicines that threatened to kill her before they cured her had backed Mee Tracy into a health crisis corner.
When it seemed like she only had two options – a slow and painful death or a sudden and quick death – Mee Tracy looked at her husband and two small children and decided to find a third option, and if one didn’t exist, to create it. Mee Tracy did find her third option in a place that surprised her - in her kitchen.
When Mee's autoimmune dis-ease was at its worst and she was suffering the most, she was well aware of the long list of foods that would put her on the floor writing in pain. What she didn't know then - and had to discover for herself - was the list of foods that would not only keep her out of her sick bed but also have a positive healing influence on her body. It was when Mee shifted her focus from avoiding what would hurt her to consuming what would help her that the real healing began.
She cooked her way out of her chronic autoimmune disease, she used whole foods to prevent the imminent cancer diagnosis, and in the process she created healing recipes that combine foods in a way that is more nutritious and delicious than she could have ever imagined before.
What makes Mee Tracy’s REAL FOOD healing recipes different from others is the broad scope of foods that she incorporates. She doesn’t limit her cooking to raw, vegan, vegetarian, or macrobiotic foods. She cooks and recommends all of them, along with French and classic American cuisine that she transforms with whole, REAL FOOD to make them recipes for healing.
Diabetes, Lupus, Celiac, Crohn's, multiple sclerosis, psoriasis, and rheumatoid arthritis are just a few of the more than 100+ health conditions that are classified as autoimmune disorders. Mee has written her book to raise awareness about the growing autoimmune epidemic in the U.S. and to give hope and solutions to those who are caught in that epidemic, whether they are aware of it or not.
Through individual Food Makeovers, public presentations, media appearances, and non-profit community kitchen projects Mee Tracy is paying her good health forward by helping others find their own autoimmune cure in their kitchen too. My Kitchen Cure is chockfull of Mee Tracy’s tireless research, health-restoring strategies and more than 300 recipes that are both healing and appealing. My Kitchen Cure is a complete how-to guide for living a REAL FOOD Life , and using the healing properties of foods to regain control over your health and your life.
Having traveled down the REAL FOOD healing path herself, Mee Tracy shows you the way—step-by-step, meal by meal, and recipe by recipe. Mee’s kitchen cure can become your kitchen cure too!
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388 pages, Paperback
First published March 21, 2013
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June 22, 2015
I have celiac disease and fibromyalgia.
I am so frustrated with western medicine and the assembly line practice of specialists.
I have never been one to just sit back and take my medicine.
I want to know what it is, how it will affect my body and why I should take it. Then I make my own decision.
I was so happy to read this book as I feel that Mee Tracy McCormick is a kindred spirit.
It was affirming to read about how she recovered from Crohn's disease by learning about empowering herself and the power of what we decide to put in our bodies. I will be using some of her recipes and a lot of her inspiration in my own quest for optimum health and hope.
I wish I had someone to cook for me like she does...
I am so frustrated with western medicine and the assembly line practice of specialists.
I have never been one to just sit back and take my medicine.
I want to know what it is, how it will affect my body and why I should take it. Then I make my own decision.
I was so happy to read this book as I feel that Mee Tracy McCormick is a kindred spirit.
It was affirming to read about how she recovered from Crohn's disease by learning about empowering herself and the power of what we decide to put in our bodies. I will be using some of her recipes and a lot of her inspiration in my own quest for optimum health and hope.
I wish I had someone to cook for me like she does...
April 8, 2015
The book had a lot of good content and tips. However, I'm discovering that what is a "good food" for one patient with Crohn's does not always work with another patient. 18 months after a bowel resection and the majority of foods with fiber, beans and red meat are still off the menu. Each patient needs to take what works for him or her and leave the rest.
May 4, 2017
It is a must read for anyone with autoimmune disorders. It is that old saying "You are what you eat"...Be good to your body and give it a fighting chance.
February 25, 2017
Good book. Contains a large amount of useful information & healthy recipes. I recommend this book for anyone who eats, but especially for those who have been diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder.
