Ronaldo’S Kitchen the Super Power of Nutrition

By Ronaldo Fulieri

Each recipe is a fusion of both traditional Brazilian flavours combined with the tastes of multicultural Australia, which have inspired Ronaldo at home on the Gold Coast. With Ronaldo in your kitchen, youll fall in love with making good food and understanding the benefits of a nutritiously packed diet and what it can do for you and your health.
This is a book that will speak to everyone and is as packed with delicious food as it is with nutritional wisdom. So go ahead, turn the page and start living a nutritiously rich life today.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris AU
• Release date: Mar 10, 2016
• ISBN: 9781514445518

Ronaldo Fulieri

Born and raised in Sao Paulo, Brazil, nutritionist and chef Ronaldo Fulieri’s first book, Ronaldo’s Kitchen the super power of nutrition brings not only delicious and simple recipes to your dining room table but well informed nutritional information that will help you to enjoy good food and weight loss at the same time. Having experienced his own weight challenges Ronaldo speaks a familiar language when it comes to understanding the need for a well balanced diet. Passionate, unpretentious and charismatic, you will feel as though Ronaldo is at your side on each page

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What’s in your food?

Toxic Bodies

In the last few years working as a nutritionist and personal trainer I have watched closely what is happening with popular eating tendencies and the results that it is causing to our general population. It is clear now that millions of people around the world are suffering similar health challenges like obesity, diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer’s, Arthritis and many other degenerative diseases because of lifestyle choices.

In less than one hundred years our basic diet has changed dramatically. We have gone from natural, fresh, organic, wholesome and unrefined food to packaged, processed, artificial replacements. Our food is now genetically modified, treated with toxic pesticides, herbicides, preservatives, colourings and many other chemicals. The industrialized way of living has given us more food but less nutrition. Most meals today are being made in factories, not in kitchens.

As a health and fitness professional I have seen many cases of disorders and diseases caused by diet. Most of my challenging clients have been the ones who had the poorest eating choices and didn’t have any idea about nutrition. The lack of information available about food is most often the main cause of the problem. After starting a healthy eating plan combined with exercise most of my clients returned to their healthy weight and a better quality of life.

Food can have great preventive effects and can even heal us given the right conditions. However, in today’s world we have access to many types of foods and not all of them work in our favour to make us healthy. Some food contains ‘danger’ ingredients that are not even recognized as food inside our body, which may well be the cause of some diseases. For many years we have become accustomed to consuming food with many additional ingredients of which we are unaware of the side effects. There are hundreds of chemicals mixed daily with your food and many of them can cause more harm than good. In fact, the most popular food additives are the most well known to present side effects if consumed in excess.

I remember years ago using ‘light’ and ‘diet’ products to lose weight. Almost eighty percent of my whole shopping list had artificial chemicals in it. My no carbohydrate, protein shake, no sugar chewing gum, diet jelly, diet soft drink, light meals and no sugar products were all allowed. The only thing limited in my diet at that time was sugar and fat, everything else was free. I really didn’t care much about artificial sweeteners, fake colours and aromas or their side effects. All I wanted was to get lean and the fact that artificial sweeteners were zero calories was very attractive to me and that is why I decided to use them. Today, after researching and having seen enough evidence in my profession I have come to realize that there are serious side effects from long term use of artificial substances.

To me eating these foods is definitely not worth the risk. The most toxic food chemicals, when consumed in excess, are linked to diseases such as cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s and many others. In this chapter we are going to get a reality check on food and what some of the risks are to our health.

Healthy reality check

Have a look at today’s society for a minute. How many millions of people die annually from varying cancers, heart attacks and other degenerative diseases? Millions, right? How many of those people try some sort of drug treatment to fix the problem before trying a preventive therapy first?

As a health professional I have seen all sorts of people and health challenges over the years that are testament to great achievements. Every day I come across people who have survived deadly diseases and had great results with conventional treatments and people who decided to follow a natural type of therapy. One thing I realized that both types of patients had in common was their quality of health and lifestyles. What remained true for both was that the most successful patients were the ones who kept a good nutritionally balanced diet.

The idea of a pill as a quick fix to a health problem is most of time the greatest contributor to poor nutritional health. The excess of medication combined with poor exercise and nutrition can be a deadly combination. It only makes our bodies more toxic and takes us further from curing the disease. I have seen friends, family and clients dependent on medication to fix health problems and that is just not good enough for me. I still believe that we can be our own doctor and use natural therapies to prevent and overcome health challenges.

Drug therapy is not the solution to our problems. If it was, we would see fewer cases of fatal diseases. Medications sometimes can worsen a person’s capacity to heal if he or she is already debilitated. I have seen many patients that are malnourished and under drug therapy become more ill than when they started their treatment. We have to remember that medication is a drug and all drugs have side effects.

Why are we the unhealthiest nation in the world?

The fast paced lifestyles most of us live today make processed fast food attractive to our busy schedules. It is quick, cheap, tasty and easy to find everywhere. There is also no question that it is a success when it comes to business and profit margins. It is one of the most powerful industries in the developed world and has billions of dollars invested in many countries.

Today you can buy a ‘meal deal’ for $4.95 in most fast food shops and they often come with extras like a drink and dessert. It is very affordable and quick, right? Of course this is attractive to many people. However saving money on food can sometimes be more expensive for health years later. Fast food doesn’t necessarily mean nutritional food. We have to start weighing the pros and cons of these types of