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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.

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Product Details

Publisher	Harper
ISBN	0061172286
Format	Mass Market Paperback
Author	Steven G. Pratt,Kathy Matthews
EAN	9780061172281
Label	Harper
Dewey Decimal Number	613.2
Studio	Harper
Number Of Pages	416
Title	SuperFoods Rx: Fourteen Foods That Will Change Your Life
Release Date	2006-12-26
Publication Date	2007-01-01
Manufacturer	Harper

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Customer Reviews

New, Good price, Timely delivery

Review by Creola, 2010-08-07

The book was indeed NEW, great price, and timely delivery. Very pleased. This book is very imformative, educational, and easy to read. A good reference book to have nearby. Highly recommended

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This book changed the way I ate and chose foods.

Review by Kim Spells, 2010-06-11

I read this book 3 or 4 years ago. I still think of it as one of the books that helped shape the way I choose what foods I eat. I shop differently, armed with the knowledge that this book gave me. I and my family eat differently. For instance he says that you should choose whole grain products that have at least 3 grams of fiber per serving. He equates grains vs whole grains to what soda pop (coke) is to 100% fruit juice. There's no real nutritional value there. So, we now eat bread and most cereals that have 3 grams of fiber or more and are whole grain. We eat blueberries, broccoli, spinach and so many other foods suggested in this book much more often. I have been vegetarian much of my adult life as is my husband. We've been into eating healthier than most people, but I'd never really read much on the topic so this was a great book for me. I think it will change the health of me and my family members for the better for years to come.

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Superfoods made super simple

Review by Deb, 2010-06-01

If you just read one book on superfoods this should be the one! Clear, concise, and comprehensive, this guide provides a panoramic snapshot of the top fourteen superfoods: beans, blueberries, broccoli, oats, oranges, pumpkin, salmon, soy, spinach, tea, tomatoes, turkey, walnuts, and yogurt. The book is highly functional, whether you chose to read it cover-to-cover or just pick out specific sections of interest. After a brief introduction on the basics of superfoods, the book provides individual chapters for each of the superfoods (and their "sidekick" alternatives) which include the key nutrients and health benefits, as well as quick-and-easy ways to incorporate them in your diet. The final part of the book offers superfood menus and nutritional information, as well as superfood shopping lists to help you scout out the superfoods in your supermarkets. Incorporating these "nutritional powerhouse foods" into your daily life is a surefire way to decrease your risk for a whole host of chronic diseases, while increasing the quality and span of your life.

Perhaps Morgan Spurlock might consider making the antithesis of Super Size Me: Super Food Me.

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Easy to digest information

Review by Marina Michaels, 2010-03-24

I am a big proponent of foods as medicine. There are so many complex combinations of ingredients within each food that science still does not understand, that I feel it is much better to consume a whole food than to pop a pill that has an extract of some of the good ingredients from that food. For example, it was once thought the bioflavonoids, such as those found in the white stringy stuff in citrus, were useless, and now science has found that they help your body absorb certain nutrients in the foods that have them. Another example: We were all warned for a long time not to avoid tea, and now it is found that tea is quite healthful.

This is why I highly recommend this book. The main focus of this book is to describe 14 "super foods" that have combinations of ingredients that are thought to be healthful and even potentially healing. Even better, the authors very cleverly combined foods into groups (one super food plus its "sidekicks"--acceptable substitutes), so in fact they cover far more than 14 foods, but in such as way that it is much easier to remember what types of foods to eat.

For example, there is a chapter on blueberries as a super food, but when you read that chapter, you find that all other manner of berry can be used for very similar results as well. But it is much easier to remember to eat 1 to 2 cups of any kind of berry a day than to try to figure out whether you should eat 1/2 cup of cranberries plus 1/2 cup of strawberries plus 1 cup of blueberries--you get the picture.

And lest you feel that there is too much information to absorb, the authors provide a very abbreviated one-page summary that you could photocopy and put on your refrigerator. (Or, you could create your own table, like I did, of all the foods and their sidekicks, arranged by food type, with recommended servings per day as well as serving sizes. Very tidy and yes, it is magneted to my refrigerator.)

If you only get one book on foods that are good for you, check this one out.

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I made it into a game

Review by James McMahon, 2010-02-22

OK, so I'm kind of a health nerd. I admit it. I like the science in this book. I like hearing about the chemicals in the foods and what they do in your body. Maybe that's not for everyone, but I really appreciated it.

When I first read it, I turned it into a game. How many Superfoods (and foods in the related "family") can I eat in a day? It made the "diet" fun, and I certainly did feel better.

From everything I have been seeing in the news lately, Pratt got it right on. All these foods have stood the test of time. I would still recommend this book, even though I know the research has evolved somewhat since he wrote it.

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