With New Healthy Kitchen Starters, you can improve your diet while
enjoying appetizers such as Cantaloupe and Feta Cheese Salad, Grilled
Zucchini Skewers with Coriander, or Prosciutto-Wrapped Radicchio Wedges.
This colorful series of healthy cookbooks takes a commonsense approach
to eating right. Food fads and trendy diets may come and go, but your
family doctor can tell you that you will never go wrong eating a wide
variety of fresh vegetables and fruits, whole grains, and legumes.
We all know that we're supposed to be eating several servings of each of
these foods every day. But you might not know that we're also supposed
to be eating as many different colors of fruit and vegetable as
possible. The naturally occurring pigments that give vibrant colors to
fruits and vegetables also offer an array of unique health benefits,
boosting your immune system and fighting common diseases and conditions
as you age. These pigments and other plant compounds -- known as
antioxidants and phytochemicals -- work in tandem with vitamins,
minerals, and fiber to keep our bodies strong and well.
The amazing benefits of colorful foods, whole grains, legumes, seeds,
and nuts are being studied in labs across the country and touted by
government experts on nutrition. But all the good advice in the world
won't help you put a healthy dinner on the table. The books of the New
Healthy Kitchen series -- Starters, Main Dishes, and Desserts -- will
do just that.
The 60 recipes in these pages, grouped by the color of a key ingredient,
offer dozens of appealing and easy ways to bring a rainbow of fruits,
vegetables, and grains into your daily meals. Even better, 24 "Fresh
Ideas" suggest simple ways of enjoying fresh produce as a wholesome and
impromptu snack.
With New Healthy Kitchen Starters, eating right won't be a sacrifice
or a chore. In these books, healthy food means good food, simply
prepared and a pleasure to eat.
