Review: Introduction to `Clean Eating'
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 21, 2014
Author/health proponent Mario Fortunato devotes his time to the research of health related topics and nutrition and has many published titles both in print and digital formats like the Mediterranean Diet Cookbook for Healthy Weight Loss, Clean Eating Salad Recipes for Weight Loss, Healing Foods and many others. He is passionate about all areas that focus on health development and the improvement of lifestyle and wellbeing through natural methods. A he states he suffered form obesity for years and now has turned that around so successfully that he is now an authority on nutrition and health topics in general.He opens his book with the following overview: `Clean eating basically means eating foods closest to their most natural and whole form that is free of additives, preservatives or anything artificial. With a clean diet you want to consume foods that are minimally treated, if treated at all. The concept is that food must not come from a box, package, mix or bag. Therefore, food comes from nature and not from a business. If you make a purchase of prepackaged foods, then it should have minimal ingredients, and you should be able to pronounce them. A good rule of thumb is that the more ingredients a food has the less pure it is.  Although it may seem to be just another fad diet, "clean eating" is actually a philosophy that motivates people to become aware of the foods we eat. The central principle is to cut out all the processed foods and use whole and unadulterated foods such as vegetables, fruits, legumes and whole grains instead. Some clean eaters even eliminate dairy and / or meat.Mario's manner of approach is user friendly but his feeling are based on very strong convictions: avoid fast food chains, the reasons for avoiding processed foods, the benefits of clean eating for our body and health, and his very strong convictions about eating healthy salads for quick and effective weight loss. `Clean eating' is an excellent terms for his advice on nutrition and he follows his instructions and information with a delectable 50 clean eating salads - salads that are not only easy to build, healthy to eat, but also offer a strong variety of tastes and new ideas for enjoying salad as a main course. His recipes are accompanied by a list of ingredients, the method of creating the salad, and a beautiful color photograph of how the finished product will appear.This is a solid recipe book for `clean easting salads' and is bound to make a believer out of the reader (and eater) when the great tastes are accompanied by weight loss! Grady Harp, May 14