Cooking & Eating Wisdom for Better Health

by Maria Benardis | Oct 22, 2013 | Greekalicious

The ideas behind “Cooking & Eating Wisdom for Better Health” and what I would like people to takeaway after reading the book. Cooking & Eating Wisdom for Better Health teaches people how to cook intuitively using healing ingredients that harmonize your body...

My background and how it helped…

by Maria Benardis | Oct 11, 2013 | Greekalicious

My background and how it helped in the writing of “Cooking & Eating Wisdom for Better Health”… I started my working life as an accountant and concentrated in taxation law. Completing my two degrees; Bachelor of Business (Accounting) and a Masters...

My motivation & inspiration for writing “Cooking and Eating Wisdom for Better Health”…

by Maria Benardis | Oct 7, 2013 | Greekalicious

It is through the ritual of cooking & eating that I have always connected and shared my love with other people, myself and nature. We live in a world where we are experiencing a continual increase in health related issues that doctors are unable to cure or...

What you eat is a reflection of how you feel – what story are your food cravings revealing about you?

by Maria Benardis | Sep 25, 2013 | Greekalicious

The ancient Greeks were firm believers that your emotions determined your state of health and what foods your body craved. The ancient Greeks adopted a “wisdom eating” philosophy to restore health, harmonize the body and to spiritually connect with themselves and...

10 ways to help your body detoxify and cleanse

by Maria Benardis | Jun 26, 2013 | Greekalicious

As Hippocrates (the Father of Medicine) rightly shared, “Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease”. Our bodies have the ability to detoxify themselves however the body can become overwhelmed due to the volume of toxins exposed in its environment by way...

10 things we could all do now to change our food system & better our health

by Maria Benardis | Mar 31, 2013 | Greekalicious

1. Eat at home instead of eating out Most eating establishments unfortunately do not use healthy ingredients to prepare the food that they sell to the consumer. Many use genetically modified ingredients, ingredients with pesticides and chemicals, “bad oils” etc For...