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Ultimate Foods for Ultimate Health (and don’t forget the chocolate!)
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INTRODUCTION
Liz Pearson is a Registered Dietitian with a passion for peanut butter sandwiches and an undying love for chocolate. Mairlyn Smith is a multi-talented home economist who creates recipes that are super nutritious and incredibly delicious. Together these two wrote The Ultimate Healthy Eating Plan… that still leaves room for chocolate, an award winning national bestseller. Ultimate Foods for Ultimate Health… and don’t forget the chocolate! is the next level - the next generation. It answers more questions, gives more great advice, and highlights more disease-fighting, powerhouse foods. And that’s not all! In addition to containing 50 “best of the best” recipes from the original book, it contains 90 brand new, tasty, nutrition-packed recipes. Here are 10 ways that Ultimate Foods for Ultimate Health is certain to boost your health and well-being:
1. How to Eat Healthy In an Unhealthy World
We live in an unhealthy world. We’re bombarded with high calorie, fat-laden, sugar-loaded, nutritionally-barren foods at every turn. Obesity is considered one of today’s most blatantly visible – yet most neglected – public health problems. The prevalence of type 2 diabetes is predicted to get worse before it gets better. Our children may be the first generation ever to have a lower life expectancy than that of their parents. If ever there was a time to take action, the time is now. Ultimate Foods for Ultimate Health is designed to help you make healthy choices in an unhealthy world. Whether dining out, grabbing food on the run or making meals at home, you get specific, realistic and achievable advice on the best food choices for you.
Quote of the Day“When you enter a grocery store today, you see more high-calorie, high-fat choices in three minutes than our ancestors saw in a lifetime.”
David Sobel, MD, Director of Patient Education & Health Promotion, Kaiser Permanente
2. Dispels Myths & Clarifies Misconceptions
If you’re confused, discouraged, or disheartened about what you should or shouldn’t eat, join the crowd. Nutrition headlines seem to change with the weather. One day a particular food is good for you, the next day it’s harmful to your health. One person says eat it, the next person says don’t. Ultimate Foods for Ultimate Health does its best to make sense of the complex and ever-changing world of nutrition. The recommendations are built on extensive research reviews and interviews with leading scientists in the field. It’s based on the best evidence we have today. These questions and more are answered:
Can you get all you need from food or must you pop a pill?
Is soy a miracle food or have we been mislead?
Do canned fruits and vegetables really deliver?
Fish is supposed to be good for you, but is it safe to eat?
Should we build our bones with milk or is there a better way?
Are organic foods worth the money?
Ultimate Foods for Ultimate Health simplifies complex issues, tackles controversial subjects, and provides specific advice.
Research Highlight
Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health estimate that healthy food choices, together with regular physical activity and not smoking, can prevent over 70% of strokes, 80% of coronary heart disease, and 90% of type 2 diabetes.
3. Packed with Super Nutritious, Disease Fighting Foods
Twenty-five hundred years ago Hippocrates said, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” Today, research confirms that certain foods and food combinations have the ability to slash your risk of heart disease and cancer, protect against diabetes and osteoporosis, shield against aging and Alzheimer’s disease, cut your risk of eye diseases such as macular degeneration and cataracts, and alleviate inflammatory disorders like arthritis. Ultimate Foods for Ultimate Health highlights foods that are the most potent fighters of disease – like pomegranate juice, cinnamon, green tea, broccoli, berries, extra virgin olive oil, and almonds. Foods are ranked based on their overall nutrient contribution as well as their health-protecting ability. How much of these foods do you need to eat to significantly reduce your risk of disease? Does it matter whether you eat them raw, cooked, peeled or chopped? Are some foods more beneficial when eaten alongside other foods? Ultimate Foods for Ultimate Health gives you the goods on the nutritional world superstars.
Research Highlight
Researchers from Michigan State University list the following four health habits as providing the most benefit: don’t smoke, maintain a healthy body weight, eat at least five servings of fruits and vegetables daily, and get at least 30 minutes of physical activity five days a week.
Research Highlight
Researchers estimate that life expectancy would rise by seven years if all forms of major cardiovascular disease were eliminated.
4. Highlights Dietary Villains You Need to Avoid
Sugar consumption is skyrocketing around the world. Artery-clogging trans fats and saturated fats lurk in unlikely places. Refined grains, like white bread, can be harmful to your health. Too much red meat can significantly boost your risk of colon cancer. Soft drinks or “liquid candy” are tied to ballooning waistlines and a higher rate of type 2 diabetes. Some specialty coffees made with whole milk, syrups, and whipped cream have enough calories and fat to sink a small ship. Portion sizes are out of control. Most fast foods are a landmine of sodium. Ultimate Foods for Ultimate Health helps you avoid the worst of the worst – the foods most harmful to your health. It also provides healthy alternatives that satisfy. Does it get any better?
Quote of the Day
“Obesity is now so common within the world’s population that it is beginning to replace undernutrition and infectious diseases as the most significant contributor to ill health. It is an epidemic that threatens global well-being for adults and children alike.”
Peter Kopelman, Professor, Royal London School of Medicine
5. Helps You Lose Pounds & Maintain A Healthy Body Weight
Maintaining a healthy body weight is one of the most important things you can do for your health. You lower your risk of heart attack, stroke, high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer, and osteoarthritis. Yet, in the 21st century, managing a healthy weight is more challenging than ever before. Ultimate Foods for Ultimate Health is designed for reducing waistlines and satisfying hunger. It’s loaded with great tasting ideas that are low in fat, low in calories, and high in fibre. It will please your taste buds, help keep you on track, and motivate you. Great taste, wholesome eating, and healthy weight loss - all in one.
