Title: Eat Real Food and Love It: 6 Steps to Help You Crave Healthy Eating
Author: Kari McCloskey MBA RD
Publisher: Xlibris US
ISBN: 1669826651
Pages: 294 pages
Genre: Health / Food
Reviewed by: David Allen
Pacific Book Review
Who should read this book: Everyone. Eat Real Food and Love It: 6 Steps to Help You Crave Healthy Eating is a life-changing, life-saving extraordinarily well written manual on how to save your life.
No exaggeration! Kari McCloskey, a dietician and nutritional consultant, convincingly explains how good food, mostly derived from natural plant products, is not only delicious but is the adequate and necessary foundation for good health, feelings, and spirit.
One of the extraordinary things about the wealth of information in this book is that there’s nothing new under the sun. The information presented here, representing the fruit of a lifetime of experience, training, and personal research, is actually perennial received wisdom. Funny thing: most books about healthy nutrition and healthy lifestyles come to the same conclusion.
“’Fast’ processed foods are taking us down. There is ample evidence that artificial sweeteners, preservatives, and thoughtless reliance on ‘convenience’ eating actually contributes to chronic illness, fatigue, even cancer. Nitrates and other food additives re-up the potentially lethal presence of ‘free radicals’ in food that can lead to cancer. Happily, the prevention and remedy for these inimical chemicals lies no further than your greengrocer’s showcase. Fruits, nuts, legumes, vegetables and judicious amounts of animal or fish protein rule when it comes to a healthy body, mind, and society.”
Kari McCloskey’s paradigm begins and ends with NATURE. Using NATURE as an acronym, she lovingly and carefully spells out food groups, action plans, intelligent decryption of food labels, rational use of salt and sugar. Guess what? It’s painless! The recipes and foods described in this book are not just appealing, but the ingredients are readily accessible and the dishes are easy to prepare.
There are literally thousands of Overhaul Your Diet and Your Lifestyle books out there; This is the one to read and keep.
