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Colorful: Carolin Kotke from Tegernsee presents a successor to her bestseller from 2022 with “Eat colorful, feel better”.
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Author and breast cancer activist Carolin Kotke from Tegernsee has presented her new book.
“Eat colorful, feel better” is basically the sequel to “Eat well, feel better”.
Tegernsee - Author and breast cancer activist Carolin Kotke from Tegernsee has presented her new book.
“Eat colorful, feel better,” which she recently presented to readers and the Feel Better community via livestream, is essentially the continuation of her “Eat well, fell better,” which landed on the Spiegel bestseller list in 2022.
“Many readers would like more input to make healthy eating achievable in their everyday lives,” says Kotke.
In her new guide, the 36-year-old focuses even more on the topic of nutrients on almost 200 pages.
In the theoretical part, she explains which ones exist, which ones the human body needs at what stage of life, how you should shop to get food with lots of nutrients, and how to store it correctly.
And what nutrient thieves there are – such as coffee, black tea, sugar, alcohol, cigarettes, stress.
The woman from Tegernsee, who has survived breast cancer and has therefore made it her mission to raise awareness of cancer prevention, relies on the so-called alkaline diet, the effect of which is not without controversy.
The practical part focuses on the recipes.
Kotke sorted the nutrients by color and created a rainbow register.
“You can automatically get the right nutrients in the form of colors: the more colorful, the better,” says the author with a laugh.
At first glance you can see which nutrients are contained in which recipes.
All nutrients could be absorbed in the form of food.
However, there are life situations, genetic reasons, medication intake or illnesses where targeted supplementation makes sense.
Kotke recommends having a blood test so that you can make a specific selection based on your needs.
Prevention is good, control is better.
“But the book is also intended to help you identify your own nutrient deficiencies,” says the Tegernsee native.
She wants to move away from renunciation.
That's no fun - a colorful plate is.
“I want to move away from counting calories and towards counting colors.” Kotke would like people to become more adventurous when it comes to colorful nutrition.
That's why the Tegernsee resident has not only developed 50 alkaline recipes for breakfast, drinks, bread, dips and dressings, soups, salads and bowls, pizza, pasta and veggie lasagna, side dishes and sweets to cook, but also a modular system with which porridge can be made , smoothies and bowls put together.
The author convinced her guests at the book presentation that the colorful dishes also taste good.
She served sweet potato, orange and ginger soup, kale salad with beetroot, apple, mushrooms and walnuts or “Snickers” dates with peanut butter.
And it motivated her to set her good resolutions with the help of the weekly meal plan from the book.
The book “Eat colorful, feel better” by Carolin Kotke was published by GU and is available in stores for 26 euros (ISBN 978-3-8338-9148-9).