Eat Yourself Younger Effortlessly (2nd edition)

For Celia Westberry, eating healthy has always been a personal journey. As a toddler, she learned her father had diabetes, a disease that put him in a coma, and then took his life. Determined to learn everything about it, she studied animal and plant cells in college as an undergrad, then graduate student, and while doing cancer research and before she knew it was teaching cell and molecular biology for 10 years. It was then that Westberry realized the best way to avoid premature aging and illness was to give body cells optimum health by "eating younger."

Now that she's lived two decades longer than her father and avoided diabetes and other illnesses, Celia Westberry is ready to coach you on how to make and eat a variety of healthy food, feel and look great and slow aging in the process with her book, entitled Eat Yourself Younger Effortlessly (BookMasters, Inc).

With this publication, you get the tools for what she calls "happy, healthy aging," which are centered on easy to follow directions and recipes for foods meant to feed one or two people at a time. They are in big, bold and black print, and focus on, among other points, "glycemic load, portion size, and full strength chemical energy in food."

With whole sections ranging from "body friendly" breakfast foods, lunches, snacks, soups, salads, sauces and dinners, Westberry guides you step by step to preparing foods that can support your immune system, which she states is "nature's gift for fighting disease," and which helps maintain youthfulness when eaten on a regular basis. The author also gives readers four sample weekly menus of foods from the book, but leaves the creativity to you to come up with your own weekly meals and snacks using the recipes in this publication, after becoming familiar with them.

More than just a list of food items and ingredients, Westberry explains why in scientific and nutritional terms certain foods are healthy for your body, others are bad for your health, or in the case of sugar, both, as it is necessary for brain energy, but too much of it in your blood can cause diabetes and possibly death. For example, "Quick Eggs" with ingredients such as sliced tomato, grape-seed oil, salt/pepper, and hot herbal tea, not only can help you lose weight if eaten for breakfast at least three times per week, but also balances protein and fat to "nourish" your brain, helps to burn fat, and contains both acidic and alkaline foods that balance the biochemistry of your body.

Eat Yourself Younger Effortlessly is a book that presents new and different twists to foods you are familiar with (i.e. Shrimp with Curry, Mushroom Omelet, Tropical Dreams Smoothie) and serves as an introduction to more exotic meals and cuisines that look appetizing (i.e. Crab Burger, Caribbean Three-Bean Soup and Chilled Cucumber soup or Raita).

The foods here aim to help your mind and body in a number of ways, including giving you more energy and staving off food-related illnesses and food cravings. And nearly all of it can be made in less than 30 minutes or no more than an hour of your time. That said, getting to know the many foods and recipes in the book is meant to be "leisure learning," a gradual process whereby you leave your old, unhealthy eating ways behind and enjoy newfound cooking habits, effortlessly.
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Charlie Doherty is a staff writer at News & Experts.