The 7-Color Cuisine System will guide you through a total culinary experience that evokes emotions of pleasure, satisfaction and enjoyment, while engaging your sense of smell, vision and taste. It is the perfect anecdote for those who have viewed food as the enemy or have never known what it’s like to feel fully satisfied by what’s just been eaten. What you eat becomes part of you through digestive transformation – something many of us don’t want to think about. Yet, food can satisfy your deepest psychological, neurological and social being – provided you choose a variety of high quality and colorful foods and follow the guidelines in this book.

 

There are four steps in the 7-Color Cuisine System

Step One – Get Set: This step prepares you for a new way of eating by carefully examining what you’re presently eating and under what conditions. It will help you identify dietary pitfalls that you will need to remove from your refrigerator, freezer and pantry. Lists of alternatives you can substitute for unhealthy foods are given. You will make your pantry shopping list from suggested replacements and staple items needed for the recipes in this book. A check list of cookwear and utensils you will need is also included.       

 

Step Two – Go Shopping: Restock your pantry and purchase the fresh ingredients needed for the first week’s menus. You will be choosing foods by their colors with less emphasis on the type of food. This section also includes helpful storage and shopping tips. Taking care of cleaning and proper storage of fresh foods will save time in meal preparation.

 

Step Three – Fix Meals: Most dinner recipes will take less than ½ hour to prepare. Slow cooking in a crock pot and quick preparation using a pressure cooker conserve time for meals that need longer cooking times. The weekly meal plans are simple but elegant because they provide beautiful food served with a nice presentation. The menu plans are centered on eating seven colors every day. I will show you how to ease into the system by making adjustments as you progress through your culinary sojourn. The emphasis will always be on preparing your meals at home using fresh ingredients.

 

Step Four – Savor Your Food: Enjoy your meals with helpful tips on dining at home. This step emphasizes enjoying every bite and includes suggestions for controlling portion size. It gives helpful tips on choosing the best menu items when dining out. Helpful suggestions for reducing the potentially harmful effects of eating unhealthful foods are also included.

 

Why Choose Foods by Color?
Nature's healing colors are found in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, and healthy oils. The colors are actually pigments that come from a special class of chemicals known as phytonutrients. When you eat foods of a particular color, you access the healing power of phytonutrients. Scientists are just now beginning to understand the medicinal power of phytonutrients and why eating fruits and vegetables is our greatest preventive tool against conditions such as cancer, diabetes, obesity, and heart disease. For many centuries, traditional healers have taught color-coded eating as essential for maintenance of health, vitality, and long life. From this foundation in traditional medicine and modern scientific investigation, has emerged 7-Color Cuisine.

 

Eat 7-Colors A Day
The five bright fruit and vegetable colors of red, orange, yellow, green, blue/violet/purple, plus the tan earth tones of grains and legumes reveals the phytonutrient pedigree of these foods. Animal foods including dairy, eggs, fish and poultry are creamy white in color and contain healing nutrients called zoonutrients. The 7-Color Cuisine Nutrition Guide and Cookbook will guide you in selecting foods based on their color and yielding an array of phytonutrients and zoonutrients, which fight disease, help you lose weight, derail the aging process, and make you smarter. The cookbook integrates planning, buying, storing and preparation of brightly colored foods that heal. It will also heighten your awareness of how delicious and satisfying good food that’s well prepared can really be.

 

Most nutrition and diet regimens feature the composition of food including how many calories a particular food or recipe contains and its carbohydrate, fat, fiber, and protein content. While these numbers are important and they are included with every recipe, the emphasis in this cookbook is on eating the right foods and enjoying them. You will accomplish your dietary goals with this system and not have to play a numbers game.

 

The 7-Color Cuisine System begins with some basics on how phytonutrients protect you and why brightly colored foods are the best food choices if you want to look and feel your best. Each color has its own category of protective phytonutrients and the health benefits of each category are fully explained. Foods making up the category are listed as top picks and you are encouraged to eat as many different selections as possible. The amount of each color you should eat is also given. 

 

The 7-Color Cuisine Cookbook will guide you in shopping and storing these phytonutrient-rich foods and show you how to prepare them. Detailed thirty-day meal plans, shopping tips, and recipes for warm and cool weather are offered. You will find a pantry management section that will help you keep track of staples that are used in the recipes and eliminate items that are high calorie and less nutritious. Once you learn the 7-Color Cuisine System, you will be able to mix and match recipes for an endless variety of delicious meals.

 

7-Color Cuisine features foods that are fresh and in season. They are nutrient dense, meaning that they come packaged as nature intended, with hundreds of different beneficial nutrients. Nothing has been removed or processed out of these foods. They contain natural digestive enzymes and help maintain an optimum body balance (pH) of acid and alkaline. Using the 7-Color Cuisine System, you will feel more satisfied and be less inclined to snack. Learn which foods you should avoid and why they sabotage weight loss and accelerate aging. With this system, digestive problems, bloating and water retention will be a thing of the past and you will be able to maintain an optimum weight. Achy joints, skin problems, fatigue, low sex drive, and reduced cognitive function will all resolve as you embrace this dietary regimen.

 

7-Color Cuisine is high in protein, much of it from vegetables and legumes, and naturally low in processed carbohydrates and saturated fat because the emphasis is on vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, lean protein, and healthy oils. As we grow older, we need more protein-rich foods to meet the body's need to maintain and repair itself. We also need to choose friendly oils over saturated fats because the oils are needed to maintain normal cellular and brain function. The 7-Color Cuisine System is so easy to follow, you don't have to wonder about how to implement a healthier dietary regimen. Yet the plan will be unique to you because you will be learning a system that you can adjust to meet your personal goals. All of the menus and recipes have been carefully analyzed to make sure they adhere to the latest nutrition recommendations and dietary strategy. This cutting edge and exciting plan is based upon the latest scientific findings ) not just the latest fad. The sound nutritional information contained in The 7-Color Cuisine Cookbook will endure a lifetime.