Research Highlight
Based on a study from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm involving over 44,000 pairs of twins, genetic makeup and family history were found to make only a minor contribution to the risk of developing most types of cancer. Researchers concluded that the environment, which includes diet, is the principal cause of most cancers.
6. Super Nutritious, Incredibly Delicious Recipes!
Fact: People don’t want to compromise taste when it comes to eating healthy. Fact: you don’t have to. Mairlyn makes it possible to enjoy every single bite of a very healthy day. The Rotini with Feta and Tomatoes tastes like summer. The Grilled Salmon with Raspberries is divine. The Orange Avocado Black Bean Salsa Salad overflows with flavour. The Awesome Lentil and Rice Salad should win a prize. The Jamaican Spiced Marinade with Pork Tenderloin simply couldn’t be better. And the lemon-zest sugar topping on the Wild Blueberry Muffins is to die for. When it comes to recipe creation, Mairlyn is the master. There are kid-friendly recipes, impressive-enough-for-entertaining recipes, and most importantly, tons of super-fast and easy recipes. Ultimate Foods for Ultimate Health – super tasty, super nutritious, super wonderful!
Research Highlight
In an international study sponsored by the World Health Organization involving 34 countries around the world, the following countries were at the top of the list for the most overweight children: Malta, the United States, England and Canada.
7. Realistic & Achievable (includes Seven-Day Meal Plan)
You know you should eat more fruits and vegetables, but you don’t. The “Top Ten Tips for Meeting Your Fruit & Veggie Quota” (page 23) is guaranteed to help you get there. You’ve heard that beans are good for you, but how do eat more of them? The “Ten Great Ways to Say Hello to Beans” (pages 60-62) will guide you. The cereal aisle is overflowing with options, but what cereal should you choose? The “Ten Terrific Tips for Building a Beautiful Bowl of Cereal” (page 43) makes it easy to pick the best. Ultimate Foods for Ultimate Health is loaded with top 10 lists, best of the best lists, and how-to-get-more lists. The ideas are practical and doable. There’s even a Seven-Day Meal Plan that ties together all of the advice and recommendations. Ultimate Foods for Ultimate Health tells you why, but, most importantly, it shows you how.
Research Highlight
People often have type 2 diabetes for several years before they’re diagnosed. During this period, irreversible physical damage may occur. Diabetes is a particularly nasty disease that can cause serious complications such as blindness, kidney disease, greater risk for heart disease, strokes, amputations, and a host of other disorders. Children who develop type 2 diabetes face a much higher risk of kidney failure and death by middle age than people who develop type 2 diabetes as adults.
8. Provides Top Tips For Life in The Fast Lane
We live in a fast-paced, hectic world. Eating on the run, skipping meals, and frozen dinners are a way of life. No time to shop for food. No time to prepare it. We dine at our desks. We dine in our cars. The result is often a nutritional catastrophe - a diet of unhealthy fats, excess calories, and sodium, and not enough nutrition. A busy lifestyle is no excuse for a lousy diet, and neglecting our health, no matter how crazy life gets, is simply not an option. Ultimate Foods for Ultimate Health is geared for life in the fast lane. You get fast food survival tips, like the two slice pizza rule, and snacking on the run tips, such as the healthiest snacks to pack. There are also label reading tips, a frozen dinner checklist, and top tips for dining out. With Ultimate Foods for Ultimate Health life can be healthy and high-speed.
Quote of the Day
It is estimated that one in two women and one in four men over age 50 in North America is at risk for an osteoporosis-related fracture. “Despite these staggering numbers, most people do not realize their personal risks of developing osteoporosis or suffering a related fracture. Osteoporosis may be a silent disease, but we cannot afford to be silent about it.”
Judith Cranford, Executive Director, National Osteoporosis Foundation
9. Gets You Off the Couch
Our generation is the most sedentary in history. We’ve engineered activity out of our lives. We sit in our cars. We stare at computer screens. We’re glued to the tube. Ultimate Foods for Ultimate Health gives you 55 incredible reasons to move your body. Participation isn’t optional. You get 12 easy ways to build movement back into everyday life and 14 top tips for incorporating activity into your day. Recommended activities are provided, as well as tips for keeping your kids off the couch. Ultimate Foods for Ultimate Health is more than just an eating plan, it keeps you moving.
Research Highlight
A sedentary lifestyle is a major underlying cause of death, disease, and disability. Physical inactivity doubles the risk of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and obesity. It also increases the risk of colon and breast cancer, high blood pressure, lipid disorders, osteoporosis, depression and anxiety.
10. Still Leaves Room for Chocolate!
They say there’s nothing better than a good friend… except a good friend with chocolate. It’s true. Chocolate is calming, delectable, heavenly, intoxicating, irresistible, sexy, and sinful. The best news is that this mouth-watering food can actually be good for you. Ultimate Foods for Ultimate Health helps you choose the types of cocoa and chocolate with the highest amounts of disease-fighting antioxidants. It also provides chocolate recipes that are better for you than most, including The Ultimate Healthy Chocolate Treat, the delicious Frozen Cocoa, and the truly divine Decadent Brownie. Let’s face it, how could an eating plan, be an Ultimate Eating Plan without chocolate?
The Bottom Line:
Ultimate Foods for Ultimate Health is a super nutritious and incredibly delicious eating plan. It fights disease, whittles your waistline, gives great advice and is designed for today’s world. It’s the best investment you can make in you. Here’s to happy reading and tasting - and to being the healthiest you can be!
Have fun on your journey,
Sincerely, Liz Pearson & Mairlyn Smith
P.S. Before starting any new eating plan or exercise program, be sure to check with your family doctor.
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