How to Keep Your Immune System Healthy With Food: Scarsdale's own Toby Amidor

Toby is the founder of Toby Amidor Nutrition, PC, where she provides nutrition and food safety consulting services for individuals, restaurants, and food brands. She is a Wall Street Journal best selling author of eight cookbooks with her most recent The Family Immunity Cookbook being released in November 2021. Her ninth cookbook, Diabetes Create Your Plate Meal Prep Cookbook will be released in April 2022. For over 13 years she has been the nutrition expert for FoodNetwork.com and a founding contributor to their Healthy Eats Blog. Toby is a regular contributor to U.S. News and World Report Eat + Run blog, Shape.com, Sparkpeople.com, and has her own “Ask the Expert” column in Today’s Dietitian Magazine. She has been quoted in hundreds of publications and appears on local and national television shows like The Dr. Oz Show and CT Style. For 11 years she was an adjunct professor at Teachers College, Columbia University teaching food service management and is currently an adjunct at CUNY Hunter School of Public Urban Health in New York City. Previously, she taught Foodservice for 10 years at the Art Institute of New York City.

All of us want to keep our families safe and healthy. We also want to eat delicious and satisfying food. The Family Immunity Cookbook includes 25 of the top immune-boosting foods, incorporated into 101 delicious recipes. These are ingredients that provide immune-essential nutrients like vitamin C, vitamin D, zinc, selenium, iron, and protein to keep your body's defenses in tip-top shape. There are also foods that help decrease inflammation and boost antioxidant activity such as berries, fatty fish, or avocados which help your body defend itself from illness and can also promote healing.

But that sounds complicated. How do we build healthy immune systems anyway? Simple. Bestselling cookbook author and registered dietitian Toby Amidor is skilled at making tricky topics fun and easy to understand -- she's done the work for you. She expertly describes the nutritional benefits of foods and then weaves them into recipes the whole family will enjoy. It tastes so good you won't even know it's good for you!

Armed with Toby's tips and tricks, you can minimize that stress associated with cooking. These include meal prepping, preparing freezer-friendly foods to keep your kitchen stocked with healthy meals, cooking one pot meals to minimize dishes, and finding recipes that can be prepared and cooked in 30 minutes or less.

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