Food as Medicine Book

Nourish Your Health Foundations—One Delicious Bite at a Time

A Fresh Wellness Mindset is your practical guide to eating well in real life. Inside, you’ll learn how to navigate the grocery store with confidence, build your plate and pantry with purpose, eat well on the go, and order from restaurants without sacrificing nourishment while you honor your unique needs and choosy-ness.

A Fresh Wellness Mindset is a companion to Virtual Functional Nutritional Therapy — part of your personalized curriculum, helping you enjoy Food as Medicine as a food style you love.

Advancing a nutrition by addition skillset and making choices that honor your food intolerances and sensitivities with clarity, this book and guidance supports the foundations of health—especially blood sugar balance and digestion—two pillars at the heart of Functional Nutritional Therapy.

The book blends science made simple, everyday tips, and 19 scrumptious everyday adaptable recipes you can personalize for your life and family.

Your Guide to Gluten Free Eating

🍎A Fresh Wellness Mindset, the book helps readers eat to honor themselves 100%. For health reasons, if eating gluten free is a health necessity or supports your preferences, if you have a slip that may be a ‘treat’ or exposure you didn’t want, even a little gluten consumption is like throwing salt on a wound. It hurts your body and can be a setback for healing.

This is true for any food that you have a sensitivity or allergy to. Gluten happens to be an excellent example because its prevalence of being a ‘problematic food’.

A Fresh Wellness Mindset offers a path that prioritizes your well-being without deprivation. The book is rooted in the nourishing foundations of health that guide Daisy Fields Company’s Functional Nutritional Therapy practice.

🍎 You will learn how to honor your dietary needs and inspire you to so much more of what you can consume to rejuvenate, energize, repair, and support growth (at every age).

In this book, author Tam John, FNTP and Educator, brings universal principles to life with science made simple. You’ll begin discovering how to nourish two of the most stressed foundations of health when the body is overburdened or undernourished:

🍎 Blood Sugar Balance

🍎 Digestion

🍎 You will learn everyday tips to satisfy yourself well to improve your energy, mood, cravings, inflammation, and long‑term well‑being.

🍎 You will learn to build a food style that doesn’t feel restrictive, and offers you so much more food that does work for you with clarity, ease and joy.

Get Clear and Confident with Gluten Free Eating

FAQ for knowing how gluten may affect you, and staying consistent with gluten‑free eating

What are the first signs of being gluten intolerant?

Answer: The first signs of gluten intolerance often include bloating, gas or discomfort in bowel elimination after eating foods with wheat, barley, or rye.  Some people also notice fatigue, headaches, or “brain fog”, and mood shifts like irritability or anxiety shortly after consuming gluten. 

If you’re exploring whether gluten may be affecting you adversely, the doctor originated DIY tool in A Fresh Wellness Mindset can help you track patterns and gain clarity in a grounded, non-diagnostic way. 

What foods are high in gluten?

Answer: Foods high in gluten include wheat, barley, rye, and triticale (a wheat-rye hybrid).  These grains appear in everyday foods such as bread, pasta, cereals, crackers, baked goods, pizza, couscous, dumplings, sauces, soy sauce, canned soups, energy bars, gravies, dressings, processed meats, beer, and malted products.

To support anyone who needs or wants to avoid gluten, A Fresh Wellness Mindset offers clear guidance on hidden sources of gluten, gluten free flour replacements for baking or breading, and 19 adaptable recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks that work beautifully for gluten free and gluten friendly eaters alike. 

Can you eat rice on a gluten free diet?

Answer: Yes, Rice is naturally gluten free, including white, brown, jasmine, basmati, arborio, and wild rice.  To stay gluten free, choose rice that isn’t mixed with seasonings or sauces containing gluten ingredients, and be mindful of cross contamination in bulk bins or shared processing facilities. 

A Fresh Wellness Mindset expands on cross contamination in depth and gluten free grain swaps.  The book also offers functional nutrition insights into benefits of a method of soaking rice prior to cooking. 

