The Rheumatoid Arthritis Healing Plan: A Holistic Guide and Cookbook for Inflammation Relief

The Rheumatoid Arthritis Healing Plan is a tutorial guide and cookbook to support an anti-inflammatory lifestyle. Released 15th Oct 2019 by Callisto on their Rockridge Press imprint, it's 234 pages and available in ebook and paperback formats.

This is a layman accessible, science-based, well written guide to living with and thriving despite a diagnosis of serious inflammatory chronic illness such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA).  The author has a background in health based clinical nutrition and her writing style is upbeat and positive. The introduction covers some info about the diagnosis and management of RA, what it means, and how food and lifestyle can play into the inflammation and disease processes.

Part two includes a boatload of recipes with specific tips for alternative preparations or flavors. Each recipe includes prep time and yields in the header, ingredients (in US standard measurements) in a bullet list on a sidebar, step by step preparation instructions, and nutritional info in the footer. The nutritional info includes calories, fat, carbs, fiber, and protein content per serving. There are very few photographs included in the collection, but the ones which are provided are clear and appealing. The recipe ingredients are mostly easily sourced from any average grocery store. The recipes are varied and really tasty. All meals from breakfast through dinner including snacks are represented, including some vegetarian options.

It also includes metric conversion tables and a short author bio, along with an exhaustive links/bibliography for further reading. Honestly the completeness of the bibliography and links (to peer-reviewed scientifically worthy articles and resources) are probably worth the cost of the book by themselves. Very well done.

It's unclear from the publishing info available online, but the eARC I received has a handy interactive table of contents as well as interactive links and references. I hope the ebook release version does also. I've really become enamored of ebooks with interactive formats lately. Presumably that feature will carry through to the final release version. For Kindle Unlimited subscribers; this title is available in the KU subscription to borrow and download for free.

Five stars, for readers who are committed to making lifestyle changes or living with family members fighting inflammatory disease diagnoses.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.