Color Me Healthy: Green

Color Me Healthy offers a new and easy approach to healthy eating. It is the book that every nutritionally confused person needs. It answers the important questions:What should we eat today?How do I know whether it is good for me? Written by food writer Rita Erlich and medical researcher and general practitioner Dr Alice Murkies, Color Me Healthy brings you the latest scientific information and advice, and blends it with nutrition theory and wonderful easy-to-follow recipes. Rita Erlich and Alice Murkies have captured the science, the spirit and the romance of contemporary food and health ideas in Color Me Healthy. Green vegetables can be grouped into cruciferous (the cabbage family, including broccoli, brussels sprouts and all the cabbages) and leafy greens. The leafy green vegetables contain a variety of pigments, including chlorophylls. They are all low in energy content and high in fibre and water. They are also high in vitamin C and A, and phytochemicals. Green vegetables also include stalks and thistles (asparagus and artichokes) and the legumes, peas and beans.