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    Close Enough Nutrition: Eat Nutritiously Using the Dietary Guidelines for Americans for About $5 a Day
    Close Enough Nutrition: Eat Nutritiously Using the Dietary Guidelines for Americans for About $5 a Day
    Close Enough Nutrition: Eat Nutritiously Using the Dietary Guidelines for Americans for About $5 a Day
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    Close Enough Nutrition: Eat Nutritiously Using the Dietary Guidelines for Americans for About $5 a Day

    By Judy Webb Brewster

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    Judy's book, Close Enough, deciphers the massive amount of information inside the 2005 and 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans so that the average Judy can understand it. She then combined that knowledge with the Nutrition Facts label's specifics. In order to ensure the food she eats comes as close as possible to their recommendations, she designed a Daily Nutrition Spreadsheet.

    She wanted to understand how to eat nutritiously on about $5 a day by using the information from the Nutrition Facts label. So she logged the calories, grams, milligrams, vitamins and minerals into the Daily Nutrition Spreadsheet. She could easily see where adjustments were needed to meet the recommended nutrient levels from each of the food groups.

    When it comes to choosing foods for your health and happiness, ignorance is not bliss in the grocery store. Using the examples in the book, you can design your own spreadsheet to include your personal nutrition needs for your goals. You don't need to forget about your comfort foods either. It's called Discretionary Allowance. Yummy.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateJul 23, 2013
    ISBN9781481778893
    Close Enough Nutrition: Eat Nutritiously Using the Dietary Guidelines for Americans for About $5 a Day
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    Judy Webb Brewster

    Judy Webb Brewster has been writing since 1986. She has received awards for her fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Her work has appeared in The Kansas City Star, the Pitch Magazine, and movie reviews in The Sun Newspaper. She has a unique view of life that she enjoys sharing with her readers. She held a full-time job while acquiring a BBA in Business Administration, and in her spare time she was on stage, and back stage, at the local community theatres. She has held positions on several boards including President of the HOA board where she lived. She spent a few years in her brother's country western band playing three keyboards. Today her extra time is spent enjoying her family, friends, golfing, bicycling, and taking ballroom dance lessons.

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      Close Enough Nutrition - Judy Webb Brewster

      © 2013 by Judy Webb Brewster. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 07/19/2013

      ISBN: 978-1-4817-7888-6 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4817-7889-3 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2013913039

      This book is not intended as a substitute for the advice and care of your physician or other health care provider, and you should not undertake any changes in diet without first consulting them. The material in this book is provided for information only and contains the opinions and ideas of the author.

      The author expressly disclaims all responsibility for any liability loss, or risk, personal or otherwise, or adverse effects that may result from or is incurred as a consequence, arising directly or indirectly, from the use of application or the information from any of the contents contained in this book.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      CONTENTS

      Acknowledgments

      Chapter 1 Ignorance Is Not Bliss

      Chapter 2 What I Discovered

      Chapter 3 Nutrients, Vitamins, And Minerals

      Chapter 4 Timing Is Everything

      Chapter 5 Deciphering The 2,000 Calorie Base

      Chapter 6 Capturing Grams And Milligrams

      Chapter 7 Targeting A Nutrition

      Chapter 8 A Bit About Vegan Vittles

      Chapter 9 The Nutrient Dense Thing

      References

      About The Author

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      To my wonderful family: husband, daughter, son, son-in-law, both grandsons, both brothers, their wives and families. My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles and cousins. They all helped shape my personality and my wonderful, amazing outlook on life in general.

      I want to especially thank my daughter and son for their love and support through the years. They have always been there for me and have brought me so much pride and joy. I wouldn’t have made it without them.

      CHAPTER 1

      Ignorance is Not Bliss

      If you eat, say, 5,000 calories a day, would you like to know that at least 3,000 of those calories met the nutritional guidelines of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) that are paid for by your hard-earned taxes? You can.

      I’ve studied the 2005 and the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans over the last few years. Both are online. I printed them out and then made lists, lots of lists. Those Guidelines were not an easy read for the average Judy.

      But, I think I’ve come close enough to understanding what I need to do in order to meet their recommendations and eat better than I ever have (more like my mother always wanted me too) without giving up all my comfort foods. The Dietary Guidelines are based on a lot of scientific evidence. They used the word, preponderance, which I had to look up, and then I decided on the words, a lot, instead.

      The information in my book, Close Enough Nutrition, is based on what I thought was the easiest way to implement their recommendations within my ability to comprehend what I read. So, if I were you, I’d definitely go online and study them yourself at www.dietaryguidelines.gov.

      Close Enough Nutrition is not about taking away all white food. It’s not about eating mostly protein. It’s not about a kitchen stocked with red pepper to crush, black pepper to crack, or tarragon leaves. And it is definitely not about peeling a pound of yuca for a recipe. This book doesn’t have recipes. My spice rack has only salt and pepper in it and there’s been some controversy about the salt.

      What this book does have is more than just saying you need two to three cups of this and three ounces of that to meet your goal. I mean, how do I figure out how to have seventeen grams of oil? I need something more concrete than that. There are no forbidden foods or restrictions in this book. It’s not about free days or strict ratios and definitely not a three phase plan of eat this, then eat that and last of all—eat this and that.

      This book contains information about what I’ve collected and was able to put to use on a Daily Nutrition Spreadsheet (DNS) I designed. It has different calorie level scenarios from 1,000 to 3,000 calories in 500 calorie increments. Over the last ten years the spreadsheet went through several revisions before I settled on the current one. Yes, go ahead

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