This book offers a remarkably flexible, healthy food plan that encourages the use of both the new functional foods (things like tofu hot dogs and soy chicken nuggets) and treats that most diet plans restrict or forbid entirely (chocolate, wine and coffee). In fact, Haas shows why enjoying chocolate and coffee every day can actually make you healthier, proving both satisfaction and valuable phytonutrients that can prevent illness. Cheating is built into the plan, to if you need a true fast-food hamburger (instead of the equally fast Big Max Burger, one of forty recipes that appear in the book), you can have it! It's the kind of eating plan that truly works for the entire family.