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Product Reviews—Healthy Eating
Healthy Dining in Orange County
By Anita Jones-Mueller, M.P.H.; Esther Hill,
Ph.D.; Susan Goldstein; Erica Bohm, M.S.; and Nicole Quartuccio
According to the authors of Healthy
Dining in Orange County, most restaurant meals have between 1,000 to
2,000 calories and between 50 to 100 grams of fat. In essence, the
equivalent of one stick of butter. From this sobering fact, the Healthy
Dining book series was born.
Written by a team of health and nutrition
experts, the Healthy Dining guides are essentially three books
in one—a nutrition guide, a restaurant guide, and a cookbook. The first chapters focus on
the basics of healthy eating, with an emphasis on smart restaurant dining.
The second part of the book lists menu selections for numerous local
restaurants, providing detailed nutrition information for recommended
choices as well as suggestions for substitutions and special requests. The
third section offers a collection of healthy recipes from the recommended
restaurants that you can prepare for yourself at home. Added bonuses include
a health resource guide and numerous coupons for restaurants mentioned in
the book.
Because many restaurants don't list
nutrition information, it's often hard to determine the amount of fat,
sodium, cholesterol, and calories you're consuming. Even a seemingly
innocuous dish may have hidden ingredients you wish to avoid. These
well-written guides help readers to avoid such pitfalls, by providing actual
meal suggestions for many local restaurants and, most importantly, by
empowering readers with the knowledge to make healthy choices no matter
where they eat.
Written by a registered
dietician and experienced cookbook author, Quick & Healthy Low-Fat Carb Conscious Cooking
provides more than 200 recipes that emphasize low-fat, healthy-carb
nutrition.
The first section of the
book includes extensive nutrition information and a series of short articles
on topics such as reducing fat and cholesterol, weight loss, saving time in
the kitchen, quick breakfast ideas, and much more. The recipes range from
modified versions of traditional favorites such as scalloped potatoes,
sloppy joes, and meat loaf to more creative options including chicken
lettuce wraps, mulligatawny soup, and peppermint mousse. Each recipe
includes detailed nutritional data.
Quick & Healthy Low-Fat Carb Conscious Cooking
is well-designed and spiral-bound for ease of use. The combination of
detailed nutrition advice, suggested menus, and easy to follow recipes make
it a great single source for those wanting to focus on reducing carbs, while
still maintaining a healthy, low-fat diet.
The Raw Gourmet
by Nomi Shannon
The beautiful presentation and full-color
photography of gourmet raw food dishes in The Raw Gourmet can make
even those new to the concept of raw and living foods eager to get into the
kitchen and get cooking.
The Raw
Gourmet provides a brief introduction to the benefits of raw food as
well as the tools and techniques required to prepare gourmet raw food meals.
The bulk of the book, however, focuses on a wide variety of recipes that
should appeal to both raw food aficionados as well as those simply
interested in adding more raw food meals to their diets. The Raw Gourmet
includes intriguing recipes for standard raw food fare such as smoothies and
salads, but also offers new variations of old favorites such as chili
rellanos, pizza-kinda, vegetable nori roll-ups, frozen mango pie, and more.
Author Nomi Shannon has also produced three
videos to accompany The Raw Gourmet:
Start Your Day the Healthy Way, Making Meals of Nuts and Seeds, and Palate
Pleasing Recipes to feed From 4-400. The video series, available from the
Raw Gourmet website,
provides a more personal level of instruction for those new to raw foods.
The Origin Diet
by Elizabeth Sommer
Subtitled "How Eating Like Our Stone Age Ancestors Will
Maximize Your Health," this book, written by a registered dietician,
explains how eating the way our ancestors did can improve your health and
help you lose weight. The premise of the Origin Diet is that if you follow
the eating and health habits of humans thousands of years ago, to which you
are still genetically programmed, you can lower your risk for modern-day
disease. Essentially, this means focusing on natural, minimally-processed
foods—the types of foods that were available thousands of years ago. The
book includes detailed medially-supported advice, recipes, and tips on how
to incorporate these eating habits into your modern daily life.
Eat Smart in India
by Joan Peterson and Indu Menon
Even if you're not planning to visit India in
the near future, Eat Smart in India is a fun read for anyone who's interested in Indian food.
The book begins with a description of India's varied regional cuisines and
their background and history.
An extensive ingredient glossary, dining and
shopping tips, and and a list of helpful phrases in Hindi are a big benefit
to the traveler and are difficult to find in such detail in other travel
guides to India. The menu guide and recipes are of equal interest to both
actual and armchair travelers. The 27-page menu guide is also sure to aid diners who frequent Indian restaurants
at home and want
to know more about what they're eating or make more healthful menu
selections.
Eat Smart in India is one in a series of
Eat Smart books published by
Ginkgo Press. Others in the series include
Eat Smart in Brazil,
Eat Smart in Turkey, Eat Smart in Indonesia, Eat Smart in Mexico, Eat Smart
in Morocco, and Eat Smart in Poland.
