What Exactly IS the Balanced Plate?

The Balanced Plate addresses a gap in healthcare for clinicians, patients and families. Over the past 25 years, I have been caring for patients who come to me after receiving generalized recommendations to “eat better,” yet are offered limited guidance as to what this means. The BaleDoneen Method™ advocates the use of personalized nutrition and lifestyle recommendations necessary to mitigate the oxidative stress and inflammation that drive heart disease, diabetes and other diseases of aging. Until now, we haven’t had a cookbook that supports our efforts.

The collective work of Monika Jacobson, RDN, and Dr. Brea Seaburg, DNP, provides the first simple and sustainable resource to help individuals and families create health at home. This cookbook captures the beauty and enjoyment of finding delight and simplicity in cooking as a tool to mitigate the inflammatory nature of the chronic diseases of aging.

Healthcare providers recommending The Balanced Plate as a resource to patients will be gifting a researched-backed guide for integrating nutrition into individualized treatment plans. To fight chronic disease, ALL treatment plans should be built upon a healthy foundation of nutrition. The Balanced Plate intuitively educates the reader while providing recipes demonstrating how this eating approach can be broadened and expanded to any meal. This cookbook places the power of nutrition choices appropriately in the hands of the patient and invites the entire family to enjoy the grandness of health through the lens of enjoyable cooking and shared meals.

The Balanced Plate must serve as a guide for nutritious eating in every medical clinic dedicated to treating heart disease and chronic illness. Because it is critical that each household has the tools to create enjoyable, healthy meals, The Balanced Plate should be in every kitchen across the country.