Description
Superfoods: The Food and Medicine of the Future by David Wolfe
(2009, full-color softcover book printed on eco-friendly paper with vegetable-based inks, 342 pages)
You can still get all your vitamins and minerals from food. How? With Superfoods.
Superfoods are the most powerful, nutritious, mineral-rich plant foods on Earth and are the great gifts given to us by the greatest civilizations that have ever existed. The Chinese civilization gave us goji berries, the Aztecs/Toltecs/Mayans/Olmecs gave us cacao (raw chocolate), and the Egyptians gave us aloe vera. Polynesians gave us noni, the Incan peoples gave us maca, central Africans gave us spirulina, and beekeepers around the world gave us bee pollen, propolis, and royal jelly. Right now, this is the moment of our awakening, when we can finally bring all these superfoods together.
Superfoods represent an awesome piece of the nutrition puzzle as they are the best natural sources of clean pesticide-free and chemical-free:
Protein (most superfoods are complete protein sources)
Vitamins
Minerals
Enzymes
Antioxidants
Co-enzymes
Good fats and oils
Essential fatty acids
Essential amino acids
Fiber
Polysaccharides (glyconutrients or essential sugars)
Superfoods go a long way towards making us more well-balanced in behavior and demeanor. This is due to their ability to help remineralize our tissues and offer deep, well-rounded nutritional support.
Superfoods immediately help nourish our brain, bones, muscles, skin, hair, nails, heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, reproductive system, pancreas, and most importantly our immune system. Over the long-term, superfoods work to correct imbalances and guide us towards a more natural and original diet. When we consume superfoods it becomes dramatically easier to achieve our ideal weight, diet, and food habits. Superfoods ease our efforts to detoxify and make the transition to more healthy foods a snapall we have to do is enjoy their gifts!
Superfoods can help us to:
Maintain a healthy weight.
Get all the protein we could ever need.
Improve our immune system.
Nutritionally saturate our bodies with super-nutrients.
Superfoods Table of Contents
Introduction: Why Superfoods?
What Are Superfoods?. . . 1
A Note on the Recipes. . . 11
The Top10 Superfoods. . . 13
Goji Berries: Fountain of Youth
Cacao: Raw Chocolate
Maca:Andes Aphrodisiac
Bee Products:The Original Superfoods
Honey
Bee Pollen
Royal Jelly
Propolis
Spirulina: Protein Queen
AFA Blue-Green Algae: Primordial Food from Klamath Lake, Oregon . . . 123
Marine Phytoplankton:The Basis of All Life . . . 145
Aloe Vera: Essene and Egyptian Secret of Immortality . . . 165
Hempseed:Superfood of the Future . . . 181
Coconuts: Symbol of Paradise . . . 201
Honorable Mentions. . . 225
Ai: Ancient Amazonian Antioxidant . . . 225
Camu Camu Berry: Vitamin C Sun King . . . 228
Chlorella: Green Pigment of Your Imagination . . . 231
Incan Berries: Incan Trail Superfruit . . . 237
Kelp: Mineral HelpGland of the Sea . . . 240
Noni: Polynesian Superfruit . . . 242
Yacon: Prehistoric Prebiotic Sunflower . . . 244
Glossary of Recipe Ingredients. . . 247
Appendix I: Nutritional Information. . . 253
Appendix II: Scientic Studies. . . 277
Photo Credits. . . 313
Index. . . 315
About the Author. . . 331
Superfoods provide nutrition to fuel The Best Day Ever!
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Reviews
Customer Reviews
- Packed full of information! Review by Carla
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This is the best book I have read on the topic of health foods for a long time. Since reading this book my diet and energy has radically improved. Everyday I add new super foods to my diet, as I learn more amazing things about them. I highly recommend this book. (Posted on 11/21/11)Rating - amazing book Review by hempcacaogoji831
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I have read every page of this book several times and I learn something new every time. This book has taught me lots of advanced information on superfoods which has tremendously improved my health and vitality, my workouts, and relationships. I also like the pictures. (Posted on 8/9/11)Rating






