Unjunk Your Junkfood

Unjunk Your Junk Food by Andrea Donsky and Randy Boyer with Lisa Tsakos

About The Book:

Join the edible (R)evolution! You don’t have to give up junk food to eat healthy - just make smarter choices. Discover yummy alternatives to your favorite treats. Unjunk Your Junk Food is a quick and easy guide to: •Healthy choices for the snacks you crave •Savvy alternatives to conventional brands •Tips for reading food labels and recognizing false claims •Nutritious ingredients to look for and dangerous additives to avoid •A tear-out Worst Ingredients chart, and more Now you can have your cake and eat it too!

My Thoughts:

I was amazed at this book. You never think that "healthy" junk food really isn't, well, healthy. I eat Lay's Light Potato Chips all the time. They are fat free, and "light", so they are better for me than a regular brand, right? I thought so, until I read this book. So that surprised me, along with some other choices I've been making - not just for myself but for my family too. I love the pullout Worst Ingredients Checklist, so I can just take that to the grocery store with me, and pay more attention to ingredients when I am shopping! It provides a simple thing I can do for my family to help us to eat better!

About The Authors:

A natural visionary and successful entrepreneur, Andrea holds a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University and is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist (R.H.N.). Andrea has dedicated her life to sharing her passion for living a naturally and healthy lifestyle with the world, while helping to guide others through the confusing maze of 21st century supermarkets and fad diets. Andrea was already a successful retail product-marketing manager with J. M. Smucker when she took a leap of faith in 1998 and quit her job to pursue her passion for natural health. She gathered all of her energy and together with Randy Boyer, the two launched their dream career by founding The Healthy Shopper Inc. – a coupon book for natural and organic products. Reaching more than 190,000 people a year, the Healthy Shopper remains, to this day, the only coupon book in Canada for natural and organic products. Seven years later, lightning struck again during a chance meeting with Dr. David Katz at a consumer show, which inspired the pair to launch Naturally Savvy, a sophisticated media company whose sole purpose is to educate the masses about living the lifestyle they truly love. She has appeared as a natural living expert on news segments which have aired on NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, Univision, WPIX, WGN and CBC Newsworld. Her voice has been heard on XM/Sirius Radio, where she appears as a regular guest on The Morning Jolt with Larry Flick. Her words have appeared in a variety of natural health magazines such as Alive, Tonic and Organic Lifestyle and online at Reader‘s Digest, TreeHugger.com, Wellness.com, SheKnows.com and The Family Groove.

Randy Boyer, B.A., has been a natural health and wellness advocate to the public for over ten years. Blending her enthusiasm for healthy living with a strong marketing background, Randy joined forces with Andrea to create The Healthy Shopper Inc. Combining brand loyalty and a core of supporting retailers, consumers across Canada follow them and look for their coupon book year after year. Following seven years of working in the natural and organic industry, her product knowledge of natural and organic products grew and thus Naturally Savvy was born – a user friendly, informative website educating and promoting a natural and organic lifestyle. A recognized expert in the industry, Randy has made dozens of television and radio appearances promoting her message that eating natural and organic and living a healthy lifestyle is the road to good health including The Michael Dresser Show, The Exchange with David Smith, and Health Radio Network with Barbra Alexander and NBC‘s KNTV with Laura Garcia-Cannon. Randy was recently invited to be a regular guest on the XM/Sirius radio show The Morning Jolt with Larry Flick.

Lisa Tsakos is a Registered Nutritional Consulting Practitioner (R.N.C.P), a Registered Holistic Nutritionist (R.H.N.), and the Chief Nutrition Expert (C.N.E) for Naturally Savvy. As Naturally Savvy‘s C.N.E, Lisa is a major contributor and minor partner to the website, overseeing the Nutrition 101 section. Through moderating several forums, Lisa continually communicates with readers, answering their questions and acting as a trusted resource for “all things nutrition.” She also contributes monthly articles to Tribune media as well as The Healthy Shopper website and e-newsletter. Lisa teaches nutrition at private schools and colleges including the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition, the Transformational Arts College, and Centennial College, and has been featured on the Discovery Channel, Tribune Media, Toronto Life Fashion Magazine, NOW Magazine and various trade publications. Lisa has taught natural food cooking workshops and authored several books including: Cooking for Nu-Vitality; The Weight Battlefield and contributed to at least 20 text books on the subject of nutrition used by schools across the country. Lisa‘s Nu-Vitality (Healthy!) Weight Loss Program has guided employees at corporations and organizations across Canada to lose thousands of pounds. Lisa personally lost 50 pounds fifteen years ago through a natural diet (not by fad dieting or using weight loss gimmicks), inspiring her to help others discover the benefits of a healthy diet. She lives with her health conscious husband, a former professional volleyball athlete and coach, and child.

 
I received a complimentary review copy of this book from Naturally Savvy. All thoughts and opinions are my own.