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Part of the outreach efforts of CaP CURE, Michael Milken's not-for-profit group dedicated to fighting prostate cancer, "The Taste for Living" offers a guide to identifying the foods known to help fight cancer, presenting ways to eat more of them--without sacrificing taste. 70+ recipes..
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100 easily prepared low-fiber, non-dairy recipes for those with IBD, ulcerative colitis, and Crohn's disease .
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They said we couldn't make soy appetizing They said we couldn't make soy beautiful The New Soy Cookbook is here to prove them wrong! Today's all-natural health miracle, soy can be a delicious and elegant ingredient in any meal. Soyfoods are increasingly being found to protect against heart disease, cancer, and osteoporosis; to lower cholesterol; and to relieve hot flashes and other symptoms of menopause. Health-conscious cooks everywhere are eager to make soy a regular part of their lives, but they need the culinary guidance of a pro like best-selling cookbook author Lorna Sass. In addition to Asian-inspired dishes, Sass's mainly meatless and mostly cholesterol-free recipes cleverly place soyfoods in mainstream Western favorites for recipes such as Double Soybean Chili or Tempeh Simmered in Red Wine with Herbes de Provence. These dishes are friendly and appealing enough even for the truly soy resistant. It's time for cooks everywhere to discover the many pleasures of this modest little bean..
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Now that medical research has confirmed that soy really can lower your cholesterol, slow bone loss, fight heart disease and cancer, and even moderate the symptoms of menopause, here are 175 delicious ways to incorporate soy products into your diet.

These mouthwatering recipes--from potatoes au gratin, pizza, meat loaf, brownies, cheesecake, and ice cream to tiramisu, fajitas, and Cajun red-hot jambalaya--are inspired by old favorites and classic dishes from the world's best cuisines.  All of the recipes are meat- and dairy-free, making them perfect for every health-conscious cook as well as eaters with special needs.

In The Whole Soy Cookbook, you'll learn how to buy and cook all soy products, including soy milk and flour, tofu, miso paste, textured soy protein, and tempeh.  You'll even learn how easy it is to add or substitute healthy soy products for the meat protein in any favorite recipes.  (You'll never miss the meat.)

Whether you are a vegetarian, vegan, diabetic, are lactose-intolerant, or just want to cook healthful meals, you'll love The Whole Soy Cookbook's selection of easy-to-prepare, protein-packed, naturally low-in-fat, and cholesterol-free recipes..
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(Ages 8-11) If there is any such thing as a "super" plant, that plant is the soybean Used for an amazing variety of things-plastics, fuel, soap, and medicine-soybeans are also a healthy food source for animals and people.

Award-winning photographer and children's book author Raymond Bial magnificently captures one of the world's most important plants. Readers will learn that the United States produces the most soybeans in the world-3 billion bushels a year. This photo-essay includes botanical information about the soybean, its interesting history, and a good description of the planting and harvesting of this super crop.

Raymond Bial, who lives in Illinois, is a former librarian and author of many critically acclaimed books including, Portrait of a Farm Family, Amish Home, and Tenement: Immigrant Life on the Lower East Side..
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The founder and president of Soyatech, Inc., (a leading information source for the soyfoods industry), Peter Golbitz presents ideas for incorporating soyfoods into your favorite recipes. Using tofu, tempeh, soy beans, textured soy protein, miso, soymilk, and soyflour, Tofu & Soyfoods Cookery provides more than 100 recipes, and all are meat- and dairy-free. Golbitz adapts classic recipes using soyfoods for every occasion from appetizers to desserts. You can try Eggless French Toast for breakfast, Mock Chicken Salad on Multigrain Potato Soy Bread for lunch, and, for dinner, perhaps Korean Barbecue Tofu or Baked Enchiladas with Beans and Tempeh, followed by a sweet treat of Fresh Blueberry Tofu Cream Pie or Vanilla Pudding. The book also includes a comprehensive list of U.S. and Canadian soyfood companies. --Gretel Hakanson.
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Soymilk is attracting worldwide interest for its dietary benefits and can be found in almost every market. Light and easily digestible, soymilk contains good quality phytoproteins and vitamins and minerals such as calcium, magnesium, and potassium. Although drinking soymilk is quite common it is still difficult for most people to substitute soymilk in everyday recipes, and many of those who can't tolerate cow's milk often go without their favorite foods. Soymilk Desserts makes cooking with soymilk simple and easy without complicated conversions or substitutions.
Soymilk Desserts features 77 sweet recipes from popular chocolate cakes, fruit desserts, and puddings to fiber-rich cookies made with tofu byproducts. Each recipe comes with step-by-step photos and instructions that even a beginner can follow..
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Soybeans and the products made from them have been shown to be among the healthiest foods available Soy is rich in protein, is a good source of and calcium, contains no cholesterol or saturated fat, and contains plant estrogens, which have been shown to be powerful cancer-fighting agents and are effective in lowering cholesterol and relieving symptoms of menopause. This book is the most complete source for scientific and practical information on soy. Mitchell reports the latest health discoveries so that readers understand the whys of cooking soy in addition to the hows. Her hows section offers advice on buying, storing, and using the myriad soy products available.In addition to promoting health, soys neutral flavor goes well with any almost seasonings. These are not the brown rice-and-Birkenstock tofu recipes of yore; rather, they appeal to a broader and more sophisticated market that includes meat eaters who want to eat soy for health, vegetarians new and old, and people who want their food to be delicious and easy to prepare. They are suited to every occasion from quick weekday meals to elegant entertaining fare. From appetizers like Roasted Red Pepper Hummus to soups like Curried Corn and Pepper Chowder, salads like Two Bean Salad in Walnut Vinaigrette, entrees including Spicy Cashew Stir-Fry and Vegetable Tartlets with Herbed Tomato Sauce and such desserts as Lemon Mousse and Caramel Custard, these are recipes that cooks will want to prepare for their superb taste.Soy and its cousins (tofu, tempeh, etc.) have gone mainstream The Complete Soy Cookbook enables every cook to reap the health benefits of soy without compromising taste.Paulette Mitchell is a cooking instructor, restaurant consultant, and lecturer. She lives in Minneapolis. Paulette is the author of many Macmillan books including The 15-Minute Chicken Gourmet, The 15-Minute Vegetarian Gourmet, The 15-Minute Single Gourmet, and The Complete Book of Dressings. .
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The complete sourcebook for soybean information, this monograph combines concise information and the scope of a monograph Topics include morphology, production, disease, management, genomics and genetic improvement, economics and marketing, processing and use, and even the role of soybean in human health. Soybean is a global crop and the contents of this edition span the breadth of its worldwide significance.

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Designing Crops for Added Value - ISBN 089118144X
Reclamation of Drastically Disturbed Lands - ISBN 0891181466.
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