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Cooking With the Healthful Herbs: Over Three Hundred No-Salt Ways to Great Taste and Better Health
Cooking With the Healthful Herbs Over Three Hundred NoSalt Ways to Great Taste and Better Health Author:Jean Roger A cookbook designed to help reduce salt intake, intensify food flavors, and improve health by using herbs provides more than 300 recipes. Suggestions are given for eliminating not only salt, but also alcohol, white flour, white rice, sugar and most processed foods from one's diet. Brief discussions explain: the theorized relationship between... more » sodium intake and high blood pressure; the possible synergistic effect of sodium and sucrose on blood pressure levels; physiological effects of diuretics and the use of potassium-rich foods to counteract these effects. Possible protective properties of garlic and onions also are described. Methods for growing and storing herbs, setting up an herbal kitchen, and using the herbs are discussed.« less