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A review by perfect_leaves
Eat Your Vitamins: Your Guide to Using Natural Foods to Get the Vitamins, Minerals, and Nutrients Your Body Needs by Mascha Davis
4.0
Thank you to the publisher for providing me with an advance copy of this book to read and review.
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."
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."