Real Food by Nina Planck

 

Real Food – What to Eat and Why

by Nina Planck

Bloomsbury USA

$14.95, paper back, 343 pages, 1-59691-342-8

 

You say that you're limiting your meat, drinking only skim milk, not eating more than 2 eggs a week, never having real butter anymore, you’ve thrown away your salt shakers, and are buying practically everything else only if it’s low-fat or no fat  – and you're still not losing weight?  Or your cholesterol is still through the roof? 

 

So what's a person who wants to eat healthy suppose to do?

 

Eat real food again. 

 

Yep, that's right.  Go ahead and eat some beef and wash it down with whole milk (Nina Planck even explains that you can drink raw milk – if you can find it).  Cheese?  Sure.  Real butter on your vegetables, too?  Yes, again. 

 

You can even eat eggs again – and not just those horrid egg white omelets.  Know what else?  Chocolate: the darker the better.

 

Read this book and you won't be afraid to eat real food any more.  Planck does away with all the myths about having to eat vegan, vegetarian, low fat, no fat, or low cholesterol in order to be healthy.

 

And guess what else?  You don't even have to limit your portions.  Sorry, that one's not true.  But it is true that eating traditional food – the type of food that your grandmother made – is still the healthy way to eat.  (Hint: You’ll find most of these foods only on the outside isles of your grocery store.)

 

So go ahead – indulge yourself with roasted chicken, mashed potatoes with real butter, whole milk, a fresh salad with bacon bits, and a slice of hot apple pie with real whipped cream on the top.  It's good for you … really.

 

Pick up a copy of this book and you'll understand.  You’ll also forever change the way you eat.

 

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