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Five elements for a healthy diet

2022-12-22T04:06:04.536Z


Five elements for a healthy diet Created: 12/22/2022, 4:56 am By: Felicitas Bogner Rely on the Chinese teachings of the “five element kitchen”: Franz Xaver Bodmaier with his first cookbook. © arp Nutritionist Franz Xaver Bodmaier from Jachenau has published a cookbook. Sustainability and a vegetarian diet are important to the 62-year-old. Jachenau – Health is his hobby and his job. That's why


Five elements for a healthy diet

Created: 12/22/2022, 4:56 am

By: Felicitas Bogner

Rely on the Chinese teachings of the “five element kitchen”: Franz Xaver Bodmaier with his first cookbook.

© arp

Nutritionist Franz Xaver Bodmaier from Jachenau has published a cookbook.

Sustainability and a vegetarian diet are important to the 62-year-old.

Jachenau – Health is his hobby and his job.

That's why Franz Xaver Bodmaier was drawn to Jachenau ten years ago.

"Nature and the opportunity to do sports everywhere out here, whether hiking or cycling, are the most important things to me," says the 62-year-old.

But not only fresh air and a lot of exercise belong to the basic building blocks of a conscious life for him.

"A healthy and sustainable diet is my top priority," says the nutritionist.

Bodmaier relies on the cooking theory of the "Five Elements" and also dispenses with meat.

The Jachenau resident by choice has now compiled his favorite recipes in his first cookbook, "Vegetarian Five Elements Kitchen".

The book was recently published.

Lessons from Traditional Chinese Medicine

The recipes are all based on the doctrine of the so-called five-element cuisine.

"It comes from traditional Chinese medicine," explains Bodmaier.

The foodstuffs are assigned to the elements earth, metal, water, wood and fire according to their properties.

According to this, the sweet taste and the basic building blocks of nutrition - i.e. carbohydrates, fat and protein - belong to the element earth.

The pungent taste belongs to the metal – for example hot spices such as chili or alcohol.

Associated with the element of water is the salty taste, as well as "everything that comes from water," he explains.

Wood is the sour element and fire is the bitter element.

"But the transitions can also be fluid." In other words, there are foods that belong to several elements.

The author has been a vegetarian for many years

It is also important in cooking lessons to put the elements in the right order in the saucepan.

This helps to better metabolize the individual components of a meal.

"It also makes a big difference in taste," the 62-year-old is convinced.

The five-element kitchen does not exclude any food.

"Basically, it's a cooking apprenticeship of everything and with everything."

Franz Xaver Bodmaier, however, has been a vegetarian himself for about 30 years.

"Back then, I had a lot to do with people who didn't eat meat, so I unconsciously reduced my meat consumption at first."

This was followed in 2003 by his training as a five-element nutritionist.

"And since then I've stuck to it myself because it's just good for me and tastes good."

Gluten-free recipes are also included

However, the newly published cookbook is not only vegetarian, but also "almost vegan, partly gluten-free and without soy products".

Does it sound like a lot of renunciation?

"It's not that, I just wanted to offer a range of recipes in the book that both gluten-intolerant and vegan people could benefit from," he explains.

In addition, animal products and wheat flour are foods that Bodmaier himself rarely eats.

"This is partly because I have a very vegetable-based diet and partly because there are a lot of people who don't tolerate wheat flour well," he explains.

It is important to him, both personally and in his nutritional advice, that there are no strict taboos.

"Exceptions are always allowed," the author writes in the introduction.

"You are what you eat"

"Regardless of what you eat, the alpha and omega behind it is always the quality of the food," emphasizes Bodmair.

"It is important to me to make people more aware of how to deal with themselves and nature." For him, good nutrition not only has something to do with one's own health, but also with sustainable behavior towards the environment .

"There's a lot of truth in the saying 'You are what you eat,'" says Bodmair.

Therefore, the diet should always be seasonal and regional.

In addition to aspects of sustainability, this is also based on the theory of the Five Elements.

“The tomato, for example, has a cooling effect.

It has no place on the menu in winter.

You can tell that by the fact that tomatoes don't grow here in the cold months."

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In his practice, Bodmaier notices that many people only think about their diet as soon as a problem arises.

“Actually, almost nobody comes preventively.

Most patients have cold problems, suffer from intolerance, have weight problems or other ailments,” he notes.

The more than 80 recipes include all dishes from breakfast to dinner, from starters to desserts.

“Almost everything came about while cooking.

If I liked something, I wrote it down straight away.” The man from Jachenau also surprises with many a creation, such as the “nut-free nut wedges”.

The culinary highlight for Bodmaier himself is his chocolate pudding.

The book "Vegetarian Five Elements Kitchen" costs 34.95 euros and is available in the Lenggries reading bar, in the green department store in Lenggries and by email to info@rundum-gesund.com.

You can find more current news from the region around Bad Tölz at Merkur.de/Bad Tölz.

Source: merkur

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