I purchased a hard copy of Ginger Hultin’s

How to Eat to Beat Disease Cookbook

for the seven pages that list food ingredients and if each hits any of the five pillars of anti-aging (DNA repair, regeneration, angiogenesis, microbiome, and inflammation). These tables have become a useful reference whenever I am trying to incorporate a recipe into our routine meals or to optimize health benefits of an existing recipe.

I have been introduced to these pillars by Mr. William Li’s book Eat to Beat Disease, the name is similar since both are complementary.

To give context of how useful they are, Ginger‘s cookbook is on Kindle Unlimited for free. But I realized I needed hard copy access to the tables. So I purchased this. I have also purchased Ginger’s other book Anti-Inflammatory Diet Meal Prep to set if it might be helpful to a grandparent to start anti cancer therapy shortly.

I haven’t tried any of the recipes yet, but if I know that they were designed to have the desirable health benefits, like hitting the five pillars of anti-aging, then I am inclined to give it a try. Even if a recipe doesn’t hit all the flavor profiles it’s still OK. I can go online to look for additional recipes or possibly even alter them or these in the book to my liking. But it’s a great start. My goal is over the next six months tried all the recipes in both books.

The conscious and targeted approach is helpful when preparing food for kids,. This is because they don’t drink coffee or tea both of which fulfill all five pillars. And plus kids like to eat food that is mono color and generally are just not too healthy. So I’m hoping that I incorporate Ginger’s recipes into our ongoing recipe rotation. I can then modify to incorporate other attributes I desire after taste (more convenient, cheaper, more nutritious (more protein)).

And both books are on the discount on Amazon right now. I will dedicate future posts once I start trying out these recipes but for me the seven pages that contain the matrix that she created have already been super helpful to optimizing soup recipes for the family.