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Quick Wins for Healthy Eating – Preface

I feel blessed that I made the connection between food and health—two essential elements of optimal living—before ailments or disease had a chance to rob me of a good quality of life. Because I’m passionate about food and health, it tends to be the subject of many of my conversations, both personally and professionally. I have many family members and girlfriends who are battling poor eating habits and chronic disease. I have students, wellness coaching clients, and wellness workshop attendees fighting the same uphill battle. I notice strangers struggling to climb stairs, to bend and lift light packages, or walk short distances when they shouldn’t be. I believe the key to taking charge of your life and creating a future built on a strong body and boundless potential is making the connection between your food and your health. I know from personal experience that once you really “get” the role of food in the body and make a commitment to live your best life - the rest of the journey is simple. The struggle over what to eat ceases. The helplessness over maintaining a healthy weight vanishes. The uncertainty of how to ensure your kids have the best chance at a happy, healthy, and productive life is diminished.

Instead, what you’ll feel is empowerment.

Quick Wins is written for busy women who care about their health and the health of their families. In this book, you’ll find what I know to be the easiest and most effective strategies for making the connection between food and health. Without this connection, obesity and poor health may be unavoidable. To put it simply, if we want any shot at reclaiming a healthy future—for ourselves and our children—we have to learn how to eat a traditional diet while living in a modern world. I’m concerned with how destructive the simple act of eating has become over recent decades. It’s time for us to slow down, just a little bit, and refocus on nurturing ourselves and our families. “Family” includes our kids, spouses and signicant others, mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, and our friends. Until we direct some of our energy toward eating the right foods for our health and happiness, we’ll simply continue to pass on our destructive eating patterns to our children.

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How will this book help me?

Quick Wins provides a fresh perspective, relevant information, tools, and resources that are effective in changing the eating habits of modern women and their families. In Chapter 10, you’ll find 9 easy changes you and your family can make right now. Along the way, I’ve included inspirational quotes to keep you motivated, as well as “Quick Wins Tip” boxes to support your transition to healthy eating habits. You’ll also find “Believe It or Not” boxes with food facts and statistics that are sure to amaze you. As you complete each chapter, you’ll find a nice recap in the “Food for Thought” section. Finally, the appendices are chock-full of valuable resources, worksheets and checklists. You’ll find my top picks for great cookbooks, websites and food blogs; tips and checklists for stocking a healthy pantry, easy ways to shop and eat local; a food log and journal to record your “wins” and track your eating. Plus much, much more!

At the heart of a quality of life is not money, fame or fortune—but good health. Each of us has the power to make choices that will either add to our health or take away from it.

Quick Wins is my way of helping you make the right choices.

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* The sample chapter is for review purposes only. Copyright © 2010 Tonya Peele. All rights reserved.