Go for it! Make a Difference!

Food has always been an important thing in my life. I've spent my early teenage days in a kitchen, cooking, experimenting, chopping, mixing, and bringing a smile to my family's faces.

When I was a kid, I would cry like crazy if my parents would offer me a green vegetable thing. I remember how my father would use to make us eat spinach and my trowing up face each time when I would put just a bit of it in my mouth.

Later trough the years, food became a sort of a therapy for me. Everything would make sense in the kitchen. There isn't anything in the whole world that can bring such a comfort on a bad day. And let me tell you, I have had them. But when a food becomes a therapy session, it creates so many problems, which I have become aware of, only recently. Becoming bigger and bigger, is only one, possibly, the smallest thing.

I remember how I used to sit in my room, alone, not having any friends, and not showing interest in making any. Well, why would I? You cannot depend on them. And yet, food was always there.

Do you know to how many doctors my mother took me, because I wasn't able to process the food. I can still remember all the stomach ache and horrible cramps I was experiencing.

Approximately a decade ago ( during my TV addiction ) I have discovered this " naked chef ". I was instantly attracted to his passion for cooking, and I have became a regular follower of his shows. Luckily I was raised in a culture where home cooking is not a strange action that no one practices, so it was quite easy to follow his advices and to create a fabulous dish.

As I was becoming older, my perspective on food didn't change a lot. But what have changed is my knowledge of a food.

So I'm a vegetarian now. It started as a "love for animals", and yes, I still refuse to kill in order to have a meal. For some time I was quite happy whit the relationship and a perspective I have for the food. Then I've started reading and exploring and trying to make some influence to the people I was surrounded. I was out of my mind angry when I became aware that my 6 years old niece is having a potato chips for a breakfast. Each morning! So I started explaining to her what will that chips do to her body, and what healthy food is. And what's scary is the fact that me, 27 year old vegetarian, did not put a green vegetable in her body for months! And let me not started with the preparing the food for myself.

You gonna see me in a big supermarket reading the ingredients on the back of each product I think I wanna buy. And you gonna see me putting back each product I take, because it's all sugar and artificial things.

I keep reminding myself to cook, and I live alone, so all of you with the same situation, you know how hard is to cook only for one person.

I keep reminding myself to go to the market and buy some salad, it's spring, so there is a plenty of things. I still haven't done it.

So, I'm concerned about my health. Sometimes I get pissed of to myself, because I don't take care. Today I cried. I watched Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution. And it's amazing, wonderful, beautiful, important, mind blowing, honest and deserves a respect from every person in this planet.

I honestly think that this is the greatest thing in the whole world that has ever been done. Why? Well, the food it's just a beginning. When we change the food we are eating, we can change the world. This revolution can resolve and clear the economy a big companies monopoly. Health issues and modern diseases will no longer exist. It can create a healthy relationship with the food, and a relationship among the people.

That's why I support Jamie, that's why I commit to eat good, start cooking again, and becoming a public speaker to "processed food" issues.

My friends, I might become annoying.

Making a Difference!