The Healthy Bones Plant-Based Nutrition Plan and Cookbook
How to Prepare and Combine Plant Foods to Maintain Optimal Bone Density and Prevent Osteoporosis
Pages: | 320 pages |
Book Art: | Full-color photographs and illustrations throughout |
Size: | 7.5 x 9.5 inch |
Publisher: | Chelsea Green Publishing |
Pub. Date: | September 5, 2024 |
ISBN: | 9781645022268 |
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 unique nutritional guide and cookbook—with over 100 delicious recipes—that can help both women and men of any age maintain optimal bone density and prevent osteoporosis.
Can you have healthy bones while following a diet of more, mostly, or entirely plants? Is lower bone density an inescapable price even young people must pay for choosing plant foods?
Dr. Laura Kelly, a specialist in precision medicine for bone health, hears these questions from patients and colleagues who cite studies showing that as a group, vegetarians and vegans can have lower bone density than do people who eat animal food. In The Healthy Bones Plant-Based Nutrition Plan and Cookbook, Dr. Kelly puts these questions to rest, offering readers the same expert guidance she provides to her patients who are on a plant-forward or vegetarian diet, ensuring they have a plan to meet their nutritional needs for healthy bones or working toward reversal of bone loss. She explains why people on plant-forward, vegetarian, or vegan diets sometimes struggle with low bone density; identifies the environmental factors that can influence bone health; and explains how to minimize the risks while setting out the steps anyone can take to restore, improve, and maintain bone density.
As the authors of The Healthy Bones Nutrition Plan and Cookbook, Laura and Helen Kelly specialize in explaining science to nonscientists, and this book is a must-have for anyone who is giving plant foods a bigger share—or a full share—of their daily diet. The authors guide readers to learn about the wide variety of plant foods and how to select, prepare, and cook with them, as well as best food combinations in order to achieve optimum bone health.
The Healthy Bones Plant-Based Nutrition Plan and Cookbook breaks new ground by including:
- Complete information on the abundant nutrition that plant foods offer and an explanation of how plant foods alone can help to strengthen the skeleton.
- An explanation of exciting research discoveries regarding gene expression and the use of genetic testing to help those struggling with bone loss. The new sciences of nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics allow practitioners to understand how a patient’s genetic profile contributes to bone density and how detailed nutrient and food prescriptions can either prevent or treat osteoporosis in an elegant and efficient way.
- The reasons why bone strength and density decline with age, and the type of nutrient interventions that can help restore turnover balance.
- How to meet and overcome the challenges to nutrient bioavailability posed by choosing a fully plant-based life.
- A discussion of the A to Z of bioavailability of nutrients most important for bone health, from calcium to Vitamin K2, and how to release the nutrients in plant foods from the antinutrients that can lock them in undigestible forms.
- Over 100 recipes created by gifted vegetarian chef Jummee Park that feature delicious and diverse combinations of vegetables, fruits, grains, mushrooms, nuts, beans, seeds, edible flowers, and spices.
- Tips on establishing a pantry and several example meal plans.
- How to use an online nutrition calculator to craft your own delicious plant combinations that supply needed amounts of complete protein, iron, and vitamins A and B12 for whole nutrition.
The Healthy Bones Plant-Based Nutrition Plan and Cookbook is a unique nutritional guide and cookbook that can help both women and men of any age maintain optimal bone density and prevent osteoporosis on a plant-based, vegetarian, or vegan diet. The book’s full presentation of the science of bone health, along with a generous helping of recipes, follows the example of the Kellys’ first book to inspire confidence in and enthusiasm for making the changes required to embrace food as medicine for bones.
Reviews and Praise
“The Healthy Bones Plant-Based Nutrition Plan and Cookbook is a stunning book that has it all: groundbreaking, emerging science presented in a simple, easy-to-grasp manner and delicious recipes that ensure health and vitality.”
—Pat Crocker, author of The Juicing Bible and The Herbalist’s Kitchen
More Reviews and Praise
“The Healthy Bones Plant-Based Nutrition Plan and Cookbook is a fantastic practical guide to preventing osteoporosis and promoting long-term bone health. The authors simplify complex bone-health science and offer a wealth of delicious, nutrient-packed, plant-based recipes. Each recipe is easy to prepare, making healthy eating a delight. With clear, actionable advice and comprehensive meal plans, this book is an essential read for anyone committed to maintaining strong, healthy bones naturally. Highly recommended for its informative content and culinary creativity!”
