Not long ago my wife and I began cooking dinner meals together— Chinese chicken salad Hawaiian haystacks, split pea soup, lettuce wraps, and today, sweet-and-sour chicken…
No doubt you have delicious recipes, traditional and comfort food of your own you regularly enjoy.
Jules designed these recipes to taste good, be inexpensive, and be easy to prepare. After delighting in our culinary creation one evening, she remarked how full she felt! Interestingly, the meal contained a fraction the calories of a McDonald’s Big Mac. (See 018 Eat for Weight.)
Dr. William Li, author of award-winning book Eat to Beat Disease, writes,
“Beyond the types of foods that we consume, another way in which food is connected to longevity is by the amount in which we consume it. It is now a well-known fact in the science community that reducing the intake of calories by 20-40 percent can increase longevity and reduce the risk of chronic diseases.
“Some people hear caloric restriction and immediately think of starvation or a fad diet. But that is not the case. Caloric restriction is a condition that has been experienced throughout human evolution and our metabolism has learned to function extraordinarily well under these conditions. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have determined that restricting calories activates stem cells in the intestines, which regenerate cells in the gut.” (Boldface and italics added.)
In other words, eating fewer calories increases health and adds years to your life. And there are fewer calories in whole, simple, unprocessed foods, The cool part is, by cooking foods at home you can eat more, consume fewer calories, feel full, and live longer.
Eat intentionally.
Bon apetite.
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