May 14, 2014
This is going to have to be one of those rolling reviews that you add to as you go along. That's because I haven't finished the book yet. It's good enough that one has to read it in bite size chunks and think carefully about what one has read.
It's also the kind of book that drives publishers nuts, in that it doesn't drop easily into a genre in a bookstore. It's a memoir that's also a treatise on "real" food and it's also a cookbook. From a traditional publisher's marketing standpoint that's a nightmare. From a reader's standpoint it's perfect.
I've got a half a dozen books here on how to organize your diet for health and maximum function and I can't force myself to read them. They bore me to tears. My Kitchen Cure is witty, charming, and engaging. It would be fun to read if it weren't on an important subject.
In the spirit of full disclosure I should say that I have been friends with Mee McCormick for about ten years. Our paths have diverged of late, but I can truthfully attest that she is just as nice, fun, and charming in person as she is in the book. I can also say that when I was hanging out with Mee and her family she was going through the worst of her intestinal health problems, and she never said anything about it. Through it all she was smart, funny, and the world's most perfect hostess. Where I went to school that's how you define a class act.
The memoir part, which I'm still reading, is important, because it tells the story of how she faced the same fears about the complete reorganization of her diet that I still have. She is not some lofty expert extolling from on high. She's a buddy helping you through what she went through herself.
Our situations are quite different however. She was born, or acquired at birth, an intestinal deficiency that led to horrible ulcers and an intestinal weakness that sapped her strength, and made her vulnerable to multiple debilitating health issues, and, oh yeah, threatened her life.
Me, I can eat anything. The problem is that I actually do. I need to reorganize my diet to drop about thirty pounds and live for a long time. No matter, the problem is different, but the solution is the same.
It's also the kind of book that drives publishers nuts, in that it doesn't drop easily into a genre in a bookstore. It's a memoir that's also a treatise on "real" food and it's also a cookbook. From a traditional publisher's marketing standpoint that's a nightmare. From a reader's standpoint it's perfect.
I've got a half a dozen books here on how to organize your diet for health and maximum function and I can't force myself to read them. They bore me to tears. My Kitchen Cure is witty, charming, and engaging. It would be fun to read if it weren't on an important subject.
In the spirit of full disclosure I should say that I have been friends with Mee McCormick for about ten years. Our paths have diverged of late, but I can truthfully attest that she is just as nice, fun, and charming in person as she is in the book. I can also say that when I was hanging out with Mee and her family she was going through the worst of her intestinal health problems, and she never said anything about it. Through it all she was smart, funny, and the world's most perfect hostess. Where I went to school that's how you define a class act.
The memoir part, which I'm still reading, is important, because it tells the story of how she faced the same fears about the complete reorganization of her diet that I still have. She is not some lofty expert extolling from on high. She's a buddy helping you through what she went through herself.
Our situations are quite different however. She was born, or acquired at birth, an intestinal deficiency that led to horrible ulcers and an intestinal weakness that sapped her strength, and made her vulnerable to multiple debilitating health issues, and, oh yeah, threatened her life.
Me, I can eat anything. The problem is that I actually do. I need to reorganize my diet to drop about thirty pounds and live for a long time. No matter, the problem is different, but the solution is the same.
November 24, 2014
The 2** go to the two parts of the book that include information about health/nutrition, recipes and cooking tips. Many of these are good, although most of the information included is already known if you have read some of the original macrobiotics books that date many years ago. The first part of the book (the author's memoir) is badly written, babbling and full of details that reminded me American soap opera (the author's Gucci bag, the doctor who wore a pearl necklace, just to name a few examples). Also the "spiritual" pieces (about God, dreams, gurus) are expressed in such a superficial way that are neither convincing nor inspiring. Perhaps she should have hired someone else to write the book for her or maybe help her with writing. Last but not least I am quite suspicious when somebody with Crohn's who makes such a fuss about dairy products and wheat still eats meat even occasionally. The fact that she and her husband own a cattle company explains a lot.
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