Are eggs high in gluten?

Answer: Eggs are naturally gluten free.

Some people notice that eggs don’t sit well with their digestion, sometimes because eggs are high in protein, and proteins are larger molecules for the body to break down. If you suspect eggs may be a food your body struggles with, the doctor originated DIY tool in A Fresh Wellness Mindset can help you explore that with clarity.

What foods are surprisingly gluten free?

Answer: Oats are naturally gluten‑free, and so are all fresh whole fruits and vegetables. Oats can become contaminated with gluten‑containing grains during processing or storage, so choosing certified organic, clearly labeled “gluten‑free oats” helps ensure the product hasn’t been mixed with gluten grains.

What meals can I eat that are gluten free?

Answer: Any meal can be made gluten‑free. Simple, satisfying meals and snacks can be easily prepared at home or ordered in restaurants with mindful choices.

A Clear, Compassionate Approach to Gluten

Author and FNTP, Tam John is an expert on personalized functional nutrition that supports each persons dietary needs. She lived gluten free for more than eight years. A single accidental exposure in a restaurant once left her in agonizing pain for a few days.  But when she restored her blood sugar balance and digestion while studying at the Nutritional Therapy Association, she was able to safely reintroduce good gluten into her meal routines and as a special treat.

🍎You will learn how to honor the foods that are personally right for you whether you are navigating gluten, dairy, eggs or any food intolerance

Discover What Foods Truly Bother You

🍎 You will learn a simple, effective, doctor designed DIY test to help you identify which foods may be burdening your health

🍎 You will learn to reintroduce once‑bothersome foods — safely and strategically

While gluten is a food sensitivity issue that is relevant for a lot of people due to its prevalence, this book and doctor designed DIY test works for any food.

A Food Style You Love, For Life

With the know‑how in A Fresh Wellness Mindset,

🍎 You will learn how to build a plate, stock a pantry, eat on the go, and order from restaurants in ways that support your health rather than set you back.

🍎 You will learn everyday skills that create a food style you love — one that loves you back.

🍎 You will learn how to eat right and live well without a need to diet again.

A Fresh Wellness Mindset is your guide and source to choose a personalized path forward for your health and wellness.

Gluten Free Recipes for Baking and More

Life is meant to be treated — and treating yourself well is how you feel better, grow stronger, play more, and live healthier for longer.

In the culture full of trend, over zealous food marketing, and one-size-fits all ‘healthy’ food, it’s essential to know what’s actually in what you’re eating. Labels like gluten free can make us feel like we’re balancing health with enjoyment, but the real magic comes from understanding ingredients and choosing foods that truly support you.

The mindset this book inspires is the secret to making gluten‑free eating easy, joyful, and delicious. These recipes are intentionally simple, with limited ingredients, quick prep, and everyday adaptability.

You’ll feel right at home with the guides and recipes in A Fresh Wellness Mindset.

Gluten Free Flour Replacements 

Inside, you’ll find flour replacements and recommendations tailored to what you’re baking or cooking, along with recipes for cookies, cakes, scones, pancakes, easy dinners, and breakfasts — whether you’re fueling a busy work or school week or lingering around the table on an easier morning.

There are 19 original recipes in all, crafted to satisfy everyone at the table, even those who aren’t gluten‑free eaters.

These recipes will quickly become your new favorites — the kind that amaze friends and family with mouthwatering creations everyone can enjoy, regardless of dietary preference for gluten.

Your kitchen can become a gluten‑free bakery that makes your taste buds sing.
It’s all waiting for you in A Fresh Wellness Mindset.

Bring A Fresh Wellness Mindset Into Your Home

Whether you’re beginning your wellness journey or deepening what you already know, this book is a beautiful companion for your kitchen, your family, and your long‑term health.

It also makes a thoughtful gift for anyone who wants to Eat Right to Live Well with ease and joy.

Contact us for quantity‑buy discounts and book events designed to inspire personalizing nutrition for good. Healing happens in community — and sharing this book is one way to spark that ripple.