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    A Toast to Health: Gluten-Free and Lactose-Free, Please!
    A Toast to Health: Gluten-Free and Lactose-Free, Please!
    A Toast to Health: Gluten-Free and Lactose-Free, Please!
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    A Toast to Health: Gluten-Free and Lactose-Free, Please!

    By Marcelo Facini

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    Based on health and wellness coaching techniques, this book equips the readers with new tools to start a new journey towards behavioural change, when they cannot seem to achieve their desired goals by themselves.
    What is to be expected from a finance executive who left his promising career to pursue his dream in functional health gastronomy?
    Using informal, carefree, and humorous language, this book deciphers lessons contained in lengthy academic treatises for non-professionals, helping readers to transform their eating habits effectively and safely and, more appealingly, without need to resort to several types of specialists. The author helps readers to understand key concepts of health and wellness with commonplace metaphors like chaotic traffic, comparisons to the human body, or a company going bankrupt, using vocabulary of the finance and corporate world.
    Thus readers end up running their own diagnostic, naturally arriving at reasonable conclusions about their life phase and which steps to take in order to achieve wellness.
    Let us toast to health. But no gluten and no lactose. Please!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse UK
    Release dateOct 30, 2013
    ISBN9781491880678
    A Toast to Health: Gluten-Free and Lactose-Free, Please!
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    Marcelo Facini

    Marcelo Facini is a gastronomy enthusiast who left his successful career in finance to devote full attention to his greatest passion: health food. He continuously researched diverse and heterodox areas, travelling around the world and conducting deep studies, with support from prominent sources, such as biochemical engineers, functional nutritionists, and professionals in medicine and gastronomy. Before he could take such a radical turn, the author took courses on vegetarian gastronomy at the acclaimed Cordon Vert in the United Kingdom, the oldest Vegetarian Society in the world. He continued his world journey through many gastronomic schools, taking courses at Le Cordon Bleu (United States) and at Ecole Ritz Escoffier (France). He also took cooking classes on Indian cuisine in the USA, and Thai cuisine in Brazil. In addition to these studies, he is also certified as a Personal and Professional Coach at the Brazilian Coaching Society, and he completed a Health and Wellness Coach Certification, powered by Real Balance Global Wellness Services, at Rice University, Texas, USA. Aside from his acquired expertise and contacts with chefs and friends from several cultures, what encourages him the most is to share all that knowledge with those uninitiated in this complex universe. How? Through a simple, fun, and educational language that promotes easy access to good health and life quality via functional gastronomy.

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      A Toast to Health - Marcelo Facini

      PREFACE

      When we love, we obviously care!

      To some people, this sentence is no more than a famous lyric. To others, it is the absolute truth. Which kind of person are you?

      Valerie was a gorgeous model with light eyes, long hair, and fifty-six well-distributed kilos in a 1.77-meter-tall body. She reached the top of her career at 27 years old. However, emotional factors caused by lack of both motivation and awareness together with impulsiveness, pushed Valerie towards a frenetic, gluttonous eating habit. At 32 years old, the former model weighs eighty-seven kilos, has high cholesterol, and feels drained from diets that she quit without losing any weight. She feels ugly, undesirable, and she prefers to hide her body. She is not strong enough to regain the perfect silhouette she showcased just five years ago.

      Stories like Valerie´s spread around the world - and their motives are different and complex. Some causes for losing control of body weight are based on biological factors or severe health problems; yet other cases come exclusively from emotional disorder. In her case, low self-esteem may be the cause.

      This is a sensitive issue. There is good advice for those who seek recovery of so-called self-love. To experience a feeling of rapture by means of some magical formula sounds as easy as it is surreal. Self-esteem cannot be bought, nor can it be obtained through voice command. People frequently ask me, Why don´t I love myself? I always reply: Ask yourself.

      People are unique beings who do not react to emotion in the same fashion. Although plots may be similar and recurring, each one of us suffers for a reason and deals with discomfort in our own way.

      Eating is something fantastic. As a rule of thumb, when we experience something pleasant, our mind sends us a response of satisfaction. Then pleasure triggers a new quest for another pleasant sensation, thus creating a vicious circle. This delight can be reached in many ways, such as when we exercise, listen to music, work, eat, or engage in sexual intercourse. In a shaken emotional state, the quest for joy increases. When that happens, many people misinterpret food as the key to controlling their anxiety.

