Healing Spices: How to Use 50 Everyday and Exotic Spices to Boost Health and Beat Disease

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Bharat B. Aggarwal Debora Yost

Healing Spices

How to Use 50 Everyday and Exotic Spices to Boost Health and Beat Disease

Bharat B. Aggarwal, Debora Yost

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Sterling
15 March 2011

Medicine; Complementary therapies, healing & health

Filled with easy-to-understand information and 50 recipes, this is the first book that shows you how to use and cook with spices for maximum health and healing.

Breakthrough scientific research is finding that spices-even more than herbs, fruits, and vegetables-are loaded with antioxidants and other unique health-enhancing compounds. Studies of dietary patterns around the world confirm that spice-consuming populations have the lowest incidence of such life-threatening illnesses as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer's.

Bharat B. Aggarwal, the world's foremost expert on the therapeutic use of culinary spices, takes an in-depth look at 50 different spices and their curative qualities, and offers spice ""prescriptions""-categorized by health condition-to match the right spice to a specific ailment.

By: Bharat B. Aggarwal, Debora Yost
Imprint: Sterling
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 177mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 812g
ISBN: 9781402776632
ISBN 10: 1402776632
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 15 March 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Bharat B. Aggarwal, PhD is a professor in the department of experimental therapeutics in the division of cancer medicine at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. He has conducted groundbreaking research in the therapeutic uses of spices and been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, Fitness and Family Circle, among many other magazines and scientific journals. Dr. Aggarwal has been interviewed on ABC and NBC radio affiliates and has delivered more than 300 lectures in 30 countries.