The secret to living... truly living and not just existing starts with us. We are what we eat....if we want optimum health, body and mind. It is a choice. Despite the steady growth of healthcare professions, we, as a society continue to become more ill due to over processed and bioengineered foods yet the answer is so simple. So basic. The answers are in this book. Chef Alain Braux will not only guide you how to achieve a healthy mind and body but his delicious and nutritious recipes can also help heal the body with joyous food. His book will lead to lower cholesterol, renewed energy and vitality that you thought you lost! If you buy one book on how nutrition and good food can change your life, this is it! - Kim Stanford. Co-Author of Gluten Freedom Chef Alain Braux is a French certified chef and a nutritherapist - a nutritionist that helps his clients with assorted food allergies live a normal life through healing foods recommendations.
Chef Alain Braux (aka moi - French for me) is brand new in the authoring business. I am French national and came to America 30 years ago through New York city. By trade, I am a Pastry Chef but along my 40 years career, I have done everything there is to be done in the food business, from washing pots and pans and scrubbing floors to make a 600-person cake for Lena Horne's 60th birthday and many more. Over the years, I was honored to make cakes for 2 movies (Fire Birds with Nicolas Cage and Blank Check, a Disney movie). I also owned my own French Bakery and Cafe in Austin, Texas for about 10 years.
For the past ten years, after fattening my customers with my fine French pastries, I became more and more intrigued by the effect on food on one's health. That lead me to study the macrobiotic philosophy of eating and became a macrobiotic counselor. Deciding to expand my knowledge, I went on to earn a B.S in Holistic Nutrition and started working with a small private clientele with specific food challenges such as gluten and dairy allergies, Celiac disease, children with ADD/ADHD and most recently I developped a special diet to help a cancer patient regain his strength so he can be operated.
As a Nutritherapist - someone that uses food as a healing medium, I strongly believe that given the right diet, our body can prevent most of our modern degenerative diseases and I try my best to help people affected with these diseases to regain a normal life. As a French chef, I also firmly believe that eating healthy food does not mean eating bad-tasting food. I make a point to provide my clients with a diet that they can only eat but also enjoy eating. What's the point of trying to get better with food you do not want to eat. Have you tried to eat hospital food lately? How do they expect you to feel better with those barely defrosted limp bland vegetables, overcooked unknown meat and mint Jello. In my opinion, sick people need to eat fresh and great-tasting food loaded with vitamins, minerals and all sort of natural phytochemicals provided by nature.
Besides writing this book, I currently work at Peoples Pharmacy in Austin, TX as the executive chef in charge of developing gluten-free, dairy-free and low sugar food and desserts. You've got to try my flourless chocolate cake and you don't even have to have a gluten allergies to enjoy it. I have been called the devil as well as an angel for creating this cake. Recently, one of my moms was elated to tell me that her son could have a "normal" birthday cake. That's what I love to do.
I sincerely hope this book will help you lower your cholesterol without the help of potentially harmful drugs, the exact same way I did. Merci for trusting me with your health. A Votre Sante.
For more information about me, check me out on LinkedIn or www.alainbraux.com.
"Did I just dine in Nice?" You'll think so after cooking one of the great recipes in Alain Braux's book, "How to Lower Your Cholesterol with French Gourmet Food." Healthy French haute cuisine finding its way into your kitchen. The number of friends you have will grow. That too may lower your cholesterol!
-- Bill Swail, RPh. Owner of Peoples Pharmacy, Austin, Texas
Chef Alain Braux comes forward to tell us what he eats, what he won't eat, including why and how. Very few books will shamelessly succeed like this one to in reconciling "gourmet" and "healthy" and give you such a wealth of nutritional information and practical tips ... with an added pinch of French humor!
-- Brigitte Benquet. Previous owner of Brigitte's French Mediterranean Gourmet and Healthy Restaurant. Santa Clara, California.
The secret to living... truly living and not just existing starts with us. We are what we eat....if we want optimum health, body and mind. It is a choice. Despite the steady growth of healthcare professions, we, as a society continue to become more ill due to over processed and bioengineered foods yet the answer is so simple. So basic. The answers are in this book. Chef Alain Braux will not only guide you how to achieve a healthy mind and body but his delicious and nutritious recipes can also help heal the body with joyous food. His book will lead to lower cholesterol, renewed energy and vitality that you thought you lost! If you buy one book on how nutrition and good food can change your life, this is it!
