Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 352 pages
- Published by: William Morrow
- Edition: 1st Edition December 23, 2003
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0060535679
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0060535674
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Book Dimensions:
9.5 x 6.3 x 1.2 inches
- Weighs: 1.3 pounds
Product Description
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.
About The Author
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.
Reader ReviewsThis is an excellent reference work for your personal health library. The author describes strategies for maximizing antioxidants in the diet by eating blueberries,pumpkin and strawberries. Isoflavones may be found in soy-based foods. Fiber and B vitamins may be obtained from beans. Vitamin D may be added to yogurt to potentiate the calcium added to the diet. This work contains many superfood menus which are easy to interpret and reproduce for your eating pleasure. A main theme of the book is to provide badly needed nutrients by eating a variety of foods which introduce antioxidants and fiber into the body. This will help deal with the natural inflammation which many middle age people find difficult to manage. i.e. gut inflammation, irritable bowel syndrome etc.
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