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30 Secrets of the World's Healthiest Cuisines: Global Eating Tips and Recipes From China, France, Japan, the Mediterranean, Africa, and Scandinavia

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This book is a clear and concise guide to some of the best food choices all over the world. The recipes are invaluable. Overall a very useful book I highly recommend it!

If you are interested in your health and living a very long and cancer free life, BUY THIS BOOK! It tells you in wonderful detail what makes the people of these countries some of the healthiest people in the world! Read the book to find out where in the world are the very lowest rates of cancer and why. You will most likely be VERY surprised!

This book covers the health benefits of the colorful veggies, fruits, herbs, olive oils, nuts and seeds, low-fat cheeses, and more that are part of the Mediterrranean diet. A companion cookbook would be Mary El-Baz's "Easy and Healthful Mediterranean Cooking."

I read this book and it was pretty interesting that what all the world's healthy cuisines have in common is low meat consumption by people who live the longest and with limited disease - meaning having meat only a few times a week or just a small amount to add flavoring to a meal. I got a good laugh at the recipes in the back of the book which were predominantly meat dish recipes - for example - Swedish Cheese-Stuffed Chicken Breasts. The recipes did look yummy though!

This book is fine. It's interesting, but more simplistic than I had expected and it would really benefit from some beautiful photography. Overall, great concept for a book, but could have been executed better.