Superfoods Explained. What are superfoods, healthy eating, superfoods list, diet, weight loss, recipes, shopping list, tips, and more! A Guide To Health & Nutrition
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Those seeking a healthful diet inevitably come across the often misunderstood word “superfood.” Foods in the superfood category have not necessarily been enhanced in some magical way but have naturally occurring health-promoting properties. Cynthia Cherry has written Superfoods Explained to provide an understanding of superfoods and how they can fit into your healthy lifestyle. In this book you will find information on what are superfoods, the super fruits, the super veggies, the super grains, animal based superfoods, super herbs, cooking techniques, and ideas how to prepare superfoods.
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Cynthia Cherry
Cynthia Cherry believes in embracing life at its best, whether that means feeding her children the healthiest food possible, growing that food herself in an organic garden, or helping a friend design the perfect wedding."When I was growing up," Cherry said, "I always wished I could be an artist. Unfortunately, I can't draw or sculpt to save my life, so I found other ways to express my love of beautiful design and presentation."Cherry holds a degree in interior design, and worked for a time as a wedding planner in partnership with a college friend. "We had so much fun running that business," she said. "I really enjoyed coordinating with the various caterers we used, and began to get more and more interested in that part of planning the events. Before you know it, I was enrolled in cooking classes."Her plan of becoming a caterer was postponed, however, by the birth of her first child. She continued to study cooking, but there just wasn't time to care for an infant and start a new business. Cherry did become convinced, however, that the American diet is a complete disaster and was determined her family would not live that way. While she was pregnant with her second child, Cherry began to put together her book "Feeding Baby.""I knew we adults weren't eating well," she said, "so there was no reason to assume the available nutritional products for infants were any better. I wanted to manage both of my children's diets with wholesome, homemade foods. Before we realized what was happening, the whole family's relationship with nutrition was transformed."These changes led Cherry to write "Superfoods Explained," which reflects her family's dedication to the most optimally nutritional foods available. "We live this lifestyle," Cherry says. "I've taught my children to love real food and even my husband, who used to be a meat and potatoes kind of guy exists almost completely on a plant-based diet."Nourishment, however, is not just something humans derive from a well-balanced eating program. "We need emotional and physical 'food,'" Cherry says. "The way we manage our relationships, our homes, and our desire to be creative all contribute to overall health and well being. That's extremely important to me."Currently Cherry is a full-time, stay-at-home Mom, but one with a passion for writing and creating. She finds time in each day to work on her current projects, including whatever book she has in progress. "I thought I wanted to be an artist," Cherry says, "but now I know that writing is perfect for me. I love sharing ideas and explaining them. I like to think about people using my books to make positive changes in their lives and in those of their families."
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Superfoods Explained. What are superfoods, healthy eating, superfoods list, diet, weight loss, recipes, shopping list, tips, and more! A Guide To Health & Nutrition - Cynthia Cherry
Superfoods Explained
A Guide To Health & Nutrition
What are superfoods, healthy eating, superfoods list, diet, weight loss, recipes,
shopping list, tips, and more!
By Cynthia Cherry
(www.CynthiaCherry.com)
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Foreword
Are superfoods a nutritional magic bullet? No. The main reason to take a nutritionally dense cross section of foods and set them apart under the super
label is this: in all our modernity, we’ve forgotten how to eat.
Let me single out just one of my pet nutritional peeves to try to elucidate my point. It’s been just about 45 years since high-fructose corn syrup was introduced into the American diet as a low cost sweetener.
Since that time, obesity rates have shot up in the United States to the now alarming levels. In 1970, only about 15% of Americans were clinically obese. Now, it’s more than a third of the total adult population. That’s roughly 78.7 million people.
A great deal of the blame for that falls squarely on high-fructose corn syrup, a staple in processed foods. This stuff is everywhere: soda, cereal, fruit juice, bread, mayonnaise, yogurt, peanut butter. I have to dig through the ketchup bottles at the store to find one that’s labeled no high fructose corn syrup!
Over-consumption of sugar can be just as damaging in a healthy diet, but consider this alarming fact. High-fructose corn syrup has been linked to colony collapse disorder among honeybees. Feeding this replacement food to the bees has weakened their natural immunity and made them more susceptible to pesticides, so they are dying off in huge numbers.
No matter how many defenders come forward to insist high fructose corn syrup is safe, it is a highly processed substance that is in no way natural. If it can change the metabolism of a honey bee, it certainly has the ability to change ours as well. Given the rising obesity rates, it would appear to have done that very thing.
Why are we relying on heavily processed and now genetically modified foods when we have so many options for nutritionally dense real
foods from which to choose? Why have we so polluted our food supply that we have to worry about contamination from pesticides and fertilizers? Why do we support a food industry that makes such contaminated food available at cheap prices while organic products are more expensive?
If you want to be a food super
hero, the reason you are reading this book is not to find a magic bullet, but to find your way back to real food. I will admit that I am an advocate of a primarily plant-based diet, but your first goal in eating healthy is to re-discover simple, affordable foods that are packed with healthy compounds and build your new diet around those items.
Acknowledgments
I would like to express my gratitude towards my friends and colleagues for their kind co-operation and encouragement which helped me in completion of this book.
I would like to express my special gratitude and thanks to my loving husband for his patience, understanding, and support.
My thanks and appreciations also go to my colleagues and people who have willingly helped me out with their abilities.
Additional thanks to my family, whose love and my concern for their wellbeing inspired me to write this book.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 - What Are Superfoods?
-Using Food As Medicine
-What Are Blue Zones?
-Superfoods and Nutrient Density
-Nutrient-Dense Superfoods
-Food and Cancer
-Obesity And Weight Loss Obsession
-Superfoods vs Exercise
Chapter 2 - The Super Fruits
-Apples
-Apricots
-Avocado
-Bananas
-Blackberries, Blueberries, Strawberries
-Cantaloupe
-Cherries
-Cranberries
-Grapes
-Kiwi
-Lemons
-Limes
-Lingonberries
-Mangoes
-Oranges
-Papaya
-Peaches
-Pineapple
-Pomegranate
-Tomatoes
Chapter 3 - The Super Veggies
-Artichoke
-Asparagus
-Beets
-Beans
-Bell Peppers
-Broccoli
-Brussels Sprouts
-Cabbage
-Carrots
-Edamame
-Hot Peppers
-Kale
-Mustard Greens
-Spinach
-Swiss Chard
Chapter 4 – The Super Grains
-Barley
-Brown Rice
-Teff
-Millet
-Kamut
-Buckwheat
-Oats
-Quinoa
Chapter 5 – Can Animal Foods Be Super Too?
-Organ Meats
-Grass-fed Beef