Mark Hyman - The UltraMetabolism Cookbook: 200 Delicious Recipes that Will Turn on Your Fat-Burning DNA

A meal from a box or can is a strange notion in these hills; food made with labels a hard thing to find. No one here is on a diet. Food is a source of pleasure, not anxiety. How far so many of us have come from this simple way of preparing, eating, and enjoying real, whole, fresh foods! Looking back on my life, I realize how important whole foods have been to me since a very early age. I was born in Barcelona and spent my first four years there, discovering the smells of the marketplace and freshly prepared Catalan dishes. My mother always had a small garden and since the age of eighteen, Ive grown my own vegetables.

I inherited the love of fresh food and cooking from my mother, and the joy of eating from my father. Bringing together family and friends and preparing nourishing, delicious meals from whole, fresh ingredients is one of my lifes greatest pleasures. Now, as a doctor specializing in nutritional medicine, I realize how fundamentally important this simple pleasure is. Our bodies and souls thrive on fresh, whole real food. To eat well is to be healthy. Food is medicine.

It cures us. Despite how simple this seems, it is the cure for most of our chronic diseases and the obesity epidemic. It is one of the keys to living a fulfilling and vitally healthy life in this modern age, just as it was millennia ago in the Mediterranean countryside. What I am asking you to do is eat foods that come from the earth, not from a box or can or prepared by food scientists in a factory. These factory-processed foods are unrecognizable by our genes and our cells, which respond the best they can. They accommodate to these foods by making us sick.

You can make a different choice. This book will help you take advantage of ancient cultural wisdom about food and modern nutritional science. Your cells, your genes, and your soul will thank you.

Most of us know that the way we eat does not help us thrive. In fact, over two-thirds of Americans struggle with their weight. In addition, many of us worry that what we eat will increase our risk of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and dementia. We battle cravings and desires that no longer match our bodys true needsand we know it. Yet we are stuck in an awful cycle, trapped by patterns of eating we dont know how to escape. UltraMetabolism and this cookbook are based on principles that will help you reverse that downward spiral and become friends with food once again, so it can become a source of nourishment and healing and the key to achieving UltraWellnesslifelong health and vitality.

I decided to create this cookbook because of the many requests I received for more delicious recipes like the ones originally included in UltraMetabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss . We worked diligently to put together a remarkable set of recipes that have been tested relentlessly by both professional chefs and everyday folks to ensure they are easy to make, delicious, and, most important, follow the exact nutritional guidelines I described in UltraMetabolism , which I will review for you a bit later. Ive designed this cookbook to be as user-friendly as possibleall of the recipes are organized so you know specifically in which phase of the UltraMetabolism program you can use them, and they are all tagged so you can quickly determine whether a particular recipe contains something you might be allergic to, whether thats wheat, dairy, eggs, or any other common allergen. IMPORTANT: Before reading further, please go to http://www.ultrametabolismcookbook.com/guide and download The UltraMetabolism Cookbook Companion Guide, which contains dozens of helpful tips and resources to make cooking easier, quicker, and more delicious. What Is UltraMetabolism? UltraMetabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss gave many the chance to know what its like to feel good againto have more energy, to be free from many chronic symptoms, and to lose weight automatically without suffering. UltraMetabolism is a program based on eating in harmony with our genes, eating the real, whole foods on which our bodies were designed to functionnot the processed, altered, alien food devoid of nutrients and nourishment that, unfortunately, most of us eat today.