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Dr. Grace: Okay? Preparations are, there are 3 key elements into the whole ritual of eating: Food preparation, presentation, and concentration. Okay? So regardless of the food that we choose to eat, whether we want to eat raw food, whether we want to eat organic food, whether we want to eat vegan or a vegetarian diet, whether we want to eat meat. I don't care. I really, personally do not care. I don't have judgment on people who like meat the same way I don't have judgment on people who eat only raw food. However, I preach that either group of eaters should prepare their food, should present their food in a way that pleases the senses, such as the eyes, the nose, you know, the nose, the touch, and the taste, and sometimes even the, we need to hear food, you know, when it boils, when it cooks, when it bakes, and then to concentrate on eating the food. Eating food is a ritual and a ritual has steps, okay? If we all prepared our food, if we prepared our food, let's say 3 times a week, not every day. I'm not solely, you know, believing that we have time to cook 3 times a day, every day a week, but let's cook 3 times or let's even cook once, let's cook once the meals of the week. Let's budget 3 hours, alright, on a Sunday and cook the food for the whole week. Do you know how therapeutic and healing that is? That will take away all the rush and the hurriedness and the, okay, let's gobble food down, because we learn to wait, we learn to pick the food, we learn to chop it, we learn to cut it, we learn to use our kitchen. Sometimes we create community as we cook. We may cook with a partner, we may cook with a neighbor, we may cook with our children, we may cook with our parents, and so it stops being about eating for the sake of eating and it stops being about eating well or right or wrong. It's about incorporating food as part of life and adding pleasure to the way we interact with food. So we eat dead stuff. We eat dead stuff, we eat fat, we eat without paying attention to what we are eating, and we don't share the food that we eat. And so because we take away all these pleasures that surround the ritual of eating we eat unconsciously. So we keep eating and eating and eating and just stuffing our body with food and then the only gratification that we're most likely to get is this fixation from having eaten. Sometimes we don't even remember what we ate. Sometimes we don't even pay attention to how many times we chewed of what we ate. Wouldn't you agree? Kevin: Yes. Dr. Grace: We eat very, very fast and then what does this do to us? It taxes the body and we eat fast and, again, you see, you may eat very healthy food. You may eat just the raw food or just organic or just vegan or just I don't know you name it. I mean there's just so much, the technology and the of good, healthy food is so advanced today that every day we come up with a new brand or a new department of good, healthy food. I don't care what kind of food we eat, but we may eat it very fast. Kevin: And you say food is love. Is that what you mean by that? Dr. Grace: Yes, I believe that we are what we eat. I do believe that. So if we prepare the foods that we eat with love we ingest love and this is what happened, I mean, isn't this the whole idea about breast feeding? About, you know, feeding the baby with love? Giving just the nutrients from the mother's body? I think that this is in a certain unconscious or conscious level, I think this is what we're looking for in our adult life. We're looking for love in the food that we eat and, again, if we keep severing the ritual of preparing food of presenting the food on a plate in a nice way that pleases our senses and then concentrating on eating the food and relating to the food as though the food were something really, really important that gives us life. As long as we sever those elements of the ritual of eating I think that no matter what is the food that we're eating it's not going to serve its true purpose. Kevin: Do you think that starting a practice like this can lead to opening up yourself to other possibilities like maybe exploring other options, diet plans or any other successful health program? Dr. Grace: Absolutely, absolutely and it starts in fact if we slow down a little bit and start paying attention to how we eat, how we eat is the first one, our behavior around eating. Then we're going to start paying attention to what we eat. We need time to pay attention, we need time and space to pay attention to what it is that we're eating. For this complete interview on weight loss, self fulfillment and healthy eating with Dr. Maria Grace, please visit www.FountainofYouthWorldSummit.com.
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