Nutrition Advice from Chefs
New York Time AMAZING Food Issue!
I hope you didn’t miss New York Times Magazine’s food and health feature.
I hope you were able to pour yourself a nice cup of coffee and enjoy one of the most eye opening food features I’ve seen in a long time.
If you missed that incredible food special last weekend, don’t worry, we’ve collected all the links to make it easy for you to grab the information.
This is a series of article you DO NOT want to miss and you’ll surely be going back to these articles over and over again because they are packed with a lot of really great information.
New York Times has gone all out and has invited a number of notable food experts to debate of the obesity crisis in American and the food supply in the richest country in the world.
>>>> You’ll find food experts like:
1) British Chef Jamie Oliver, also known as “The Naked Chef”.
2) Lisa Lillien, who’s not an expert but has a healthy appetite for food, and who is otherwise known as the Hungry Girl.
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Jamie Oliver shares tips on cooking for weight loss
I quite like Jamie Oliver’s attitude about wanting to change the way the U.K. eats.
During a trip to London a few years ago, I noticed many Brits were not making good food choices. I’ve also read numerous reports about how many British women were more than happy to buy those terrible diet pills online without knowing what kind of dangerous crap they are putting into their body. (If you are buying diet pills — which is a bad idea to begin with — online, you risk exposing your body to some potentially dangerous ingredients because the manufacturer can put anything into those bottles, take your money and then disappear!)
I salute Jamie Oliver’s crusade for healthy eating in the U.K. I did a review not long ago about his great Recipease concept — if you missed it, you can read it here: Jamie Oliver: Recipease is a new food and kitchen shop concept
I was reading an old issue of Health Magazine featuring an interview with Jaime Oliver and I thought one of the questions asked — How do I cook for weight loss? — was so interesting, I wanted to highlight his response.
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Is Nigella Lawson responsible for obesity in the U.K.?
I’ve always quite like watching Nigella Lawson cook because she’s so anti-Martha Stewart and I really love that about her. I mean who has time, energy or inclination to have everything perfectly prepared the way Martha Stewart does?
I was going through my favourite online U.K. newspaper when I read the screaming headline:
“Doctors attack chefs Nigella Lawson and Rick Stein for fatty recipes that ‘add to obesity crisis’”
It’s not only Nigella who is preparing foods that are so high in fat that they might meet your fat needs for an entire week in just one meal, but I’ve also watched in amazement how Emeril Lagasse keeps going on and on about pork fat and how he loves to deep fry a lot of his recipes in (I guess) pork fat!
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