The great Greek physician Hippocrates said: " Let food be your medicine and your medicine be your food ".
When we are sick, we generally seek remedies in addition, products that can be overloaded with those we already have in our bodies to change the state of things. Chemical medicines in fact.
This is what generally provides the Western tradition of care. But what if we thought about removing instead of putting?
Not everything is healthy
The vegan fork revolution is a text based on this principle. On foundations that come from the East and from veganism , which invite us to consciously choose what we bring to the mouth, a choice that seeks to look for what is fresh, vegetable, integral ; a choice that invites you to practice fasting, if necessary. In short, to seek the balance of the body thanks to its first medicine: food .
This is the message of a book written in several hands, closely related to the documentary " Forks Over Knives ", an American film directed in 2011 by independent director Lee Fulkerson.
It is an invitation to redo the ability to choose food, an invitation that wants to understand how often bad habits hard to leave behind, media influences and more are aspects that are not at all beneficial to the health of individuals, but serve just to inflate wallets of industrialists and doctors!
It is a suggestion to vary the taste, to be eclectic, curious, eager to experiment a way of eating in the perspective of a sought-after well-being for oneself and also for the Planet.
Apparently in fact, even the most harmless things, like simple breakfast cereals, for example, can hide pitfalls and dangerous elements: are we able to notice them?
To love yourself is to change
You can change your eating habits. You can break with bad traditions and with the intake of heavy, processed, fatty foods; we can think of adopting healthy, clean, fresh foods, which we may learn to cultivate with our hands, which enter the body with joy and to which the organism responds by giving us just as much.
" Changing eating habits - whether it is taking the road of a new plant-based diet, or simply reducing the consumption of meat and dairy products and adding more foods of vegetable origin, or perhaps even perfecting their habits by eliminating oils obtained with processes industrial companies - requires perseverance and commitment ” . This is what the authors write.
As often happens, sometimes it is more difficult to plan, think, plan things than to put them into practice. Not everything that at first may seem impossible to us is actually impossible!
To begin to really love each other, to take care of ourselves with food we can, for example, start by replacing the refined bread with wholemeal bread without salt, change the jam made with sugar with sugar-free jam, maybe homemade. Just choose to make the tart without using the butter, putting instead of oil.
For breakfast, start with fruit and vegetable smoothies, to cook water, vegetable broth, lemon juice, instead of heated fats, consume more whole foods and always less refined ones . Finally, check that your pantry is full of spices! Here are just a few tips.
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The recipes of the revolution
Here the third part of the book takes us to the heart of the matter, proposing as many as 125 vegan recipes ranging from oat porridge with fruit, muffins to oats and blueberries, smoothies, potatoes cooked in various ways, pea guacamole, mousse of eggplant, bean cream; and yet fusion tastes like yamadillas, soups, creams and velvety; salads for every taste, such as the delicious quinoa salad with currants, and alternative toppings of all sorts, such as tofu mayonnaise.
And more puddings, biscuits, brownies and crunchy bars . The chefs who have collaborated in the creation of the book have committed themselves to drawing up healthy and tasty vegan recipes, which have nothing to envy from the less healthy old dishes.
Also in the text we find the enlightening explanations of important scholars, including Dr. Neal Barnard, Dr. John McDougall, Rip Esselstyn and many others.
There is no lack of first-hand experiences, the stories and testimonies of success of people who have taken a vegan diet, such as San'Dera Prude, who no longer needs to take drugs for diabetes, has lost weight and feels wonderful. In short, there are millions of men and women who have not been afraid to change their diet to improve their quality of life.
They decided to follow a diet that would help them to live in full health, to prevent diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, cancer, arthritis, Alzheimer's and much more.
Curiosity: the book has the subtitle "The vegetable path to health - Forks over Knives" by Gene Stone. The preface is by doctors and researchers T.Colin Campbell and Caldwell B. Esselstyn Jr.
