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Healthy Starts Here!

140 Recipes That Will Make You Feel Great
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Sep 07, 2011ksoles rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
"Healthy Starts Here" epitomizes the motto of "Eating Well," my favourite food magazine: "where good taste meets good health." Author Marilyn Smith uses comedic flair, a degree in home economics, a teaching certificate and her vast knowledge of nutrition to explain the health benefits of a wide range of foods. Then, she persuades readers to eat these foods by providing 140 delectable recipes. For example, in the chapter "Grains: Three Pluses in One Tiny Package," she offers a New Orleans-inspired jambalaya with brown rice. In "Berries: Antioxidants to the Rescue," she incorporates nutrient-rich fruits into dishes such as blueberry quinoa salad. The book also provides shopping and food-storage tips, nutritional information and diabetic food choice values for each recipe, and a guide to retraining sodium-addicted taste buds (only three of her recipes call for salt). More information is available on her website: www.marilynsmith.com