—Kia Miller, founder, Radiant Body Yoga
“The Healthy Bones Plant-Based Nutrition Plan and Cookbook is a must-read for conscious eaters. Laura Kelly and Helen Kelly provide a fascinating grounding in the science, and the book is made craveable by chef Jummee Park’s beautiful recipes for the everyday cook. This is food as medicine in a deliciously digestible form.”
—Erik Oberholtzer, chef; cofounder of Tender Greens; author of Ten Year Plan
"This cookbook offers a kaleidoscope of vibrant, verdant dishes designed to support bone health."
—Library Journal
Praise for The Healthy Bones Nutrition Plan and Cookbook by Dr. Laura Kelly and Helen Bryman Kelly
“Dr. Laura Kelly and Helen Bryman Kelly thoroughly explain why osteoporosis is most often due to deficiency, not disease, and how and why to prepare traditional foods for bone health as well as overall gut health. Writing from firsthand experience, these authors have dotted every ‘I’ and crossed every ‘T’ when it comes to eating for bone health. This is a must-read for those looking to treat osteoporosis and for anyone looking to understand nutrition, eat traditionally, and thrive.”
—Hilary Boynton, coauthor of The Heal Your Gut Cookbook
“The Healthy Bones Nutrition Plan and Cookbook is part of a sweeping change in the way scientists, practitioners, and writers are thinking about health care and how people can shift their state of being from chronic illness to good health. Readers who follow the guidance provided by Dr. Laura Kelly and Helen Kelly to create a personal nutrition plan will be empowered to interact with medical professionals in a new, more rational, safer, and less costly way. And they will enjoy much better health outcomes, relying on truths that are highly likely to endure.”
—from the Foreword by Sidney MacDonald Baker, MD
Reviews and Praise
“The Healthy Bones Plant-Based Nutrition Plan and Cookbook is a stunning book that has it all: groundbreaking, emerging science presented in a simple, easy-to-grasp manner and delicious recipes that ensure health and vitality.”
—Pat Crocker, author of The Juicing Bible and The Herbalist’s Kitchen
“The Healthy Bones Plant-Based Nutrition Plan and Cookbook is a fantastic practical guide to preventing osteoporosis and promoting long-term bone health. The authors simplify complex bone-health science and offer a wealth of delicious, nutrient-packed, plant-based recipes. Each recipe is easy to prepare, making healthy eating a delight. With clear, actionable advice and comprehensive meal plans, this book is an essential read for anyone committed to maintaining strong, healthy bones naturally. Highly recommended for its informative content and culinary creativity!”
—Kia Miller, founder, Radiant Body Yoga
“The Healthy Bones Plant-Based Nutrition Plan and Cookbook is a must-read for conscious eaters. Laura Kelly and Helen Kelly provide a fascinating grounding in the science, and the book is made craveable by chef Jummee Park’s beautiful recipes for the everyday cook. This is food as medicine in a deliciously digestible form.”
—Erik Oberholtzer, chef; cofounder of Tender Greens; author of Ten Year Plan
"This cookbook offers a kaleidoscope of vibrant, verdant dishes designed to support bone health."
—Library Journal
Praise for The Healthy Bones Nutrition Plan and Cookbook by Dr. Laura Kelly and Helen Bryman Kelly
“Dr. Laura Kelly and Helen Bryman Kelly thoroughly explain why osteoporosis is most often due to deficiency, not disease, and how and why to prepare traditional foods for bone health as well as overall gut health. Writing from firsthand experience, these authors have dotted every ‘I’ and crossed every ‘T’ when it comes to eating for bone health. This is a must-read for those looking to treat osteoporosis and for anyone looking to understand nutrition, eat traditionally, and thrive.”
—Hilary Boynton, coauthor of The Heal Your Gut Cookbook
“The Healthy Bones Nutrition Plan and Cookbook is part of a sweeping change in the way scientists, practitioners, and writers are thinking about health care and how people can shift their state of being from chronic illness to good health. Readers who follow the guidance provided by Dr. Laura Kelly and Helen Kelly to create a personal nutrition plan will be empowered to interact with medical professionals in a new, more rational, safer, and less costly way. And they will enjoy much better health outcomes, relying on truths that are highly likely to endure.”
—from the Foreword by Sidney MacDonald Baker, MD