Book Recomendation

Every so often I'll write briefly about a book that I think everyone should read. Today it's The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What you Should Eat and Why, by Jonny Bowden. Despite the horribly long title this is a great book and very easy to read (or just skim through.) It's loaded with great and unbiased information about many popular and not so popular foods. For instance:

• Most soy products that people eat because they believe them to be healthy alternatives like soy milk, soy burgers, tofu ice cream (yuk) are junk food.
• Unless you have cut grains (with the exception of Oatmeal) out of your diet you are eating too much grains.
• Avocados are LOADED with GOOD fats.
• Yogurt is really good for you. Just make sure it has the Live and Active Cultures (LAC) seal. And as with anything else the fewer the ingredients on the label the better.
• Raw Organic Milk is also a great food. Unfortunately the milk we buy in the grocery store and see marketed on billboards as mustaches is junk food.
• Raspberries are a tremendous bang for the buck when it comes to fiber. And they might be the tastiest thing grown on this planet.

So check it out! It's worth having the facts about what we are putting into our bodies.

Mike