Spice Up Your Life. Wonder medico culinary spices: leading a hectic life style is not enough of an excuse to stick to a ‘fast food snacking culture’. Eating at home more often may enable us to benefit from the medicinal marvel of the finest spicy cuisine.
20 June 2015
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Being bombarded with junk food ads should not prevent us from promoting home cooking. The Bridge MAG. Image
We live in a society which has over the past three decades turned into a process food culture where fish and chips, hamburger and fried chicken chains have long been fixtures on our high streets.
It is a shame that the consumption of fast food products is advertised ubiquitously on our television screens. This is not only disingenuous of our media, but particularly, of our legislators – who alone have the powers to further regulate the unhealthy food industry.
Luckily, medical breakthroughs in recent decades have dramatically improved our diets, and thus our culinary knowledge and habits. According to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) “Seasoning your food right, eating the right kind of fats might help you stave off diabetes”.
It is believed that powerful spices help to normalise blood sugar, reduce inflammation, boost your metabolism, promote fat loss and reduce your risk of cancer, heart disease and overall mortality.
Gordon Shepherd, a neuroscientist of flavour, has also noted a curious fact about spices. Despite being a key element in most cuisines, spices are “almost completely ignored in public policy discussions of how to construct healthy diets”.
Gordon M. Shepherd is Professor of Neurobiology at the Yale School of Medicine and former editor in chief of The Journal of Neuroscience.
He connects his research to trends in nutrition, dieting, and obesity, especially the challenges that many face in eating healthily, then concludes with human perceptions of smell and flavour and their relationship to the neural basis of consciousness.
Natural and healthy food. Mother Nature is the most talented artist of them all. We seldom go wrong when we are inspired by Nature. The Bridge MAG. Image
Being bombarded with junk food ads on a daily basis has become part of our ritual pressure. However, this should not prevent us from promoting home cooking, which enable us to choose our own low-fat and low-calorie ingredients, in order to lead healthier lives.
The question that remains is how more natural, spicier and healthier is our food today? Mother Nature is the most talented artist of them all. Thus we seldom go wrong when we are inspired by Nature.
Below are a few herbs that don’t just add flavour to our food but have also been proven to do wonders for our health too.
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Basil
Basil, a natural anti-inflammatory herb. The Bridge MAG. Image
Basil, a natural anti-inflammatory herb
Studies on basil have proven its unique health-protecting properties in two key areas: flavonoids and volatile oils.
At the British Pharmacology Conference, Basil was recently shown to reduce swelling and inflammation in arthritic patients by about 73 percent, which is on par with commonly used drugs for arthritis.
Studies in basil’s properties have determined the active compounds which could be made into drugs, and which are now on the way.
Basil DNA protection and anti-bacterial properties …
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Ginger
According to studies, increasing the consumption of plant foods such as ginger may dramatically decreases the risk of obesity, diabetes, heart disease and overall mortality. The Bridge MAG. Image
The Zingiberaceae family, alongside cardamom and turmeric, ginger has been used for its healing properties among various cultures for centuries.
Ginger’s health benefits and nutritional information…
Eating at home is one of the best ways to promote a healthy lifestyle. The Bridge MAG. Image
Eating at home is one of the best ways to promote a healthy lifestyle….
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