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The Fit Foodie®
DESTINATION SATIATION
BY CELEBRITY CHEF AND INDUSTRY EXPERT MAREYA IBRAHIM, THE FIT FOODIE
It can be hot, sweet, smoky, spicy and raw. It’s yummy. It’s sensual, and it can bring you to tears. It’s fun too - so fun, that most people do it 3 times a day.
e truth is, it can completely change your destiny, and the fork in the road is what you choose to put in your mouth.
Food is, quite literally, information.
e heritage of the food, its ordinance, its’ upbringing are all imprints and all of this passes onto us and a ect our DNA. e foods we eat can be vibrant and full of energy, like a rainbow chard that basks in the sun and feeds from rich, nutrient dense soil, and is picked a few miles away. We take that into our bodies and things get serious. All the chlorophyll does
some major magic and our cells do a happy dance, oxygenating
us into a focused and present state. It is a
chain reaction, and there is no choice but to feel vital and strong. We pass this on to
our children and they inherit our DNA, built by how we care for and fuel our bodies.
When you think about how this information
becomes part of our genetic makeup, it makes you think twice about downing the Ding Dongs and diet soda.
Last October, I took a group of 7 people to Tuscany to get a taste of culture and cooking in the hills above Pisa. It’s a magical locale,
a brick and terracotta villa nestled in a grove of over 300 silvery leafed olive and stately Cypress trees. Lush and rustic, it’s proprietors are two super cool and well-spoken Italians who make it their living to nurture visitor’s stomachs and intellects. Paolo, aka ‘Wiki
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Small bites adorn the table
Mareya Ibrahim is e Fit Foodie. She is the creator of EAT CLEANER® and the Cleaner Plate Club, teaching families how to enjoy cleaner, safer, longer last- ing fresh food. She is also a fea- tured chef on “Everyday Health’s Recipe Rehab” and hosts “Fit Foodie” Fridays on Channel 6 San Diego. is time of year, she can’t get enough of golden beets, butternut squash and Branzino.