Sunflowers Art Oil
Olive Oil: A Weight Loss Blessing
The following is an excerpt from the book The Sonoma Diet
by Dr. Connie Guttersen, R.D., Ph.D.
Published by Meredith Books; December 2005;$24.95US/$34.95CAN; 0-69622-831-9
Copyright © 2006 Dr. Connie Guttersen, R.D., Ph.D.
In Sonoma County each year, there's a special festival called the Blessing of the Olives. That's how central olive trees and the foods they yield are to the economy and the eating habits of the region.
Olive oil, the most treasured gift of these blessed trees, is just as central to The Sonoma Diet. There's probably no food choice you'll make that does more for your health and weight loss efforts than olive oil.
Which is good news for your taste buds, because no other vegetable oil comes close to olive oil's rich and pleasing flavor. It's at the heart of Mediterranean cuisine's appeal. A dish prepared with olive oil almost seems to announce to anyone who smells or tastes it, "I'm special."
Healthy Fat
The research is clear as can be that a major reason for southern Europeans' low rate of heart disease is their liberal use of olive oil as their main source of dietary fat. By adopting olive oil in the same way, you'll get the same benefits. And because you'll learn to enjoy olive oil in healthy amounts in place of the harmful fats you may be used to, you will lose weight.
To appreciate olive oil as a power food, banish from your mind the notion that it's the "least bad" fat. It is a heart-healthy food that is good for you. You need dietary fat to lose weight, but you need the right kind. Olive oil is one of the best. Choose extra-virgin olive oil and you'll also enhance the flavors of your food.
Put simply, the kind of fat that olive oil is mostly made of (monounsaturated fat) actually lowers your levels of the bad LDL cholesterol as well as blood fats called triglycerides. The fats you'll be avoiding (saturated fat) raise those levels. That right there qualifies olive oil as a power food par excellence.
A Wealth of Antioxidants
But there's more. Unique among vegetable oils, olive oil -- particularly extra-virgin olive oil -- is rich in the same family of antioxidant phytonutrients that make all the other power foods on the Top Ten list so effective in preventing heart disease. The same phenols that make olive oil taste so good also make up its main category of antioxidants. Olive oil also contains carotenoids (like beta-carotene) and vitamin E.
In addition, olive oil reduces two other heart disease risks -- high blood pressure and inflammation.
There's Fat and Then There's Fat
As the title tells us, not all fats were created alike. There are three naturally occurring types of fat: saturated, monounsaturated, and polyunsaturated, as well as one manufactured fat, known as hydrogenated oil (commonly referred to as trans fat).
The majority of the types of fat you should eat come mostly from plant oils. The healthiest are led by monounsaturated fats, such as extra-virgin olive oil, nuts, canola oil, and avocados. Other healthy oils are found in the polyunsaturated category, such as grapeseed oil, sunflower oil, and the omega-3 oils found in some cold-water fish, flaxseeds, and walnuts.
The kind of fat you must limit eating is the saturated fat found mostly in animal foods such as meats and dairy products, as well as those found in palm and coconut oils. This does not mean you can't eat meat or dairy. You can. But it does mean that you must seek the lean or nonfat versions of meat or dairy foods.
You can recognize saturated fat because it's solid at room temperature or lower -- the white rimming a steak, the marble in prime rib, the chicken fat that skims a soup in the fridge, a stick of butter. Its primary sin is raising the levels of bad LDL cholesterol in your arteries, inviting heart disease. In fact, saturated fat ups your blood cholesterol more than dietary cholesterol itself. Hydrogenated oils should be avoided because they have far worse effects on your health and heart than saturated fats.
Copyright © 2006 Dr. Connie Guttersen, R.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Connie Guttersen, R.D., Ph.D., a leading nutrition expert, has devoted her career to developing flavorful approaches to healthy eating and weight reduction.
A registered dietitian, culinary professional, and nutrition consultant to the world-famous Culinary Institute of America at Greystone, Dr. Guttersen delivers key nutrition messages to the food industry, media, and health professionals by bringing together the art and science of food. She has focused extensively on the health benefits of diets inspired by Mediterranean and other regional cuisines.
Dr. Guttersen's many accomplishments include developing the standards of care for a medical obesity treatment center in Bellevue, Washington, as well as serving as a nutrition consultant for a broad range of companies including Kraft, Nestle, Sodexho Marriott, Radisson Hotels, Hyatt Classic Residences, and Panera Bread.
Dr. Guttersen lives in the beautiful wine country of northern California with her husband and two children.
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Van Gogh's Sunflowers
Van Gogh Sunflower Van Gogh was a great post-Impressionist painter, his work gives the feeling is full of passion. He has friends, arrived in sunny "blue sky makes fibrillation was" Al lived, where he braved the hot sun, braving the wind, to the fields, orchards, river, sitting in a place away from the crowd, with chrome yellow, malachite, cinnabar, orange pigments ground lead paint swipes.
