The Color Code: A Revolutionary Eating Plan for Optimum Health

Vitamins, minerals, and fiber are old news -- pigment power is grabbing the headlines. Color cures. That's the simple premise behind this revolutionary book. While we all know that healthy eating is the key to a long life, few people understand why the natural pigments that make fruits and vegetables so colorful can help protect your body, too. Combining their expertise in aging and nutrition, a leading scientist and an outstanding physician show readers how to prevent the most common age-related illnesses through a simple multicolored eating plan. For generations, parents have been telling their children to eat their fruits and vegetables. This book finally tells us why. Most health and nutrition books present only one view -- science, medicine, or nutrition. But The Color Code integrates all three to give readers a comprehensive understanding of the amazing health potential of pigmented foods. For example: --Red -- Cherries -- Fight arthritic pain
--Orange -- Carrots -- Promote heart health
--Green -- Spinach -- Preserves eyesight
--Blue -- Blueberries -- Protect the brain No other book offers such far-reaching, accessible, and prescriptive information. A special section shows readers how to tailor their "color code" to address individual health concerns, including heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. Sample meal plans and seventy-five delicious recipes are included.

Color cures! That's the simple premise behind The Color Code. While we all know that healthy eating is the key to a long life, few people understand why the natural pigments that give fruits and vegetables their color can help protect your body, too.

Combining their expertise in aging and nutrition, a leading scientist and an outstanding physician show readers how to prevent the most common age-related illnesses through a simple multicolored eating plan. For generations, parents have been telling their children to eat their fruits and vegetables--The Color Code finally tells why.

James A. Joseph, Ph.D., is lead scientist and lab chief of the Laboratory of Neuroscience of the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University. He has held positions at the National Institutes of Health, and has won several grants and awards in the area of gerontology. He lives in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Daniel A. Nadeau, M.D., is clinical director of the Diabetes Center and Nutrition Support at the Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor and assistant professor at Tufts Medical School. He lives in Hampton, Maine.

Anne Underwood is a reporter for Newsweek, where she has been writing about health and medicine issues for seventeen years. She lives in Hoboken, New Jersey.