Marguerite O.B.E. - Arthritis - Over 60 Recipes and a Self-Treatment Plan to Transform Your Life

Over 60 recipes and a self-treatment plan to transform your life

Cover Page

Title Page Eat to Beat Arthritis Over 60 recipes and a self-treatment plan to transform your life

Preface

Part One You Can Beat Arthritis!

Chapter 1 – You can beat arthritis!

Chapter 2 – Know your enemy (understanding arthritis and its causes)

Chapter 3 – Know how to combat your enemy (seven weeks that will change your life)

Chapter 4 – Changing your lifestyle

Part Two The Facts About Arthritis and Diet

Chapter 1 – About arthritis

Chapter 2 – Food, supplements and medication

Part Three The Eat to Beat Arthritis Diet

Chapter 1 – The basics

Chapter 2 – The seven-week diet plan

Part Four The Recipes

Introducing the diet

Creamy Liver Pâté

Cucumber and Seafood Dip

Golden Roquefort Dip

Making Stock

Beetroot Soup

Chicken and Almond Soup

Lentil Soup

Indonesian Chicken Soup

Liver and Mushroom Soup

Cod with Pineapple and Cucumber

Fish Véronique

Grilled Fish

Herbed Baked Fish

Kedgeree

Seafood Stir-fry

Mussels in Cream Sauce

Thai Fish Cakes

Grilled Spiced Sardines

Poached Herring Roes

Sautéed Cod’s Roe

Enjoying Liver

Grilled Liver

Sautéed Liver

Chicken Liver Risotto

Liver Soufflé

Country Lambs’ Kidneys

Creamed Sweetbreads

Sweet and Sour Lambs’ Hearts

Curried Tripe

Steak with Roquefort

Caribbean Lamb

Roast Chicken

Turkey in Almond Sauce

Quail with Blueberry Sauce

Salmis of Pheasant

Cucumber Sauce

Pesto Sauce

Vinaigrette Dressing

Mayonnaise

Almond Relish

Herbed Polenta

Savoury Omelettes

Sweet Potato Rösti

Minted Beans and Cabbage

Garlic Mushrooms

Avocado and Pineapple Salad

Buckwheat Salad

Fruit and Vegetable Salads

Grilled Goat’s Cheese Salad

Liver and Herb Salad

Mushroom and Liver Salad

Sweet Potato Salad

Main Dish Salads

Apricot Rice Pudding

Mango Foule

Ginger and Lemon Pears

Peaches in Honey and Almonds

Summer Soufflé Omelette

Strawberry and Grape Sorbet

Vanilla Ice Cream

Classic Blinis

Speedy Blinis

Macaroons

Millet Porridge

Hush Puppies

Corn Bread

Part Five Taking It Further

Chapter 1 – Foods that heal

Chapter 2 – Questions and answers about arthritis

Glossary

Helpful resources

Index

Copyright

About the Publisher

Marguerite Patten, O.B.E., a well-known and highly respected food writer, and Jeannette Ewin, Ph.D., a health journalist with an international following, have joined forces to create an eating plan that can help you beat the pain and distress of arthritis. The Eat to Beat Arthritis Diet, and everything you need to know about how it can change your life, is contained in this book.

Arthritis has been compared to being locked in a prison: its symptoms bar you from living the way you wish. In this book you will learn how to break lifestyle habits that have shackled you to pain. The pages that follow contain the latest information about food supplements that fight the causes and symptoms of arthritis. You will also learn how to listen to your own body, and understand what it is telling you about the food you eat.

The Eat to Beat Arthritis Diet is based on a selection of foods and supplements that help your body fight the pain of crippling disease. Unlike other diets you may have tried in the past, it allows you to enjoy appetizing and satisfying meals while you chart the dietary course towards wellbeing. Using foods recommended in the Eat to Beat Arthritis Diet, Marguerite Patten has developed over 60 delicious recipes that can be enjoyed by everyone – not just those suffering from arthritis. Unlike the recipes you may have tried in some healthrelated cookery books, the dishes described here are full of appealing flavour and texture.

Working on this book was a labour of love for Marguerite, as she personally knows how arthritis can affect one’s life. Her search for a means of controlling this painful illness had been long and hard, and included both acupuncture and chiropractic treatments. When these failed, her doctor said surgery on a severely arthritic hip was the only answer. Faced with family and professional responsibilities, Marguerite’s response was, ‘Sorry. I haven’t the time right now.’ With hope of finding an answer to her advancing illness in some other form of therapy, she turned for help to the subject she knows best: food. By changing her diet she changed her life, and in this book she not only provides clear instructions about how to cook the appropriate foods, but also shares the secrets of her own story.

Reading every health and diet book she could find that focused on the perplexing problem of arthritis, Marguerite came across an international bestseller: A Doctor’s Proven New Home Cure for Arthritis , by Dr Giraud W. Campbell. Here was a healing diet that incorporated foods she enjoyed eating. The prescribed therapy was strict, but manageable. She gave it a try and within weeks experienced a dramatic and clinically recognizable improvement in her condition.

Over the years since her introduction to Dr Campbell’s book, much has been learned about how diets work and why certain nutrient supplements help control this debilitating illness. To share her personal experience, and to expand what she had learned about diet and arthritis, Marguerite Patten teamed up with a friend and nutritionist, Dr Jeannette Ewin. Taking their lead from Dr Campbell’s book, they developed the Eat to Beat Arthritis Diet. This sensible and healthy way to enjoy good food combines Marguerite’s decades of experience developing tasty and sure-fire recipes, with Jeannette’s insight into the interactions between food, nutrition and health. As a side benefit, those who follow their advice will soon find they not only gain control over pain, but also enjoy a greater feeling of wellbeing.

During an awards ceremony, American comedian Jack Benny reportedly said: Thank you for this honour, but I don’t know what I did to deserve it. Then again, I have arthritis, and I don’t know what I did to deserve that either.’

If – like Jack Benny – you suffer from arthritis, you know it is no laughing matter. Pain can dominate your life, and its effects are insidious. You don’t sleep well at night because your joints hurt. Backache plagues you while you are in bed. Knees and hips ache when you get out of bed. Slowly, you begin to feel depressed by the lack of sleep. During the day you begin avoiding exercise. Taking a walk, swinging a golf club, or doing everyday household chores cause discomfort and pain and, as a result, you find yourself moving less. Muscles that were once firm and strong begin to weaken from lack of use. Not burning off calories as quickly as you once did, you find yourself gaining a bit of weight. The problem of wakeful nights becomes compounded because the exercise you now avoid is an important part of getting the body ready for sleep. Overtime, arthritis begins to dominate your life, and you find yourself in a slow physical and emotional cycle of decline.