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VANCOUVER’'S ANNUAL
HEALTH Y,CHEFICOMPETITION

 
 

Stephanie Trembath

ife and Style Editor

romoting healthy eating at an
event with over ten well-known
restaurants and hotels competing
for the titled prize is Vancouver’s own
Healthy Chef Competition, which is
hosted at the Hyatt regency hotel each
year. The competition, which promotes
the consumption of fresh fruits and
veggies at every meal, includes some of
Vancouver’s best chefs, apprentices, and
sous chefs, to create healthy, fun, and
savoury dishes in fine dining. Sponsored
by the BC Chef’s Association, and the
British Columbia Produce Marketing
Association [BCPMA], Healthy Chef was
a hit once again with savoury dishes that
showcased healthy choices.
This year the Healthy Plate award
went to the River Rock Casino for
their Tandoori beef tenderloin and
Tikki vegetables, accompanied by mint
chutney with beef coulis. The award
for Best Dessert went to the Gold Fish
Pacific Kitchen for their dessert trio
which included; pineapple yoghurt
mousse, white chocolate apple cake, and
strawberry panna cotta.
Eating a well-rounded diet of fresh
fruits and vegetables is one way to
stay healthy, but there are other ways
to maintain a balanced diet and get the
nutrition you need from your meals:
Eat local:
Supporting local farmers markets
is better for you, as well as smaller
businesses and the local economy. Locally
grown produce is fresher as it is often
picked and packaged a day before you
purchase, whereas large supermarkets
store and freeze their produce for weeks.
Local produce tastes better as a result.
The 100-Mile Diet is becoming the latest
craze, which involves eating locally raised
and produced food that is grown in a 100
mile radius from where you live. This

new fad is said to be better than eating
organic, as consumers are in touch with
the seasons and the food sources available
at each time of year, which is said to
introduce new flavours and increase your
health.

 

Eat with Chopsticks:

Chopsticks have been used in
China since the Han Dynasty, around
200BC, whereas the fork was introduced
in the French court in the mid 1500's.
While chopsticks can be difficult to use,
especially if you are unskilled and new in
this area, there are a few benefits to using
these tricky little sticks; it is more difficult
to scoop up large amounts of food on a
chopstick than it is a fork or spoon, and
you have to work a little bit harder to pick
up what you are eating. For this reason,
it forces you to slow down what you eat,
which is beneficial as your stomach will
begin to digest your food faster than you
can shove it in your mouth and you will
realize you are full quicker as a result.
Rather than obsess over your portion
sizes, look at how big your utensils or
dishes are first.
Eat more often:

 

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caffeine or sugar to give your adrenaline
and energy source a boost. On the

other hand, if you eat more often your
metabolism will not have a chance to slow
to a standstill, and you won’t feel the need
to stuff yourself when you do get a chance
to sit down and eat.

Eating smaller meals, more
frequently, rather than consuming large
amounts of food three times a day will
result in less snacking and stocking up
on sugary foods. Eating less frequently
slows down the metabolism, which also
puts your body at risk as you will crave
something sweet and packed full of

 

  
 

  
         
 

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