What if I told you that when you cook, even one of the simplest recipes, that’s enough to boost your nutritional levels, increase your family’s overall health and lower all your risks of obesity and disease?
While cooking and eating together as a family, could improve your child’s academic ability, their language and vocabulary skills as well as growing everyone’s happiness, confidence, self-esteem, and feeling of belonging? And all the while; lowering the risk of stress, drug use, alcoholism and risky behaviour in teens too?
Would you say- “Yeah right!”
Well, guess what, yeah, it is right! And it’s why we wrote this next book: Your House of Cooks.
There’s a growing trend for people to spend less time in the kitchen and leave it to the cooking masters on TV. But as we’re putting down the apron and wholefoods, and picking up the readymade meals, studies are finding the lost art of cooking and eating meals together is impacting us in more ways than one, leading to increases in both physical and mental unwellness.
So, let’s look at what the science is finding:
Scientific studies have found that a family making a meal together, not only encourages self-pride, self-respect, selfcare and confidence, it encourages a greater awareness and mindfulness about what you’re choosing to eat, the food you’re about to ingest, which is used to manufacture every cell in your body, from new brain cells to heart cells, to hormone and skin cells.
Children and adults who prepare and eat more homecooked meals together, have less obesity, better connections with each other, as well as higher confidence and self-esteem in themselves.
And it doesn’t even need to be fancy foods; in several studies it was found that children and teenagers who know how to cook simple meals from basic ingredients have not only better nutrition, but far higher confidence, less depressive symptoms, greater well-being and stronger family connections.
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