-- Kim Stanford. Co-Author of Gluten Freedom
" This is a truly comprehensive and fascinating guide to help those seeking a healthier life-style. Chef Braux has brought the full measure of his expertise and knowledge to everyone. It embraces a full range of skills and recipes that can transform the average into the truly extraordinary."
-- Chef Henny Schmidt. Executive Chef.
"Alain Braux is an extraordinary natural foods chef. His sensitivity to food and nutrition is remarkable. Alain has helped so many individuals create eating plans that are not only gluten and dairy free but creative and delicious. And - he makes the very best flourless chocolate cake - anywhere... I wish you the best of luck in your new adventure."
Bonne Chance.
- Janet Zand, L.Ac., OMD, Dipl. Ac., Dipl. CH, ACN
" A few years ago, my daughter, who is dyslexic and has a hard time staying focused, was also having allergic reactions to wheat and dairy products.
I went to my friend Alain for help in educating us on how to change our diet. He prepared a shopping list for me and followed up with teaching me how to prepare delicious meals that were fun to make and left us feeling very satisfied and never deprived. He also went through my refrigerator and pantry and helped me get rid of all that was being toxic to our bodies, and gave me healthy alternatives to all of those foods that I thought I couldn't do without.
My daughter showed great improvement. She no longer had dark circles under her eyes, and she was better able to stay focused. And I was enjoying making all those new dishes, feeling always satisfied with much smaller portions of the "good stuff", and feeling more in control by being able to take care of the problem in my own home.
He taught us how to eat healthier and now I continue to buy the correct ingredients, and look back at how simple changes and knowledge have made great changes to our way of living.
Thank you Alain for teaching me so much and reinforcing that "we are what we eat". Your patience, knowledge of nutrition, love for food, and desire to make us all healthier human beings transformed the way I see food."
- Ana D. Gallo, Architect. Austin, TX
" Alain has truly found his calling with nutri-therapy, and his passion for the health of his friends and clients can not be overestimated. He is a treasure among the Austin health community."
- Ric Furley. Austin, TX
" Chef Braux is an "Austin, Texas institution". His culinary artistry inspired many of us 1990's chef school students - his professional sophistication helped to put Austin onto the national gourmet scene.
One word comes to my mind when I think about Alain - integrity. Chef Braux is not willing to take short cuts or make compromises in regard to product quality and client service. He always gives 100 percent of his energy and expertise.
I trust Alain with my nutritional health."
- Achim "Chef Keem". Austin, TX
"Chef Braux's cooking classes are informative, fun, and the recipes are amazing! I can't thank him enough for the Provencal Boule bread recipe, my family loves it. I plan to take many more of his classes in the future."
- Kecia J. Austin, TX
" Alain's flourless chocolate cake is the kind of stuff that dreams are made of. Guilt-free and liberating for people with gluten sensitivities or Celiac disease. Simply divine!"
- Kaya Dupuis, Clinical Homeopath. Austin, TX
" My praise for Alain Braux is for sharing his knowledge of beneficial treatments related to our bodies' health; many of which correspond with the foods we choose, such as cholesterol levels, acid reflux disease, and celiac sprue to name a few.
As for his cooking versatility, think the best meat loaf (yes, it is gluten free) and asparagus like you have never experienced and then move up to heaven with his gluten free chocolate mousse cake... it is, after all, to die for.
He is caring, sharing and fun to work with in his classes. His enthusiasm is contagious and his manner is genuine. He makes time to discuss better product choices with clear, knowledgeable and easy to comprehend reasoning. He has information for us all."
- Paula Storey. Austin, TX
" My wife Francoise and I have been counting Alain Braux among our friends for many years. From "Maitre Patissier" trained in Paris under the supervision of one the best among the bests in the pastry field, Mr. LeNotre, Alain is now an acclaimed Holistic Nutrition Counselor and Macrobiotic Counselor in Austin, Texas.
He is extremely knowledgeable and his advices are always valuable. His seminar on how to lower your cholesterol with healthy gourmet food is simply an amazing example on how we can keep our arteries and our heart in good shape while appreciating a great treat at lunch and supper times.
Alain can show you how Mother Nature provides all necessary ingredients. Alain's passion is to help each and everyone of us enjoy good meals while staying healthy."
Best wishes Alain
- Francoise and Jack Pointeau. Austin, TX
