The Food
Let Food Be Thy Medicine
Hippocrates
For many people the concept of healthy food evokes an uncomfortable tightness in the stomach, reflecting the ingrained notion that “healthy” and ”tasty” can only be mutually exclusive. If you share this common misperception, your cooking and eating experience at Health Holidays Yukon will dispel that myth once and for all.
Instead, you may surprise yourself by preparing your own nutritious meals at home more often, rather than go to a restaurant: Because it’s fun, because it’s creative, AND, above all, because it’s yummy!
Fresh, whole, unprocessed foods are the staples from which our meals are prepared. Varied and colorful, tasty and filling, this is real food, high in fiber and complex carbohydrates, low in fat and sodium. Our ancestors, too, would have recognized it, which can’t be said for many of today’s highly processed food items.
A great variety of vegetables, fruits, beans, sweet potatoes, brown rice, quinoa, bulgur wheat, whole grain breads and cereals, oats, nuts and seeds with all their heart-healthy, cancer-fighting properties, form the basis of our ingredients, supplemented by lean meats such as bison and chicken, omega-3 rich wild salmon, yoghurt, organic milk, cheeses and soy products.
Fresh
and dried herbs and a wide variety of spices expose you to a
kaleidoscope of tasty nuances, while serving another crucial purpose: they aid the reduction of salt and sugar in your diet by helping to change your taste preferences. Many of us need to rediscover the real taste of real food
again, food that is unadulterated by habitual use of the salt shaker,
slathered with ketchup, buried under barbecue sauces or drowned by
processed salad dressings, to name only a few additions. All of these
common ingredients in North American eating culture are loaded with
salt and sugar to enhance flavor and make you eat more. Perpetuated
cravings, weight gain and compromised health are the results.
At Health Holidays Yukon we guide our guests in developing new taste preferences and in breaking entrenched eating patterns. If that sounds academic to you, here is how it works: by truly enjoying your own healthy meals and loving how your body responds after just a few days, you’ll be encouraged to continue your lifestyle change experience at home. Feeling good about yourself and the nourishment you give to your body, is key to your success. It’s that simple, or you might say, that radical!
The real foods we’ll introduce you to, are the essentials for a rich and boundless diversity of appetizing, nutritious meals, snacks and desserts that you will love to re-create, and newly create on your own, at home.
