food is medicine
We've been (poorly) educated to believe that food is merely what we eat when we're hungry.
It took me years to understand a simple fact that not only is food our medicine. But eat unconsciously, and our eating habits can kill us, or at least cause us great harm.
We feed our bodies on food that is mostly artificially grown by poisoning the soil with chemicals.
We don't move our bodies enough.
Then we wonder why we get sick.
The understanding that we are what we eat seems to be slowly reaching peoples ears.
Slowly.
Long ago, my inspiration to do this work grew out of my desire to get well. My mission then evolved years later into wanting to feed my children as well as possible and in the process help educate my family to eat well and be well.
This, I believe, along with my love, is the greatest gift I can give my children.
With love and health they can fly to the moon.
This I saw as my small contribution to changing the way the world eats: I am a firm believer in living the 'change' and in so doing, creating ripples. Waves would be great. But they have to start somewhere.
Much of my work concentrates on nutrition and how sometimes small changes can make an enormous impact on our sense of self, our health and our wellbeing.
In my experience I often see that something which might begin as a ripple of change coursing through our bodies can often bring waves of new found vitality.
When we make real shifts in the way we eat, miracles can happen.
Food testing is a useful tool to discover often problematic foods that are depleting our system. However, what can be more revealing is how the body changes when it's given what it needs to function well.
Remove inflammatory foods and introduce better nutrition, along with high food grade herbal and vitamin supplements, and chronic symptoms will often disappear.
Anyone who knows me will testify that I'm fairly nuts about nutrition and cooking healthy organic food!
Treating what we eat as a potential therapeutic drug can be a powerful way to view food. But if it doesn't taste good, I'm not interested. Nutrition is one thing. But flavour is everything.
Food feeds the soul, and pleasure is part of what enjoying food and being human is all about.
I regularly share many of my favourite recipes with my clients. Please check my blog to find a few of them.