Healthy Recipes

«Fa’ che il cibo sia la tua medicina e la medicina sia il tuo cibo». Così Ippocrate, il padre della medicina, circa 2.500 anni fa, sintetizzava il suo pensiero sulla relazione tra ciò che mangiamo e la nostra salute. Possiamo essere contenti controllando i nostri appetiti e sviluppando le nostri abitudini di vita positive. Sicuramente ci vorrà un po’ di tempo per corrompere la forza di volontà ad abbandonare una cattiva abitudine, ma ci vuole solo un po’ di volontà per cominciare una nuova abitudine. A tavola con Ippocrate sottolinea l’importanza di basare la propria alimentazione soprattutto su cibi di origine vegetale, passando in rassegna oltre 140 ricette, correlate da curiosità su ciò che mangiamo e approfondimenti sul mondo culinario.

Kitâb-ı 'İlâc-nâme 963 (1556) yılında istinsah edilmiş bir tıp metnidir. Eserin içeriği incelendiğinde bunun Kemâliyye adlı tıp eserinin bir kopyası olduğu fakat farklı adlandırıldığı anlaşılmaktadır. XVI. yüzyılın ikinci yarısına ait olan eser Türkiye Türkçesinin kelime tabanlarındaki ve eklerindeki bazı fonetik gelişmelerini ve değişmelerini göstermektedir. Bazı kelime ve ekler 'İlâc-nâme'de zaman zaman gelişmeli şekilleriyle birlikte kullanılmıştır. Bu yönüyle eser, kalıplaşmış eski imlanın gizlediği bazı dil hususiyetlerini göstermesi bakımından dikkat çekicidir.

Kitâb-ı 'İlâc-nâme was a kind of medical book reproduced in 963 (1556). When the content of the book is investigated, it is found out that the work was a copy of Kemâliyye, which was a book of medicine at that time and named differently. Published in the second half of the XVIth Century, the book demonstrates some phonetic changes in the word roots and suffixes in Turkish. Also, the original forms of the words and suffixes were occasionally used together with the changed forms. Therefore, the work draws attention as it shows some language features hidden in the old stereotyped orthography.

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In the modern jungle of burgers, couches, and remote controls, obesity is an enormous and growing epidemic. Weight-loss books and diet gurus urge us to "listen to our bodies," but our instincts are designed for the African savannah, not food courts. The sugary and fatty foods that we, as hunter-gatherers, are programmed to forage used to be hard to come by. Now they're as close as the vending machine down the hall.

Radical changes are necessary and, fortunately, are biologically easier than small or gradual changes in diet. Barrett tells us how to reprogram our bodies, break food addictions, and ignore our attraction to "supernormal stimuli"—artificial creations that appeal to our instincts more than the natural objects they mimic. Barrett delves into scientific research—from animal ethology to evolution—to show the disastrous direction in which our instincts have led us, and how, using our intellect, we can get back on course.  . . . . . . . .An elegantly written and eye-opening analysis of what makes us fat. -- Steven Pinker, PhD, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of How the Mind Works
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In this cogent, clearly argued, and thought-provoking book, Barrett shows how we are paying the price for our own plenty. -- David Spiegel, M.D. Medical Director, Center for Integrative Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine; author of Living Beyond Limits
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Offers us a way to understand the pandemic of obesity that we find ourselves in. -- John Ratey, M.D. Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School, co-author of Driven to Distraction