Food and Drink Hobbies

Introduction

Nourish your wellbeing with mindful cooking and eating. Enjoy one of life’s greatest and most essential pleasures with a culinary hobby.

Conceptual scientific and medical advances have led to a recent realization that there may be no single, one-size-fits-all diet and that differential human responses to dietary inputs may rather be driven by unique and quantifiable host and microbiome features.—Diet–microbiota interactions and personalized nutrition | Nature Reviews Microbiology
The autonomic nervous system, hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, and nerves within the gastrointestinal tract, all link the gut and the brain, allowing the brain to influence intestinal activities, including activity of functional immune effector cells; and the gut to influence mood, cognition, and mental health.—The Gut-Brain Axis: Influence of Microbiota on Mood and Mental Health – PMC
Whether you’re chopping, slicing, whipping, marinating, or kneading, the art of mindful cooking presents the opportunity to anchor the mind and focus attention on the senses, tuning them in to the sights, sounds, smells, and textures of the culinary task at hand. In applying attention to the details of what you are doing, you will likely discover an increased calm and clarity in the kitchen. You never know, it might even make everything a little tastier, too!—What Is Mindful Cooking And How To Practice It – Headspace
Eating mindfully means that you are using all of your physical and emotional senses to experience and enjoy the food choices you make. This helps to increase gratitude for food, which can improve the overall eating experience. Mindful eating encourages one to make choices that will be satisfying and nourishing to the body.—Mindful Eating | The Nutrition Source | Harvard
This comprehensive review of the literature about eating pleasure […] showed favorable links between eating pleasure and dietary outcomes […]—Can eating pleasure be a lever for healthy eating? A systematic scoping review of eating pleasure and its links with dietary behaviors and health – PMC