Ep. 165: Amanda Haas, Improving Life Through Cooking
Amanda Haas joins us for this episode of Health Gig! Amanda is an accomplished Food Writer, Cooking Instructor, Video Host and Cookbook Author. She joins us to discuss delicious ways to reduce inflammation and remain vibrant through adjusting your diet. Join us as we talk about eating well and being well!
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Quotes:
I've always understood that there's a huge connection between what I eat and how I feel. Amanda Haas
The most searched term in food cookbooks and food medicine is ‘anti-inflammatory’. Amanda Haas
I've always taken a simple approach to cooking. It doesn't have to take a lot of time, cost a lot of money, or be hard to cook great recipes.
Amanda Haas
Show Notes:
Amanda Haas: I started taking classes at night, cooking classes. I'd save all my money for my little paycheck and take classes, and I just realized it was truly my passion.
Amanda Haas: I finally decided to dig in from a culinary perspective and start looking at what I was eating and try to connect the dots between what I was eating and how I was feeling.
Amanda Haas: I understand now that food is one of the most important vehicles for improving our well-being.
Amanda Haas: I went from being always highly allergic to having horrible stomach pains and chronic heartburn.
Amanda Haas: This is gluten in your life making you sick.
Amanda Haas: Gluten wasn't the only problem I was having, and I've since had some other problems come up. But what it allowed me to do was identify the things that were making me feel awful.
Amanda Haas: My body was just angry all the time and it would just hang on to inflammation.
Amanda Haas: It is a protein that is found typically in wheat and it's also in rye. It's also in barley.
Amanda Haas: Gluten is this amazing protein that helps bind things together.
Amanda Haas: Why suddenly is everybody gluten intolerant or allergic to gluten? And we're consuming probably 10 times more than the average American diet, even 60-70 years ago.
Amanda Haas: A lot of people have a problem with gluten, have a problem with dairy as well.
Amanda Haas: In the Anti Inflammation Cookbook, I had a doctor validate everything.
Amanda Haas: I looked outside and I saw my Traeger grill, which I was obsessed with.
Amanda Haas: It uses wood pellets to generate the heat in the grill so it's basically like an outdoor convection oven that just adds this amazing flavor to everything you make.
Amanda Haas: I just get to go about my business and Traeger fits into it so well that I have to pinch myself every time I'm with them or go do something really fun with them.
Amanda Haas: I have over 70, maybe seventy five recipes on their website that I've developed, ranging from cookies and coconut oil brownies to the most amazing roasted cauliflower.
Amanda Haas: Sandwiched between the recipe chapters are these beautiful chapters on things like yoga and meditation. We have a sex and relationships chapter, which is absolutely hysterical with one of my favorite women on Earth, Dr. Pepper Schwartz.
Amanda Haas: The last time you want to be making dinner is at the dinner hour.
Amanda Haas: I started to get smart about what I was cooking (and when) during the week, and I just said to myself, I'm going to the store one time a week and I stuck to it.
Amanda Haas: When you plan ahead and you actually make a list, you waste so much less food.
Amanda Haas: My friends who are the best chefs all use induction. It's the most accurate way.
Amanda Haas: January is a great time to take stock and take great care of ourselves. But instead of being so punishing about it, why don't I just share recipes and great learnings.
Amanda Haas: A kinder, gentler way to ease into this new year and think about how we want to take care of ourselves.
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