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Comment on How to Cook Healthy & Natural Dinners (Cheap, Easy & Incredible Natural Recipes) by Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:53:30 +0000

I made my first tasty healthy dinner ever! Yay!, January 17, 2012

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I've been looking for cookbooks that offer healthy recipes, but haven't found any whose recipes don't taste like the paper they're printed on. I think my search is over. Chicken and dumplings are one of my favorite meals, and the recipe here was great for all the fresh ingredients I used. Five stars all the way!

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Comment on How to Cook Healthy & Natural Dinners (Cheap, Easy & Incredible Natural Recipes) by Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:05:35 +0000

Awesome looking collection of recipes, January 20, 2012

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I haven't tried to make any of these recipes yet, but I am a pretty good cook (at least that's what my family tells me, lol) and after reading through all of the recipes, I'm very happy that I got the book. Everything in here looks awesome and my kids are already begging me to make them potato pizzas. If you don't have this book, get it, you'll love it!

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Comment on How to Cook Healthy & Natural Dinners (Cheap, Easy & Incredible Natural Recipes) by Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:41:14 +0000

Great cookbook collection!, January 20, 2012

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I bought all of the books in this series and they're great. This is the last one I read through, and the recipes look great, and it looks like the author put a lot of effort into picking out recipes that would be widely liked as well as include natural ingredients.

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Comment on Blue Buffalo Spa Select Dry Cat Food, Salmon and Rice Recipe, 15-Pound Bag by tutta

tutta — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:11:07 +0000

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my kitties absolutely LOVE IT!, August 20, 2010

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This review is from: Blue Buffalo Spa Select Dry Cat Food, Salmon and Rice Recipe, 15-Pound Bag (Misc.)

i only wish they offered organic meat but considering that the bag cost about the same as newmans organic yet the bag is almost twice the size and my kitties refuse to eat newmans organic cat food and devour this, they may know more than i do about the quality of this product. the ingredients seeml wholesome and of good quality with little or no by-products that i am aware of. although it cost more than conventional grain based cat food, assumably becasue of the high amount of goood quality meat based protein, my cats eat less of it, making it cost effective both by eating less food and using less kitty litter, and putting less stress on their systems. Highly recoomended and cheap in the long run (not even taking into account the vet bills that eating low quality cat food would probably cost in the long run). I also highly reccomend ordering from Amazon since delivery was the same week, and with free shipping.

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Comment on Blue Buffalo Spa Select Dry Cat Food, Salmon and Rice Recipe, 15-Pound Bag by Jenn

Jenn — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:21:56 +0000

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Great stuff!, September 21, 2010

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This is really great cat food. My elderly cat hasn't thrown up on it at all like he does with a lot of foods. Plus this food has really reduced the smell of their poo. I'd highly recommend it.

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Comment on Blue Buffalo Spa Select Dry Cat Food, Salmon and Rice Recipe, 15-Pound Bag by Karen

Karen — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:28:31 +0000

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My Cat would buy this cat food..., January 7, 2011

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My cat loves this food. He started eating my dog's Blue Buffalo so I had no choice but to order the Blue Buffalo Cat Food. It is a little pricey, but all of my animals really enjoy it. Plus, the cold formed nutrients make a lot of sense.

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Comment on The Kitchen Shrink: Foods and Recipes for a Healthy Mind by Kathy L. Brown

Kathy L. Brown — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:03:52 +0000

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My Biochem Text was Never This Clear or Delicious, March 29, 2009

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This review is from: The Kitchen Shrink: Foods and Recipes for a Healthy Mind (Hardcover)

I always thought that I was the kitchen shrink; the kitchen is the room where my children, spouse, and friends hunt me down to pour out their latest woes. Generally, I offer them a cookie. After reading [i]The Kitchen Shrink[/i], I know a cookie will just make them grumpier after their blood sugar peaks and drops. So I should at least serve some milk with the cookie! And a yogurt / fruit parfait (protein and fiber) would be a healthier treatment (along with mom's tea and sympathy, of course).

