SuperFoods Rx: Fourteen Foods That Will Change Your Life

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Harper Collins, Dec 23, 2003 - Health & Fitness - 352 pages

The super-bestselling book that's enhancing Americans' health

By eating the fourteen SuperFoods highlighted in Dr. Steven Pratt's instant bestseller, you can actually stop the incremental deteriorations that lead to common ailments and diseases

  • Beans -- reduce obesity
  • Blueberries -- lower risk for cardiovascular disease
  • Broccoli -- lowers the incidence of cataracts and fights birth defects
  • Oats -- reduce the risk of type II diabetes
  • Oranges -- prevent strokes
  • Pumpkin -- lowers the risk of various cancers
  • Wild salmon -- lowers the risk of heart disease
  • Soy -- lowers cholesterol
  • Spinach -- decreases the chance of cardiovascular disease and age-related macular degeneration
  • Tea -- helps prevent osteoporosis
  • Tomatoes -- raise the skin's sun protection factor
  • Turkey -- helps build a strong immune system
  • Walnuts -- reduce the risk of developing coronary heart disease, diabetes, and cancer
* Yogurt-promotes strong bones and a healthy heart

SuperFoods Rx includes recipes created by Chef Michel Stroot of the Golden Door Spa and teaches you how to incorporate SuperFoods and their sidekicks into your diet. SuperFoods Rx is an indispensable guide to a healthy, long, and energetic life.

From inside the book

 

Contents

INTRODUCTION
1
How Your Diet Is Killing You
11
The Four Principles of SuperFoods Rx
19
SuperFoods Rx in Your Kitchen
28
I THE SUPERFOODS
37
Oranges
84
Pumpkin
98
Wild Salmon
109
Turkey Skinless Breast
171
Walnuts
181
Yogurt
194
I THE SUPERFOODS RX MENUS AND NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION
205
The SuperFoods Rx Menus
207
Nutrient Analyses
256
The Fourteen Super Nutrients
269
SuperFoods Rx Shopping Lists
277

Soy
124
Spinach
138
Tea
153
Tomatoes
160
Bibliography
305
Index
327
Copyright

Other editions - View all

SuperFoods Rx: Fourteen Foods That Will Change Your Life
Steven G. Pratt, M.D.,Kathy Matthews
Limited preview - 2009
SuperFoods Rx: Fourteen Foods That Will Change Your Life
Steven G. Pratt,Kathy Matthews
No preview available - 2003
SuperFoods Rx: Fourteen Foods That Will Change Your Life
Steven G. Pratt,Kathy Matthews
No preview available - 2003
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About the author (2003)

Steven G. Pratt, M.D., is a world-renowned authority on the role of nutrition and lifestyle in the prevention of disease and optimization of health. He is a senior staff ophthalmologist at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, California.

Bibliographic information

TitleSuperFoods Rx: Fourteen Foods That Will Change Your Life
AuthorsSteven G. Pratt, Kathy Matthews
PublisherHarper Collins, 2003
ISBN0060535679, 9780060535674
Length352 pages
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Health & Fitness / Diet & Nutrition / Diets
  
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