Kristina Turner

I have been savoring delicious and simple whole food meals for decades.

 

Friends often don't believe me when I say I was addicted to sugar as a kid.

 

I heaped spoonfuls on my breakfast cereal, munched cookies in my lunch, spent my pocket money on candy, soda pop and ice cream for snacks. Indulged in more ice cream and treats after dinner.

 

That all changed in 1980 when I took my first macrobiotic cooking class and started cooking and enjoying sugar-free, dairy-free whole foods meals. I shortly discovered that what I thought was my personality and fragile immune system (constant mood swings, allergies and colds) was just the side-effects of a diet high in sugar and lots of other processed foods.

 

As I was learning about the contractive and expansive effects of different foods, I was researching and experiencing how eating locally grown, organic whole foods can balance body, mind and moods.

 

Excited to share my discoveries with my community, I taught cooking classes for 8 years. Chapter-by-chapter, I typed and hand-illustrated this playful, whole foods primer as a guide for my students.

 

Their glowing feedback encouraged me to self-publish, and over 250,000 copies sold!

 

I'm delighted that people continue to find and share this book with friends. May you be inspired to cook for health and planetary well-being!

 

"Fun, self-help books like yours can change societies!"

- Patch Adams, M.D.

Gesundheit Institute