Each chapter highlights a different color, and focuses on the ingredients and nutrients of the particular color group, with recipes featuring those ingredients. The book incorporates the latest nutrition knowledge about macro-and micro-nutrients, including phytochemicals, which are responsible for color pigments as well as providing valuable nutritional input in the human diet.
It combines scientific information, advice, and many recipes in a blend of nutrition theory and easy-to-follow practice. Respected organisations and individuals have contributed guidelines on children’s eating, nutrition for a healthy life, and dieting.
The authors say: This book offers a new and easy approach to healthy eating. We encourage you to eat lots – lots of different things. Our advice begins: Eat rainbows.
Eat colorfully! Colors all through the day, please.
Colors mean many things. A many-colored diet is a diet full of variety, and that is the first benefit.The more different foods we eat, the better. That’s because we are eating a wide range of nutrients, many of them interacting with one another to reinforce their healthfulness in ways we do not yet fully understand. Every food comes in a complex nutritional package. We are starting to understand the intricate mechanics of the chemical and nutritional interaction of the foods we eat. Scientific studies report that combined nutrients in food have greater significance than one food alone as predictors of survival
Eat colorfully! Colors all through the day, please.
Colors mean many things. A many-colored diet is a diet full of variety, and that is the first benefit. The more different foods we eat, the better. That’s because we are eating a wide range of nutrients, many of them interacting with one another to reinforce their healthfulness in ways we do not yet fully understand. Every food comes in a complex nutritional package. We are starting to understand the intricate mechanics of the chemical and nutritional interaction of the foods we eat. Scientific studies report that combined nutrients in food have greater significance than one food alone as predictors of survival.
From the Foreword:“Rita Erlich and Alice Murkies have captured the science, the spirit and the romance of contemporary food and health ideas in Color Me Healthy. It is an exciting culinary and nutrition concept.”
Mark L Wahlqvist AO
Professor of Medicine, Monash University, President of the International Union of Nutrition Sciences
