Product Description

This book is outstanding and is receiving rave reviews across the country! It is on the recommended reading lists of the American Arthritis Foundation and the Arthritis Society of Canada. The Essential Arthritis Cookbook demonstrates how paying attention to ones diet can reduce pain, swelling and stiffness. Learn how to fight back against energy robbers, how to pamper and protect your joints, what shortcuts can ease fatigue while in the kitchen and how to prepare 125 highly nutritious recipes that require few ingredients and minimal clean-up. Information packed chapters cover topics including medications, kitchen layout, cooking techniques, locating handy tools, meal planning, and nutrition as it relates to arthritis. Recipes range from appetizers, soups, and salads to main dishes, breads, and desserts. Each of these low-fat, easy, and convenient recipes includes full nutrient analysis and diabetic food exchanges

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #276628 in Books
• Published on: 1995-11
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 266 pages

Arthritis Care Program, Abbott Northwestern Hospital
... invaluable resource for anyone with sensitive hands or upper extremity problems... gives accurate information on how diet impacts arthritis...

Sarah Morgan, MD, RD, FACP, -Professor of Medicine, Univ. of Alabama @ Birmingham
... takes your special needs in account... Adaptive equipment, kitchen lay-out, time-saving and special meal preparation methods are suggested.

-Arthritis Foundation; Minnesota Chapter
... clears up some of the confusion about how my diet can affect my arthritis... how my medications affect my diet...

Customer Reviews

Very helpful
This book has a lot of great suggestions for those dealing with arthritis. It provides techniques for cooking with less pain and effort and has recipes, too! I found it very helpful as a person who works with helping older adults cook and care for themselves. I highly recommend it for anyone with arthritis.

Good, Helpful, and Tasty!
I got this book, and I liked it very much. I am 14 and have JRA, OA, and Fibro. This book was very helpful, and the recipes were good. I would recommend it. I've read many books, and this is one of the better ones. I enjoyed the food much!!

I have mixed feelings about this book.
I perused this book carefully because I want information on diet and FMS. There are good definitions of FMS, but the info and recipes seem to be geared toward reducing the "inflamation" of arthritis. As I understand it, FMS is not a condition of inflamation. Thus, my confusion. For forms of inflamatory arthritis conditions it looks excellent. I'd like to note that I have seen other books that tag FMS on to Arthritis in their titles or covers and don't seem to have much specific to FMS. A selling technique, I suppose. This book is attractive and seems very good for arthritis, but not specific for FMS.