Review:Joy Bauer's Food Cures
Treat common health concerns, look younger and live longer.
The book, Food Cures by Joy Bauer, will teach you how to use food to help treat many health problems related to what you eat.
Joy Bauer, the nutrition expert for the Today show, makes it easy to use food to manage and treat many health problems in this informative book.
“It's just food.”
The first section gives details on how Joy's plan works and outlines the basic set up of the book. Included in this section is the “top tips for thinking like a nutritionist”. These tips will help you get in the right frame of mind and on to improving your health with food.
The beginning of the book also explains her four step plan and how it works. After that, each chapter is dedicated to particular health problems, such as diabetes, migraines, or weight loss. In each chapter, Joy gives a give a straight forward, practical four step plan on how to manage and treat the problem. The book is written in a casual, conversational manner and even with over five hundred pages, can be read in a day or two.
What are the basic steps?
Step One: Start with the Basics
Step one gives you some simple things you can do to improve your health right away. These tips are very specific to the health problem the chapter is about. They will start you on the right track to a healthier over all life style.
Step two: Your Ultimate Grocery List
This step gives you a grocery list that is used to implement the eating plan in step four. This step is great because it takes the guess work out of grocery shopping. You will know exactly what you need to buy to change your eating habits for the better. Often this is what is lacking in other nutrition books.
Step three: Going Above and Beyond
Here you will find more useful tips to move even closer in the direction of better health. Often, after trying some healthy things, you will feel better and want to do even more. This step helps you do just that.
Step four: Meal Plans
Sample menus for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks are listed. Joy also includes recipes. The meal plans look easy to follow and none of the sample menus seem really restrictive, or have strange foods that are hard to find. Most people should have an easy time incorporating them into their life.
Even more in the back.
In the back of the book, Joy gives a thorough explanation on how to read a label and lists the food brands she most recommends. Reading labels and shopping for the right foods can be confusing. This section helps take the guess work out, and gives solid information on how to buy foods that are really good for you.
Great reference book to add to your library.
There are plenty of great tips and real examples of how they can be implemented. Everyone from the novice, to the nutrition maven will benefit from the straight forward lay out of the book. Food Cures is for people who need a clear and simple way to implement dietary changes to improve their health for the better. It is a great reference for your home library. This book will be referred to over and over again.
