In Eat Smarter Family Cookbook, Shawn Stevenson has written a brand-new cookbook to help readers to live healthier and to transform your entire life. Shawn Stevenson has written two previous books, Eat Smarter and Sleep Smarter and he is the creator of a top podcast, The Model Health Show. He begins the book by explaining his background. At age 20, he was diagnosed with an advanced arthritic condition and this effects his spine. He broke his hip while he was running. He was struggling with obesity and he would enjoy fast food regularly. Doctors told him that his condition was incurable and there was nothing he could do. He explained how his parents didn’t know all about the negative effects of consuming heavily processed foods. Mostly everyone in his family and extend family have a chronic disease such as, obesity, diabetes, asthma, eczema, depression, and much more. A lot of this is caused by the food we are choosing to eat. He decided to not to become a victim and instead he asked himself what he could do differently to feel better. He made a choice to consume the food that were rich in nutrients. He instantly felt his energy levels increase and he was more optimistic. He was able to also get off his pharmaceutical drugs. He lost 20 pounds and he had better skin.
The book stated how a study found, “that poor diet kills 11 million people around the world every year.” This book will provide you with the tools to change your diet and lifestyle to see a positive transformation. It also discussed tips on how to change your environment and to change your relationships and eat together. One of the helpful suggestions, he shared was about the importance of getting a meal together as a family. Studies showed that people would eat more fruits and vegetables. He strongly encouraged parents to get their children involved in planning meals, eating outside, special meal/dessert, and other creative ways.
The book also looked at how our cultural is facing dangerously contagions. These include sugar, pesticide grains, and highly refined vegetable oils. He discussed the topic of sweeteners and how even artificial sweeteners are harming us. In fact, they are tricking our brain and our hormones. He explored the different choices we can make on choosing cooking oils, beef, poultry, fish, grains, sweeteners, beverages, spices, just to name a few. He broke them all down to helpful charts labeled: scary, sufficient, and smarter choice. He enclosed smarter grocery shopping tips and how to save money, smarter cooking tips, and pre-meal and dinner table tips.
The book contained 100 family friendly recipes. The recipes in this book are mostly gluten-free and grain-free. He breaks down each recipe with an emoji identifying how this food could improve an aspect of your health. These included brain, heart, sleep, metabolic, mental, and gut. He went into detail sharing how each fruit, vegetable, nuts, spices, fats, just to name a few and how each work to improve our health. There is also a sample meal plan to make it easier for readers to try.
I also liked how he did a wakeup call on looking at soda and orange juice and how much teaspoons of sugar are in the both of these. There are only about 2 teaspoons less in orange juice than soda. Just recently, I was warned about when I had my annual lab work that I could develop prediabetes and I’m currently right on the border of it. I’m curious to try some of the recipes and see how they improve my health. Some of these included that I’m wanting to try are: Boss Burgers, blackened shrimp kebabs, superfood pesto, cinnamon bread pudding with caramel sauce, avocado fries, pesto turkey wrap, and sweet potato protein pancakes. I loved how tasty the recipes look and I’m curious to try them.
I would recommend this awesome life changing book to everyone and they are wanting to seriously change their health. I thought this book was very well written and researched and it can dramatically change readers lives and health. I connected with his personal story and it was inspiring to read about how he was able to reverse his own health issues and to also change his family lifestyle. I liked how he went into detail about the benefits of consuming the right food and shared numerous studies throughout the book. This book was very eye opening about sugar vs sweeteners, grains, and processed foods. Another shocking benefit that I learned about was about avocados and how it has been discovered a reduction in abdominal fat. Readers can tell the author is very knowledge in the field of health. This book will assist you in cooking and eating better food and gaining the benefits, health wise from doing so.
Listen to the Podcast:
https://themodelhealthshow.com/
"I received this book free from the author for my honest review and was a member of his book launch group.”
If you would like to purchase a copy, check it out on Amazon.com:
https://www.amazon.com/Eat-Smarter-Family-Cookbook-Connection/dp/0316456462/
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