Foods That Fight Fibromyalgia Review

This is a review of Foods That Fight Fibromyalgia – Nutrient Packed Meals That Increase Energy, Ease Pain, and Move You Toward Recovery by Deirdre Rawlings, PH.D., N.D. This book focuses on healing your body nutritionally. Although the book focuses on diet, it also provides other information for healing.

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Foods That Fight Fibromyalgia is beneficial to anyone who has fibromyalgia. Increasing evidence shows that diet and nutrition play a major role in the reduction of fibromyalgia-related pain and fatigue. The book provides nutritional guidelines, including information on food allergies and their link to fibromyalgia.

The author explains that nutrient deficiencies are a common problem with fibromyalgia and by improving our diet with balanced nutrition, we address fibromyalgia at its source. Plus, there are 100 recipes to bolster your immune system and combat symptoms such as; depression, muscle pain, fatigue and brain fog.

Part 1: Understanding Fibromyalgia

Part 1 offers basic food and nutrition guidelines, with an emphasis on eating whole foods, not processed or pesticide and chemical-laden food. Obtaining a balanced level of healthy proteins, carbohydrates, and fats at each meal. The essential daily nutrients which most people with fibromyalgia are deficient and which supplements you can take to obtain these nutrients.

• Chapter 1: The Causes and the Cures – Fibromyalgia can be brought on by a combination of triggers, such as stress, toxins, infections, and diet, so it is vital to improving your health on every level. You will learn ways in which to accomplish this.
• Chapter 2; Fighting Fibromyalgia Through Diet – The link between diet, nutrition, and fibromyalgia.
• Chapter 3: Treating Symptoms with Food Not Pills – The human body is made to run on nutrients. There is no magic pill. While medication can bring short-term relief, there is a strong link between fibromyalgia, poor diet and nutritional deficiencies.
• Chapter 4: Focusing on Colorful Nutrition: We Are What We Eat – If we are to become healthy, we must give the body what it needs by proper nourishment. This chapter teaches you how to do that.
• Chapter 5: Your Lifestyle Guide: Shopping Lists and Eating Tips – Stock your pantry with the building blocks of healthy recipes. Familiarize yourself with a healthy shopping list and learn which foods to avoid.
• Chapter 6: Balanced Living Tips – Principles for living your life in balance and how to restore balance. It’s about choices, priorities, perspective and letting go.

Part 2: Winning The Battle Through Food

There are 100 recipes and guidelines to make it easier to balance your food choices for optimum nutrition. Each recipe is rated by its nutrient density. At the beginning of each recipe are instructions and suggestions to make adjustments to best serve your metabolism and achieve optimally balanced meals.

• Chapter 7: Great Beginnings – 13 Breakfast Recipes
• Chapter 8: Healthy Snacking – Dips, Salsas, Spreads and Appetizers
• Chapter 9: Fresh and Lively – Salads, Salad Dressings and Soups
• Chapter 10: Sitting Down To Dinner – 16 Entrees and 10 Side Dishes
• Chapter 11: Feeding Your Fancy – Desserts and Baked Goods
• Chapter 12: Tonics, Tinctures and Superfoods – Natural food, vitamin and mineral supplements recommended for use in dealing with disorders associated with fibromyalgia.

About the Author

Deirdre Rawlings holds a PH.D. in holistic nutrition, a master’s in holistic nutrition, a master’s in herbal medicine and is board certified by the American Naturopathic Medical Certification Board and Wellcoaches. She specializes in fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrone, digestive disturbances, food allergies and hormone balancing. You can visit her websites at FoodsforFibromyalgia.com and RelaxationYogaNidra.com.

Summary

Fibromyalgia can be treated and overcome and this book shows you how. This concludes my review of Foods that Fight Fibromyalgia: Nutrient-Packed Meals That Increase Energy, Ease Pain, and Move You Towards Recovery. I hope you found it useful.