The TQI Diet (short for To Quiet Inflammation) began as The Abascal Way in 2007. This simple but sophisticated diet quickly reduces aches and pains, improves the symptoms of chronic illnesses, helps with weight issues, and increases well-being. There is a TQI Diet planbook that explains the diet itself. This is its partner cookbook, for the first time available separately.

The TQI cookbook was created to help people implement the TQI Diet. It provides recipes for a variety of vegetable dishes and pleasing breakfasts. There are only a few recipes for chicken, fish, tofu and grain dishes because most already have favorite recipes for them that work well on the TQI Diet with at most minor substitutions. What most people lack are delicious vegetable dishes with interesting sauces and dressings. The goal is to help the vegetables become the stars of our meals. That in turn will make healthy eating both easier and more enjoyable.

The TQI Diet (short for To Quiet Inflammation) was known as The Abascal Way back in 2007. This simple but sophisticated diet quickly reduces aches and pains, improves the symptoms of chronic illnesses, helps with weight issues, and increases wellbeing.

In Michael Overlake's words: I came to class overweight, my joints ached, I had psoriasis, IBS, and my blood pressure was out of control even on medication. Two months later, I have lost 22 pounds, I am pain free, my IBS is gone, my skin is clearing, and I am off hypertensive medication and my blood pressure is normal. Rex is an inspiration: I weighed over 300 pounds, was a type 2 diabetic on over 100 units of insulin a day and could not exercise. Today, my doctor says I am no longer diabetic, I no longer use insulin or any other medication. I have lost 85 pounds and am able to exercise again.

Dr. Ronald Singler MD, Medical director of the Highline Medical Group recommends Abascal Way classes: Kathy Abascal teaches evidence-based, well -researched classes on the nourishment human bodies and minds need. The facts, strategies, recipes, and shopping hints are practical and well-prepared. This is the best nutrition class I have ever experienced. I recommend the classes to family, friends, colleagues, co-workers, and patients. All who have taken the class have thanked me. For some particularly stubborn, medically needy friends, I promised to pay for the class if they were dissatisfied. So far, I have not had to pay up.

The TQI Diet fits all: It works for carnivores and vegans, for mainstream American and traditional ethnic diets. Calories are not counted and portions are not limited. Instead, it offers an incredibly satisfying, effective, and healthy way to quickly improve both health and appearance.

This planbook was written to accompany these extraordinary classes but soon proved useful for those not ready to take a class. In the past, the planbook was only available in a set with its cookbook but can now be purchased separately.

The threat of an imminent pandemic has society frantically searching for preventatives and treatments. At present, our ability to cope with a fast-moving, highly infectious, virulent form of a respiratory virus is very limited. This book covers an overlooked path: The use of herbs to ease the symptoms caused by a respiratory virus. A group of licensed physicians, the Eclectics, successfully used herbs to ease the severe aches and pains, fevers, and coughs as well as to prevent pulmonary complications that were common and often fatal in the 1918 flu pandemic. This book describes over 30 herbs actually used to treat influenza as well how physicians determined which herb to use and how to dose the plant. Because remedies were chosen to address specific symptoms, their descriptions enable us to chose herbs that might help address a current corona virus pandemic. The book also discusses the availability and development of antiviral drugs, vaccines, pandemic plans, and a way to potentially reduce the cytokine storm a pandemic virus can set off.