{"id":6944,"date":"2025-11-11T23:08:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T23:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/?p=6944"},"modified":"2025-11-11T23:18:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T23:18:49","slug":"is-struggle-the-only-meal-making-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/is-struggle-the-only-meal-making-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Struggle the Only Meal Making Model?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993366;\">Glimpsing an Alternative Food Universe<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>There was a lovely post on LinkedIn from Carol Amendola D&#8217;Anca who leads immersive excursions in southern Italy so people can experience the lifestyle of longevity firsthand. Here&#8217;s what she had to say upon her return to the U.S. in late October:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ve just returned from Southern Italy, and with the last of the tourists gone, I witnessed something far richer than any gelato or ancient ruins. I saw a life fully kicked into gear\u2014a vibrant, active rhythm where diet and lifestyle aren&#8217;t forced choices, but a simple, deep flow with the seasons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How different is our food world! Seems like traveler here would be immersed in an eating lifestyle characterized by continual struggle and effort to eat like the experts advise.<\/p>\n<p>Can you imagine a world characterized by a &#8220;vibrant, active rhythm where diet and lifestyle aren&#8217;t forced choices, but a simple, deep flow with the seasons?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In other words, what if making health-giving meals was just normal and natural? Wouldn&#8217;t that make our lives so much easier&#8211;and healthier?!!<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what <a href=\"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/meal-making-transformation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Meal Making Transformation<\/strong><\/span><\/a> is all about, i.e., creating this kind of culture in our own lives and in our communities. It isn&#8217;t hard, it just takes a shift in thinking. <span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #993366;\" href=\"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/meal-making-transformation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen to how this happened in my life<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Interesting that this idea that seems very new to us is actually very old!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glimpsing an Alternative Food Universe There was a lovely post on LinkedIn from Carol Amendola D&#8217;Anca who leads immersive excursions in southern Italy so people can experience the lifestyle of longevity firsthand. Here&#8217;s what she had to say upon her return to the U.S. in late October: I&#8217;ve just returned from Southern Italy, and with &#8230; <a title=\"Is Struggle the Only Meal Making Model?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/is-struggle-the-only-meal-making-model\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6946,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6944\/revisions\/6946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}