Take Control of Your Diet
One of the most empowering things that you can do in your life is to take control of what you are eating. If you are eating a lot of processed foods bought in the supermarket, then you are not in charge of what goes into your body. How much salt and fat is inside that product and what kind of fat is it? How does the chemical balance, which has been put in place by the manufacturer to preserve that product, react with your own metabolism? There are so many variables to consider when you are not eating fresh food, and equally importantly, preparing it yourself.
Learning to cook and discovering the nutritional make-up of foods can really benefit you in so many ways, including losing weight and feeling more alive. Recently there have been huge leaps in the understanding of nutritional science and how foods are processed by our bodies. The importance of certain essential fatty acids, like omega 3, and redressing the imbalance of omega 6 essential fatty acids in our foods, with too much soy, grain fed livestock and vegetable oils – all rich in omega 6 – in our diets, which is often something like 40 times that of omega 3. We are generally not eating enough oily fish, nuts and seeds in our diets today.
What is the result of this? Too much omega 6 causes inflammation within our bodies and what are some of the chronic conditions this causes? Arthritis – inflammation of the joints; cardiovascular diseases – inflammation of the heart’s arteries; strokes – inflammation of the cerebrovascular; and there is speculation that depression may be caused by inflammation of the brain. Diet/ what we eat and how we eat is the most integral factor in our propensity to develop diseases. A lot of foods in the supermarket do not address this and their prime reason for existence is to make money for their manufacturers – food technology is about durability not nutrition.
Food is your best medicine, not some vitamin pill or pharmaceutical – these are again mainly about making money for their manufacturers – otherwise they would be free wouldn’t they? My advice is take charge of what you eat and how that food is prepared. You will find it can also be highly creative and you may derive some pleasure and pride in the act of cooking a great meal – which is healthy and delicious. You can also save money along the way.
Cooking classes are a great way to discover nutritional information whilst having some tasty fun. My Sacred Chef cooking school, here on the sunshine coast, focuses on preparing food that is both healthy and delicious – you will also receive a take home recipe pack with additional nutritional notes and articles, which I wrote for magazines like WellBeing, Conscious Living and Eco Living Health Aware; plus you receive a free health magazine too!
©Sacred Chef
Every class is full of healthy information and great recipes.
www.nofreudnoprozac.org for more information about omega 3
Foodmatters DVD Documentary Review
Heading: Foodmatters DVD Review
Subheading: You are what you eat.
“Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food”
Hippocrates.
If you only watch one doco this year make sure it is Foodmatters. This excellent DVD captures your attention from the outset and does not let go until the credits come up. It shares information, which goes to the heart of our corrupt capatalist industrial state and lets you know whose vested interests are being served by the current state of western health.
Foodmatters gathers together some of the most credible natural health and environmental experts, and allows them to say what they really believe. Andrew W Sau,l is most impressive in his dissection of the oligopoly of power, which the pharamaceutical corporations hold over the health industry – medical associations and government departments. Illustrating how the system is set up to create disease, through the production of unhealthy processed foods, and then the doctors come with their scalpels and pills, with little thought or money put into prevention.
Charlotte Gerson talks about the levels of pollution poisoning our communities and the food chain. Australian Professor Ian Brighthope (hopeful by name and by nature?) points out the importance of reversing the current situation before its too late. Nutrition is coming out of the closet in the twenty first century and these crusaders are going to make sure that we know about it. Raw food and intact enzymes- and just how important they are to our bodies. Organic food with all the phytonutrients in place, and conversely, how depleted supermarket food is nutritionally.
One of the most salient points, is that a majority of parents are investing more time and money in bricks and mortar – the security of owning their own home – than they are in feeding their children the most nutritionally rich food available. What sense is there in creating the outer walls of wealth and abundance, if you have neglected their health at the most vital time of their life. These children will grow up with immune systems vulnerable to chronic illness for the rest of their lives.
Foodmatters – You are what you eat - is a well made documentary and was produced by nutritionists, turned film makers, James Colquhuon and Laurentine Ten Bosch. This is the film that may begin the food revolution, with people taking responsibility for what they put in their mouth and demanding governments stop the pharmaceutical companies rorting the health system. With the current economic situation, now is the perfect opportunity to dig up your lawn and get some organic soil to plant your own veggies. Grow your own vitamin source in the backyard or on your balcony – lettuce grows from seed in 3 weeks. Compost your waste and let the cycle of life recycle – go those worms.
Every time you eat cheap fast food, you might think that you are saving money, but in the longer term it costs you more, as your health declines and your quality of life with it. Learn to cook if you cannot, and spend time and money sourcing the freshest ingredients possible. Making good food for you and your family, is the greatest gift that you can bestow upon them. Its a sacred act.
Foodmatters the DVD – five star rating.
Sacred Chef Cooking School Sunshine Coast
Recent Comments