Healthy Family Cookbook or Breast Cancer Prevention Cookbook

Healthy Family Cookbook: 150 Easy Recipes to Please the Entire Family

Author: Hope Ricciotti

Here are 150 mouthwatering recipes along with all the advice you need to keep your family healthy and energetic.Eating together as a family makes for stronger families and more responsible children. Hope Ricciotti of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and her husband chef, Vincent Connelly, tell you their secrets for making family meals a time of joy and good eating. Dr. Ricciotti gives the latest nutritional advice for babies, children, and adults, so you know what your family's needs are. She includes advice on how to get the whole family up and exercising. Easy and fast-to-cook recipes (such as Pan-Fried Chicken Sandwich with Avocado and Jack Cheese) make meeting everyone's nutritional needs a delicious delight. The authors suggest how to entice even picky eaters (Oven Baked Tacos) and provide recipes where vegetables can be put as side dishes for children or combined for a more sophisticated dish, suiting everyone's tastes (Rice Noodles with Peanut Sauce and Broccoli). They finish off dinner with luscious desserts, such as Real Chocolate Pudding.

Author Biography: Hope Ricciotti, an obstetrician/gynecologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, and chef Vincent Connelly live in Brookline, Massachusetts, with their sons.

Publishers Weekly

Obstetrician/gynecologist Ricciotti and her chef/husband Connelly combine a wellness strategy and recipe book, believing healthy eating "should be your lifestyle-not a diet." With two sections ("Health and Nutrition" and "Recipes"), the authors' fitness plan leaves almost no dietary contingency unexamined. They explain the myriad healthy eating "pyramids" and sort through the carbohydrate conundrum. To underscore the connection between diet, exercise and health, they include body-mass index charts for adults and children. In assessing today's trend diets (including The Zone and Atkins), Ricciotti and Connelly maintain "it's not what you eat; it is how much you eat." To support their "Don't diet-learn to cook" thesis, the authors include a "Kids in the Kitchen" chapter, and healthful, straightforward recipes for dishes like Spinach with Raisins and Pine Nuts, Smoky Backyard Chicken, and Hummus with Horseradish. A chapter on kids' favorites includes Oven-Baked Tacos and Fish Sticks made from halibut fillet. Another on treats like smoothies and Frozen Chocolate-Marshmallow Soy Cream Pie complete the book. Orderly and brimming with commonsense advice for seeing and changing unhealthy eating patterns, this gimmick-free cookbook's creative yet substantial recipes should appeal to seasoned cooks or to any readers looking to improve their diet. (Aug.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	vii
Part 1	Health and Nutrition
Chapter 1	How to Eat Now and for the Rest of Your Life	3
Chapter 2	Carbohydrates--the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly	27
Chapter 3	Protein--Quit Beefing	33
Chapter 4	Fat--All Is Not Equal	45
Chapter 5	Weighty Matters	55
Chapter 6	Calcium--the Whole Family Needs It	69
Chapter 7	Children's Health	85
Chapter 8	Family Mealtimes--a Family That Eats Together Stays Healthy and Happy	101
Chapter 9	Kids in the Kitchen	109
Chapter 10	Vitamins and Supplements	119
Chapter 11	Exercise--a Family Affair	125
Chapter 12	Home-Cooking Basics	143
Part 2	Recipes
Chapter 13	Egg Dishes	159
Chapter 14	Soups	171
Chapter 15	Pasta Dishes	187
Chapter 16	Vegetarian Dishes	217
Chapter 17	Chicken Dishes	241
Chapter 18	Beef and Pork Dishes	261
Chapter 19	Seafood Dishes	287
Chapter 20	Accompaniments	301
Chapter 21	Kids' Favorites	331
Chapter 22	Treats	363
	Weekend Cooking	383
	Special Occasions	387
	Index	391

See also: Unexpected Recoveries or 101 Fun Warm up and Cool Down Games

Breast Cancer Prevention Cookbook: Eat Well for Better Health

Author: Hope Ricciotti

With over 165 recipes, this cookbook will have you eating healthy as your best proactive defense against breast cancer.

It is never too early—or too late—to start eating well. New data is showing that the right foods can help bolster the body's defenses against cancer, even for babies in utero. The Breast Cancer Prevention Cookbook allows you to find the recipes that blend in best with your lifestyle, whether you are a vegetarian, a beginner or an accomplished cook, a family of one or many. In the first section, Hope Ricciotti gives expert medical information and health advice to women concerned about breast cancer or who have had a previous incidence. The recipe section starts with scrumptious smoothies (think lemon and mango) and moves on to soups (corn chowder); salads; pizza and pasta dishes; vegetarian meals; chicken, meat, and seafood recipes; side dishes; and dessert (raspberry-poppy muffins). This is the one book you will want to cook from for the rest of your life.

Author Biography: Hope Ricciotti, M.D., is a gynecologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. She and her husband, chef Vincent Connelly, are the authors of The Menopause Cookbook and The Pregnancy Cookbook.

Publishers Weekly

Husband-and-wife team Riccotti, a gynecologist, and Connelly, a chef, have joined forces for the third time to write this breast cancer resource and cookbook. But this book's subject matter is somewhat more controversial that that of The Pregnancy Cookbook or The Menopause Cookbook. After all, there's no scientific proof that diet can prevent breast cancer, only data indicating nutrition plays a role in risk reduction. Riccotti reviews this data in the first half of the book, "Breast Cancer, Health and Nutrition." In dense, fairly nuanced but sometimes disorganized chapters, Riccotti also lays out the known risk factors for breast cancer, and then, strangely, moves away from nutrition, delving into exercise, hormone replacement therapy, screening and chemoprevention, and the use of medical interventions such as surgery or drugs to reduce cancer risk. The recipes section begins with smoothies, and include chapters on soups (Seitan and Vegetable Chile), vegetarian dishes (Spicy Tofu and Black Bean Burritos with a Mango and Tomato Salsa) and even beef (though these dishes also can be made with soy or vegetables). The authors emphasize that breast cancer prevention foods can be incorporated into one's existing diet. They also offer helpful sidebars on cancer-fighting foods such as edamame, or soybeans, that might be unfamiliar. Some recipes are simpler than others, so cooks of varying skill levels should be able to find something tasty and healthful to make. (Sept.)