Healing foods

Over 2 000 years ago Hippocrates wrote: "Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food. Each one of the substances in a man's diet, acts upon his body and changes it in some way, and upon these changes his whole life depends, whether he be in health, in sickness or convalescent. To be sure, there can be little knowledge more necessary." Now, as never before, we have to really reconsider these wise words for in our modern fast-paced, stressed, over-wrought and fear-filled lives, we are not coping and we are not glowing with abundant health and well-being. With Healing foods, prolific author Margaret Roberts brings nature's pharmacy into our homes and into our lives. Step by step, and easily accessible, she showcases the superfoods and warns of the danger foods, and lists the ailments we suffer from, offering comforting natural ways of correcting and rebuilding our health and regaining our vitality. More than 150 common and lesser-known vegetables, fruits, herbs, spices and other food plants that are the building blocks of good health are described in full, covering aspects such as: the plant's history and origin; instructions on how to grow the plant; medicinal uses and major nutrients; ideas on how to include the plant in the diet, along with recipes; cosmetic and household uses and other interesting facts and hints. The book concludes with an extensive A–Z list of ailments, with information on which danger foods to avoid and which superfoods, supplements and other therapies to consider to bring relief for each of the more than 100 common ailments discussed. This book is essential reading for each of us in our quest for health and energy in an increasingly stress-filled world.

A book such as Healing Foods by Margaret Roberts could have the potential to overwhelm. However, it has been concisely set out with chapters such as Healing foods at a Glance, an A-Z Ailment Chart and of course Healing Plants, which devotes a page to each food plant and includes tips on how to grow and properly use them. The addition of recipes makes it easy to incorporate these vital food plants into daily living and thus allows us to attain a state of wellness so lacking in a time when many of us are plagued by stress, fatigue and over-exposure to pollutants.", This fascinating book describes the history and use of 150 plants, used for centuries for both food and health. Descriptions throughout the book include details on growing and using each plant, its specific health benefits, and recipes. The first section of book provides an overview of these 150 superfoods in a table summarizing nutrients and benefits. The second section examines each plant in more detail. Unfortunately, this section is not in alphabetical order (starting with okra and ending with ginger!) The third section comprises of an alphabetical ailment chart from abscesses to worms. An index rounds this amazing text at the very end. This book is not only a guide to healthy plants but a recipe for good health.", What Roberts has done is to make it easy for readers to decipher the way they should eat. Or how foods can, in fact, aid healing. Yes, it would be ideal if we could all follow the Roberts dictum daily, but few can achieve that. At least we can come closer to our goals and reap the benefits of a healthier lifestyle. The book starts with a list of healing foods, a description of what danger and what super foods are, supplements, pharmacological activity in common foods and then a few chapters on the different ways of using food to cure specific ailments. She takes specific ingredients like salt, bread, yoghurt or water and has an in-depth look at what their strengths and weaknesses are. What she has done is cross off all the possible health hazards and made it as easy as possible for the reader to follow her path to a much-improved lifestyle. If you re a Roberts novice, start with this one. Followers won t have to be pushed. How can you not heed her advice? This is her life s work and she knows best.", "Healing Foods" by Margaret Roberts is an amazing compendium of a forty-year task of fascination and love by the author. She is a physiotherapist and among the first organic farmers in South Africa in the past century. She imported the first herbs into South Africa and has spent four decades researching their impact on health. She has researched using food as medicine and how the proper foods, grown in the proper healthful ways promote wellness and good health and can also be used instead of medicines. Having written 30 books in this field, she is one of the leading world authorities on this subject. This book is a treasure which compiles all her research and discoveries about how we should and can grow our food and eat right for good health and energy, and even use foods for healing. The book is easy to read and has excellent directions for understanding the benefits of each plant and for simple to follow recipes for tasty, healthy, nutritious eating. This book should be in EVERY kitchen and used daily! EXCELLENT!

Margaret Roberts was probably one of the first organic farmers in SouthernAfrica. She imported the first herbs into South Africa over 40 years ago and has trialled and tested unusualmedicinal and food plants at her Herbal Centre at De Wildt ever since. She is the author of more than 30books, and Healing Foods is the culmination of her many years of dedication to building wellness naturally,a mammoth work that reflects this enduring passion.