Natural Essential Oils for Health (ePub)

Modern cooking is probably one of the most criticised forms ofart of modern era. Industrialised food has without doubt, madea mark of its own in deteriorating the average health markersaround the world. Starting from the 1980s, a secret movementhad started to improve the health of people and to go back toour grandparents' and great-grandparents' time when strokesand heart disorders rarely did exist. Science has been thebiggest ally in this fight against packaged, industrialised food asit keeps up its march of revelation, unheeded and unstoppedby the returning fire that most industrial houses andprivately-funded laboratories provide in the form of researchesand reports for certain food materials, trying to convince thepeople that they can be beneficial for health.Since health has become one of the primary issues for state aswell as private levels, selecting the best oil for maintaining agood health can be a task of its own. Cooking is an art, andjust like all other forms of art, it requires the right focus andthe right brushes to make a perfect picture. Just like the rightamount of paint, orientation and the right choice of brushesmake way for a perfect picture, similarly, a healthy platterrequires one to use the right cooking and food oils to maintaina healthy outlook in life.There are a thousand varieties of foods and food oils eachcorresponding to the region they are grown in, the culture theymight represent and the tradition that often follow aroundthem. Lots of these oils are used for cooking purposes while alot of them are simply used as cold consumption oils forseveral purposes such as maintaining biological health,massaging or even as treatments against certain disorders suchas skin related issues, rashes, healing purposes or formaintaining skin tone. Oils also have had a cultural associationto them, countless number of regions use local oils for religiousrituals and social processions to name a few. Some of theseoils have been in use for more than a millennium (the gheefor example).And hence, oils have multipurpose objectives behind them, mostof them being used as cooking agents and biological 'healers'.However, when it comes to selecting the right oils, then oneneeds to go beyond culture and traditions and peek into theworld of science to judge and select the very best of them.Such oils can still list down to a couple of numbers but thebest of them range not beyond single digits. That is, mostnutritionists and health experts put down a mean number of 6and probably a maximum of 9 healthy oil to select from forcooking purposes. In this book, a brief introduction to theseoils is present that lists down the best essential oils one canhave primarily for cooking and consumption purposes, sincehealth is for a considerable part, related to the food that iseaten on average terms. Followed by the introduction, that willalso include the criteria that makes an oil healthy or not, willbe content on some of these oils' chemical breakup and whyeach of the oil discussed blow is beneficial for biological andmental health, as most nutritionists and doctors put them downto be. Information contained here is fully authentic and withoutany personal bias, belief or myth.