Nutritionist Natalie Savona explores the complex relationship between what we eat and our emotional health in her book, [i]The Kitchen Shrink[/i]. This slim volume explains, clearly and concisely, how poor dietary choices can lead to adverse emotional health states. Recipes comprise about a third of the text and are wonderful examples of the type of diet Savona recommends for optimal health.

The book is organized around specific issues a reader may face, such as low mood (blues or mild depression), premenstrual syndrome, sleeplessness, and forgetfulness. Each section includes a diagnostic checklist, so the reader can learn the features of these emotional health disturbances and judge how extensively the problem affects him.
Savona explains the physiology of each problem in terms of nutrient lacks or imbalances. These discussions are among the best features of the book; they are detailed, yet simple and understandable, and go beyond the typical vague advice of "eat - trendy food of the day - It's good for you." With good lay explanations, Savona tells us what specific nutrients do for our bodies and how they do it, and then recommends rich sources and gives recipe ideas.

For example, in the sleeplessness section Savona lists eight different aspects of sleep loss and explains sleep's biochemistry - from hormones (cortisol and growth hormone) to neurotransmitters (serotonin). Our bodies make serotonin from tryptophan, and the book gives the reader a list of good sources.

The nutritional explanation sections throughout the book reference the recipe section, so if the reader feels he'd like to address one of the specific health issues, several examples of what an improved diet looks like are readily available. The recipes are light in fat and sugar, and many have an Asian or Indian flair. Savona also includes several family recipes from Malta, such as Nanna's rice salad, which I'm anxious to try. The book does include fish, poultry, and lamb recipes, but none for red meat. And, of course, it presents many wonderful ideas for vegetables, whole grains, and seeds.

The book is lavishly illustrated throughout with color photographs and also includes informative sidebars (such as "Toxic Metals" and "Phytoestrogens") and tables (such as "Glycemic Index of Foods" and "Key Energy Nutrients").
Kathy writes about food at hhtp://www.bellaonline.com/site/HealthyFoods

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Comment on The Kitchen Shrink: Foods and Recipes for a Healthy Mind by fair_deal_guy "BB"

fair_deal_guy "BB" — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:56:49 +0000

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What a nice surprise--good advice in a junk food world!, February 10, 2003

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This review is from: The Kitchen Shrink: Foods and Recipes for a Healthy Mind (Paperback)

This was a ... sort of purchase. I bought this figuring I might find a few good dietary nuggets. To my surprise and delight, Natalie Savona has stuffed "The Kitchen Shrink" with loads of truly inspired advice and recipes. This is not the usual "stop eating xyz!" nonsense. Ms. Savona's guidelines--while not necessarily consistent--is nonetheless easy to read and easy to follow. Most importantly, her dietary suggestions just plain make sense--meaning readers are more likely to adopt them and follow them over a long period of time. In the recipe portion of the book, Ms. Savona really struts her stuff. There is an incredible variety of recipes here, and it would take years to try everything.

All in all, this is a pretty impressive volume. Well done, Natalie!

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Comment on The Kitchen Shrink: Foods and Recipes for a Healthy Mind by Elliot Essman

Elliot Essman — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:38:08 +0000

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I've put this book to immediate use, February 2, 2004

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This review is from: The Kitchen Shrink: Foods and Recipes for a Healthy Mind (Paperback)

I had to admit that when I first encountered the title of this book, I succumbed to an abiding uneasiness. Who, I thought, knows better than anyone else what constitutes a healthy mind? What if there's some aspect of my brain that varies from the definition? What if I eat what she recommends and end up turning into somebody else? If I am what I eat, shouldn't I change what I eat only with the utmost care?

Further, in matters of nutrition, I am wary. I firmly believe that people do not have opinions on nutrition; they have convictions. Whenever I catch wind of a looming nutritional crusade, I run lest I be targeted as the infidel. There's nothing worse than sitting down to a meal you love and not being able to enjoy it because you're worried about what other people will think.

