"Food Matters" Shows You How to Eat For Your Own Health and the Health of the Planet

The diet book entitled "Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating" contains guidelines on how to eat for the sake of getting good health. It advocates eating for health principle. Its Author, Mark Bittman is the same person who gave the public the bestseller books, How to Cook Everything and How to Cook Everything Vegetarian.

Food Matters give information that may be petty to some, but plays a vital role to the health of many. For example, Food Matters explained how much carbon emissions fill up the air with one slice of steak dinner to how the government and global economic policies affect the kinds of foods people eat. The diet book is one insightful, eye-opening guide that stimulates readers to eat in a more health-conscious approach completely losing weight.

If everyone on the whole planet earth follows his guide in eating healthily, people will not experience problems such as:

1. Being overweight
2. Being at higher risks for serious diseases like diabetes, hypertension, cancer and heart problems
3. Undernourishment due to lack of essential nutrients

One of the guidelines given by Bittman is to avoid eating processed foods and red meat. He himself shelled out 35 pounds after discarding those junk foods. He recommended everyone to eat and follow his style and eventually lose weight. Food Matters does not preach people, but educate them and help them eat for their health. Bittman's diet book offers 75 recipes of waist-trimming, planet-friendly delectable snacks and desserts. Also included are low-fat ways to add more flavor to the foods and a list of several kitchen staples. Samples of foods recommended on Food Matters are spinach, sweet potato salad with warm bacon dressing, bread pudding or hybrid quick bread.

Reviews of "Food Matters" say that this diet book opens the eyes of people to the connection between the foods they eat and their health and the planet's health. Before the publication of Food Matters, Bittman already serves as a Food Critic at New York Times. On his diet book, he restrained himself from converting everyone to become a vegan. Instead, he puts emphasis on how the food selection increasingly affects the carbon footprint. This book calls on people who want to be conscious of what they eat. To sum up, the insight of Food Matters, we give you the following nuggets of information:

1. Provides facts and scientific explanation to the author's statements
2. Encourages people to be more conscious about their food choices
3. Includes healthy eating program
4. Does not profess to make radical changes in the way people eat
5. Provides tips and guidelines for family and children-friendly meals
6. Offers long-term solution for eating with health benefits of people and the planet.
7. Does not deprive people of the foods they love while having small adjustments