Joy Bauer’s Food Cures
Easy 4-step Nutrition Programs for Improving Your Body
Joy Bauer
Reviewed by Jenny Salyers
What defines good nutrition?
Nutritionist Joy Bauer is well known through her role as
the
nutrition expert for the Today Show. She has written a reference guide
to how the
food that you eat can and does affect your health. The book is divided
into six
sections: First, is the introduction to the author and her health
practice.
Second, losing weight contains an introduction and break down of the
process of
losing weight. Third, looking great deals with eating to help keep your
skin,
hair and smile all looking brilliant. Fourth, living long and strong
talks
about ways one can change their eating habits to help with
cardiovascular
disease, type 2 diabetes, and degeneration of bones, muscles and
memory. Fifth,
feeling good talks about what you can do to help problems with your
mood,
migraine headaches, PMS, insomnia and celiac disease. The sixth section
smooth sailing
breaks down how to correctly read nutrition labels, Joy talks about her
good
food picks, and you can find references on the subjects covered in the
preceding
chapters of the book here.
Each chapter is laid out in an easy to reference way. The
author starts each by introducing the subject, using her knowledge as a
nutritionist.
She uses examples of stories of her patients and what they did to work
through
their health issues, and talks about food changes and supplements you
can add
to your diet. Next, she breaks the process of implementing the food
program
into your life in four steps. Step 1, start with the basics gives you a
quick
run down of things you will need to do to help along your health goals.
Step 2,
your ultimate grocery list gives you a comprehensive list of the foods
you
should be including in your new eating habits and is very helpful for
stocking
your kitchen and pantry. Step 3, going above and beyond gives added
tips to
things you can do to improve your health goal. Step 4, meal plans
includes
sample daily menus including the foods that will improve your health
goal. Also
included in this last section are recipes using these foods, each of
which are
calculated to provide a 1,200 to 1,500 calorie daily goal.
I was taken by surprise by this collection. I expected a
book focusing more on weight loss. The sections dealing with common
ailments
such as skin, and digestion problems were a pleasant surprise. I also
found
that the inclusion of easy to prepare meal options and recipes balanced
to help
along those who were trying to loose weight a very helpful one. This is
a book
that I have found to be a great reference for health, and good food
choices.