The Sprouting Book or Tough Love

The Sprouting Book: How to Grow and Use Sprouts to Maximize Your Health and Vitality

Author: Ann Wigmor

Written for everyone who is interested in good nutrition at a low cost -- and with great taste -- this highly practical and fully illustrated book provides readers with all the information necessary to start and maintain an indoor sprout garden. The book discusses a wide variety of sprouts and sprouting methods, explains the sprouts' importance in a healthy diet, and presents a wealth of simple and delicious recipes.

The Sprouting Book is a perfect guide for dieters, concerned parents, athletes, vegetarians, people on the go, and anyone who wants to look and feel better.

Publishers Weekly

Author and publisher state at the outset that they are not responsible for adverse effects resulting from the reader's adoption of Wigmore's Living Food Diet, a nutritional regimen that uses germinated and sprouting seeds. With that prominent caveat, the book goes on to discuss the history of this type of food, a staple in the Orient since ancient days. Wigmore, founder of the Hippocrates Health Institute of Boston, includes lists of seeds for sprouting, directions for maintaining a sprout garden (indoors and out) by various methods, and recipes for food and drinks from the harvest. Clear drawings complement the text. (September)

Table of Contents:

	Preface	v
1	Ancient Medicine, Modern Food	1
2	From Seed to Nutritious Food	5
	Enzymes and Vital Food Factors in Sprouts	6
	Amino Acids (Proteins) in Sprouts	7
	Vitamins in Sprouts	8
	Minerals and Trace Elements in Sprouts	10
	Chlorophyll in Sprouts	12
3	Sprouting and Health	15
	Can Sprouts Help Control Cancer?	16
	Sprouts: The Ideal Companion for Dieters	17
	Sprouts and Your Sex Life	18
	Slowing the Aging Clock with Sprouts	19
4	The Economics of Sprouting	23
	Cost of Sprouts Per Pound	23
	Healing Camps in India	25
	Fresh Sprouts versus Dried	25
5	Shopper's Guide to Sprouting Seeds	29
	Choosing Seeds for Sprouting	37
	Organic versus Nonorganic	38
6	Growing A Home Sprout Garden	39
	The Basic Care of Sprouts	41
	What to Sprout	41
	Getting Started	42
	The Jar Method	42
	Using Sprout Bags	45
	Tray-Type Sprouters	46
	Sprouting Automatically	47
	Growing Mung and Adzuki Beans	48
	Harvesting Your Sprouts	49
	What Happens If...	51
	Mixing Sprouts Harmoniously	53
	Sprouting Chart	56
7	Growing Greens Indoors	61
	About Buckwheat Lettuce and Sunflower Greens	62
	Setting Up an Indoor Garden	62
	Growing Greens Indoors	63
	Planting Instructions	66
	Indoor Gardening Chart	68
	Reclaiming Topsoil Through Composting	69
	Composting Instructions	71
8	Simple Recipes with Sprouts	75
	Preparation	75
	Recipes	78
9	Sprouts for Travel and for Your Pets	103
	Traveling with Sprouts	103
	Sprouts for Your Pets	104
	Epilogue	107
	Index	111

Interesting book: Recipes from Quilters or Extracting Bioactive Compounds for Food Products

Tough Love (Revised Edition)

Author: Pauline Neff

Tough Love is hope. It is help. It is a way of recovery for drug abusers, and a positive, supportive program for their families. Tough Love is a gift of love and a gift of life for those who practice its plan. It is a book for all parents, especially those whose children are now on drugs or are exposed to those who use drugs. Pauline Neff has gathered enthralling, real-life accounts of young drug users who needed help and of their parents' role in seeing that they received it. Eight families describe, in very graphic, heartrending terms, how their children successfully beat the drug habit through The Palmer Drug Abuse Program. PDAP is a privately financed twelve-step program, similar to the steps of AA. Ms. Neff explains each step to show how families can interpret and work through these steps in their own lives. Thousands of young people have found help through this method. Families have been reunited, and parents' own lives have been changed drastically in the process. If you are a parent of a young person in America today, Tough Love may be the most important book you will ever read. It may save your life.

Publishers Weekly

Having a child addicted to alcohol or drugs is one of the most heartbreaking and challenging problems that parents may face. Here, in a revision of her bestselling 1982 book, Neff offers practical, loving and completely updated help to those struggling with that situation. Although the specific 12-step program that Neff stresses does not exist everywhere, parents can adopt the principles she outlines and form support groups with other parents. Central to Neff's approach is "detachment from the abuser," which entails allowing the abuser to "bottom out" without "padding the corners" (often called "enabling" in other references). This method, argues Neff, provides one of the few hopes for the abuser and his or her family. It is also terrifying, however, to parents who lack the support and distancing of the tough-love approach. By far the largest part of Neff's book is devoted to the stories of seven families who have faced the crisis of the addicted child and come through it stronger and more spiritually intact. In short, this book should be required reading for every parent with a child in trouble. (Mar.)