The healthy bones plant-based nutrition plan and cookbook : how to prepare and combine plant foods to maintain optimal bone density and prevent osteoporosis
"A plant-based diet is often associated with bountiful health benefits, so why doesn't it always protect you from age-related bone loss? Is lower bone density an inescapable price even young people must pay for choosing a plant-based diet? In [this book], Dr. Laura Kellly, a specialist in precision...
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| Language: | English |
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White River Junction, Vermont ; London, UK :
Chelsea Green Publishing,
2024.
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| Summary: | "A plant-based diet is often associated with bountiful health benefits, so why doesn't it always protect you from age-related bone loss? Is lower bone density an inescapable price even young people must pay for choosing a plant-based diet? In [this book], Dr. Laura Kellly, a specialist in precision medicine for bone health and medicine-through-food nutrition, puts these questions to rest, offering expert guidance on plant-forward or vegetarian diets that help ensure healthy bones... She and coauthor Helen Kelly explain how a diet of mostly or noly plants may leave us with deficiencies in key nutrients for bones including protein, iron, vitamin A, and vitamin B12--yet they offer solutions for how to best plant and prepare meals to ptimize nutrients to avoid lower bone density."--Page 4 of cover. |
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| Physical Description: | 308 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781645022268 1645022269 |
| Author Notes: | To make her approach more widely available, in 2019 Dr. Kelly developed Opal, a protocol that offers the public access to testing and specifies treatment in the form of a personalized nutrition plan. In 2022, Laura founded O-Co, a company built to provide sexual wellness care for women, especially women 50+. Helen Kelly is the coauthor of The Healthy Bones Nutrition Plan and Cookbook. She writes about health, medicine, and management topics for a variety of publications. She has worked as international editor for The Working Manager , as an editor for McGraw Hill, and served as a writer for Yale University's Medical School, Child Study Center, and Joint Program in Medicine and Public Health, which earned her a US Education Press Association Award for a series on children and television. Since the 2016 publication of The Healthy Bones Nutrition Plan and Cookbook , Helen has taught bone health as an adult education instructor. Throughout her career Helen has been an active volunteer with inner city students and prison populations, helping people become fully engaged with ideas and education. In the 1990s Helen served as a policy advisor to the UK Education Minister. She is currently writing Early Years Learning in the Later Years , a book on the educational methods and materials she developed in the course of her work with disadvantaged populations. Jummee Park , food shaman and wellness consultant, is the founder of Jummee's Bliss Kitchen, where she has developed authentic Korean food remedies that cater to Western palates, including a line of kimchi. Jummee shares her insights as a speaker in cooking classes and lectures, emphasizing the benefits and significance of food as remedies, promoting longevity, health, and spiritual practices. She was born in the mountainous village of An Dong, South Korea, surrounded by the rich traditions of Korean food, but eventually departed Korea for the United States, where she became an executive at a Fortune 500 multimedia company. Later, listening to her inner calling, she left her corporate position to pursue culinary training, Eastern Medicine, and healing arts. After decades of studying Western and Eastern knowledge of longevity and health transformations, Jummee offers preventive medicine through food, integrated with her roots in Korea's ancient food culture and philosophy, where she seamlessly transforms traditional recipes into easy, accessible, everyday, delicious and highly nutritious dishes. |
