Healthy Cooking Books: 3 Healthy Cooking Diets

By Cathy Warner and Phyllis Barker

The Healthy Cooking Books is a compilation of three different sections featuring grain free recipes, detox recipes, and a flexible dieting cookbook. In this book you will find grain free and detox diet healthy cooking tips with one common goal - to incorporate healthy cooking ideas. The sections of the Healthy Cooking Books features Grain Free Recipes, Tasty Grain Free Recipes, Your Grain Free Meal Plan, Detox Recipes, What is the Detox Diet, Benefits of Detoxifying, Helpful Tips for Detox Diet Success, Detox Diet Breakfast Recipes, Detox Diet Soup and Salad Recipes, Side Dish Detox Recipes, Main Dish Detox Diet Recipes, Detox Drink and Detox Smoothie Recipes, Detox Diet Snack and Appetizer Recipes, Detox Diet Dessert Recipes, Detox Diet 7 Day Meal Plan, Dieting Cookbook, Low Fat Recipes: The Basic Weight Loss Recipes, Low Carbohydrate Recipes: Somewhat Misunderstood but Very Helpful for Weight Loss, Muscle Building Recipes to Boost the Metabolism, Fish Recipes to Lose Weight, Raw Food Diet Recipes for the Daring, Vegetarian and Vegan Recipes for Weight Loss, Paleolithic Diet Recipes: Turning Back the Clock A Lot, Breakfast Recipes for Weight Loss, Desserts for the Diet Conscious A Five Day Sample Meal Plan, and Final Words that Are Not So Final. A sampling of the included recipes are Cottage Cheese Dessert and Breakfast Pancakes, Mixed Grain Tabbouleh with Roasted Eggplant Chickpeas and Mint, Muscle Building Frozen Yogurt Peanut Butter Banana, Easy Stir Fried Veggies and Fish Recipe, Delicious Lemon Dressed Kale Salad Recipe, Homemade Apple Cinnamon Granola Recipe, Pad Thai, Almond and Grilled Chicken Salad, and Sesame Seed Chicken Fried Steak.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Speedy Publishing LLC
• Release date: Jun 24, 2014
• ISBN: 9781633835009

Cathy Warner

Co author of: "Healthy Cooking Books: 3 Healthy Cooking Diets".

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Healthy Cooking Books

3 Healthy Cooking Diets

Cathy Warner and Phyllis Barker

Copyright © 2013 Cathy Warner and Phyllis Barker

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Introduction

Are you looking to go on a diet? Perhaps you want to lose weight or maybe you just want to be healthier. In either case this book is called Healthy Cooking Books because it contains recipes for more than one diet plan. In this book you will find recipes that cover the detox diet plan, grain free diet, and a sampling of many different weight loss diets including the paleo diet, low carb diet, metabolism boosting diet, and general weight loss diet. Dieting is the best way to both treat and prevent many ill health conditions.

Why go on a diet? First, if you are accustomed to eating junk food then your health will suffer for it. Junk food is responsible for causing and or aggravating weight gain, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and high blood glucose. If these are out of balance, if you have levels that are higher than normal you will be prey to a host of bad health conditions. Some of the conditions are cardiovascular disease which can cause heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, bone and joint issues, and many more health conditions too numerous to name.

Obesity causes a host of health issues as described above. A person can go for years with no issues, but the added weight will eventually cause problems within the body. If a person who is overweight begins having issues with their health the first thing their doctor may prescribe will be diet and exercise. Often, we find that diet and exercise alone will help to correct many health issues and this will also help to prevent others. But in order for a diet to be successful you must go on the diet and stick with the diet and restrict or stop eating all the foods that are bad for you.

Did you know that sugar is one of the most addictive foods out there? And sugar has no nutritional value, so eating it does nothing good for the body except to satisfy hunger temporarily. In fact, if the body doesn't get more sugar (if addicted) it will crave it, intensely. If the body is continued to be deprived of sugar the unpleasant withdrawals will kick in such as headaches and moodiness. These withdrawals are similar to the withdrawals from other bad habits such as smoking and drinking. Junk food and most processed foods are high in sugar and contain other processed ingredients that do not add value to the body. Junk food just serves to feed an addiction and adds weight through fat and calories. This is what may eventually cause health issues, particularly issues caused by weight gain.

It is important when going on a diet to make it a lifestyle change. You can go on a diet long enough to achieve physical results, be it weight loss, lower blood pressure, lower cholesterol, or even lower blood sugar. But if you go right back to your old eating habits you will find all the health issues will come right back. If you lost weight, the weight will come back on and just as fast, the same with blood pressure, cholesterol, and possibly even the blood sugar. If you want these things to go away permanently then you must make the diet a change in lifestyle. It is a healthy change in lifestyle.

In order to make this a success you must go on the diet and stay on the diet. You must stop eating junk food. But if you have a true addiction stopping cold turkey will not be easy. You will have the unpleasant withdrawal symptoms mentioned above. You can go through a weaning process to make the diet a success. The body normally takes around three weeks to wean from a bad habit successfully. To do this right you need to take the first three weeks of your diet and make it a weaning process from the junk food. You can go ahead and go on the diet, just allow yourself the three weeks to wean. You will be so glad you did.

