From Publishers Weekly
Wined and (Healthily) DinedNutraceuticals "foods that have medical-health benefits" are the foodstuffs of nutritionist Marcia Zimmerman's Eat Your Colors: Maximize Your Health by Eating the Right Foods for Your Body Type. To simplify and personalize good nutritional practice, natural-medicine researcher Zimmerman (The A.D.D. Nutrition Solution) designates three digestive types green, red and yellow (yellow eaters, for example, need more animal protein than others) and offers a self-test for determining type. She suggests meal plans with information on phytoestrogens (which decrease breast and prostate cancer risk), polyphenols (immuno-boosters, heart-attack preventers) and anthocyanidins (anti-inflammatory treatment). The allusion to cosmetic color types will attract people who might otherwise overlook an eating guide not fixated on weight-loss.
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From Booklist
It started with the Hippocratic admonition to "let food be your medicine and medicine be your food." More than 2,000 years later, researcher-author Zimmerman provides the first real healthy-eating plan centered on nutraceuticals, which were defined by a scientist in the mid-1970s as a broad class of health-promoting nutrients. Applying the basics of Ayureveda--the Indian mind-body knowledge process--she melds three colors of foods (red, yellow, and green) with three colored complements (white, tan, and brown), giving each individual a unique way of fighting off disease and staying whole. Questions define your exact type or combination thereof. Each group is scrutinized for its attributes and possible side effects, according to proven research. And finally, all are drawn into nutrition plans, with a few recipes geared to different types. The last chapter summarizes symptoms of "color" affliction as well as remedies. Of major interest but minor practicality.
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