Nutrivore The Radical New Science for Getting the Nutrients You Need from the Food You Eat

by Ballantyne, Sarah

• ISBN13: 9781668031612
• ISBN10: 1668031612
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2024-05-14
• Publisher: S&S/Simon Element

Summary

The healthiest and easiest way to fix your diet without dieting, from New York Times bestselling author Sarah Ballantyne

Why is it that so many of us, no matter what diet we try or how many supplements we take, feel so consistently tired, unwell, and unable to achieve our health goals? The answer is surprisingly simple: Almost all of us are missing essential vitamins and minerals in our daily diets. Enter Nutrivore, a flexible, no-guilt plan to get the nutrients you need while enjoying the foods you love. You can finally feel good every day, alleviate common symptoms and ailments, and effectively reduce your risk of everything from type 2 diabetes to cancer, heart disease to Alzheimer’s disease, kidney stones to arthritis, anxiety to autoimmune disease, and more.

With no food off-limits, Nutrivore cuts through diet culture noise with clear, evidence-based guidance that emphasizes nutrient-dense selections that fit within your preferred diet or anti-diet. The goal is sustainable nutrition—embracing food for enjoyment, traditions, and convenience while adding essential nutrients so you can achieve lifelong healthy eating patterns without the on-again-off-again diet rollercoaster.

Nutrivore combines groundbreaking insights with simple steps, including:

* A practical path to achieving optimal nutrition by highlighting twelve foundational food families.

* Definitive science identifying foods rich in the nutrients that treat common symptoms and ailments.

* Handy lists and guides to craft personalized eating plans, whether it’s incorporating more magnesium-rich greens to lessen headaches, potassium-packed potatoes to lower blood pressure, or calcium-dense cheese to alleviate PMS.

In her signature positive and engaging style, Dr. Sarah Ballantyne empowers you with tools to implement a healthy diet regardless of your preferences, budget, location, or past behaviors. With Nutrivore, you can finally live free from food fear and stop wasting time, energy, and money on the latest fad diets or biohacking trends. This gentle and inclusive approach celebrates slow, sustainable habit changes, making it a long-lasting way to eat for vibrant health today and lifelong wellness.

Author Biography

New York Times bestselling author and renowned health expert, Dr. Sarah Ballantyne, PhD, creates educational resources to help people improve their day-to-day diet and lifestyle choices, empowered and informed by the most current evidence-based scientific research. Dr. Sarah began her career as a science communicator and health educator when she launched her original website in 2011. On this platform, Dr. Sarah combined her background in medical research with her experience using diet and lifestyle to lose 120 pounds while mitigating a dozen diagnosed health conditions to create a wealth of educational resources and amass an audience of millions. Since then, Dr. Sarah has continued to follow the science—diving deep into immune health, metabolic health, gut microbiome health, nutritional sciences, and the compelling evidence for health at any size—while also observing the harm of healthism, diet culture, dogmatic misinformation, and predatory marketing. With Nutrivore, Dr. Sarah seeks to create a positive and inclusive approach to dietary guidance, based in science and devoid of dogma, using nutrient density and sufficiency as its basic principles: nourishment, not judgment.