The first week will be easy. You will be allowed to eat junk food twice each day. Limit it to just twice though. The rest of the time you should eat the foods included on your diet plan. The second week you need to limit the intake of junk food to just once per day. Remember to eat the recipes and foods that are on your diet the rest of the time. Use the recipes in the Healthy Cooking Books for your meals and snacks.

The third week you will go to eating junk food every other day. By now the intense cravings should be gone or at a minimum. If you do have the cravings you know that every other day you can have your junk food treat. By the end of the three weeks your body should be able to handle the new diet with little to no withdrawals from the junk food. If you find you still have withdrawals give yourself a junk food treat just once a week. Think of it as a reward for sticking on the diet. Eventually your body will adjust and you will not longer crave the junk. Instead the good foods, the nutritious recipes you are eating will satisfy you. And the result will be a healthier you.

In addition to letting go of the junk food habit you can also add exercise to your healthy diet plan. Exercise helps the body to lose more weight faster. If weight loss is your goal then you certainly want to add an exercise routine in with your lifestyle plan. All it takes is a mere half hour of exercise every other day to do the body good and help the diets to work better.

Always seek the advice of your health care physician before trying any new diet or exercise routine. Remember the diets will only work if you go on it and stick with it.

Section 1: Grain Free Recipes

There's something absolutely delicious about a freshly baked loaf of bread, a crispy waffle, or a tasty cake hot out of the oven! These foods all have one thing in common: they're made with grain or wheat flour. Cooking with wheat flour and grain is something that everyone does, and it produces a whole lot of delicious foods.

Unfortunately for many, grain and wheat are things that they cannot enjoy. Gluten intolerance can be a serious problem for many people, and they are unable to eat foods that contain lots of grain or wheat. When they do, they have serious digestive problems, or their body can react strongly and negatively to the gluten in the grain that they are eating.

Gluten has been linked to a number of problems. Interestingly enough, the body often sees gluten as being a foreign substance that it can't process. While gluten is commonly found in the food we eat, it wasn’t always part of our diet. The human body can't always process this gooey, sticky protein easily, and it can be a bit hard on the body if you happen to be sensitive to it. Even those without celiac problems may not be able to handle the gluten, as their bodies react to the foreign substance by attacking it with antibodies.

Cutting grain out of your diet can help to reduce your risk of health problems, especially if you have celiac disorder or other gluten-sensitive problems. However, even for those that don't have these health problems, it may be a good idea to cut gluten out of your diet. Many people don't have celiac disease, and yet they still experience the drawbacks of eating gluten.

In an article in the New Zealand edition of Stuff magazine, an article by a world-renowned expert on food allergies, Dr. Rodney Ford, states, "Gluten causes tiredness, anxiety and stress. The medical world accepts it can damage the gut, but it can also damage the brain, skin and nerves. Until now, many of these illnesses have been blamed on everything from stress at home to other medical conditions, including

depression." [1]

Cutting gluten out of your life isn't just something you can do to prevent celiac problems, but it can be good for your health. Many holistic doctors and therapists will recommend cutting it from your diet, as it carries the risk of causing negative side effects.

Did you know that eliminating grain and gluten can be beneficial to your body? The benefits include:

Reduced risk of IBS or other digestive problems

Less chance of becoming fatigued, depressed, nauseous, or developing stomach cramps

Boost in your energy levels

Reduced body fat percentage

Increase in lean muscle tissue

Lowered blood pressure

Improved mood and sense of wellbeing

As you can see, there are many great reasons to cut grain from your diet!

But, you may say, all of my favorite foods are made with grain! How can I cut grain out of my diet and still enjoy the food I'm eating?

Don't worry about it! In this book, you'll find plenty of delicious recipes that you can make without needing to use grain, and you can whip up your favorite dishes and still make them gluten-free. You'll have to spend a bit of money to stock your house with some ingredients you probably don't have right now, but you'll be amazed at how many delicious foods you can make without using grain.

Enjoy the book, and happy grain-free cooking!

Tasty Grain Free Recipes

Grain Free Breaded Chicken

There's nothing like some breaded chicken to kick off your lunch in style, but bread crumbs have wheat, right? Here is a quick and easy recipe you can use to make breaded chicken without the bread…

Ingredients

For this dish, you will need:

1 large chicken breast

1 cup of almond flour

½ cup of Kraft's Parmesan Cheese

Thyme

Basil

Oregano

½ cup of butter

Red or crushed chili pepper

Garlic powder

Salt and pepper, to taste

Preparation:

To begin, slice the chicken breast into steaks -- preferably about three steaks from each half of the breast. You should have about 6 medium steaks from the breast.

Preheat your oven to about 350 F. Use a bit of butter to grease the bottom of a baking tray.

In a bowl, combine the almond flour with the Parmesan cheese. Sprinkle in about a teaspoon each of basil, thyme, and oregano, and add in a pinch of crushed red pepper for some spice. A teaspoon of garlic powder will help to add the flavor you want, and a bit of salt and black pepper will round out the flavors.

In a saucepan, melt the butter. Dip the chicken steaks into the butter, ensuring that the entire surface of the chicken is coated well. Roll the buttered strips in the almond flour, and make sure that they are properly coated with the flour