Eat Your Vitamins
Your Guide to Using Natural Foods to Get the Vitamins, Minerals, and Nutrients Your Body Needs
by Mascha Davis
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Pub Date Jan 21 2020 | Archive Date Jan 21 2020
Description
Vitamins and minerals are the building blocks of good health. But the heavily processed foods that are so common in today’s modern diet are stripped of these nutrients, leaving many people nutrient deficient despite meeting (or exceeding) their daily calorie needs. The accepted solution is to take supplements created in a lab, but the dosage and interactions can be confusing, and supplements are loosely regulated and not always foolproof, especially since our bodies are designed to receive nutrients from natural, whole foods.
Eat Your Vitamins features fifty key vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients essential to your health. You will find clear definitions of each nutrient along with the role it plays in the body, how it is best consumed and absorbed, recommended daily doses, and detailed lists of foods and natural sources that contain the vitamin along with a recipe for a nutrient-rich meal. Ditch the synthetic supplements and make the right choice about how to properly feed and fuel your body.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781507211359 |
| PRICE | $16.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 208 |
Featured Reviews
Rachel D, Reviewer
Eat Your Vitamins by Mascha Davis is an A to Z guide of vitamins, minerals, and nutrients and which foods contain these nutrients. There are also recipes. All in all I found it a good guide for someone who is wanting to begin the journey to better understanding and healthy lifestyle.
debra m, Reviewer
Very informative. This book was extremely helpful in determining the vitamins that will benefit each individual person. I loved getting the list of foods you can get the vitamins from and the recipes.
I received this galley from NetGalley.
Reviewer 307232
Eat Your Vitamins is an A - Z guide of the nutrients people need and where to get them. Davis includes the benefits of each nutrient, the symptoms of deficiency, recommended daily intake and some recipes. In addition to the amount of the featured nutrient, the recipes also include information you might find on a standard nutrition label (such as sodium, fiber, carbs, etc) even though these nutrients all explained individually as well. Where possible, Davis mentions both vegan and non-vegan sources of the vitamins, and specifies when vegans should consider supplementation.
My biggest takeaway from Eat Your Vitamins is that it's remarkably easy to get full servings of each vitamin and mineral without any special pills. Unless you have certain digestive issues or allergies or dietary considerations that prevent you from eating certain categories of food, simply eating a variety of fruits and veggies throughout the week should be enough to keep you healthy. In theory, you can get all the vitamins you need from one or two plant-based meals per day (this depends on the specific plants and the serving size, of course). Diet Culture has us believing that pill bottles are better than what God and mother nature gave us. It's time to change that.
I'm knocking off one star because the book was a little dry, but I suppose that's because it's meant to be a straight-forward guide more than a "fun read."
Linda S, Librarian
EAT YOUR VITAMINS by Mascha Davis reflects her credentials: Masters of Public Health and Registered Dietician Nutritionist. This book is packed with information and will serve as a ready reference source for our Health classes, especially during their Nutrition Unit when they complete a project on various foods and their components. Davis has organized this text alphabetically with entries for roughly 50 vitamins, minerals and nutrients. For each, she includes comments about its role in the body, signs of deficiency, how much one needs, and natural sources. A recipe, such as Asian-Inspired Beef and Broccoli (for iron), follows. Nutrition information is included, but photos are not. The cover of EAT YOUR VITAMINS is appealing and in line with the images on Davis' blog where she posted in early March about the Corona diet, reminding readers to build immunity and eat vegetables of all colors, lean protein, and nuts and seeds.
Link in live post:
https://nomadistanutrition.com/blog/2020/3/7/the-corona-diet
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