But Natalie Savona is not the kind of nutritional writer who thinks you should be burnt at the stake for eating burnt steak. She has attracted rather than repelled me with her concentration on the blood sugar/mood connection. In my case, she's preaching to the choir. I remember what all that ice cream used to do to me in my younger days.

The Kitchen Shrink is a beautifully produced, large format book, filled with Savona's food doctrine. Though Savona includes some interesting recipes at the tail end of the book, her writing on the food/mood connection is the gist. She comes to the point quickly. Blood sugar balance isn't the whole story, but it comes first for a reason. We've heard it before (but we can stand to hear it again): the "blood sugar seesaw" puts our bodies through an unnecessary daily workout. It makes our daily stress worse; it is itself stress. Stimulants like alcohol and coffee, sweet, sugary and starchy foods give us temporary highs, then more pervasive, longer lows.

Savona suggests adding certain foods to strengthen the adrenal gland and build up the body's ability to handle stress. "At least three times a week," she writes, "eat pumpkin, sunflower, sesame, hemp, and flax seeds and/or oil-rich fish, such as salmon, mackerel, sardines, tuna, or herring." She follows with predictable advice about choosing fresh foods, then specific advice as to which foods, vitamins and minerals enhance levels of serotonin, dopamine, and other mood maintaining neuro-transmitters. She covers familiar ground in talking about good and bad fats, essential fatty acids, and the virtues of olive oil. But then she has an interesting section I found very useful: a complete strategy to use nutrients to give the body's "waste disposal" systems, like the liver, a needed break. Fiber and water are important here, but we should also avoid processed foods, too much alcohol, too many prescription and over the counter drugs, too much food in general. For the truly motivated, she lays out a complete 21-day body cleansing program.

After a short concession to issues of food sensitivity, Savona moves on to what I consider her most original work, individual sections on how to use food to alleviate specific mind/body complaints. She covers, in turn, energy deficit, premenstrual problems, seasonal affective disorder (SAD), insomnia, binge eating, brain fog, and depression. She indexes her back-of-book recipes to menus designed for each particular problem; for pre-menstrual problems, you'll cut down on salt and perhaps start your day with Savona's "Designer Muesli," an amalgam of oats, barley, rye, wheat germ, sunflower and pumpkin seeds, raisins and dried apricots, with soy milk or yogurt. Can't sleep? Have a "Baby Spinach and Goat Cheese Salad" for dinner, or perhaps "Quinoa With Roast Vegetables." For every mood, there's a menu.

Just as Savona was seeming too much the crusader for my particular taste, she presented me with a side bar, designed to get on my good side, that conceded the value of chocolate in maintaining good mood. She even admits that this "food of the gods" (as the Aztecs originally named it) "has been scientifically shown to have built-in feel-good factors, including mental stimulants such as caffeine and theobromine," as well as the important mineral magnesium. Even though chocolate releases coveted endorphins into the brain, Savona counsels moderation because of its high sugar and fat content. (We all know that with chocolate, moderation is more easily preached than practiced.)

There's plenty of material in The Kitchen Shrink to warrant a purchase, even if you've heard much of it before. The book is truly handsome, suitable for gift giving or displaying on your coffee table. My nutrition conscious sister has already appropriated my first copy.

Food writer Elliot Essman's other reviews and food articles are available at www.stylegourmet.com

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Comment on How to Cook Healthy & Natural Meals (Cheap, Easy & Incredible Natural Recipes) by Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:41:41 +0000

Over 90 recipes, all of them delicious! A must buy!, January 26, 2012

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This review is from: How to Cook Healthy & Natural Meals (Cheap, Easy & Incredible Natural Recipes) (Kindle Edition)

This is a massive recipe collection from the 'cheap, easy and incredible natural recipes' collection. I've read some of the books in the collection, and it's safe to say that this is the best one. It combines the best recipes from all of the other books into one giant book and makes it easy to find exactly what you want to make.

Breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks...it's got them all!

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