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Cooking Healthy For Radiant Health
by: Adoz Lizzat Who can resist the mouth-watering pictures in a cookbook? Who
doesn’t have childhood memories of the fragrances that wafted from the
kitchen on holidays, and even on regular, ordinary days? Spices, bread baking,
cookies fresh out of the oven – all these trigger a deep longing in most
of us. As eating holds a guaranteed spot in everybody’s daily schedule,
so do those who prepare it. They have beome the uncrowned gods and goddesses of
our lives. Real cooking consists of more than opening a can with a dull picture of
green beans on the front, or popping a TV dinner from a wax-covered box into the
oven or microwave. The true goal of cooking is to nourish these marvelous bodies
that we live in, to allow them to grow and express vitality and strength, to
keep them healthy and able to overcome environmental germs and bacteria.
Summarized in one word, the main purpose of cooking is heath! When does a fruit or vegetable (or any baked item) furnish us with the
most nutrition? The experts feel that food grown in one’s own environment
will usually contain the most nutrition. Freshly harvested food provides the
maximum nutritional value. After a fruit or vegetable has been sitting for
several days, or transported around the world, the value of the vitamins and
minerals diminishes. The best means of ‘cooking’ fruits and vegetables for their
health value is to eat them raw in salads or as snacks. As soon as heat is
applied, a good quantity of the nutrition is destroyed. A good cook can prepare
a beautiful plate with the natural colors of freshly picked fruits and
vegetables. Genetically engineered food has infiltrated the growing of almost all
crops. This procedure didn’t exist until the last decade, and it remains
highly controversial as the long range effect on humans has never been tested. Briefly described, this procedure consists of infecting a healthy seed or
grain with various bacteria or insects to lengthen its shelf life, to make it
look ‘pretty’ for the consumer long after the nutritional value has
dissolved. This not only has a negative effect on one’s health, but
leaves the cook with a less than delicious product to serve. Cooking with natural foods that are organically grown (that means with no
harmful pesticides or chemical fertilizers) gives today’s health
conscious cooks the best chance to delight in the time spent shopping and in the
kitchen. Whipping up a carrot cake that will enchant both family and friends
(best make two cakes while you’re at it), or preparing a quick but
nutritious breakfast so the body will gleefully handle the challenges of the day
without needing to be drugged by coffee or caffeine, make heading for the
kitchen the favorite part of the day! Truly the cook is the god of the
household!
About The Author
Adoz Lizzat is the brain behind Recipes Galore An Outstanding Resource for
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