the world’s healthiest foods

contents

From George Mateljan

A Special Note to the Owner of the World’s Healthiest Foods Book

How to Benefit Most from This Book

Acknowledgments

Questions of Interest

PART 1 What are the World’s Healthiest Foods?

Discovering the World’s Healthiest Foods

Total Nutrient-Richness Chart

Nutrient-Rich Foods: The New Paradigm for the Healthiest Way of Eating

How the World’s Healthiest Foods Keep You Healthy

PART 2 The Healthiest Way of Eating Plan

How to Easily Incorporate the World’s Healthiest Foods into Your Lifestyle

Phase One—4 Weeks to the Healthiest Way of Eating

Phase Two—Eating for a Healthier Lifestyle

The World’s Healthiest Foods for Healthy Weight Loss

PART 3 Healthiest Way of Cooking

What is the Healthiest Way of Cooking?

Cooked versus Raw: Which is Better?

How to Preserve Nutrients When Cooking

Cooking Without Oils

Healthiest Way of Cooking Methods

Cooking Conversion Chart

Best Cookware for the Healthiest Way of Cooking

Why Avoid High Temperature Cooking?

PART 4 The World’s Healthiest Foods Support Healthy Cells

Eating for Healthier Cells

PART 5 100 World’s Healthiest Foods

The first page of each food group section contains a Table of Contents for that section. For the Table of Contents for all foods, see page 21. The foods are not listed alphabetically but by nutrient-richness.

Vegetables & Salads

Fish & Shellfish

Poultry & Lean Meats

Beans & Legumes

PART 6 Biochemical Individuality

This chapter describes how foods affect individuals differently and helps you determine which foods are best for you. It addresses such topics as food allergies, gluten intolerance, lactose intolerance, nightshades, oxalates, purines and other food constituents that may be of concern to certain individuals.

PART 7 Health-Promoting Nutrients from the World’s Healthiest Foods

Over 30 chapters on nutrients—from antioxidants to zinc, including information about what foods are the most concentrated source of each individual nutrient.

The World’s Healthiest Foods’ Quality Rating System Methodology

Healing with the World’s Healthiest Foods

In this section of the book, you’ll find an overview of 21 health-related topics—including colds and flu, fatigue, hair and nail health, skin health, vision health, memory and others—and what to eat, and what to avoid, if you are trying to enhance your health in these areas.

Food Sensitivity Elimination Plan

Helps you identify which foods may be problematic for you and helps you determine if you have undiagnosed sensitivities to food.

The George Mateljan Foundation

The World’s Healthiest Foods Website

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