Honestly Healthy: Eat with Your Body in Mind, the Alkaline Way

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Honestly Healthy is a refreshing cookbook and lifestyle guide promoting balanced and healthy living. Eating the alkaline way is the easy route to great health and wellbeing. Natasha Corrett and Vicky Edgson's inspiring book reveals exactly how addressing the balance of alkaline and acid-forming foods in your diet can aid digestion and help your energy levels soar. A surfeit of acid-forming foods creates inbalances in the body, with symptoms including headaches, joint and muscle pain, bloating, sweating and insomnia. But you can banish these common complaints by filling up on Honestly Healthy's really alkaline, delicious dishes. Your digestive system will thank you for it. Split into two sections, Honestly Healthy explains the health principles of an alkaline diet and features over 100 tasty, easy to prepare recipes. The first part identifies common alkalising foods, lists the top providers of alkaline energy and explains how to eat to beat everyday ailments. Clear guidelines and suggested menu planners demonstrate how to understand the Honestly Healthy Cleanse using alkaline foods, and then how to build them into your lifestyle to ensure your diet nourishes your body. The mouthwatering recipes in the second part build on those alkaline eating principles. Enjoy American-style buckwheat pancakes and blackberry compote, red rice and beetroot feta risotto, sweet potato bread and Brazil nut butter, coconut flour chocolate mousse cake and much, much more. Mix and match tasty, healthy food whatever time of day, from breakfast through to lunch and dinners , via nutritious treats, snacks and smoothies along the way, all finished off with decadent desserts that packed with goodness so can be enjoyed to the full. Cooking delicious, healthy food has never been so simple.