Cooking and preparing meals is an art of intuition and a science of basic cooking knowledge. Blending the two together will help to create fabulous meals. Below is a list of basic cooking techniques that are used throughout this cookbook. It will be helpful to familiarize yourself with them before moving on to the recipes. When making a recipe, use your intuition as to whether you should add more or less of certain ingredients, and how long to cook some dishes. No recipe can ever be perfect because of the incredible variations in ingredients, cooking equipment, and the person preparing…
Author: Robert
Food Sensitivities Food sensitivity reactions, such as to gluten or dairy, cause irritation and inflammation in the upper intestines. This often leads to damage of intestinal tissue, a leaky gut, and a subsequent breakdown of the digestive and absorptive processes. Without proper intestinal cell function, signals for hormones like CCK to be released never occur, causing a lack of bile and pancreatic enzymes. This leads to undigested food, bacterial imbalances, and food particles too large to be absorbed. In the presence of a leaky gut, this can cause further inflammation and exposure to food particles that can cause even more…
A food sensitivity can occur when the immune system considers a food a potential threat to the body. As a response, the immune cells secrete chemicals called inflammatory cytokines. These chemicals are signaling molecules that alert other cells of the body of the perceived foreign invader—the food you just ate. This starts a cascade of events, which can lead to inflammation and disease in the body. The term “food sensitivity” literally means that your body is sensitive to eating a particular food. We are all biochemically unique. It seems logical that we would all respond differently to the biological chemicals…