Eating and Healing or Pilates Pregnancy Guide

Eating and Healing: Traditional Food as Medicine

Author: Andrea Pieroni

Discover neglected wild food sources that can also be used as medicine!

The long-standing notion of food as medicine, medicine as food, can be traced back to Hippocrates. Eating and Healing: Traditional Food As Medicine is a global overview of wild and semi-domesticated foods and their use as medicine in traditional societies. Important cultural information, along with extensive case studies, provides a clear, authoritative look at the many neglected food sources still being used around the world today. This book bridges the scientific disciplines of medicine, food science, human ecology, and environmental sciences with their ethno-scientific counterparts of ethnobotany, ethnoecology, and ethnomedicine to provide a valuable multidisciplinary resource for education and instruction.

Eating and Healing: Traditional Food As Medicine presents respected researchers' in-depth case studies on foods different cultures use as medicines and as remedies for nutritional deficiencies in diet. Comparisons of living conditions in different geographic areas as well as differences in diet and medicines are thoroughly discussed and empirically evaluated to provide scientific evidence of the many uses of these traditional foods as medicine and as functional foods. The case studies focus on the uses of plants, seaweed, mushrooms, and fish within their cultural contexts while showing the dietary and medical importance of these foods. The book provides comprehensive tables, extensive references, useful photographs, and helpful illustrations to provide clear scientific support as well as opportunities for further thought and study. Eating and Healing: Traditional Food As Medicine explores the ethnobiology of:

• Tibet antioxidants as mediators of high-altitude nutritional physiology
• Northeast Thailand wild food plant gathering
• Southern Italy the consumption of wild plants by Albanians and Italians
• Northern Spain medicinal digestive beverages
• United States medicinal herb quality
• Commonwealth of Dominica humoral medicine and food
• Cuba promoting health through medicinal foods
• Brazil medicinal uses of specific fishes
• Brazil plants from the Amazon and Atlantic Forest
• Bolivian Andes traditional food medicines
• New Patagonia gathering of wild plant foods with medicinal uses
• Western Kenya uses of traditional herbs among the Luo people
• South Cameroon ethnomycology in Africa
• Morocco food medicine and ethnopharmacology

Eating and Healing: Traditional Food As Medicine is an essential research guide and educational text about food and medicine in traditional societies for educators, students from undergraduate through graduate levels, botanists, and research specialists in nutrition and food science, anthropology, agriculture, ethnoecology, ethnobotany, and ethnobiology.

Library Journal

In the specialized fields of ethnobotany, ethnopharmacology, and ethnomedicine, food and medicine have traditionally been considered separate realms of study. Recently, the two have begun to be studied in conjunction, as this book demonstrates. Editors Pieroni (pharmacognosy, Univ. of Bradford, U.K.) and Price (sociology of consumers and households, Wageningen Univ., the Netherlands) have compiled primary research from 26 contributors on wild and semidomesticated foods and their use as medicine in traditional or indigenous cultures in Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe, and the Caribbean (the South Pacific/Australia and Arctic regions are not represented). Each chapter is, in essence, a scientific paper documenting the overlap of medicine and food in one region (e.g., northern Spain, New Patagonia). Although the book's scope is broad, each paper is quite specific-readers should not anticipate an overview of the field. Pieroni and Price have produced what would be an excellent accompaniment to a course textbook in applicable university settings. Recommended for academic libraries.-Andy Wickens, King Cty. Lib. Syst., Seattle Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

What People Are Saying

Nina L. Etkin PhD
Nina L. Etkin, PhD, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaii
THIS IMPORTANT VOLUME showcases the convergence of medicinal and culinary practices. Scholars as well as popular consumers of food knowledge will be nourished by the insights they gain from this book. Its publication coincides with a growing interest in the West regarding the healthful qualities of foods, among both the scientific and lay communities. The research findings of the contributors represent various disciplinary perspectives and illustrate the rich diversity of cultural constructions and social negotiations of foods and medicines in traditional populations from all continents. Several contributors cast their work in the frame of ethnopharmacology by linking medical ethnography to the biology of therapeutic action. Others emphasize the importance of wild food sin traditional pharmacopoeias and diets, and link the erosion of that knowledge to problems of diminished biodiversity in the modern era. A minor but important theme illustrates the gendered nature of botanical knowledge as reflected in asymmetrical use patterns of certain plants. Issues of globalization are apparent as well in discussions of sourcing for the contemporary, primarily Western, nutraceutical and herbal products industry.

