Eat for health, for healing, for life.

Can something as delicious as a Berry Tart with Cinnamon Oat Crust really help you balance your blood sugar? Believe it or not, medical researchers are making surprising discoveries about the link between diet and disease every day­­--and Healing Gourmet is dedicated to bringing the latest scientific breakthroughs into your kitchen.

With this complete nutrition guide, you'll learn how to monitor your diabetes and modify your lifestyle with all-natural meal plans and healing foods that you can find in your local supermarket. You'll find important information about metabolic syndrome, insulin resistance, risk factors, inflammation, and other complications. You'll get the skinny on fat and the truth about carbohydrates, and discover a whole arsenal of essential nutrients hidden in everyday foods, herbs, and spices.

With Healing Gourmet, the recipe for good health is simple. Every book in the series includes:

• Foods to manage illness and foster health
• Strategies for smart shopping
• Three weeks of meal plans
• Fifty easy-to-make and delicious recipes

Healing Gourmet®

With a professional team of medical experts, nutritionists, and culinary chefs, Healing Gourmet turns the most up-to-date research into mouthwatering recipes and your kitchen into a healing haven. Visit healinggourmet.com for the latest updates and more disease-beating meal plans!

A nutritional guide to preventing and managing diabetes using the latest scientific knowledge, 50 recipes, and two weeks of meal plans. Contributors include a doctor who is the Head of the Division of Endocrinology at State University of New York; a registered dietician who is Nutrition Projects Coordinator in Preventive Cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation; and a chef who is a graduate of Peter Kump's School of Culinary Arts.

Focuses on foods that help manage and prevent diabetes from a professional team of doctors, nutritionists, chefs, and media specialistsIncludes a shopping guide, 50 recipes, and 2 weeks meal plansWill be promoted through Healing Gourmet.com (visited by over half a million people), an interactive, database-driven websiteHealthy Living Channel (reaching 21 million households) has committed to airing a 26 episode, 52-show season through 2007 with secondary distribution on other networks including PAX with specific television shows tailored to the books in the series, pending sponsorshipAccording to the American Diabetic Association, at least 16 million Americans have pre-diabetes, in addition to the 17 million currently diagnosed

Use your diet to beat disease and promote wellness with Healing Gourmet Drawing from the latest scientific research, the Healing Gourmet(R) series focuses on foods and recipes for managing and preventing a wide range of diet-related illnesses. Written in consultation with a team of leading doctors, nutritionists, and chefs, each book focuses on a specific medical condition and includes delicious, healthy recipes and three weeks of meal plans.

Paresh Dandona, M.D., FACP, is a professor of medicine and pharmacology and the head of the Division of Endocrinology at State University of New York.

Melissa Ohlson, M.S., R.D., is the nutrition projects coordinator, preventive cardiology and rehabilitation at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.

Ana Machado, CEC, is a Chef Instructor at Florida Culinary Institute and a graduate of Peter Kump's School of Culinary Arts in New York City.