Better Nutrition July 2020

IN THE SPOTLIGHT *
Mascha Davis grew up eating nutrientdense
“and really delicious” Russian
and Ukrainian dishes that her mom
cooked—“a lot of traditional foods
like borscht and a lot of the different
Russian salads with lots of veggies.”
Now, the registered dietitian nutritionist,
and author wants you to fill your plate
with vitamins and minerals too.
Davis emphasizes the importance
of consuming nutrients together in
whole foods in her new book, Eat Your
Vitamins: Your Guide to Using Natural
Foods to Get the Vitamins, Minerals, and
Nutrients Your Body Needs. “Research
is showing more and more that there
are so many compounds in foods that
work together in synergy,” she says.
“They are very hard to isolate and don’t
work in isolation the same way that they
work when they’re all together. There
are compounds that affect how vitamins
and minerals are absorbed that are in
that fruit or vegetable, so the absorption
isn’t going to be the same if we just have
that vitamin or mineral isolated in a pill.
It’s going to act differently in the body.”
Davis’s user-friendly, fact- and
recipe-packed book is also a nutritional
primer during trying, socially isolated
times. “All of the book’s recipes are
kind of optimized
to
boost healthy
immunity,”
she says.
Win a copy of
Eat Your Vitamins!
We have
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12 • JULY 2020
stay-healthy secrets from leading experts
How to Eat Your Vitamins
For dietitian and author Mascha Davis, MPH, RDN, synergy
is the key to healthy nutrition.
BY CHRIS MANN