Good Health: Heal Your Gut, cookbook by South African actress Euodia Samson

Good Health: Heal Your Gut, health and wellness cookbook by South African actress Euodia Samson

Cape Town born actress Euodia Samson recently published her first book, Heal Your Gut. In this cookbook, she shares her journey with food and provides recipes and inspiration, to promote health and wellness. In addition to recipes, Samson provides vital insights into holistic health and wellness- mind, body and soul. The book developed out of a daily Facebook Live show, headed up by Samson in which she spoke about health and wellness, food, her personal journey and her life. Her followers urged her to compile her valuable insights into a book and the result is, Heal Your Gut.  Info as supplied:

Celebrated SA actress Euodia Samson releases her first health and wellness book, Heal Your Gut

South African actress Euodia Samson has proved she’s just as proficient in front of a stove as she is on a stage, with the release of her first cookbook, Heal Your Gut. The Cape Town-born actress and TV personality is best known for the roles in movies such as the Netflix original, Angeliena, as well as the Showmax film, Twisted Christmas.

While Samson has dazzled in TV shows such as Arendsvlei, Waterfront, Onder Draai die Duiwel Rond as well as her iconic role in Tussen Duiwels, what many may not know is that she is also a Tension and Trauma Release Therapist and an Integrated Wellness Consultant – with a passion for simple, delicious food that promotes health.

Her latest venture sees her releasing her first book, which dropped on Friday April 1, 2022, in a quest to promote healthy living and a zest for wellness for herself, her family and all of her supporters.

The genesis of Heal Your Gut on Facebook Live

Finding herself facing an empty nest, after her sons moved out, the 52-year-old health and wellness ambassador started a daily Facebook Live show which has been very well received.
‘’It’s been absolutely amazing when you get inbox messages to say that for the first time in their life they feel they have control of their health and weight. One woman lost 43 kg since she started following me and told me for the first time she can play with her children and wear heels again. One lady told me that I brought her out of depression and that 25 thousand dollars therapy couldn’t do it,’’ she said. Many of her followers/viewers wanted the information she shares in a hard copy form, and the self-published book was born.

‘’Speaking about health and wellness, mind, body and soul, the platform was a perfect vehicle to reach more people and many said how they benefited. My followers started calling it ‘class’ as they learn so much during each of the Facebook Live sessions. They then requested I put the low carb meals I cook during my life, in a book. At first, I was very reluctant as I thought one can Google low carb recipes if you want them. But ‘the class’ insisted. I decided, if I was to do a cookbook, it would be more about the information on why your gut health is important for overall health and wellness than just recipes”, said Samson.

Detox, cleanses and meal plans

The cookbook delivers on its promise with detox plans, cleanses, meal plans and even food triggers and nutritional info. The book also touches on her personal journey. “‘Having battled weight gain, health issues like pre-diabetes, hypertension and suffering from anxiety, I discovered the Banting/Keto lifestyle nine years ago. I believe that saved my life as I was definitely heading towards getting cancer as I already had a lump removed from my breast at 19 years old,” says Samson who teamed up with Prof Tim Noakes in the early days of his community outreach program Eat Better SA .

Eating healthy – on a budget- recipes using local sourced and cheap ingredients

Samson believes that there’s a perception that eating healthy is only for the wealthy and that there is also much misinformation around what exactly healthy eating is. ‘“So the ordinary South African living on a budget or even under the bread line needs to understand why they are sick in the first place and how to get healthy within two weeks if they follow the information given in this book,” she said.

The book is dedicated to her parents who died 18 and 15 years ago respectively. ‘“Mommy died of colon cancer and daddy died from stroke complications. The bulk of the information is about why Gut Health is so important and then there’s a 14 day detox programme. The recipes are simple and basic with ingredients that you can get local and cheap.”’ The book retails at R260 each and can be ordered via WhatsApp on: 079 152 7478.

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