Timothy Johns PhD
Timothy Johns, PhD, Professor of Human Nutrition, McGill University
In drawing on current research and methodologies at the interface between the biological and social sciences, THE AUTHORS OFFER EXCITING NEW INSIGHTS into an under-explored theme in the ethnobotanical literature, and provide a timely focus of theoretical and practical importance linking human health the conservation and use of biodiversity. The fact that traditional systems, once lost, are hard to recreate underlines the imperative for the kind of documentation, compilation, and dissemination of eroding knowledge of biocultural diversity represented by this book.

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Pilates Pregnancy Guide: Optimum Health and Fitness for Every Stage of Your Pregnancy

Author: Lynne Robinson

Body Control Pilates® for the full nine months of pregnancy and beyond.

Pilates specializes in building core muscles to create a "girdle of strength." This is crucially important in pregnancy, when the body is under tremendous stress and strain by the added weight and changes in posture. Pilates Pregnancy Guide features a series of exercises tailored to condition these core muscles for a more comfortable pregnancy, an easier labor and a faster recovery.

Suitable for women at all fitness levels -- with or without Pilates experience -- this book provides a comprehensive program during the entire period of pregnancy, with exercises specific to each trimester. Features include:

• Preparing for pregnancy


• The benefits of Pilates during pregnancy


• The basics of Body Control Pilates®


• A program for the first six weeks after the birth


• A continuing program for staying in shape.

Workout menus designed for each stage of the pregnancy offer recommended exercises complete with guidelines and warnings. Illustrated with color photographs, each exercise sequence is outlined in specific stages: Aim, Starting Position, Action, and Watchpoints. This exercise program ensures controlled and safe routines throughout the pregnancy and beyond.

Thorough and encouraging, with reliable general information about pregnancy, Pilates Pregnancy Guide will be a natural first choice for any expectant mother.

Table of Contents:

1. The Benefits of Pilates During Pregnancy


• Why is Pilates So Perfect for Pregnancy?


• The Importance of Good Posture


• When Is It Not Safe to Exercise?




2. What Is Pilates?


• The Eight Principles of Body Control Pilates


• Joseph Pilates and the Origins of the Pilates Method


• The Development of Body Control Pilates




3. The Pregnancy Program: How to Use this Book


• Preparing for Pregnancy


• If You Have Done Pilates Before You Became Pregnant


• Taking Up Pilates in Your Pregnancy


• Working with a Teacher


• Other Advice




4. Before You Begin



5. The Basics of Body Control Pilates


• Breathing


• Alignment


• Centering: Pilates Core Strength




6. Preparing for Your Pregnancy


• Why Prepare?


• Preparatory Exercises


• Workouts




7. The First Trimester (0-12 weeks)


• What's Happening to Your Body


• Guidelines for Exercise in the First Trimester


• Recommended Exercises for the First Trimester


• First Trimester Workouts




8. The Second Trimester (13-26 weeks)


• What's Happening to Your Body


• Taking Up Pilates in the Second Trimester


• Guidelines for Exercising in the Second Trimester


• Recommended Exercises for the Second Trimester


• Second Trimester Workouts




9. The Third Trimester (27-34weeks)


• What's Happening to Your Body?


• Getting Onto and Up from the Floor in the Third Trimester and Up to Six Weeks After the Birth


• Guidelines for Exercising in the Third Trimester


• Recommended Exercises for the Third Trimester


• Third Trimester Workouts




10. The First Six Weeks After the Birth


• Normal Deliveries


• Pelvic Floor Exercises


• Exercise Program for the First Six Weeks After the Birth


• Cesarean Birth


• Circulation Exercises


• Breathing Exercise


• Exercise Program for the First Six Weeks After the Birth




11. Getting Back Into Shape (Six Weeks Plus


• Normal Deliveries


• The "Rec" Check


• Cesarean Births


• Getting Back Into Shape Workouts




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