Review: "Incorporate a 'Super Foods' mentality into your life"
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 29, 2013
In "Detox Maintenance Recipe Collection," author Elizabeth Arnott proposes a regimen of eating so-called Super Foods and excluding foods such as wheat, dairy products, meat (but not seafood), and refined sugar, claiming health benefits such as permanent weight loss, increased energy, and elimination of toxins that have built up in the body due to poor eating habits. There's an old saying, "You are what you eat," and with the number of new diet plans being published the last few years, it's becoming more and more apparent that many of our physical ailments are caused by poor eating practices.After making a case for her proposed regimen, the author presents recipes that she's acquired in her travels around the world, modifying them as needed to fit her criteria for healthy eating. Most ingredients should be available in larger supermarkets or specialty markets. Some recipes that may be more challenging include a special "Cook's tip" section for dealing with ingredients that many cooks may not be familiar with (example: Jerusalem artichokes). I wondered about the omission of nutrition information, but the author claims that by using only acceptable Super Foods, it's not necessary to count calories. (That sounds like when I was on Weight Watchers and chose the Core Plan, where points were not counted.)The recipes are an interesting lot, with something for just about everyone. Changing completely to this kind of diet would be a sweeping change for most people, but the evidence is piling up in favor of eliminating or at least greatly reducing meat and dairy products in our diet, and no one but candy makers would argue a case for refined sugar.Kudos to Elizabeth Arnott for showing the way to a healthier lifestyle.