Join Tammie Delveaux INHC from Belly Love Wellness as she teaches how to prepare delicious foods that are satisfying and support health and wellness. This is the fourth in a monthly series.
April: What are healthy fats? - Healthy fats can range from things like extra-virgin olive oil to animal fats like beef tallow. They are used in cold applications like in cold pressed oils for salad dressings, pesto, hummus, baba ganoush, muhammara, romesco sauce, roasted cauliflower dip, guacamole, and chimichurri to name just a few. Traditional and ancestral animal fats are important for a healthFUL diet as well. Choose grass fed, when you can, which has more vitamins and minerals, and none of the toxins that conventionally raised animals store in their fat cells (from being grain fed, antibiotics, and hormones), which is where humans store toxins as well, to keep them away from our vital organs. Grass fed/pasture raised/wild caught (means how the animal should naturally be in the wild) and will allow us to use the bones, organs, fat, and meat in a healing way, just like our ancestors did. It’s more than just a fad, and it's more than just a way to use up the whole animal for survival. It is actually the way we should be eating for good health. Examples of animal fats to use are beef tallow, ghee, duck fat, schmaltz, pork fat (lard), and grass fed butter (share smoke points with each). Saturated fat can be a healthful choice for human consumption, contrary to what conventional nutrition science promotes. Additionally, there are examples of plant-saturated fats that are healing as well, such as - organic coconut and palm oil. We will discuss fats to watch out for, like - highly processed, heated, refined oils such as canola, vegetable, soy, corn, peanut, safflower, rapeseed and sunflower oils. Also look for oils in dark glass bottles to prevent the light from oxidizing these fragile substances. It is in fact healthy to use cold pressed seed oils like organic sesame and walnut oil as finishing oils in sauces and sautes.
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