His paintings from this period, we will be with him as a lonely old bridge and emotion, as the crow flew on wheat group and lament, for the harvest season and the excitement. And compared to Monet, Van Gogh's paintings are no longer in the natural scenery in the shadow of the performance, but focus more on feelings of self-expression. This is also the impressionist and post impressionist landscape painter in the performance of not to.
Van Gogh's works is undoubtedly the most famous painting "Sunflowers." He has repeatedly described the theme of still life with sunflowers, sunflowers to decorate his love with his room in Arles. He once said: "I want to draw on half a dozen of the" Sunflower "to decorate my studio, so pure chrome yellow, or reconcile, in a variety of backgrounds, in various degrees of blue base, from the blue light of Weiluoneisai to the most advanced blue, sparkling; I want to give these paintings accompanied by the finest painted orange and yellow frame, just like Gothic church stained glass. "Van Gogh and are done so al-August sun to shine on the screen colors, these colors hot sun, from the heart devout worship emotions.
Van Gogh paintings, a feeling of extreme fanatical impulse to chase violent improvisation, this piece lasts the "Sunflower" is brilliant in the sunny south of France made. Artists like shining blazing flame, is so gorgeous, gorgeous, but it is also harmonious, elegant and even delicate, that sporty and if rotation is so thick brush strokes kept strong, pure color contrast is strong. However, in this simple but thick and full of wisdom and aura. Viewers watching the paintings, were all that exciting picture effects and induction, heart thrilled, passion is gushing out, all eager to common wealth into Van Gogh's subjective feelings go. In short, Van Gogh's sunflower not just plants described, but with the original impulse and passion of living organisms.
Van Gogh's art is great, but in his lifetime has not been recognized by the community. His works contain a deep sense of tragedy, its strong personality and unique in the form of the pursuit, far away in front of generations, the people were really difficult to be accepted. His environment to seize the object, he re-change the reality, in order to achieve real truth, led to the birth of expressionism. In most people's misunderstanding of his time, it was his own creation, when the most confident. So it left a permanent artistic works. He directly influenced the French Fauvism, German Expressionism, that emerged in the early 20th century portrait of lyrical abstraction.
"Sunflower" is brilliant in the sunny south of France made. Artists like shining blazing flame, full of fiery passion and a sense that if the rotating movement of the brush is so thick non-stop powerful, pure color contrast is strong. However, in this simple but thick and full of wisdom and aura. Viewers watching the paintings, were all that exciting picture effects and induction, heart thrilled, passion is gushing out, all eager to common wealth into Van Gogh's subjective feelings go. In short, Van Gogh's sunflower not just plants described, but with the original impulse and passion of living organisms.
"Sunflower" is particularly fond of the late Van Gogh painted the subject matter, this painting is painted by Van Gogh in a number of Al "sunflower" in the most representative one. Van Gogh liked to use large blocks of color and contrast spy black contour shape and organization of the performance of the screen at the same time, a strong golden yellow is often the primary colors in his painting, because the character of Van Gogh fell in love with warm warm the birthplace of color - the sun, the sun has become the object of his praise, while the sun's light is yellow, in his view. Van Gogh boiling passion to the country every day, collecting golden sunflowers, "I let the refined mixture of chrome yellow or pale blue to deep blue in color from a different background, into the issue of burning flame."
With a strong feeling he taken the trouble to draw his favorite sunflowers, a strong performance this artist's subjective experience of objective things. He is good with strong colors, full color emotions, making the colors to express his thoughts and feelings as an important means, which is an important feature of the art of Van Gogh. "Sunflower" to Van Gogh in Arles art to its peak. To obtain the most brilliant color effects, "Sunflower," the color is different brightness, different purity drawn in yellow, yellow background, yellow vase, yellow flowers. Dark yellow, light yellow, lemon yellow, orange, yellowish brown ... ... only a small amount of dark green and grass green branches and leaves painted with a little sky-blue flower. Van Gogh had never used the color. He was so used to moving the yellow, the yellow play a touching charm.
You see the air flowing golden sun, the bottle to open a vibrant sunflower petals, enjoy sucking air and sunshine. Full absorption of the sun appears to melt in the air, flowers, deep yellow, light yellow, lemon yellow, orange flower debate, how glorious, how dazzling. Van Gogh's love given to the hearts of all the lovely sunflowers, Van Gogh sunflowers for spit "Love the strongest light." "Sunflowers" Van Gogh is injected into the hearts of strong feelings, it is shocking, touching, this is the "Sunflower" arising from the charm.
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