What To Eat For How You Feel
What To Eat For How You Feel, by Divya Alter, is a must read for everyone who wants to create a conscious relationship with food. This book introduces the complexity of Ayurveda in a way that is both easy to understand, and incorporate into the kitchen. The background information provided on the elements, the doshas, and using food as medicine, emphasizes why eating with the seasons and knowing ones own body is so important.
The premise for this cookbook, as well as Divya compassionate and loving heart is also what makes this read so unique and outstanding. By learning which elements are more dominant in your constitution, you have the ability to identify challenges and imbalances that are common in your day to day life. Certain elements make up your primary doshas, or that which is most likely to cause dis-ease in your state of being. When we understand our ratio of elements, we can balance these through out the year wby choosing what to eat.
Eating with the seasons is a great way to live in the present, attuned to nature and connected to the messages our body is sending to us. This cookbook breaks down each recipe by the seasons as they blend into one another. Starting with Spring and early Summer, Divya gives a list of balancing foods, as well as foods to stay away from during that time. She starts each seasonal section by giving recipes for the time of day, starting in morning through evening. By providing information on what to substitute and omit for each digestion pattern (airy digestion, fiery digestion, earthy digestion) these recipes are suitable for any individual.
What to Eat for How You Feel gives us the information needed to create a new relationship with our bodies, minds and our environment. By understanding our digestion patterns we can create a new way of being in the kitchen and bring balance back to our cravings. It is clear from beginning to end how much intention went into creating this cookbook and Divya’s passion shines through page after page, inviting and inspiring you to engage with food anew. She creates a space in which you come to understand the wisdom in your own body, what it’s communicating with you about what it needs in order to feel well tended, and how to meet those needs with clarity + joy. This book is a game changer for anyone who has struggled with knowing what to eat, in order to make them feel nourished and balanced. I cannot recommend this book enough. Give it a try, you won’t be disappointed!
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