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Cookery courses are held throughout the year covering the basics of healthy eating and focussing on different aspects of the link between nutrition and optimum health and well being.
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The courses not only include cooking healthy, colourful, tasty and satisfying recipes, but also slowly unfold a fascinating and comprehensive study of the healing power of food.
Whether you are old or young, male or female, vegan, vegetarian or omnivorous, a novice or an experienced cook, if you are seeking a natural approach to health and well-being, you will find these courses valuable, interesting and potentially life-changing.
- Fundamentals of Healthy Eating 1
- Fundamentals of Healthy Eating 2
- Energetics of Food - Eastern Approaches
- Managing Your Weight Naturally
- Balancing Your Hormones Naturally
- Food and Emotions
- Beating Stress and Fatigue
- Boosting Your Immune System
- Healthy Cooking for Your Children
- Healthy Cooking in a Hurry on a Budget
- Healthy Party Cooking
Each course costs £110 per person and includes 2-3 hours of practical cookery tuition, 2-3 hours of teaching, a 3-course meal, high quality hand-outs and copies of the recipes used.
For dates of forthcoming courses please click here.
To register your interest in attending any of these courses please click here.
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For further information and enquiries please contact us
"Jane Philpott is a fount of knowledge about food and nutrition, from both the Western scientific viewpoint and the Eastern 'energetic' approach. We cooked delicious meals using new and exciting ingredients and we came away better informed, inspired and replete! It is such a joy to find someone who is committed to equipping us all to cook food that makes us function and feel better. I cannot recommend these courses enough".
(Jane Robinson MAc MBAcC, Director, Nine Springs Natural Health Centre)
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What is involved?
Each class involves 100% hands-on practical cooking in a small supervised group. The teaching of theory is done using clear, easy-to-follow presentations and handouts with plenty of opportunity for questions and discussion. Through practical cooking, theory and discussions participants learn how to create health and well being for mind and body.
A typical day
10.00 Refreshments, introductions and questions
10.15 Teaching and discussion
11.15 Cooking class preparing lunch
1.15 Sharing lunch together and break
2.30 Teaching and discussion
3.30 Tea break
3.45 Teaching and discussion
5.00 Finish
Ancient wisdom and modern science teach us that the quality of the food we eat is intrinsically linked with our level of health and well being. The development of agriculture 10,000 years ago and the radical changes in the production and processing of food which have occurred in the last 200 years, have led to our diet moving further and further away from the natural foods which sustained earliest man 2.5 million years ago. From an evolutionary perspective, these changes have taken place too rapidly for the human genome to adjust. Biochemically and physiologically, we are virtually identical to the hunter-gatherers who roamed the earth 20,000 years ago. There is growing scientific evidence that the evolutionary collision of our ancient genome with the nutritional qualities of recently introduced foods underlies many of the chronic diseases of Western civilization, such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer.
In these classes, we explore how to create delicious food that retains the vital nutritional characteristics of the natural foods on which man evolved, thereby enhancing health and well being.
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Ingredients
All cooking classes use natural, whole and where possible, seasonal organic foods. We concentrate on vegetarian foods such as whole grains, vegetables, beans and pulses, other vegetarian proteins such as tofu, tempeh and seitan, sea vegetables, fruits, seeds and nuts, and traditional seasonings such as miso, pickles and condiments - indeed, all those ingredients you may have seen in Health Food shops and wondered what they are and how to use them. We do not use meat, dairy foods or refined sugar in any classes.
For further information and bookings please contact Jane Philpott at jane@cookingforhealth-uk.com or telephone 01458 224606.
