Did you know that eating 5 to 9 servings of fruits and vegetables and enjoying physical activity every day are the most important lifestyle choices you can make? A few simple changes can fuel your body and help you maintain better health for years to come. Visit the produce aisle of your local grocery store and you will see delicious fruits and vegetables everywhere! Besides fresh, fruits and vegetables are available frozen, canned, dried, and juiced. They are easy to fix, delicious to eat, and inexpensive to buy.
This revised edition of an old favorite, first published in 1978, explains how to cultivate and preserve all types of fruit, herbs, and vegetables, in addition to instructions on keeping bees and raising chickens.
Includes over 600 illustrations, many redrawn for the revised edition
Contains information on drying, storing, and preserving fruits and vegetables
Explains the “Deep Bed” method, critical to anyone with a tiny urban plot
Pizza, pasta, hamburgers, sushi, tacos, and french fries . . .
whether our ancestors were born in Madrid, Malaysia, or Mexico, chances
are our daily food choices come from all around the globe.
Unfortunately, we have taken some of the worst aspects of our varied
ancestral menus to turn healthy cuisine into not-so-healthy junk food.
Where did we go wrong? Why is it that non-Western immigrants
are so much more susceptible to diabetes and other diet-related chronic
diseases than white Americans? How is it possible that relatively poor
native populations in Mexico and Africa have such low levels of the
chronic diseases that plague the United States? What is the secret
behind the extremely low rate of clinical depression in Iceland—a
country where dreary weather is the norm? The Jungle Effect has the life-changing answers to these important questions, and many more. Dr. Daphne Miller undertook a worldwide quest to find diets that are
both delicious and healthy. Written in a style reminiscent of Michael
Pollan and Barbara Kingsolver, this book is filled with inspiring
stories from Dr. Miller's patients, quirky travel adventures,
interviews with world-renowned food experts, delicious (yet authentic)
indigenous recipes, and valuable diet secrets that will stick with you
for a lifetime. Whether it's the heart-healthy Cretan diet,
with its reliance on olive oil and fresh vegetables; the antidepression
Icelandic diet and its extremely high levels of Omega 3s; the
age-defying Okinawa diet and its emphasis on vegetables and fish; or
the other diets explored herein, everyone who reads this book will come
away with the secrets of a longer, healthier life and the recipes
necessary to put those secrets into effect.
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COVER:
Billy Graham, Pastor In Chief - A new book reveals what Graham learned — and what he regretted — in his 50-year ministry to U.S. Presidents
• WORLD:
The War Next Door - A surge in drug-related violence is terrorizing Mexico and sparking fears that the killing could cross the U.S. border
• HEALTH & MEDICINE:
Rethinking Organics - The way your fruits and vegetables are grown makes a big difference, right? Don't be so sure
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Explaining Déjà Vu - Memory experts find the brain circuit that may be the cause of these eerie experiences
