Smart Cuisine Hong Kong

Smart Cuisine Hong Kong Your private cook & nutrition expert at your place Aside from weight loss, this method also balances out your figure. Private cooking classes are also available.

Based on a French diet strategy, "la chrononutrition", SMART Cuisine introduces a whole new way of eating that follows the body's natural rhythm and enzymatic secretions. Each menus are carefully elaborate to tweak traditional french & western recipes, achieving the taste I deemed perfect for each dish. Inspired by global flavors and exotic cuisine (from south east Asia to north African) I also d

esign new brand menus by exploring food combination at its best. I offer you the luxury to simplify your life with a private cook or personal chef services providing homemade, delicious, healthy and customized meals, either in the privacy of your home or delivered to your doorstep
(specific areas only for delivery service). Please contact me for any further information

"Healthy" snack foods to avoid #2: FROZEN YOGURTYou may feel virtuous ordering a creamy white swirl of frozen yogurt f...
20/11/2012

"Healthy" snack foods to avoid #2: FROZEN YOGURT

You may feel virtuous ordering a creamy white swirl of frozen yogurt from any one of the "real" yogurt shops popping up across the city but what are you really getting?
Does fro-yo offer all the same health benefits as regular yogurt?
Is this seemingly guilt-free pleasure truly low-fat?
Is "real" or "natural" frozen yogurt better for me than the B & J's version ?

Common frozen-yogurt myth is that since it’s yogurt, it’s full of healthy probiotics that maintain digestive health and give your immune system a boost. But whether a given brand of frozen yogurt contains enough probiotic bacteria to actually have this beneficial effect depends on the manufacturer. Some research has suggested that the freezing process renders them inactive.
But, as far as I'm concerned, probiotics are not worth the calories in most frozen yogurt since you can get probiotics virtually calorie-free in capsules.

While most frozen yogurt is nonfat or very low in fat the calories still add up.
Most nonfat "original" or "plain" (typically the lowest-calorie flavor at most frozen yogurt shops) is about 30-35 calories per ounce with about 20g of sugar.
1 Large (16-ounce) cup = 380 calories, 76g of sugar before adding any toppings.
Before you indulge in a frozen snack, think about what you're getting. Lots of women order the large (16 oz) cup at their favorite frozen yogurt shop and think they've made a healthy choice. Throw on sliced banana and a sprinkling of shredded coconut and you're looking at 530 calories.
That's more than an entire pint of B & J's vanilla frozen yogurt (520 calories). If you're looking for quantity and all the goodies along with it, you're better off splitting a pint of B & J's chocolate fudge brownie frozen yogurt with a friend.
1/2 pint (around 8 oz) B&J's chocolate fudge= 320 calories and 5g fat, many fewer calories than a large fro-yo.



Though a strictly frozen yogurt diet is not a healthy choice, that doesn’t mean there isn’t a time and place to enjoy this delicious chilly snack. Pick a small size, choose fruit toppings, and don’t swap your lunchtime salad for a fro-yo.
But I’d rather opt for a portion of the ‘real deal’: regular ice cream. If I’m going to indulge, I really want to enjoy my indulgence.

"Healthy" snack foods to avoid #1: YOGURTWhat ? I thought yogurt is a good source of calcium and good bacteria for my ...
13/11/2012

"Healthy" snack foods to avoid #1: YOGURT

What ? I thought yogurt is a good source of calcium and good bacteria for my gut.
This depends on the type of yogurt you choose. Most flavoured yogurt contains a significant dose of refined sugar and artificial flavouring. Those yogurt parfaits that you can pick up at your favourite coffee shop usually contain syrupy fruit or a hefty dose of honey with sweetened granola on top.
Talk about a sugar bomb!

Healthier Alternative:
Choose plain yogurt (avoid fat-free), set in the pot (ensuring qualitative/quantitative proteins) and sweeten it with fresh fruit. Top with some raw chopped almonds for some crunch and "good" fats (90% of fat in almonds are unsaturated fat which help lower bad cholesterol )

26/10/2012

Food Cravings #2: Behind a cupcake call

It is calling you.
You can practically taste the sweet, creamy goodness. You want it so badly you can't think of anything else.
But is it really the taste you crave—or the pleasant associations it brings? Or do you crave it partly because you know you shouldn't have it? Will fighting the urge make it go away or only make it worse?

