Super Hot Drinks: For Health and Vitality - Tapa blanda

Featuring more than 60 recipes, each offering health-giving properties, it is the book for anyone wishing to beat the winter blues. For each recipe Michael lists the vitamins and minerals provided by the drinks ingredients and details the health benefits the drink can offer. Some of the drinks also help to fight particular conditions such as coughs, colds, indigestion and infections, and a chart at the back of the book lists the most common conditions and shows you which drinks help to fight them. Finally there is a 24-hour detox for anyone wishing to cleanse their system this winter.

Michael van Straten is a highly respected authority on complementary medicine. He has practised as a specialist naturopath, osteopath and acupuncturist, with a special interest in the relationship between health, the food we eat and disease, for more than 35 years. He has presented the highly successful Bodytalk programme on LBC Radio for more than 25 years. Michael is the author of the best-selling Super series for Mitchell Beazley, which was launched with Superjuice in 1999. He appears regularly on TV and has presented his own series on herbs and cooking. He writes for the Daily Express, the Sunday Express and Woman as well as other magazines and newspapers.