It gives you zip and zest. Besides all the ways good foods work to stabilize your
systems and reduce the chances you’ll develop or worsen diseases and ailments,
the Hearty Healer will just plain make you feel better. Why? Because a balanced
diet with a steady supply of protein, healthy fats, and slow-digesting
carbohydrates ensures that energy is provided to you steadily throughout the day,
not in roller-coaster highs and lows. That also means you’ll eat less—because
you won’t be reaching for sugary carbs to bring you up when you feel down.
Welcome to a new, virtuous cycle: You eat to feel good, and feeling good helps
you eat well.
The Hearty Healer works the way all nutritional superheroes do: strongly,
quietly. In the next chapter, you will meet these heroes—and get a closer look at
how their strength can become your strength.