Superfoods: The Food and Medicine of the Future by David Wolfe
(2009, full-color softcover book printed on eco-friendly paper with vegetable-based inks, 342 pages)

You can still get all your vitamins and minerals from food. How? With Superfoods.

Superfoods are the most powerful, nutritious, mineral-rich plant foods on Earth and are the great gifts given to us by the greatest civilizations that have ever existed. The Chinese civilization gave us goji berries, the Aztecs/Toltecs/Mayans/Olmecs gave us cacao (raw chocolate), and the Egyptians gave us aloe vera. Polynesians gave us noni, the Incan peoples gave us maca, central Africans gave us spirulina, and beekeepers around the world gave us bee pollen, propolis, and royal jelly. Right now, this is the moment of our awakening, when we can finally bring all these superfoods together.

Superfoods represent an awesome piece of the nutrition puzzle as they are the best natural sources of clean pesticide-free and chemical-free:
Protein (most superfoods are complete protein sources)

Vitamins

Minerals

Enzymes

Antioxidants

Co-enzymes

Good fats and oils

Essential fatty acids

Essential amino acids

Fiber

Polysaccharides (glyconutrients or essential sugars)


Superfoods go a long way towards making us more well-balanced in behavior and demeanor. This is due to their ability to help remineralize our tissues and offer deep, well-rounded nutritional support.

Superfoods immediately help nourish our brain, bones, muscles, skin, hair, nails, heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, reproductive system, pancreas, and most importantly our immune system. Over the long-term, superfoods work to correct imbalances and guide us towards a more natural and original diet. When we consume superfoods it becomes dramatically easier to achieve our ideal weight, diet, and food habits. Superfoods ease our efforts to detoxify and make the transition to more healthy foods a snap…all we have to do is enjoy their gifts!

Superfoods can help us to:

   Maintain a healthy weight.

   Get all the protein we could ever need.

   Improve our immune system.

   Nutritionally saturate our bodies with super-nutrients.


Superfoods Table of Contents

   Introduction: Why Superfoods?

   What Are Superfoods?. . . 1

   A Note on the Recipes. . . 11

   The Top10 Superfoods. . . 13

   Goji Berries: Fountain of Youth

   Cacao: Raw Chocolate

   Maca:Andes Aphrodisiac

   Bee Products:The Original Superfoods

   Spirulina: Protein Queen

   AFA Blue-Green Algae: Primordial Food from Klamath Lake, Oregon . . . 123

   Marine Phytoplankton:The Basis of All Life . . . 145

   Aloe Vera: Essene and Egyptian Secret of Immortality . . . 165

   Hempseed:Superfood of the Future . . . 181

   Coconuts: Symbol of Paradise . . . 201

   Honorable Mentions. . . 225

   Açai: Ancient Amazonian Antioxidant . . . 225

   Camu Camu Berry: Vitamin C Sun King . . . 228

   Chlorella: Green Pigment of Your Imagination . . . 231

   Incan Berries: Incan Trail Superfruit . . . 237

   Kelp: Mineral Help–Gland of the Sea . . . 240

   Noni: Polynesian Superfruit . . . 242

   Yacon: Prehistoric Prebiotic Sun?ower . . . 244

   Glossary of Recipe Ingredients. . . 247

   Appendix I: Nutritional Information. . . 253

   Appendix II: Scientific Studies. . . 277

Photo Credits. . . 313

Index. . . 315

About the Author. . . 331

Superfoods provide nutrition to fuel The Best Day Ever!