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Secrets Of Cooking For
Health
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!
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