      Avoiding excess is one challenge we must overcome in order to suppress pleasure. Our consciousness can detect the threshold between poison and cure. And the first step to free ourselves from something undesirable is to acknowledge that it exists. Do you eat to satisfy your hunger or to fill in the empty gaps of your life?

      Weaknesses result from past experiences that aren´t positive and become the basis for new issues connected to self-esteem. Learning the symptoms of lack of self-love may help you to identify the issue. Some of them are:

      • Insecurity

      • Self-indulgence towards personal goals

      • Light depression

      • Difficulty in saying no

      • Difficulty in accepting praises

      • Rejection of criticism

      • Perfectionism

      • Need for approval

      • Inferiority complex

      Blaming external factors may be another self-defence mechanism to justify oneself and to avoid contact with limitations. In this case it is common to blame it on lack of time, life on the run, never-ending appointments, or heavy city traffic, among other creative excuses. The controversial point of this behaviour is that you may even feel forgiven, but in turn you will never be able to solve the problem. Even if the context changes, there will always be external factors. Behavioural change is an exclusively inner process.

      Breaking deep-rooted patterns to incorporate new eating habits is a hard task. Who said it would be easy? No success comes without effort. The way demands devotion, stoic discipline, and constant watch. Creating a new reality where you are responsible for your choices means earning freedom. This is true both for persons with normal weight, and for those who are overweight, because the aesthetic standard is not the genesis of this issue; health is.

      How about letting go of excuses that have been camouflaged for years and taking on a healthy life right now?

      To eat well is to care about oneself. When we love, we care!

      Simone Demolinari

      INTRODUCTION

      This is who I am: untameable and curious.

      Dear readers, before moving forward let me make some points clear, so we avoid misunderstandings and scientific and academic arguments. I am not a physician, a nutritionist, a biologist, a chemical engineer, nor a mathematician, and I will not dispute such professionals. I truly do respect them, and I do not mean to speak on their behalf.

      I’m just an ordinary guy from a humble family that has suffered great losses: a 25-year-old sister who left three children orphaned, the youngest only 1 year old; another 30-year-old sister; and also my father, who died of cancer in 2002. I have one grandmother alive, and I never met my other three grandparents. I have lost several uncles, cousins, and friends, but I must mention Alberto Fustinoni, who was truly special in my life and passed away in 2012. Also my beloved little dog Nininho, who I dream of twenty-two years later and wake up wishing he was still around.

      I am an ordinary person who has worked since 14 years of age. I paid for my own studies at a time when I could enjoy no more than four hours of sleep every night. I finished university, studying foreign languages and other subjects, while working and living across town. I devoted my heart to volunteer work with the deaf and the blind deaf when social inclusion and hearing-impaired rights were not even news yet. I graduated in Libras (Brazilian Sign Language).

      I earned my independence and risked losing everything, starting all over with dignity time and again. I’ve long believed in ideals and in humanity, and have not stopped speaking against corruption and lack of ethics. For that reason I’ve had to let go of titles and positions, losing my work office, my desk, and suffering threats in the process. I was even told to present a psychiatric statement proving my sanity if I wanted to return to work from a sick leave. I had to let go of benefits because of my strong beliefs in truth and honour. Upon being blackballed in the corporate world, I was obliged to find a new way to survive.

      I am this being—super curious, seen by some as naïve, innocent, and hard-headed, but one who unconditionally loves innovation, loves human beings, and seeks the best way to improve the lives of everyone around.

      I am also determined, and I question things. I’ve gathered material from numerous sources over many years of studying and researching the work of experienced professionals. I’ve travelled the world, taking many cooking courses: vegetarian gastronomy at The Cordon Vert within the Vegetarian Society in the United Kingdom (the oldest in the world); some culinary courses at Le Cordon Bleu in the United States; a course at Ecole Ritz Escoffier in France; Indian cuisine in the United States; Thai culinary methods in Brazil; Health and Wellness Coach certification from Rice University in Texas, USA; and several other courses and certifications. I have learned much through experiences with friends from many cultures and with my own family, all of which can now be translated in a simple

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