Chef Bill Mitchell









 

I’m always talking about the kind of foods we consume. I was asked the other day about fresh vs. canned. In the 21^st century we have learned a lot about processed foods and organic foods. We learned some sugar substitutes that were developed in the seventies are not good for you today. We are learning that children that were born in the eighties today are over weight. Forty years ago or so we had someone get a college degree in food chemistry and they started to develop additives that will make our food last longer and have a brighter color. Like anything else, we find out that good things at the time, turn out to be detrimental to our health.

So getting back to the question I was asked, I wrote an article a while back about vitamins and sources of life sustaining food that our body needed. I said to get the same Vitamins, Folic Acids, ETC., you would need a supplement the size of a golf ball to get the same effects just from eating fresh fruit and vegetables. Did you know that Folic Acid is important in an every day diet? It’s essential to the growth of new cells. It’s in foods that you love to eat, strawberries, spinach, asparagus, pinto beans, and endive. For those watching their sodium intake and to reduce the risk of hypertension or high blood pressure (get off those high blood pressure pills, or I have a bridge I’d like to sell you), try apples, avocados, bananas, bell peppers, cucumbers, grapefruit, kiwifruit, mushrooms, oranges, and potatoes. The one thing that is good for the blood is Iron. It’s a must to the formation of hemoglobin, which carries oxygen in the blood, which carries oxygen in muscles. Along with vitamin C, fruits and vegetables will absorb faster in the body. Did you know that Vitamin A helps increase resistance to infections in children, I guess that’s why most children don’t like cooked carrots. But you can get Vitamin A in apricots, cantaloupes, romaine lettuce, mangoes, peaches, leaf lettuce, nectarines and of all of these help promote good vision, especially in dim light.

I urge you to do some fact finding via the Internet or the bookstore, you’d be amazed on the kinds of great foods you’re missing out on besides the benefit we receive from them. Happy eating and remember if you would like to put on a dinner party at your home with your very own private chef, drop me line for more information, thanx !
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