More about the Healthy Living Gourmet Delivery

The Healthy Living menu is designed for clients who want to lead a generally healthier lifestyle and fight heart disease, the leading cause of death in Canada. The premise behind the Healthy Living Gourmet Delivery service is to enable clients to continue enjoying the food they love, but prepared in a healthy, gourmet manner.

The program is also ideal for health-conscious people who are too busy to cook, yet find it hard to stick to a self-regulated program, people recovering from illness or hospitalization who need to rebuild their strength and immune systems, and independent-living elderly people who find it difficult to get out to shop for fresh food and prepare it daily.

Canada's Food Guide for Healthy Eating has set forth dietary guidelines for heart healthy living, but with today’s hectic lifestyles few have time for the specialized grocery shopping and time consuming meal preparation. The Specialty Gourmet offers a solution. We’re a shopping service, nutritionist and personal chef in one.

Paying attention to fat intake is the most important part of the Healthy Living process. First you limit the total amount of fat, especially saturated fat, that you eat. Then you focus on the kinds of fat you eat (ie. emphasizing healthier fats over less healthy fats). A Healthy Living diet doesn’t mean depriving yourself of the nutrients, taste or smooth texture that fats add to food, it only means making the right food choices.

Contrary to popular belief, fat is an essential nutrient and unnecessarily limiting fat intake can actually be harmful to your health. However, all fats are not created equal. Healthy eating involves making wise food choices to ensure a healthy balance in both the amount and the kinds of fat we eat.

Healthy Living eating is not achieved by attention to fat alone. The nutrition principles we follow in creating our Healthy Living Gourmet Delivery service promote a varied and balanced eating style to support overall health and well-being.

Inspiration for the Healthy Living Gourmet Delivery service came from the continuing scientific information that clearly links the importance of diet with the development of arteriosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, which is the most common cause of heart disease and stroke. This research shows that:

• The level of blood fats, i.e. cholesterol, is too high in the majority of Canadian adults.
• The Lipid Research Clinic’s Study (1984) showed that every 1% reduction in cholesterol levels results in a 2% reduction in the incidence of coronary artery disease.
• The Helinski Heart Study (1987) showed that an 8% reduction in total cholesterol levels reduced all coronary artery disease complications by 34%.
• Dietary treatment is the cornerstone of therapy to reduce blood cholesterol levels.

Research proves that dietary changes can not only improve our quality of life, but can actually save lives. While this is great in theory, the truth is that we're creatures of habit and diet is one of the most difficult things to change. The Specialty Gourmet offers a delicious and truly satisfying solution with our Healthy Living Gourmet Delivery service.

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