SPRING: THE SEASON OF LOVE
SAVOR YOUR FOOD
EATING FOR ACTION: A FOOD ENERGETICS GUIDE TO SENSUAL EATING
BY KIELE JAEL KIELEJAEL.COM
Discover libido-boosting foods. The nutritional science of food's electromagnetic effect on the body, food energetics derives from Traditional Chinese Medicine's approach to food as medicine. If aphrodisiacs be the food of love, eat on. “My grandmother taught me to touch my food to connect with what I'm eating, and
In Eastern medicine, food energetics is the
appreciate how it will nourish and feed me.
practice of prescribing specific foods for a
I've carried over this very simple idea [of]
desired wellness outcome. If you ask Kiele
touching your food and honoring it,” she
Jael, a Guam-native, Brooklyn-based
says.
holistic chef and nutritionist specializing in healing with food, the ancient concept of
Taste with pleasure. This sensual-eating
eating for action also translates literally:
tip for connecting mind, body and soul
to the bedroom. If images of sexy foods
goes especially for fast eaters. Savor your
like chocolate-dipped strawberries conjure
food!
in your mind, you're on to something bigger. Borrow these libido-peaking,
Skip the sugary dessert. For after dinner,
seasonally-appropriate ideas for
help yourself to fresh fruit and dark
nourishing your sensual side with food, just
chocolate instead of artificially processed
in time to experience a spring awakening.
desserts. Too much sugar can trigger what
Partner optional!
the food energetics system deems an imbalance: mood and libido killers.
39| SPIRALIZED • SPRING 2019
