Nutrition Serene Gourmet
Feed your energy, not just your body!
Love your food and eat in Joy
That is the Secret…
Explore how your body reacts,
foods good for your energy to free yourself from diets.
Nutrition is the science linking food and health. It studies how the body assimilates and uses food and drink to ensure its normal functioning, maintenance, and growth. But also preserve and optimize your health. Role of food is to provide enough nutrients to meet nutritional needs.
Today, we are bombarded with nutrition campaigns, conflicting food, and health messages. The picture is often black about diet and lifestyle issues.
Rules are constantly evolving and changing! Without taking into consideration fashions demonizing such food. Or on the contrary incense it as the new miraculous remedy capable of giving health on its own or the other way around.
It is also above all reducing the risk of diseases, new chronic ones such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, hypertension, diabetes, obesity…
Knowing how to make the right lifestyle decisions, with a varied, balanced diet and regular physical exercise, help you enjoy the best out of your lives.
Diet Free
Diets are the best way to gain weight, depriving your body will tell it to start the saving mode and will block from releasing once you stop the restricting or starving diet.
Food Intolerances
You should thank your body for having food intolerances. It’s only telling you to stop feeding it with food that are no longer good for you. It’s time to take care of the choices for quality and nutrients feeling your mood & energy.
Pleasure & Joy
Food is everyday’s necessary fuel and each meal is to be a feast choice. Even real simple, choose with care. Think of it in advance. Plan for the best plate to come and enjoy it, savour every bite in Joy. And please try not stand while eating!
Frequently Asked Questions
Some Nutrition infos and thoughts
What about dairy?
According to cultures and religions, man has kept a certain consumption of cow’s milk. But it was long before the industrial processes which destroy by pasteurization, homogenization, skimming and sterilization what little interest it could still hold. Not to mention preservative additives.
However, today we agree to consider raw milk as an acceptable and even beneficial food. If consumed only in limited quantities and managing to find extra fresh and organic. But also, it seems to me, with farms where we know how the animals are fed. If cows are pushed to extremes to produce abnormal amounts of milk, how can the quality of the milk be present! Toxins from vaccinations or chemical fertilizers from the grass consumed or from their food are inevitably found in their milk.
What about Gluten?
Nothing beats bread out of the oven with a good olive oil and fleur de sel or butter! With the increase of intolerance or allergy to gluten, it has become a huge topic if not in some cases, just . If you have not been diagnosed with intolerance or celiac disease, please do not completely avoid gluten. Just be choosy with quality as the main problem comes from intensive manufacturing. And quantity, not at every meal 😉
What about vegetarian or vegan?
I’m not a vegetarian myself. Why? because I believe in wholeness and not to exclude nor diabolised any food except in case of intolerance or allergy, disease, which is often the body saying stop to an abuse! I’m not a meat eater as I was raised by a meat eater and rejected it when I became independant to choose. Eventually poultry if quality is met.
What about Sugars?
Sugar is a huge topic and even without health problems with sugar, it’s a viable concern to reduce our intake as it is everywhere even in food where it should not be in! So choose your sugars and there are so many delicious and much better than pure white sugar. Don’t deprive yourself of desserts but choose!
Organic?
As a believer in quality & taste, you could think I advocate bio but I don’t. I only searching for the best product and quality. Many produce high quality without willing to go through the specifications of the bio label. It surely gives standards but also as any organisation, is money related. In any case, I’m not willing to pay twice the price sometimes for lesser taste than non bio products.
If you favor seasonal products, you might observe that prices may be a little more expensive, but you will find your way very easily in the end. Recently, I observed the other way round. Prices for season products are cheaper in organic markets than in supermarkets!
An organic or well raised product is denser and nourishes you better. You need less in quantity to be satisfied, and your taste buds experience more pleasurable in quality. A supermarket veggie may be inexpensive in season, but usually is 80 to 90% water, unlike one that grew in better nourished lands. Take an example like the mushroom. A good mushroom hardly disgorges any water during cooking. Try it with mushrooms from your supermarket. Your wok or pan is full of water, and you will find it difficult to brown them well.
As for the groceries, they are not much more expensive. Unless you are into prepared dishes. But isn’t the idea to start preparing your specialties at home?
An argument and not the least but when your cells are better nourished, you will be in better physical and mind shape. You will need less doctors, therapists, if at all. Especially with the few Nature’s treasures presented below to consolidate your health and heal if necessary.
Full indepth infos in my book SereneGourmet
Recipes available on Food is Joy
Joyful plate prepared with Love and shared in harmony
The desire is to try to share my passion for cooking and introduce you to cuisine rich in natural products, quality foods, organic or produced with love by small producers. A gourmet and colorful cuisine that will delight all the senses and do good to all the cells in your body. Get out of your classic habits, boost your creativity to make you willing to cook. The search for the right product is also an integral part of the pleasure around the table. The one that has a story and that was produced with care & love. Prepared and combine harmoniously in the quest for the perfect bite, a balance of flavors to delight your taste buds. And communicate there his little touch of magic. A pleasurable and revitalizing plate, savored in conscience with happiness, is digested with grace.
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