Fantastic Food & Why To Eat It!

By Lyn Sharkey

Did you know that good food can help us to be in a good mood? Everything that we put into our mouth has the power to make us feel better or worse – and we are not talking about a temporary sugar high! We are talking about feeling stronger and more energetic.
Lyn collaborated with her eleven-year-old “god-phew” Nathan, to try out some recipes which young people will enjoy, and hopefully encourage them to get into the kitchen and develop a great relationship with whole food.
“My nephew Nathan and I worked hard on trying out some recipes in this book that he enjoyed making and eating. So, we hope that you give us a chance to prove to you that eating more natural foods is not only healthier for you but is tasty too. We are not saying that you can’t have the odd takeaway – heaven forbid! However, if you eat better MOST of the time, you will discover that your body will work better for you, and that includes your brain and how you feel about yourself.
We eat food at least three times every day, so shouldn’t we know more about what we are putting into our mouths? We challenge you to read this book and find out for yourself!”
Lyn & Nathan

• Language: English
• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Release date: Dec 8, 2023
• ISBN: 9781398496866

Lyn Sharkey

Lyn is a nutritional therapist who believes that educating people about how our bodies work is the first step towards changing how we think about food. Armed with know-how and simple tips, we can change what comfort and convenience food means to us. With the hindsight acquired from her own health issues which led her to study nutrition, she understands that focusing on your health has the power to be the catalyst to enhance or change your life for the better.

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A Little Bit of Biology

To begin with, we thought that you might like to know a little bit about how your body works, so that you can really understand why we need to eat healthy food.

We are made up of billions (yes, that is billions) of tiny cells, and they all contain a little battery in the middle called mitochondria (Mite-O-Kon-Dree-E-A) which makes our energy.

A group of cells that are like each other get together and form tissue (so tissue is a group of cells)

Then a group of tissue gets together and forms our muscles, bones, skin and organs. By the way, organs are not like a mouth organ or a piano organ . The organs in our body are our heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, tummy, skin and even our brain.

Our body organs form systems, and then all of these systems together form our body.