Lent
\nhas begun, in Romania. Lent is a period of time of special importance, when
\nthe soul and the body prepare for the feast of Our Lord’s Resurrection. Everybody
\nis familiar with food restrictions, but today we shall tackle a relatively
\nrecent issue – the unprecedented invasion of the poor-quality fasting food. We’re
\nspeaking about the vegan junk food, as nutritionists call it. Junk food dishes have
\na delicious taste, yet very few of us question the ingredients of such food, with a potential which is as dangerous as the other type of junk food we’re so familiar
\nwith, the ordinary fast-food. We fast, we have no problem with that, but let us have a closer look at how noxious a ready-made vegan burger can be, which we stir-fry for five
\nminutes before we eat it. For that, we sat down and spoke to Claudia Buneci, a Functional
\nHealth Coach. <\/p>\n
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Claudia explained what fasting junk-food is, and why we’d rather
\navoid it. <\/p>\n
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The major flaw of the fasting junk-food is that, in
\neffect, we do not stand to gain if we fast on that specific sort of food. This vegan junk-food, as I call it,
\nis made of some food supplies having preservatives, they have all sorts of
\ndubious ingredients, so those are not ingredients as we understand them, they also
\nhave colouring agents that are in no way healthy, also, they are a source of trans
\nfats, the most noxious fats for the cardiovascular system, and for our health
\nin general. Sometimes they have sugar content or very much salt, precisely because
\nsalt or sugar cover they basic taste. So, practically, what these processed
\nproducts bring is a lot more inflammation, a lot more strain for our body to
\ndigest them, rather than nutrients, rather than food for our cells. <\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n Healthy fasting food is also tasty. I want our listeners to bear that in
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<\/p>\n Functional Health Coach Claudia Buneci:<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n We should also have nuts,
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\nsays we need to be too hard on ourselves, in a bid to to comply with culinary restrictions at all costs from this moment
\non and until Easter. Nutrition experts value the idea of having a simple meal, which
\ncan be at once nourishing and tasty. Fasting food, or vegan food, if you will,
\nis simply yummy and also a gift we make to our body. After all, mens sana in
\ncorpore sano,<\/em> a healthy mind in a healthy body, as they say. Here is Claudia Buneci once
\nagain, this time explaining how our food needs to be thought out so we don’t
\nstarve ourselves and we don’t deprive ourselves of the most relevant nutrients. <\/p>\n
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\nmind, the fact that we do not have to put ourselves through so much strain and
\nalso, it is important to bear in mind it is plentiful. I should like to emphasize
\nthe fact that each fasting meal should have a source of vegetal protein and at
\nthis point, let me give you some examples: newt, lentils, peas, beans and even
\nmushrooms, buckwheat, chia. It is important that our meal should be thought out
\naround a source of vegetal proteins so we can have energy, feed our muscles at
\nthis time of the year, lest we starve ourselves and have appetite for eating every
\nninety minutes. It is important for our
\nmeal to be thought out around this healthy vegetal protein. I’m not saying soy
\nis not a healthy vegetal protein, yet I should most recommend fermented soy,
\nthen secondly, the non-fermented bio soy, while third-placed comes the non-MGO
\nsoy, the traditional soy, if you will, but we need to make sure it was not
\ngenetically modified, it is a form of protein I should not like to recommend it
\nprocessed, but as close to its natural state as possible soy beans you should
\nboil, then there is the all too familiar tofu. Then, of course, I recommend we
\neat lots of vegetable. It is not by happenstance that fasting periods occur when
\nthey are set, throughout the year, in the peak period for us to purify our organisms,
\nwhen we should support our liver, where very many fresh leaves are available, very
\nmany vegetables, so, if we want to make the most of fasting, at all levels, the
\nspirit included, a purified body is needed. I recommend we eat lots of
\nvegetables and fruit, but we should lay emphasis on quinoa. We want to enjoy
\nour fasting in every respect and we want it to be a period of thoroughgoing
\npurification of our body. Also, we have the pseudo cereals at our fingertips,
\nwhich are extremely valuable, nutrition-wise and which also provide a protein, millet,
\nquinoa, buckwheat. They have a protein, but they also have a complex, quality
\ncarbohydrate: oat is very precious, but we want it in its integral version, and
\nnot some flakes we eat with a lot of sugar.<\/p>\n
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\nfrom all that, a handful of nuts, every now and then, provides healthy fats to
\nour body, rapidly inducing the sensation of satiability. <\/p>\n
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\nseeds, yet we should not make them our staple food, we must have them in small
\npercentages, they need to be quality stuff. And if it were possible to crack
\nthose nuts the very moment we intend to eat them, that would be perfect. I should
\nlike to mention the pumpkin, the chia, the sesame seeds or the linseed, with
\nthe latter three being ground or poached, when we have them, so we can digest
\nthem. We need to have variety and colour on our plates and we should not forget
\nthe fasting meals must be thought out as plentiful meals. We’re in dire need of
\nprotein, of the carbohydrates I’ve mentioned earlier, provided by the pseudo
\ncereals and the vegetables, such as the potato and the sweet potato, for
\ninstance, then we also need the fats we take from nuts, from seeds, but also from
\nthe quality olive oil, from avocado and linseed oil. We need complex meals with
\nall their macronutrients and with as many micronutrients as possible. (EN)<\/p>\n
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