Slimming Meals That Heal: Stop Inflammation and Reach Your Perfect Weight without Dieting by Julie Daniluk

This book is interesting and informative. The first part of the book explains the science of weight loss including the effects of allergies, hormones and more. The author states that antihistamines used to combat allergy symptoms may also trigger weight gain. That is bad news for me. Part two of the book is the SMTH program which the author calles a "live-it", that basically looks like an elimination type diet. Part three is the recipes. The recipes explain what benefits the ingredients have for your health. Many of the recipes include ingredients that are difficult to find like spirulina or chlorella powder, job's tears, celeriac root, hemp seeds, maca powder or ashwagandha powder, coconut butter, ambrosia apple slices,vitamin C crystals and rolled quinoa flakes. I have looked for rolled quinoa flakes in the healthy food sections of four different grocery stores including Sprouts and Trader Joes, but have not found them. The book does, however, include a resource section at the end that tells where you can order some of those items online. I do plan to try some of the recipes but I will most likely substitute for or eliminate the more obscure ingredients. I received this book free to review from Netgalley.