Nutrition Serene Gourmet
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That is the Secret…
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!
What about sugars?
When you are attentive to your body’s sign, you will notice a difference when consuming too much white sugar, you become nervous, irritable, and ready to bite.
How surprising then seeing these children described as hyperactive given Ritalin® (treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADD / HD) often to calm them (or to tame them)!
For breakfast, they consume famous cereals, each more refined and sweeter than the next. As a snack, have cupcakes or a sweet bar. Sugar again with blood sugar swing as no complex sugar or fibers slowing its absorption. And we are surprised to see them overexcited by lunchtime.
Blood sugar (the level of glucose in the blood) should be kept regular and constant to ensure normal body’s activities functioning.
We consider this equilibrium threshold at 1 g/l. In presence of a substantial amount of pure or refined sugars, the pancreas becomes hyperactive and hypersensitive. It reacts by producing excess insulin (a hormone that regulates blood sugar).
An excess then automatically leads to a lowering of blood glucose, sometimes down to 0.5 g/l. If this threshold drops significantly or suddenly, it is called hypoglycemia.
The feeling is as you are liquifying and exhausted. You feel really weak with an urge with an imperative sugar craving.
How to regulate sugar cravings?
Fig tree buds
A very good remedy for stress.
Its action is as much on the nervous, mental as digestive system for better digestion. For a little sleep difficulty, it is effective in combination with lavender essential oil.
It also helps moderate cravings for sugars. It is its action on the endocrine system that helps regulate these sweet compulsions.
This is a bud macerate mother. The dosage is 10 drops per day in a glass of water for a 21-day course. To be repeated once or twice with a week break between each treatment.
Other 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 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 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 😉
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
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