Mehmet Oz - Food Can Fix It: The Superfood Switch to Fight Fat, Defy Aging, and Eat Your Way Healthy

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ALSO BY DR. MEHMET OZ

Healing from the Heart: A Leading Surgeon Combines Eastern and Western Traditions to Create the Medicine of the Future

ALSO BY DR. MEHMET OZ WITH DR. MICHAEL ROIZEN

YOU: The Owners Manual

YOU: Losing Weight

YOU: On a Diet

YOU: The Smart Patient

YOU: Stress Less

YOU: Staying Young

YOU: Being Beautiful

YOU: Having a Baby

YOU: Raising Your Child

YOU: The Owners Manual for Teens

YOU(r) Teen: Losing Weight at Any Age

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To moms, who have always known that food can fix it

Meals can work like medicine, or create mayhem in your body. Watch how it happens (and you may never eat junk again).

My easy-to-remember way of eating is your secret code to a longer and stronger life.

These tactics will help you resist cravings and temptations by putting knowledge into action.

As the backdrop for a million special moments in your life, meals pack more than just nutritional power.

Three primary principles will normalize your weight for good.

The natural way to keep your arteries clear and your heart strong.

Stick with the FIXES approach for more zip, less zonk.

Pain is one of medicines most complicated challenges, but the right food can help you feel better.

Food can improve your memory, sharpen your mind, and keep your brain firing for life.

Feeling a little cranky, moody... off? Choose foods that will turn your well-being back on.

To protect against sniffles, the flu, and more serious bodily invaders, you need to feed the troops.

Looking good on the outside starts with what happens on the inside.

The digestive system is one of your bodys command centers. Keep it happy and youll do more than settle your bellyyoull improve your overall health.

How food heals your body and energizes your life.

Right here, right now, I want you to stop what youre doing and think of the last thing you ate.

I dont care if it was healthy or unhealthy, homemade or plucked out of a vending machine, plain or smothered in cheese. Remember what it looked like and how it tasted?

Now think about this: Do you know what happened afterward?

Sure, you may understand in broad termssome of it exited your body, some might have trespassed on your belly, hips, or thighs. Beyond that, do you understand how food interacts with your biological universe, in all of its mystery and majesty?

Every ingredient in every bite of every meal you eat is a passenger on a ride through the magical kingdom that is made up of your organs, cells, tissues, and various vessels. And theyre not passive passengers who just ooh and ahh at the attractions (Cool! Look at that colon rolling!). These passengers participate in the way your body workshow you operate, how you feel, how you live.

Of all the personal choices you can make about your health, nothing holds greater influence than the food you eat. Yes, food can break you, but it also holds the power to fix your body, prevent some diseases, and reverse others. I wrote this book to help you harness that power and to share some of the lessons I have learned about food, eating, and life. Ill begin with my top five.

Food is medicine. In Italy, pharmacy is spelled farmacia , and there is a lot of truth embedded in how we read that word. Some of the worlds best cures are grown on our farms and available in our supermarkets, ready to go to work in your body if you know what to reach for and how to prepare it. The right food can even replace that daily pill (and all the annoying side effects that come with it).

Food is an eraser that can wipe away past lifestyle lapses and health mistakes.

Food is the extension cord that energizes and lengthens your life. Science is only now advanced enough to prove what our ancestors may have figured out with trial and error, and scores and scores of new studies annually are reinforcing the power of food on longevity.

Food is sacred and historically has brought people together in a unique way. When you can unite good eating with good feelings, you reap tremendous biological, spiritual, and emotional rewards.