The Power Five: Essential Foods for Optimum Health

You don’t have to eat a restrictive diet to live better, healthier, and longer. In this essential cookbook, 75 recipes put the focus on the five foods that keep you living your best life--without sacrificing flavor or favorites.

The key to longevity, experts say, comes down to what you eat. And that doesn’t mean a restrictive diet. This innovative cookbook acclaimed nutritionist and doctor Michael Crupain introduces the five essential food groups for a longer, healthier life, along with 75 delicious recipes that will ward off illness and extend your life by years. Living longer and better, he reveals, doesn’t mean frequent trips to the doctor’s office or a magic pill. Instead, it’s all about preventative medicine through the power of what you eat--and that includes carbs, fats, and sugars.

Crupain provides an inspiring road map to revamp your eating habits for maximum health. Using a foundation of 5 key food groups--whole grains, seafood, nuts and seeds, beans, and fruits and vegetables--he crafts 75 recipes that will prevent disease and extend your life by years.

And best of all, eating from the Power Five doesn’t have to taste bad either--you can have your pasta, breads, and dessert! These mouthwatering recipes include:

• Cavatelli Pasta with Mussels and Beans
• Tomato Semi-Cured Roasted Steelhead Trout
• Grilled Stone Fruits with Labneh and Basil
• Miso Creamed Corn
• Smoky Eggplant with Hummus
• Artichoke and Crab Pasta
• Whole Wheat Sourdough Lasagna Bread
• Roast Chicken with Spicy Scallion Slaw
• Chocolate Labneh Cheesecake

Michael Crupain, MD, MPH is senior vice president, clinical operations, of Sharecare, the leading digital health company in the United States. A board-certified preventative medicine physician whose mission is to make the world a healthier place, he is a multiple Emmy Award-winning producer and author of the best-selling book What to Eat When. Prior to Sharecare, Dr. Crupain was the medical unit chief of staff at The Dr. Oz Show and the director of food safety testing at Consumer Reports. He completed his medical degree at New York Medical College and received a masters in public health degree at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he is also a member of the faculty.