SuperFoods [antikvár]

INTRODUCTIONet your food be your medicine, and your medicine your food," said Hippocrates over 2,000 years ago.He meant his words to be taken quite literally. "Each one of the substances of a man's diet", he went on to say, "acts upon his body and changes it in some way, and upon these changes his whole life depends, whether he be in health, in sickness, or convalescent. To be sure, there can be httle knowledge more necessary."This book is Hippocrates' wisdom put into practice. It teaches you how to use foods as medicines. It explains which foods are best to treat which illnesses. And it spells out how your choice of foods can influence not only physical states but also your state of mind, your behaviour - and even your IQ.The foods prescribed in Superfoods are good foods in the most literal sense of the word. Good because they are delicious -and good because they help you get well and stay well.Ten years ago, "healthy eating" was largely the province of cranks, and to most people the phrase was grimly negative: brown rice, lentils, nut cutlets, and the idea that anything you actually enjoyed eating must be bad for you.Today there is general recognition of the truth that we are indeed what we eat - and that, if we eat unwisely, we may well be digging our graves with our teeth. In 1988, the US Surgeon General spelled out this truth for Americans in the most emphatic terms, in his Report on Nutrition and Health. "As the diseases of nutritional deficiency have diminished, they have been replaced by diseases of dietary excess and imbalance -problems that now rank among the leading causes of illness and death in the United States."He pointed out that coronary disease, strokes, high blood pressure, cancer, and diabetes mellitus have all been associated with diet, and that together they accounted for nearly 1.5 million deaths in the USA in 1987 alone.The dietary guidelines the report laid down for a new, healthy America bear a striking resemblance to the advice that foodHow to use food as medicines