The new traditional diet – by Heidi Beeck and Esma Storck

The new traditional diet – by Heidi Beeck and Esma Storck

About the book

This book wants to tell you stories. Stories of sick teeth, destinies and the meaningfulness that Heidi and Esma have recognized from them and turned them around for inner healing. About two women who were allowed to understand the language of teeth, discard all previous convictions and find their way from one nutritional trend to another, to a new – old, traditional diet in the 21st century. The authors focus on real food, on food that really nourishes our cells, strengthens the body and supports healing – so that we can enjoy a vital, healthy and energetic life, and in a detailed knowledge section you will learn the difference between inferior, industrial and high-quality food. Simple instructions, suitable recipes and a detailed bonus chapter with a weekly plan and numerous tips help with practical implementation, and the authors also want to encourage readers to take responsibility for their own health. Intestinal and dental health as well as baby and child nutrition are topics close to her heart. Her recipes are designed with this in mind.

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While the food industry uses mass-produced goods and cheap substitute products from the laboratory to make us believe that we are healthy and well, more and more people are realizing that we are moving further and further away from what is natural and genuine. We don’t need convenience products, meat substitutes, dairy substitutes, gluten-free or sugar-free to be healthy. We want to get back to real food, to food that really nourishes us. And we want to remember a time when nutrition was still medicine. Preserving traditional knowledge and learning the sensual, practical experience of making things yourself – real culinary art – and interpreting it in a contemporary way, that’s what we call it: The new traditional diet.” Esma & HeidiWhat impact does processed food have on our health? What is real food and how do we really nourish our bodies? These and many other questions are addressed by authors Heidi Beeck and Esma Storck in their first book, a comprehensive learning and cookbook focusing on holistic gut and dental health. They demonstrate the urgency of a diet that places particular emphasis on quality, naturalness and wholesomeness, as well as on the “nose-to-tail” principle (whole animal use) and traditional processing methods. This book combines centuries-old food processing techniques with modern cuisine and healthy enjoyment. Readers will learn all the basics of home cooking: from wholesome breads with natural sourdough and probiotic dairy products to healing meat broths, ferments and much more. At the heart of the book, Esma and Heidi reveal their “10 traditional superfoods”, which form the basis of their best instructions and everyday and family-friendly recipes.

About the authors

Esma Storck

As the mother of a 3-year-old boy, Esma set out many years ago in search of the “perfect” diet and relatively quickly landed on an exclusively plant-based diet. However, when her fully breastfed baby was diagnosed with tooth decay at just 10 months old, Esma spent days and nights searching for the real reasons. But no doctor could give her a solution to this ever-growing phenomenon (enamel defects and tooth decay in small children) except the American dentist Dr. Weston A. Price, who saw most Western civilization diseases as a consequence of our modern lifestyle and diet. Esma knew one thing: if you can heal with nutrition, then she will succeed. And so she decided to return to animal-based foods. This time, however, undogmatic, ethical, species-appropriate and with the deepest gratitude. Just six months later, Esma was able to halt the incipient decay of her son’s milk teeth, and you can also gain an insight into Esma’s wealth of experience on her Instagram profile “traditionelle_ernaehrung”.

Heidi Beeck

Heidi’s constant striving for health and a slim figure led her to do a lot of mischief with her body at a very young age and she threw herself into numerous self-experiments and omission diets, but at some point she realized that it makes no sense to exclude entire food categories. Instead, she began to take a close look at her diet and finally found what made the difference: natural, original food – real food! Heidi’s love of traditional cooking changed everything and her fascination turned into passion, and today she is aware of the power of traditional foods, as her health successes show that they are the key to strong teeth, healthy intestinal flora, energy and well-being.Heidi also runs the Instagram channel “mineralgoodies”, where she provides numerous tips and inspiration for traditional nutrition.