Dr. Andrew Weil's 'True Food' cookbook brings healthy restaurant favorites home

In addition to being a pioneer in integrative medicine, Dr. Andrew Weil is also a restaurateur.

Four years ago this month, Weil teamed up with restaurateur Sam Fox to open the first True Food Kitchen restaurant in Phoenix, Ariz. The meals center on Weil's Anti-Inflammatory Diet & Food Pyramid. True Food Kitchen now has five restaurants in the West, with plans to open more.

But if you don't live near a True Food Kitchen but want to try some of executive chef Michael Stebner's dishes in your own kitchen, you can in the new book "True Food" (Little, Brown and Company, $29.99), which was released this week.

The oversized hardcover book is loaded with full-page color photos throughout its 255 pages, and would make a great holiday gift for your favorite healthy eater.

There are more than 125 recipes that feature whole grains, fresh produce and seasonal ingredients, cutting back on sugar, salt and fat.

No, it's not "50 Shades of Kale," although the leafy green vegetable is featured in six recipes, including an intriguing Kale Pesto. There is, dare we say, something for everyone:

• Granola With Nuts, Cardamom and Orange
• Spaghetti With Tuna Puttanesca
• Bison Chili
• Tofu-Shiitake Lettuce Cups
• Moroccan Chicken Salad
• Chocolate-Banana Tart

The book features vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free recipes and offers up ways to transform some of the recipes to fit your dietary needs. A fat reduction overview can help you build a clear outline of what you demand to focus on to carry out your fat reduction objective if you're a starter; or serve as a reminder for these who are at an advanced or more improve step of their weight loss plan. Promptly after are seven steps that can serve as suggestions for your personal weight loss system. The first thing that one must understand is that losing weight and losing fat is not exactly the same thing. Many weight loss plans have fooled people into considering that it is the same, but most diets and weight loss applications only work by resulting in a person's body to burn more muscle tissue and water than actual body fat, more help please visit The Fat Loss Factor. And the nice thing about the recipes is that the vast majority of them are relatively uncomplicated and simple to prepare, so you can quickly have a healthy meal on the table.

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