For decades, researchers surmised that food cravings were the body's subconscious effort to correct nutritional deficiencies. According to this theory, longing for steak could indicate a need for protein or iron. Chocoholics might be low on magnesium or other mood-altering chemicals that chocolate contains, including phenylalanine, a compound humans produce when they're in love.
But only few people will crave vitamin-rich green leafy vegetables and many other foods contain more phenylalanine than chocolate—including salami and cheese.

Heavily influenced by environmental cues, Food cravings involve a complex mix of social, cultural and psychological factors.
For example, while chocolate is consistently the most-craved food in North America, Japanese women are more likely to crave sushi. While women tend to yearn for sweet, indulgent foods, men usually seek hot dishes.

Whether it is for comfort (because it is like “self-medicating”, sweets and carbohydrates spur release of serotonin and other feel-good brain chemicals ) or as reward, cravings are fine on occasion.
But indulging too often can send cravings spiraling out of control.
Food cravings activate the same reward circuits as alcohol and drugs in our brain (driven by dopamine, the neurotransmitter responsible for reward-driven learning).

Pretty soon, you will raise the threshold of that reward, which means that it gradually takes more and more to regain that initial pleasure.

25/10/2012

Food Cravings #1: Overview

A craving is defined as "a consuming desire or yearning."
It is clear that food cravings result from emotional, psychological, or physiological triggers.
Surveys estimate that almost 100% of young women and nearly 70% of young men had food cravings during the past year.
That covers most of us, doesn't it?
(I find comfort in knowing I am not alone !!!)

Our bodies tell us when we're hungry, but hunger isn't always the reason we eat, as many of us can attest to, whether we're overweight or not.

'Physiological hunger means your body needs food'
Physiological hunger generally comes on gradually and may be accompanied by physical symptoms like a growling stomach, or even light-headedness, dizziness or low energy.
"Feeling like eating" can be emotional or psychological.
Emotional or psychological hunger often has no relation to when you last ate, and may not go away after eating. It is usually triggered by an event, a feeling or emotion.
It arises to satisfy emotional needs, such as calming stress and reducing anxiety

09/10/2012

One reason why most diets fail is that they treat everyone’s body the same. Most diets promote themselves as “The Magic Diet” that works for everyone.

Everyone’s body works differently (In order to get results). Everyone's body shape is different.
Body morphotype is defined by our physical characteristics (you can have an hourglass figure for example, or a more apple-shaped figure) which are determined in part by our genetics but also by our dietary habits and physical activity. Chrononutrition takes morphotype into account in order to help you understand how your body works and why it tends to store up fat more than others.

This method seeks to educate people on how their body works, so that they seek ways in which to incorporate healthy eating and exercise that is right for their body.

If you can understand how your body operates, it is easy to bring about changes

28/09/2012

The rules of Chrono nutrition:
"Eat carbs, cheese, butter & chocolate (provided you respect schedules and quantities!), and reach a well balanced body shape"

Yes, you heard that right :
When we carefully choose the time of our meals and types of food that we intake, there is no more fat accumulation, in certain body areas so our body shape can change in short amount of time.
By eating food at the right body's biological time, you will lose or redistribute weight from one body area to another.

"You CAN have your cake & EAT it too !" What if you could discover a wide range of truly delicious food and recipes that...
26/09/2012

"You CAN have your cake & EAT it too !"

What if you could discover a wide range of truly delicious food and recipes that not only left you satisfied, full of energy and feeling really good but also prevented diet-related diseases such as obesity, diabetes & heart disease ?
What if you could reach a well balanced body shape without being food deprived ?

Make that "what if " a reality
There's absolutely no reason why healthy body has to be paired with dietary restrictions, tasteless and dull food.

The Paris-Tokyo salad
24/09/2012

The Paris-Tokyo salad

Blowtorch salmon with balsamic vinegar glaze. Fresh fish is coated with the sweet and savory Italian condiment and torch...
24/09/2012

Blowtorch salmon with balsamic vinegar glaze.
Fresh fish is coated with the sweet and savory Italian condiment and torched to a perfect texture.

24/09/2012

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