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Health & Personal DevelopmentDecember 2015The Macrobiotic Kitchen in Ten Easy Steps
Balanced Eating in 21st Century
by Kushi, Gabriele / Kushi, Michio / Barnard, Neal D.
The Macrobiotic Kitchen in Ten Easy Steps Gabriele Kushi with Michio Kushi When you have a greater connection to your food, you have more power to control your health and your environment. The step-by-step approach for this book was developed over years of experience in macrobiotic counseling and teaching by the authors, and is most helpful in achieving a lasting, health-supportive lifestyle. This exciting collaboration between Gabriele Kushi and her father in-law, globally acclaimed macrobiotic teacher Michio Kushi, will guide and support you as you learn to skillfully employ many techniques to help you enjoy the entire essential natural and whole food groups in each season. • The Macrobiotic Kitchen in Ten Easy Steps supports healthy daily eating practices and offers suggestions for family meals as well as workable lifestyle solutions. • In addition to plans for regular meals, guidelines are included for healing meals that provideinspiration for a lifetime of wellness. • The book contains inspirational color photos of many dishes, as well as illustrations and charts that explain cooking techniques on how to prepare dishes for all seasons. • Vegan and gluten-free recipes as well as recommendations for suitable food proportions provide an easy way to create delicious, yin-yang balanced meals. • The authors clarify the unique macrobiotic wellness approach and profound holistic system of living in harmony with nature in relation to seasonal, local, and sustainable food and lifestyle choices. • This book also provides a significant amount of up-to-date, peer-reviewed scientific documentation that supports major macrobiotic teachings on health and nutrition.
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Agriculture & farmingJanuary 2010Underutilized and Underexploited Horticultural Crops: Vol 05
by K.V. Peter
"Globally there is concern for diminishing nutritional security. Land under agriculture is dwindling, water for irrigation becoming scarce and costly and availability of labour getting lesser, the need for future crops and alternate source of nutrition is getting attention. Under CGIAR, an all inclusive future crops international has been established to bring to light underexploited and underutilized crops. Horticultural crops especially vegetables, fruits, ornamentals, medicinal plants and aromatic plants are unique in presence of a large number of plants with possibility for edible uses and considerable nutritive value. Many are wild weeds in one part of the globe but edible and consumed in another part of the globe. A few such plants are used for phytosanitation and phytoremediation but are getting attention as raw materials for biofuel production. Energy and water are two natural resources getting threat due to climate change resulting global warming and ozone depletion."
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Agriculture & farmingJune 2008Underutilized and Underexploited Horticultural Crops: Vol 03
by K.V. Peter
The series Underutilized and Underexploited Horticultural Crops are reviewed in several science journals for its uniqueness and richness in content and botanical information. Enlarging the food base and food basket along with validated information on plants for industry, dyes, timber, energy and medicine is the core theme of the series. The third volume has 25 s written by 46 scientists from UK, Mexico, Spain, India, USA, Turkey and Nigeria. The crops covered are atuna, African de bolita, capers and caper plants, kair, natural dye plants, plants used for dye sources, underutilized wild edible fruits of Kerala, bael, carambola, tropical plum, citrus, fig, guava, star gooseberry, hog-plum, underutilized leaf vegetables of sub-Himalayan terai region, underutilized vegetables of Tripura, agathi and chekkurmanis, celosia, colocasia, edible begonias, kangkong, underutilized palms, Atuna and African de bolita are new crops to Indian readeNatural dyes are attaining significant commercial importance in view of the negative effects of synthetic dyes which are allergic and in a few cases carcinogenic. Underutilized fruits like bael, carambola, tropical plum, fig, star gooseberry and hog-plum are receiving attention in view of their wider adaptability and suitability to grow under conditions of stress. Underexploited leaf vegetables like agathi, chekkurmanis, celosia, edible begonias and kangkong have been given prominence. Prof.Ghillean T Prance, FRS has contributed the on Atuna. The Editor is Dr K V Peter Former Vice-Chancellor, Kerala Agricultural University.
