The ground-breaking MALIBU BEACH RECOVERY DIET COOKBOOK is specially designed to help alcoholics and addicts who are on the path to recovery. The healthy and delicious recipes are based on a French low-glycaemic diet and incorporate several decades of neuroscience research about the relationship between healthy food and addiction. MALIBU BEACH RECOVERY DIET COOKBOOK includes four, seven day menu plans, each created by an executive chef and includes more than 150 recipes that are designed to be simple but elegant, fresh and seasonal and beautiful to behold. The result of addicts and alcoholics eating healthy food, says Joan Borsten, co-founder of the renowned Malibu Beach Recovery Centre, is visible mentally and physically within 7-8 days. Her first-hand observations are clinically supported by Dr Mark Gold and Dr Kenneth Blum two of the United States' leading scientists in the field of addiction. The recipes are designed to provide a combination of foods and nutrients to help cleanse the body, regenerate the organs, rehabilitate the body's natural energy and fuel well-being by restoring the production of dopamine. Most alcoholics and addicts have low levels of dopamine, the brain's "feel good" chemical. The recipes avoid refined (table) sugar, as sugar is the number one transfer addiction and complicates the issues of brain healing, depression and mood. Malibu Beach Recovery Centre is well known in the addiction industry for its team of executive chefs, many trained in Michelin-star restaurants, and the mouth-watering food served each day. This diet and the recipes are, also, extremely helpful for those with anxiety and depression as well as diabetics and people with eating disorders.

Author Biography

Joan Borsten was born and raised in the Hollywood film industry. She was a journalist until she met her husband-to- be, a famous Soviet film star, in Italy. After 22 years in film, they co-founded the prestigious Malibu Beach Recovery Center, the first alcohol and addiction treatment center in the United States based on neuroscience. The successful treatment program includes a French low-glycemic diet modified to recovery from addiction. She wrote this cookbook with four of her executive chefs to help addicts get sober and stay sober long term.