Staying Young by Charmaine Yabsley

Staying Young highlights the importance of nutrition and the role it plays, not only in the way we feel but also in the way we look.  

We are constantly reminded in the media about the foods we should eat to maintain a healthy body but personally I think we often forget the significance of the correct, nutritious foods in the way we look. With the pressure from the beauty companies, we are rather too quick to apply various creams and lotions to make us look younger and more attractive in the belief that that is all we need. 

Charmain Yabsley's book highlights extremely well, how eating healthily and at the same time enjoying the foods that we prepare, has a huge impact on external beauty as well as internal health.  

Staying Young is divided into four very clear sections:-

• The Path to Natural Beauty – here the concept of natural beauty is explored, how healthy foods impact on our state of health both inside and out, the importance of relaxation and how our emotional health impacts on our physical well-being.
• Beauty Food Pharmacy – these are short chapters on individual foods, outlining their vitamin content and other beneficial properties. This chapter also includes star foods, such as eggs, avocados, lemons, strawberries, and pomegranates etc, which contain sections on the history of each individual food, its health profile, beauty-boosting properties, a recipe and a treatment.
• Natural Beauty Clinic – a collection of remedies and recipes for specific health problems, which focus on areas such as the skin, eyes, hair, nails, lips and teeth.
• Recipes, Treatments and Therapies – this section contains over a 100 recipes, with options for all dietary requirements, together with a selection of beauty treatments  for the skin, hair and nails, using all natural ingredients.

Staying Young is very clearly written in a style, which is easy to understand without any unnecessary jargon or complicated explanations. The book is effectively illustrated and in particular some of the delicious recipes are enhanced with mouth-watering illustrations.

What I found particularly useful was the summary of each chapter of the book in the introduction and also at the beginning of each chapter itself. This made it easier to browse through and easily find what you are looking for.

Staying Young is the kind of book you would leave accessible in the kitchen or on the coffee table in the lounge, where people can pick it up and browse through the different sections. In fact this is just what my 15 year old daughter did, when she discovered a lemon juice astringent treatment designed to cleanse, freshen and tone the skin, which she was interested in trying.

I would recommend this book as highly interesting, informative, easy to read and beneficial to one's general health and well-being.

Available from Amazon:
Staying Young: Natural Secrets to Combat the Effects of Ageing and Enhance Your Beauty (Healthy Living)