Cooking Well: Multiple Sclerosis: Over 75 Easy and Delicious Recipes for Nutritional Healing

by Marie-Annick Courtier, Vincent F. Macaluso MD (Foreword)

Can practicing a healthy lifestyle, which includes a healthy diet, decrease Multiple Sclerosis symptoms?

In the U.S. alone, approximately 400,000 people suffer from Multiple Sclerosis (MS). MS is an autoimmune disease that affects the central nervous system. There are a variety of symptoms of MS, and it affects people in different ways, but there is no cure.

Eating well can help strengthen your body, and make living with the disease a little easier. Maintaining a low fat diet with foods containing anti-inflammatory properties can improve your well-being by decreasing your MS-related symptoms and flare-ups.

C ooking Multiple Sclerosis features over 100 recipes designed to improve daily functioning and aid in the treatment of this disease.

Cooking Multiple Sclerosis also
* An overview on how to live with MS
* A list of foods to avoid
* A meal diary and checklist to track your progress

All recipes and meals in the Cooking Well series have been specially created by renowned health and diet expert, Chef Marie-Annick Courtier . Each book in the series also includes general nutrition information as well as tips on which foods to avoid along the path of nutritional healing.

Genres: Cookbooks

160 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[CJ · Rating 3 out of 5]

Helpful tips and info before getting into the recipes, but would have preferred pictures of the prepared recipes as well.

[Jen Borlick · Rating 1 out of 5]

Everything I have read is now called into question because of the sentence "Avoid aspartame and any products containing aspartame as it may cause cancer." Let's see what the professionals say, shall we? Oh, look. No. I stopped reading the text after that.
http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancerca...
I bought the book mostly for the recipes, so maybe I'll still use them. Since a good chunk of the book is guidelines, etc. and there are only 5 sources in the reference section and absolutely no footnotes, it leads me to believe there wasn't very much research done.

[Jordan Dossett · Rating 1 out of 5]

I didn't find the recipes target to anyone with ms. it was a diet book or rather one of those eat healthy books. what I found missing was eat x it's good for development of neurons. I could have gotten any eat well book.

[Nikiki Lynch · Rating 3 out of 5]

OK book.

Not what I was really expecting, would have liked more fish/seafood recipes. But will try the ones in the book.

[Lovingly, Chele' · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was ok. I'm not sure it was really focused on MS, but rather eating healthy in general, and I did find several very simple recipes that everyone in my family would enjoy.

While I don't have MS, I do have other medical issues that leave me drained and often uninterested in food (especially the cooking), so I appreciated some of the suggestions about getting others involved in the prep and reminders to make sure if someone else is in charge of your food at some point, that they remember your eating requirements.