Cooking Without: All recipes free from added gluten, sugar, dairy produce, yeast, salt and saturated fat
‘Cooking Without’ written by nutritional therapist Barbara Cousins is not only a collection of delicious and easy to make recipes but is also a book about health – how to gain it and how to keep it.The recipes in ‘Cooking Without’ obtain their flavour from ingredients that are health promoting rather than high levels of salt, fat or sugar. Ingredients such as gluten, dairy produce and yeast, which cause many individuals to have health problems, have also been excluded. As well as being linked to food intolerances these ingredients can also be an underlying factor in more serious health problems.The regime in ‘Cooking Without’ aims to give the body sufficient amounts of the nutrients it needs, thus producing extra energy which can be then be used for elimination and healing. The art of detoxification is explained in an easy to understand formula as are some of the reasons for health problems such as migraines, chronic fatigue and irritable bowel syndrome.
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Cooking Without
Recipes free from added gluten, sugar, dairy products, yeast, salt and saturated fat
BARBARA COUSINS
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Copyright
The recipes and information in this book are not meant to be prescriptive. Any attempt to treat a medical condition should always come under the direction of a competent physician. Neither the publishers nor the author can accept responsibility for illness arising from a failure by a reader to take medical advice.
Improving your health through diet can be daunting unless you have some help with creating appetizing menus. We all know what we shouldnât eat, but what do we do with those healthy ingredients like brown rice, vegetables and pulses? Few cookery books dwell on them for long, and those that do usually combine them with flour, butter or margarine, cheese, eggs and other dairy products. Thatâs not much help for someone who is serious about trying to discover whether they have any food allergies.
Barbara Cousins is a working nutritional therapist, and her book has arisen out of the need to help many people find ways to really enjoy food cooked without all those ingredients we so often take for granted. I have not come across any other book which contains so many recipes using vegetables in appetizing ways. Now that the World Health Organization is advising all of us to eat at least five portions of fruit and vegetables every day, good recipes are vitally important, and you are sure to find some in Cooking Without that you will treasure and use over and over again.
Linda Lazarides
This book is about health â how to gain it and how to keep it. Health is not a mere absence of disease, but a positive feeling of well-being which embraces mental, emotional and spiritual as well as physical health. This book is about the nutritional aspects of health, the dos and donâts of healthy eating because, quite simply, we are what we eat. By giving the body a sufficient amount of the nutrients it needs, it has the best opportunity to heal itself and to stay well.
Detoxification
The two main causes of health problems are toxicity and malnutrition. In Western society, we are overfed but under nourished. If our bodies receive sufficient good quality fuel (in the form of vitamins and minerals) then they will be aided to work more efficiently and to overcome any toxicity (substances which should not be present in the body). Similarly, if we receive insufficient amounts of essential nutrients our toxic load may be allowed to rise to levels which promote ill health.
Where Does Toxicity Originate From?
In my opinion, the main sources of toxicity are as follows:
Some toxicity in food is natural, such as solanine in potatoes. Most, however, is unnatural, such as fungicides, pesticides, colourings, flavourings and stabilizers.
Industrial emissions, cigarette smoke and exhaust fumes pollute our atmosphere.
Our drinking water is polluted by both industry and farming, as well as by the chemicals used to âcleanseâ it.
Most drugs contain toxins, including over-the-counter remedies such as laxatives, painkillers and indigestion tablets. Alcohol is a poison.
Around our homes, deodorant, perfume, skin care products, washing-up liquid and other cleansing fluids are chemically derived toxic substances, which are absorbed to a certain extent by our bodies.
Bottled-up feelings and emotions constitute emotional toxicity which in turn affects our physical well being.
Toxicity and Ill Health
It is impossible for us to avoid toxins completely. Indeed, our bodies are built to cope with a certain amount, the liver being our main organ of detoxification. Toxins are naturally removed from our bodies through urine and faeces, sweating and expiration (breathing out). It is only when these elimination channels cannot cope with this removal that the body will let us know that all is not well by producing certain symptoms.
The safest place for excess toxins to overflow is through the skin, as this is farthest away from the vital internal organs and enables toxicity to be removed to the outside world. The boils and carbuncles so common in the past were the result of toxins being eliminated through the skin. Nowadays, these are less common. Even those teenagers who live on chocolate and chips frequently have good complexions. It takes a certain amount of vitality for the body to be able to eliminate excess toxins through the skin, and many individuals do not have constitutions strong enough for this process. Health problems such as psoriasis, eczema, rashes, itching, dandruff, boils and spots are caused by this elimination process.
Even if the body does not have the vitality to use the skin successfully to eliminate excess toxins, it does not give up trying. The next safest place for it to use is the internal mucosa; that is any moist orifices open to the outside world. Eliminating in this way causes illnesses such as coughs, colds, catarrh, diarrhoea, colitis, thrush, cystitis, conjunctivitis, ulcers and heavy, clotted periods.
