Pocket Superfoods |
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Author:
| Smith, Seana |
ISBN: | 978-0-89793-655-2 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2013 |
Publisher: | Turner Publishing Company
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Imprint: | Hunter House |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $8.95 |
Book Description:
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DRAFT:
Pocket Superfoods gives readers all the information they need in the palm of their hands on the 50 best foods to energize our bodies. In her enthusiastic, expert-foodie-next-door style, author Seana Smith informs and inspires readers to become supercharged over these 50 top super foods. Each superfood is introduced with a pithy, entertaining description including
what each food is and
where it comes from, followed a bullet list of
why...
More DescriptionDRAFT:Pocket Superfoods gives readers all the information they need in the palm of their hands on the 50 best foods to energize our bodies. In her enthusiastic, expert-foodie-next-door style, author Seana Smith informs and inspires readers to become supercharged over these 50 top super foods.
Each superfood is introduced with a pithy, entertaining description including what each food is and where it comes from, followed a bullet list of why the antioxidant, vitamin-rich, essential-nutrient food makes us healthy and vital. Key notes at the bottom of each page inform readers when and how to incorporate the food into our lives. The who is a given--superfoods are for everyone.
FROM THE AI: Small, inexpensive format. Easy to read information - one page per food type using bullet points throughout. Focus is on the positive (eg chocolate is good for you) rather than the negative (eg what you shouldn''t eat) - makes for an enjoyable read.
FROM AI AND THE BACK OF THE BOOK: Superfoods are the best foods we can eat as they are supercharged with antioxidants, vitamins and all the essential nutrients we need for a life of good health and vitality. Superfoods make you healthier because our bodies absolutely need protein, minerals, vitamins, good carbohydrates and fats, antioxidants and much much more to function optimally. It makes you happier because the brain needs all that good stuff too, especially the good fats and vitamins and wealthier because after reading Pocket Superfoods you won''t spend all your hard earned cash on junk food. Pocket Superfoods is the who, what, where and why of the top 50 Superfoods, including nuts, berries, avocado, barley, chia seed, lean meat, broccoli and thankfully chocolate. With tips on buying, storing and cooking, this supercharged book contains all you need to make your life zing with health and vitality.
AI SHORT QUOTE FROM BOOK: Are you ready to supercharge your diet? Ready to cast aside the foods that are not doing your body and brain any favors? Ready to choose widely from this list of the top 50 superfoods and ramp up the nutrition in your food and drink choices? It’s easy!
OTHER TEXT FROM THE BOOK :
So What is a superfood? (THIS FIRST SECTION IS ALSO INSERTED INTO "BODY COPY" OF HELIX AI)
Some foods are simply more nutrtitious, better for you, more packed with the good stuff. These are the superfoods. And if we all ate more of those foods, we''d all be healthier, happier, and very probably, wealthier and wiser too.
Healthier because our bodies absolutely need protein, minerals, vitamins, good carbohydrates and fats, antioxidants and much, much, more to function optimally.
Happier because the brain needs all that good stuff too, especially the good fats and vitamins
Wealthier because we won''t be spending helps of money on either:
bulk junk food that leaves you literally starving for vitamins and minerals, locked into a cycle of overeating to try to give your body what it craves and needs.Bottles of expensive supplements; it''s well known that generally our bodies absorb far more nutrients from real, whole foods than from anything in a capsules.
Wiser because of that better functioning brain and because we all know for sure that over-processed foods and junk foods dull the mind, as well as the body!
It''s About Quality AND Quantity
It''s all very well knowing that cloves have the highest amount of excellent polyphenolic antioxidants, and by a huge margin. But unless you are going to eat 3.5 ounces at a time, are they really that useful? Have you ever tried to eat 3.5 ounces of cloves?!!
It''s better to know that drinking four to five cups of tea a day is also going to deliver a great antioxidant boost. Or perhaps to know that a daily diet featuring an abundance of the fruit and vegetables listed in this books will give you SO much more nutrition than the odd expensive handful of the next trendy so-called superfood to come along.
It''s also important to understand that some fruits and vegetables are better than others, as are some meats, some nuts and even some drinks and sweet treats.
Isn''t Superfood a Term Just Used and Abused by Marketers?
Well, the term does get abused a bit these days. If you see the word ''superfood'' used in the same sentence as multi-level marketing, it''s probably a good idea to run away screaming.
But seriously, in every food group there are simply some foods that are SO much more nutritious, SO much better for you. Very often these have been used both as powerful foods and also medicines for thousands of years. Modern medical research has at last been catching up with the wisdom of the ages to explain why these foods really are superfoods.
For example, when you think of fruits, which ones stand out as the best for you? Believe me it''s not an apple a day that will keep the doctor away.
Think blueberries and raspberries or the might blackcurrant or elderberry instead. And don''t just sprinkle them on your cereal! Get into the habit of eating 3.5 ounces a day, or make it even more. That''s the way to really pumpu up your diet. find the good stuff in every food group and set it squarely in the middle of your plate, bowl, or cup.
Superfood for Weight Loss
there''s a move afoot to concentrate less on what foods we shouldn''t eat, and to look more at foods we can happily eat more of. Good plan! Eating nutrient rich foods fills the body up, lets the body know that there is plenty of what it needs and helps stop cravings for unhealthy junk.
Too many people are overweight yet undernourished.there are serious concerns in the medical community about the levels of fiber, vitamins D, A, C, and E as well as calcium and potassium in the average diet.
Eat nutrient rich foods and you won''t have to worry about being undernourished. Eat whole nutrient-rich foods and you''ll find that they can give you everything your body and brain requires and for FAR FEWER CALORIES than nutrient-poor foods.
don just count calories, make your calories county more!
PS Don''t forget to move that body, too; wiglgle, jiggle, dance, hop, skip, jump, or jog. Your heart deserves it and your brain will thank you for a bit of movement, too!
Variety is the Spice of Life
don''t forget it''s really vital to eat a wide variety of superfoods as well as a wide variety of foods in general. that''s why I''ve included more information that just the top 50. Read through the ''Best of the Rest'' sections and eat plenty of these foods, too.
Your body and brain will benefit from diversity,from indulging in the thousands of nutrients that foods contain. So eat lots and lots of different fruits, vegetables, nuts, meat, fish, lentils, beans, spices, herbs, and drinks.
Different foods contain different amounts of vitamins and minerals as well as the thousands of phytochemicals and antioxidants that we know are vial for optimum health. It''s a simple equations: eating a wide variety of foods will give you a wide variety of nutrients. your body needs them!
Your body deserves the best and so does your brain.
So let''s celebrate the food that is really good for us.
And let''s eat plenty of it!