Bretherton Caroline - Super Clean Super Foods

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THE SUPERFOODS

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FOREWORD

Super-clean Superfoods is your guide to the worlds healthiest foods . Itll show you how to pack your diet with superfoods in the healthiest and most delicious way possible. The foods you eat have a fundamental impact on your health and wellbeing, both in the short and long term. Eating a healthy, balanced diet is a vital investment that will improve your chances of living a long and healthy life.

This guide is a visual directory of 90 of the most important superfoods foods so nutrient-dense that they warrant the term. Each superfood in this guide comes with information on which key nutrients it contains and how they benefit your body, as well as simple, delicious ideas for how to incorporate it into your diet and tips for maximizing its nutritional benefits.

Too often, superfoods come with an aura of mystique that makes them seem inaccessible, expensive, or difficult to cook. Simple ingredients, such as carrots, beetroot, almonds, and chicken, are tasty, easily accessible, and packed with health-boosting vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals. For more adventurous eaters, we have also included harder-to-find superfoods, such as dulse flakes, acai powder, and spirulina.

Interspersed throughout the guide are 20 superfood-packed recipes, as well as ideas for how to eat for a healthy gut, good sleep, brain power, immunity boost, glowing skin, and extra energy.

We hope this guide demystifies superfoods and clean eating, and helps you eat more nutritious, tasty foods every day.

FIONA HUNTER

CAROLINE BRETHERTON

what is a superfood?

There are foods that are so packed with nutrients that they deserve to be called super, and youre missing out if you dont include them in your diet. These foods are packed with health-boosting vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals.

what makes a food super?

The food you eat provides your body with the fuel it needs for energy, the building blocks for growth and repair of tissues, and tools that protect cells and organs from disease. Superfoods are simply foods that deliver impressive quantities of these health-promoting nutrients.

They are foods that are packed with vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, phytochemicals, fibre , or healthy fats .

They are foods that are known to help protect against a whole host of diseases, and that help make your heart healthier, your brain sharper, and your immune system stronger. They can improve your wellbeing and help you stay active and healthy as you grow older. They are a group of foods that you must have in your diet if you want to improve your chances of living a long and healthy life.

how do I choose which to eat?

The good news is that superfoods dont have to be new and exotic, hard to find, or expensive in order to be beneficial.

Carrots are just as much of a superfood as more exotic ingredients like spirulina or acai powder.

There are plenty of superfoods to choose from, so if dont like the taste of a particular food or your budget doesnt stretch to some of the more expensive ingredients, this guide will help you discover other superfoods that offer similar nutrients and benefits.

How often should I eat them?

Whatever your age or circumstances , you should strive to include some superfoods in your diet every day .

Its never too early or too late to start incorporating superfoods into your diet. Some of the superfoods set you up for lifelong good health, and others may even help reverse existing cell damage. Try to incorporate 34 superfoods into your meals every day, and vary them from week to week. No single superfood contains all the nutrients you need, so eat a variety of superfoods rather than sticking to the same ones.

will eating them make me healthy?

Superfoods are not magic bullets throwing a few superfoods into a that is unhealthy or unbalanced wont magically transform your health and wellbeing.