Product Description

One single factor can have life-or-death importance for someone with HIV: food. The right diet and nutrition can boost the immune system, and most important, maintain lean body mass. This groundbreaking, compassionate, and medically sound sourcebook is a food bible for the HIV community and their caregivers. Cooking for Life contains all the information you need about one of the safest, most effective, yet underutilized, weapons for staying well.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1081770 in Books
• Published on: 1996-12-02
• Released on: 1996-12-02
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 8.50" h x .75" w x 5.50" l, .78 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 276 pages

From Library Journal
This work is much more than just a cookbook, as the title might suggest. It is a comprehensive guide to nutrition and food safety for HIV-positive people and their caregivers. The author, a longtime chef who began the nutrition program at the Metropolitan AIDS Neighborhood Nutrition Alliance (MANNA) in Philadelphia, has called upon the expertise of a team of advisers including a physician, a nurse who specializes in nutrition, and a registered dietitian. The result is a very thorough, solid, and practical guide, firmly grounded in sound nutritional principles. Included are sections on basic nutrition, safe food-handling practices, ways to deal with specific nutritional concerns of those living with HIV/AIDS, and, yes, recipes. Written in a friendly and accessible yet authoritative style, the book contains information helpful to everyone. Both informed readers and those working with HIV/AIDS patients will find it useful. Highly recommended.?Linda Gleason, Univ. of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey Lib., Newark
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Ingram
Designed for people with HIV or AIDS, their friends, families, and healthcare professionals, a guide to nutrition and food safety shows how to use food as a preventive medicine and to promote healing of common AIDS-related illnesses.