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. Spin a color wheel; the effect is a blur of white. In much the same way, white foods encompass a huge spectrum of nutrients. Other, brighter foods have much in common, partly because of the phytochemicals that provide their colors and flavors. White foods include milk and all its derivatives; rice, which is the most important grain for much of the world; white meat and fish; white fruits; and some of the key vegetables in the world – onions and garlic, and potatoes. White even includes sugar and salt. White foods can be bland (rice, potatoes, milk) or sweet (pears and other fruit) or pungent (turnips, onions, garlic). Cooks like white plates because they display food so well. We like white foods because they complement the others so well and because they are such a versatile group.