Review: Never hurts to give up a little of your usual foods.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 7, 2014
This is a great book that can help anyone and everyone be more mindful of what they are putting into the mouth and therefore their body. The only problems I found with the book is classifying "ginger root" as a vegetable as if we really would eat a serving of ginger root by itself.  Scallions are also in the vegetable group and I can put a serving on top of my other vegetables to eat so I didn't really object to that.  Most people will not eat a vegetable serving of scallions either, except weirdos like me. Green onions/scallions have a LOT of potassium when you add a good  amount to your food, like 276 mg per cup, whites and green part.While she doesn't include almonds in the nut list, she does suggest almond milk so I would assume the nuts are okay as well.  And almond milk, in the unsweetened version from sugar, have NO sugar calories which is great if you have blood sugar problems!I would question the use of soy milk because of the domination of Monsanto and their GMO soybeans control of the market place.  If ever there was a food to avoid, it is GMO soybeans that dominate the US market.But if you can't eat any sweeteners including sugar and honey, WHY and how can she justify "agave nectar"?  It is nothing but sugar!  Maybe it is the newest, cutest sugar around but it is more dangerous to your liver than regular sucrose or table sugar because 100 grams of agave is 75% fructose and that has to go through the liver to be used to make glucose.  Regular sugar doesn't require that much liver conversion and is easier on the body. This seems incredibly contradictory.Also, peanuts are NOT nuts but legumes and belong in the friendly food group called legumes.Regarding water, if you can eat/use lemons and limes at your meals, why can't you add your lemon and lime to your water?And if you can make a fruit smoothie as a meal, why not add your water to it in addition to what is in the smoothie recipe and get our water with some approved flavor added.  It all ends up in your stomach anyway whether you drink it together or separately. That seems to brew a big stretch for no good reason.So if you heat up lemons in water can you then drink it as a lemon tea because you have technically cooked it?  Seems logical to me.  But I'm not an expert on this plan.  It seems to have a lot of arbitrary rules with situational intakes so 21st Century people can follow it. I personally think healthy teas with no sugars or chemicals would fit that bill as well based on the fact if you use orange juice to "cook" with, it is legal.  If you just drink it straight or dilute it with water it isn't?