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. Barbara Jacobs
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Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Book Description
The ancient wisdom of Ayurvedic medicine meets up-to-the-minute nutritional science in a clever, colorful guide to matching diet and body type.
Marcia Zimmerman takes the mystery and complexity out of healthy eating and makes it simple. Eat Your Colors is a health and nutrition guide based on the idea that everyone fits into one of three body types. Identifying each type by a simple color -- red, yellow, or green -- Zimmerman provides a questionnaire to help readers determine their primary and complementary colors and explains which foods are best for which color types. For example, reds do very well on a vegetarian diet, yellows need some animal protein to feel their best, and greens will reap benefits from pungent foods and strong spices.
Eat Your Colors is filled with information on such news-making topics as phytoestrogens, which can reduce the risk of breast and prostate cancer; lutein and zeaxonthin, which protect the eyes of computer users and prevent the common eye disorder macular degeneration; and anthocyanidins, which reduce inflammation in cases of chronic disease. And it offers practical, easy-to-follow advice on: --creating meal plans using the optimal foods for each color--using herbs, spices, sauces, and condiments to balance off-colors--discovering color weaknesses and combating them by eating the right foods
Offering a unique way of thinking about diet, Eat Your Colors will do for body type what Eat Right for Your Type did for blood type.
Marcia Zimmerman takes the mystery and complexity out of healthy eating and makes it simple. Eat Your Colors is a health and nutrition guide based on the idea that everyone fits into one of three body types. Identifying each type by a simple color -- red, yellow, or green -- Zimmerman provides a questionnaire to help readers determine their primary and complementary colors and explains which foods are best for which color types. For example, reds do very well on a vegetarian diet, yellows need some animal protein to feel their best, and greens will reap benefits from pungent foods and strong spices.
Eat Your Colors is filled with information on such news-making topics as phytoestrogens, which can reduce the risk of breast and prostate cancer; lutein and zeaxonthin, which protect the eyes of computer users and prevent the common eye disorder macular degeneration; and anthocyanidins, which reduce inflammation in cases of chronic disease. And it offers practical, easy-to-follow advice on: --creating meal plans using the optimal foods for each color--using herbs, spices, sauces, and condiments to balance off-colors--discovering color weaknesses and combating them by eating the right foods
Offering a unique way of thinking about diet, Eat Your Colors will do for body type what Eat Right for Your Type did for blood type.
About the Author
Marcia Zimmerman, C.N., is a certified nutritionist, a lecturer, and a consultant to some of the country's leading nutrition and supplement companies. She has studied both Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine, and is the author of The A.D.D. Nutrition Solution. She lives in Alameda, California.
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What color are you?
Reds
--Generally have medium builds, with well-proportioned bodies
--Tend to be well coordinated, decisive, and purposeful in movement
--Often skin is freckled, sensitive, and prone to rashes
Greens
--Generally have large, athletic or overweight body types
--Usually have clear, bright complexions with skin soft, lustrous, and oily
--Tend to have hair that is blonde, black, or light brown with blonde highlights, and is often thick and wavy
Yellows
--Tend to be lean and flat-chested, and their joints may appear large in proportion to lean frame
--Generally skin is dry and cracks easily
--Usually hair is dry, difficult to manage, and dark in color
What you should eat:
Reds
--Red and purple fruits
--Red, yellow, orange, and green vegetables
--All legumes
--Poultry
--Most grains
Greens
--Any green vegetable or fruit
--Legumes and whole grains
--Pungent and hot spices
--Freshwater fish
--Mushrooms
Yellows
--Yellow, orange, and red vegetables and fruits
--Tropical and citrus fruits
--Salty, oily fish
--Beef
--Rice
Reds
--Generally have medium builds, with well-proportioned bodies
--Tend to be well coordinated, decisive, and purposeful in movement
--Often skin is freckled, sensitive, and prone to rashes
Greens
--Generally have large, athletic or overweight body types
--Usually have clear, bright complexions with skin soft, lustrous, and oily
--Tend to have hair that is blonde, black, or light brown with blonde highlights, and is often thick and wavy
Yellows
--Tend to be lean and flat-chested, and their joints may appear large in proportion to lean frame
--Generally skin is dry and cracks easily
--Usually hair is dry, difficult to manage, and dark in color
What you should eat:
Reds
--Red and purple fruits
--Red, yellow, orange, and green vegetables
--All legumes
--Poultry
--Most grains
Greens
--Any green vegetable or fruit
--Legumes and whole grains
--Pungent and hot spices
--Freshwater fish
--Mushrooms
Yellows
--Yellow, orange, and red vegetables and fruits
--Tropical and citrus fruits
--Salty, oily fish
--Beef
--Rice
