Cooking Well: Thyroid Health: Over 100 Easy & Delicious Recipes for Nutritional Well-Being

by Marie-Annick Courtier, Lauren Feder (Foreword), Jo Brielyn (Contributor)

Discover over 100 delicious recipes—plus expert health and wellness advice—specially designed for hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism patients

While diet alone cannot cure thyroid disease, the proper foods can play an important role in your body’s health and wellness. Cooking Thyroid Health features over 100 recipes developed to support your thyroid treatment plan.

Cooking Thyroid Health provides recipe varieties to keep your appetite satisfied while considering the impact of food ingredients on thyroid health and medication compliance.

Whether you’re looking for brunch, lunch, a snack, a breakfast shake, or a hearty dinner, there is a wide variety of healthy and balanced meal choices for you to follow.

Cooking Thyroid Health also
• An overview on hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism and the impact of proper nutrition
• Guidelines on foods to choose and foods to avoid to improve thyroid function
• A meal diary and helpful tips to make it easy to create your own customized diet plan

Just a few of the scrumptious and healthy recipes to be found inside this book include Mediterranean Portobello Burger, Onion Soup, Lamb Chops with Herbs, Roasted Chicken Breast with Sweet Potatoes, Stuffed Turkey Breast Italian-Style, Butternut Squash with Cinnamon, Strawberries with Spicy Red Wine, and Winter Fruit Salad.

Genres: Cookbooks

144 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

Reviews

[Stacy · Rating 4 out of 5]

My daughter was recently diagnosed with Graves' disease and one of the questions I had concerned diet. Were there foods I should serve more often? Less often? Is there a diet specifically designed to support the nutrional needs of someone with an overactive thyroid?

Unfortunately, what I've learned is the lower carb diet we've adopted to keep the kids' blood glucose levels more stable (they are type 1 diabetics) is not hyperthyroid friendly. And the recipes in this book aren't really kid-friendly. However, that wasn't the book's target audience and thyroid issues are less common among kids so I can't hold that against the book, either.

What gave it four stars was a few pages in the beginning that had handy lists for me:
~How the right diet can help
~Dietary suggestions for a healthy lifestyle
~foods to avoid

I would love to see a book like this that is dedicated to hyperthyroidism only instead of sharing pages with hypothyroidism but this was a good start.

[Pat · Rating 4 out of 5]

Having been diagnosed with hypothyroidism in early 2013, I wanted information about foods that interfere with medications and/or were contraindicated with the disease. This book clearly divided information and recipes for hypo-and hyper-thryoidism, which was very helpful. I would have given it 5 stars had they included the nutritional breakdowns with the recipes (calories, carbs, sodium, etc.).