Good Health-Naturally!: 20 Steps to Better Nutrition Using Natural Food.

By Linda Alger and Priscilla Sanders

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0882902172
• ISBN13: 9780882902173
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Horizon Pub & Dist Inc
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

A Great and REALISTIC Way to Start Eating Nutritionally

This book is a great way to start on the path to healthful eating. It is simple, straight-forward and reasonable. The text portion of the book is just over 100 pages, so the reading is quick and informative. There are also 20 pages filled with nutritious and practical recipes. The beginning of the book addresses the need for nutrious eating. It talks about how what we eat affects how we feel and how often we get sick. Author, Linda Alger, tells of her experiences as a mother of several small children. Year after year her kids would suffer from the flu, colds or other sicknesses that seem to accompany winter. She would get so discouraged and exhausted with continuous trips to the doctor's office, sleepless nights and spooning down medicine to her little ones. She started looking into prevention methods and discovered some valuable information about nutrition and health, which she shares in this book. The following winters, she and her family were less and less sick and they replaced empty calorie foods with good, nutrious meals. Next, the books talks about what happens to the refined and processed foods that most Americans eat every day and how many of the nutrients are destroyed in these processes. She shares how she presented her plan for better eating to her family, their reactions and their progress. The next section of the book talks specifically of the following: Whole-wheat, cereals, junk food, honey, protein, peanut butter, salt, fruits, vegetables, juices, water, brown rice, syrup, molasses, dairy products, yogurt, unrefined oils, homemade condiments, chocolate, carob, gardening, nuts, seeds, sprouts, herbs, vitamins, food supplements and even food for baby. Specific nutrional information was given so that you could REALISTICALLY begin your family's switch over to better eating with out discention in the ranks. =) The authors end the book with a section that specifically sets goals, to be taken at your pace, that get your family changing toward healthful eating. The authors give suggested menus, discuss the importance of shopping with a list and give you one to adapt to your needs. They end the book with some really practical and useful recipes to get you and your family on their way. To me, the best feature of this book was the concise and clear layout of the information. I think this book would be more enjoyable to me if it included some fun anticdotes or clever illustrations. I think some of the information even lends itself to a cartoon in my mind. I can invision a mother spooning up the average 7/8 cup of sugar a day to her grimacing son or the monstrousities that we eat every day coming off our dinner table and the family defending themselves. It was a quick read, with great information that is practical and realistic to apply - no frills, but very useful.