If someone were to ask you to name the 10 most essential things that must be a part of your daily food intake, what would you put in? Confused? Well, Anahad O’Connor and Dave Lieberman bring you this information in a funny, straightforward food guide that not only throws light on what you should eat but also tells you how to make it!
It’s called the 10 Things You need To Eat and it has become a highly popular eating and lifestyle book.
The 10 things you need to eat: An Overview
In this witty and refreshingly easy read, the authors have combined their individual areas of expertise (one is a New York Times health columnist and the other is the Food Network chef and a self confessed foodie). They have offered the science behind their take on the 10 superpower foods along with a wide variety of mouth watering recipes for easy and quick meals.
The foods that they have picked include a number of easy-to-find staples like tomatoes, spinach, avocados, lentils, cabbage, fish, nuts and berries and a few rarities like quinoa.
The main premise of the book is to identify ten super foods that answer three basic criteria:
- Foods that have health benefits
- Foods that are easy to find
- Foods that are extremely flexible
The information is given in short and sweet tidbits and spiced with plenty of personal stories, cooking tips, shopping tricks and food descriptions. There is no dearth of facts either because scientific studies that support the health claims in the book are mentioned at the end of the book.
Some of the information given in the book can turn popular perceptions on their head, like the one on Italian style Pizza, which is healthy for the heart because it contains plenty of tomatoes and very little cheese.
The book also discusses healthy fat and distinguishes it from unhealthy fats giving examples of how a Mediterranean diet that contained plenty of olive oil but little meat can actually be heart friendly.
The pièce de résistance is the section offering several recipes, complete with cooking tips and health recommendations. Recipes range from the familiar to the novel, healthy to sinfully delicious.
The 10 things you need to eat: A review
The book is pretty easy to follow. The advice appeals to the mind and the heart and the recipes are fairly simple. No exotic ingredients, no fancy weighing – just make ‘em and eat ‘em!
Pros:
- Balanced food plan
- Focuses on eating healthy foods in a delicious way
- Well documented studies and references provided
- Emphasizes healthy foods
- Light and easy read
Cons:
- Recipes do require some hard work and advanced planning
- Nutritional information is missing
- No pictures
In Conclusion
This is not a weight loss book. Instead, it is just a book that contains good information on how to cook what is good for you and eat healthy. The 10 Things you need to eat book provides a specialized approach to healthy foods.
Due to this very fact, it might not really be every person’s ‘Go To’ book for health and fitness. However, for those who want to know more about healthy foods, this book may be a worthwhile read.
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