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Unlocking Wellness: Essential Nutrition Tips for a Healthier |
Blissfully skinny take a minute to envision what it might be like—to be delightfully happy, fit, trim and sexy. What would it be like to wake up each morning after a deep and comfortable sleep, overflowing with energy, excitement and anticipation of another fantastic day ahead of you? To have all the energy and mental sharpness to face any work that came your way, to truly enjoy your career, family, friends and activities? To be full to the brim every day with appreciation and optimism, enthusiasm and inner peace? To be peaceful, comfortable, at peace with yourself, your world, your future and your life?
What would it feel like to be skinny, fit, confident and strong? To slide comfortably into a tiny black dress or the pants you wore in high school? To have the energy and power to bound up a flight of stairs, work in the yard all day with energy to spare, enjoy long treks with the family or take up tennis? To feel happy in your own flesh and to feel proud of yourself and appealing to others?
The Promise: Unlocking Your Potential and Achieving Greatness
No diet, book or instructor can promise joy or a flawless physique for the rest of your life, just as no one can guarantee you will live disease-free until you die peacefully in your sleep at age 110. But I can assure that if you follow the secrets given forth in this book, you will stack the deck in favor of being wonderfully fit. I also guarantee that if you follow my advise in the pages that follow you will feel the best you have felt in a long time, if ever, and will be smaller and fitter than you’ve ever been in your adult life.
How do I know that? I have been exploring the relationship between nutrition and mood for decades. That study prompted me to create Food & Mood, which came out in its first edition in 1995. Since then, individuals have been sharing their tales with me of how that book altered their lives.
People have informed me they followed my diet advise and got a new lease on life. Young, elderly, kids, teens, men and women all become happier, slimmer, wiser or less anxious. Their vitality improved. Their memories resurfaced. They slept better, responded quicker, handled stress better. Menopausal women told me their hot flashes stopped, males told me they no longer fell asleep in the chair every night. Many times their depression lifted, or they were able to cease, or at least decrease, their drugs. Often PMS symptoms faded, or they no longer fought the Winter Blues. They were enthused about life and looked forward to the future. I wish I had a $100 for every time someone told me, “I never knew I could feel this good!”
Michelle, a producer for NBC’s Today program, is an excellent example. When she was 12 years old, she was struck head-on by a vehicle. “The car continued to drive with me on the windshield, and I eventually fell to the street and suffered a second blow to my head,” she informed me. She was left with a severe brain injury, as well as back and neck difficulties. As a consequence of the brain damage, she lost how to read and perform any sort of arithmetic. “Even something as simple as subtracting the number 6 from 10 was difficult for me in those early years. I had great anxiety and sank into a depression as well.”
Good Nutrition and Health: A Path to Wellness and Vitality
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Good Nutrition and Health: A Path to Wellness and Vitality |
“Good nutrition and health played a huge role in my recovery. It was Elizabeth’s suggestions about how to eat to boost my mood that helped me comprehend the power of foods and the impact of my eating habits on my brain and body. I gave up sugar and processed carbohydrates and put in all the good things, particularly depression-fighting foods she advised, like salmon and berries. I made a complete recovery and have done more than anybody ever believed I would. I went from college with honors, worked as a White House intern and now work for NBC’s #1 morning program. I can’t tell you how essential eating healthy was in my rehabilitation. It provided me the energy, desire and health I needed to face my ailments. Food & Mood was my bible. I’m so thankful that something led me to pick the book from my mom’s bookcase. I can’t think where I’d be now without it.”
