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 snap…all 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 

    Açai: 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 Help–Gland 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!