Tips for Healthy Kitchen

The undeniable truth: Healthy Eating and Healthy Family! It all starts at kitchen.



  Some important tips to create a healthy kitchen:

1. Consume healthy food

• Applying the five groups food pyramid in daily meal plan
• Reduce meat, and increase fruit and vegetable
• Reduce fat and sugar consumption
• Choose more alkaline food over acidic food, check on the chart
• Say No to artificial coloring, preservative and chemical in processed food
• Say No to soda drink (e.g. Coke)
• Say No to frozen food, if possible
• Say No to quick ready food like instant noodles

2. Filter and purify your water

• Make sure both the drinking and cooking water are free from lead, chemical and other dangerous impurities.
• Research shows that excessive exposure to lead and fluoride in water can damage human brain

3. Choose the right kitchen utensil

• Common kitchenware (cooking, eating utensils) making materials are copper, iron, earthenware or enamelware, aluminum
• Negative reaction with food and discolored at low or high temperatures show possible toxicity
• Report shows that excessive amount of aluminum can impair human brain which leads to symptoms similar to Alzheimer's disease and osteoporosis.
• PFOA (in nonstick coated cookware) has been shown to cause cancer, low birth weight and a suppressed immune system.

4. Adopt healthy cooking methods

• Less oil-deep fried cooking, increase steaming-type cooking
• Preserve the mineral of vegetable and fruit by taking them as raw as possible
• Reduce oil in cooking, and have rainbow meals, check on my recipes
• No water in quick stir-fry vegetable
• Reduce salt and sugar in your cooking
• Stop cooking the soup at the right time, both with vegetable or with bone

5. Adopt healthy eating manner

• Chew slowly before you swallow down the food
• Have your food at your dining table
• Say No to bad eating habits: eating in front of television or eating while reading books
• Talk less while eating
• Conversation over the meal is great for family communication, but do it wisely

Finally, of course wash your hands before meal, keep a napkin reachable to children at all time. With less oil cooking method, you won't have to wash your dishes with excessive detergent which contains chemical in it. Have a healthy kitchen, therefore a healthy family!