Product Description

Written by a professional chef and a rheumatologist, The Executive Chef's Arthritis Cookbook & Health Guide uses carefully selected foods, the newest drugs, effective alternative treatments, exercise, and mind/body practices to reduce or prevent arthritis pain. Featuring 137 delicious recipes, plus special cooking tools and techniques, the book offers a new way of healthy eating, thinking, working and playing that can make a real difference for people with arthritis.

More than a cookbook and written in a language that is easy to understand, this unique book encourages patients to become as knowledgeable as possible about arthritis so they can work as a team with their physician. The book includes:

* the newest, innovative drugs and medical treatments
* effective alternative and complementary treatments and medications
* the effects of foods on arthritis and specific foods to avoid
* cooking methods and tools to make cooking easy and enjoyable for arthritics
* 137 especially tasty, arthritis-friendly recipes
* nutritional analysis of each recipe
* health food substitutes for over-processed foods
* hundreds of tips on cooking and caring for arthritis
* case histories of people who have found relief
* guidelines for buying nutritious, healthy food

The Executive Chef's Arthritis Cookbook & Health Guide provides readers with up-to-date information on 21st Century medical treatment, alternative and complimentary therapies and an understanding of the role of food and diet. The result is a lifestyle guide that helps people successfully cope with arthritis.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3475770 in Books
• Published on: 2002-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 360 pages

About the Author
Prentiss Carl Haupt, Certified Executive Chef

Executive Chef Carl Haupt understands the properties of food from twenty five years as a practicing chef and teacher. He developed 137 recipes so the home cook can make everyday and gourmet style food to help relieve some of the daily pain of arthritis.

A Vietnam veteran Marine sergeant, Chef Carl was educated at Pennsylvania State University and the Culinary Institute of America, Hyde Park, New York. He taught at the Culinary Institute and later was Chef-Instructor at the University of Hawaii, Maui Community College. In 1986, he published "Heavenly Hawaiian Recipes", a cookbook of his island favorites.

One of only 2,200 Certified Executive Chefs worldwide, Carl has received many awards including Holiday Magazine's Top 500 Restaurants in America for three consecutive years.

James McKoy, M.D.

Dr. McKoy is a board certified internist and rheumatologist. Over the past fifteen years, he has searched out and used the best of alternative therapies in conjunction with the best of traditional treatments for his patients. Dr. McKoy received his training at the University of Iowa Medical School, Iowa City, Iowa and Letterman Army Medical Center, San Francisco, California. He served as a physician for 22 years in the U. S. Army and retired as a Colonel. From 1985 to 1996, he held a faculty appointment at the University of Hawaii, John Burns School of Medicine. He is presently a rheumatologist and pain specialist for Kaiser Permanente of Hawaii. Dr. McKoy is a fellow of the American College of Rheumatology and a member of the American Academy of Pain, National Medical Association and Hawaii Medical Association.

Dr. McKoy is on the medical advisory board of Arthritis Today magazine. He answers the alternative medicine questions in the magazine and assists in writing articles that deal with alternative care for arthritis. He provides advice on care for arthritis to writers from newspapers and wellness journals and has appeared on numerous local television news and radio shows. He is an often requested speaker for physician, patient and wellness groups.

In addition, to his medical training, Dr. McKoy is a Christian counselor and believes that in order to optimize the health of patients with arthritis, we must treat the whole person; spirit, mind and body, offering appropriate spiritual counseling when needed.

Customer Reviews

Embraces diverse approaches to good eating & wellness
Expertly written by Certified Executive Chef Prentiss Carl Haupt and Rheumatologist specialist James McKoy, M.D., The Executive Chef's Arthritis Cookbook & Health Guide is more than just another cookbook of mouth-watering recipes with clearly listed nutritional content. It is also enhanced from cover to cover with tips for an arthritis-friendly diet and lifestyle, up-to-date therapies, and more. From Broccoli soup with Diced Chicken; Stuffed Papayas or Avocados; and Oven Roasted Potatoes in Garlic Oil and Fresh Basil; to Yellow Beans with Nuts and Garlic Chives; Spinach and Romaine Salad with Creamy Horseradish Dressing; and Six Fruit Salad Maui Style, The Executive Chef's Arthritis Cookbook & Health Guide is a broad-ranging, highly recommended cookbook that embraces diverse approaches to good eating, wellness, and relief from arthritis suffering.