From TV's award-winning qualified nutritionist, Dale Pinnock, comes The Medicinal Chef: Plant-based Diet , a cookbook that will transform your thinking and your diet to ensure that you are eating nutritious dishes that will improve your health. A whole foods, plant-based diet can drastically influence many of the risk factors for cardiovascular disease and directly intervene in and prevent many physiological events, making this a key preventive method for stopping heart disease in its tracks. In fact, it is the only diet that has been clinically proven to not only prevent, but reverse cardiovascular disease.Starting with the science behind a plant-based diet, Dale takes a look at the health benefits as well as rectifying the pitfalls that so many of us suffer when eating vegan, arming you with the knowledge to eat well. This nutritional information can then be utilised through the more than 80 simple, quick and delicious recipes that will promote good health, with each recipe being helpfully labelled, letting you know if it contributes to skin, skeletal, immune or cardiovascular health as well as listing other key nutritional benefits.Recipe chapters include:RAW BLITZ AND BLEND STOVE TOPREADY IN A HURRY MINIMAL EFFORTTIME ON YOUR HANDSA BIT ON THE SIDE.