Eating Clean and Green
And we’re back…
Back from what was a very needed, blissfully long holiday period. For close to two weeks, many businesses slowed down, and people either gathered together to find solace in comfort food and comfort drinks, or took a break from the world, and headed to exotic lands for rejuvenation. Folks I know went to Costa Rica, London, Utah, Arizona, India. You name it, they flew there, in search of quiet solitude or an energized spark.
And now at the crest of a new year, in this first month of 2017, it seems to me we are continuing to struggle to re-gain our balance and get past a period of just plain ole nastiness that permeated our consciousness. I’m so over the negativity and roughness that we endured in 2016. I long for a return to elegance, for gentility and civility. For nicer, kinder and better…everything. But how?
I have a thought.
We have to start with a shift in behavior. An overall cleanse. You’ve heard about that “No alcohol January” trend. Well, yes, I think cutting back significantly is absolutely a great idea. But no alcohol at all may be a bit severe. Everything in moderation is a perfect concept for that very reason.
Clean eating makes much more sense to me. We consume way too much refined, processed, manipulated food. Now is the time to choose foods that are nutrient-rich, from the earth, and harvested locally. Clean and green.
To help you in the endeavor to prepare some terrific simple meals in the clean and green genre of cooking, check out a brand new cook book with a great title, “Food That Cares: A Restorative Approach to Health” by integrative nutritionist and health counselor Wendy Baruchowitz.
Although the book is geared toward people who suffer from POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome) dysautonomia and chronic illness, all the easy to prepare, wholesome recipes provide excellent ways to modify anyone’s diet, discard the food that gunks up our system and prepare meals and snacks that taste delicious along the way. Read more.
By eating food that truly feeds our body and not just fills it up, we might just have the energy to approach the new year in a vigorous… and much more civilized way.
Valerie Smaldone is a 5-time Billboard Magazine Award winner and is well known for her unprecedented success holding the #1 on-air position in the New York radio market on 106.7 Life-FM, an iHeart station. She has hosted, produced, and created several award-winning nationally syndicated programs featuring in-depth interviews with stars like Paul McCartney, Celine Dion, Rod Stewart, Elton John and Mariah Carey among others. Her radio talk show "Bagels and Broadway" highlighted theatre and food personalities. She is an accomplished interviewer and voice artist heard on commercials, narrations, promos and audiobooks, as well as a sought after live announcer.
Most recently, Valerie produced and directed a film, The Thursday Night Club, featuring pop diva Gloria Gaynor in her movie acting debut. She is one of the creators and producers of a docu-series, Divine Renovation, starring Erik Estrada, on streaming networks soon.
