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Positive Living: Food & Us
This book is aimed at anyone who wants better health, beautiful
skin and hair and healthy teeth. It is also to help people avoid
the diseases and conditions that have become so common since
the 20th Century changed our way of eating. These include diabetes,
high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity, tooth decay and
increasing kinds of cancer. Top of the list, of course is AIDS,
which has replaced cancer in the last century and TB in the one
before, as the ‘Big Demon’ whose name cannot be mentioned and
whose diagnosis brings about total loss of hope. It is very important
that people understand that HIV is just one more disease on the
list. The secret to living positively is really very simple:
- Having a positive attitude to your life and your
health.
- Learning and sticking to the kind of diet that
will give your body all the weapons it needs
to keep it strong and healthy.
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The writer of this book is Lynde Francis, a grandmother who has
been living with HIV since being diagnosed in 1986. The methods
she has used to stay strong and healthy and not progress to AIDS
are what she wants to share with you in this book of nutrition
for life.
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Section
1:
- Dedication
- Preface
- Introduction: what this book is all about
- The meaning of balance: Yin and Yang
- The Five Golden Rules for healthy eating
- A Healthy Plate: how should it look?
- Supplement to the Healthy Plate
- Vitamins and minerals: the best food sources, functions and
- signs of deficiency
Section
2:
- The staples: grains and other starches
- Comparative food values of popular starches
- The vitamin boosters: vegetables and fruit
- Comparative food values of popular vegetables and fruits
Section
3:
- Proteins: the body-builders
- Comparative food values of popular proteins
Section
4:
- Luxuries and relishes: other foods we like to eat
- The enemies: foods that can harm your health
- Feeding babies and children: how should it be done?
- Comparative food values of milk and milk substitutes
- Some ways to save costs and time
Section
5:
- Human immuno–deficiency virus (HIV): what it is and how it
affects your system
- Hard Times: how to use food and herbs to overcome them
Section
6:
- Malnutrition: the other plague
- References and suggestions for further reading
- Glossary of terms
- Appendix
- Acknowledgements
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