It's Book Review Time!

Lauren Smith: What is your book about?

Your Heart Needs ....

However, the book is not only about eating healthy, which of course contributes to our health, but about a way of life. Al learns how to include physical activity into his life with little effort; he finds ways to include his children more into his life and share activities with them, as well as with his wife. He learns how to cook. Even his dog is happier with the new way of life. In sum, Al learns that a Mediterranean life style encompasses sharing activities and meals with family, friends, co-workers, physical activity. 

Lauren Smith: With all the diet books out there, what makes yours different and unique? 

Emilia Klapp: Your Heart Needs the Mediterranean Diet is not about one more diet. It’s the diet that has protected people in the Mediterranean region for centuries against heart disease. Now, scientific research is confirming these results through many studies. The book is unique in that it is written in a dialogue format. It is innovative, fun to read while at the same time very informative. The book always shows the following a healthy diet it does not requires sacrifices or boring meals. Mediterraneans can attest to that. 

Lauren Smith: What is the biggest mistake dieters make? 

Emilia Klapp: To think that a diet is something temporary or something that requires sacrifices because, let’s face it, most of the times the word diet has the connotation of sacrificing and been deprive of something. So, my advice to your readers is: Learn how to eat healthy and include walking in your life and forget you are dieting. Having a healthy weight and preventing disease is a lifetime way of life, not something that it is done for six month or a year and then forget about it. I was born and raised in Spain and I must say I never heard Mediterraneans complaining about the food we eat or how much we walk because this is our way of life and we enjoy it very much. Mediterraneans never think about their way of eating as following a diet. 

Lauren Smith: Are there any secrets from your book you can share with our readers?

milia Klapp: In Your Heart Needs the Mediterranean Diet there are many secrets readers can profit from. Each chapter contains many tips to get the most of this wonderful Mediterranean diet such what type of olive oil people should buy, how to use tomatoes to get the most antioxidant benefit for them or how to cook garlic to get its medicinal properties among others. If you go to my website, Lauren, under articles, you will find many of these secrets that you can share with your readers. Listing them here will make it probably too long. 

Lauren Smith: What can someone do right now to star eating/living a more healthy lifestyle?   

Emilia Klapp: Include walking in your life. No need to go to a gym if you don’t feel like it.Be aware of portions. No need to measure everything you eat, but again, eat regular portions. You may want to read some of the food labels until you become familiar with what a regular portion is. Eliminate as much as possible saturated fat and trans fat from your daily diet. Make extra virgin olive oil your main source of fat. Include abundant fruits and vegetables in your daily meals. Include dry beans such as lentils, garbanzo beans, and dry beans in your daily meals. Include whole grains in your diet. Share meals with family, friends. Take a Mediterranean cooking class. Take a vacation to Spain, Italy or Greece and learn first hand how Mediterraneans apply the principles of staying healthy.

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