#26 Benefits of Cooking & Eating Brown Rice with Sheri Demaris, Macrobiotic Educator & Director of Documentary 'The Spirit of Rice'

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Sheri DeMaris, M. Ed., a pioneer in alternate health, is a natural foods chef/educator for last three decades and has taught people and organizations across the world the importance of cooking and eating well.

Sheri is the producer, creator and narrator of the film documentary ‘The Spirit of Rice’. She is the host of a TV show on macrobiotic cooking and an author of an internationally sold cookbook "Macro Magic for Kids and Parents".

Sheri is Level 4 Macrobiotic graduate from Kushi Institute. Sheri DeMaris has taught extensively on the East Coast and taught at restaurants and cooking schools extensively in the US & Europe. She has traveled throughout the United States, Germany, Belgium, Amsterdam, and Japan as a cooking instructor and educator. She has been a consultant to the chefs at top-rated restaurants, including the Ritz Carlton. She has shared her deep knowledge in foods and cooking with various medical professionals including professionals at University of California San Diego School of Integrative Medicine and Hahnemann University. She holds a Master’s Degree in Counseling from the College of William and Mary in Virginia and completed post-graduate studies in counseling from Villanova University in Pennsylvania.

Sheri writes articles for various adult and teen magazines and has been a guest speaker on a number of national radio shows. Sheri has been a keynote speaker at a number of holistic health events including Vegetarian Festivals in the United States and Japan, and the International Macrobiotic Summer Conferences in the United States and Europe.

Sheri has been featured on Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, Suburban Main Line Times and the Courier Post. Sheri has also featured on cooking TV shows including “Celebrity Kitchens”, “Christina Cooks”, “Kids Kan Too” and “The Make-Over Story”. She has written articles for various publications including “New Visions Magazine”, “Yoga Life Journal” and “Christina Cooks Magazine”.

At present, Sheri is a consultant for ensuring best quality food and natural health products the Holistic Holiday at Sea cruise.

Topic of Conversation:

- Sheri's experience of Macrobiotic learning at the Kushi Institute

- Experience being a healing cook and chef and teaching people how to cook right

- What is so special about brown rice nutritionally and energetically that it is considered to be the most powerful food in Macrobiotic dietary philosophy

- Why there is so much focus on cooking brown rice right and what is that right cooking approach

- Does brown rice variety and cooking of brown rice change as per the seasons

- What body systems resonate with the energy of brown rice

- Is it possible to live on brown rice majorly

- How to sort out brown rice cooking in day to day recipes

- A viewpoint on arsenic and other metallic toxicity in brown rice and the best way to cook to deal with metallic toxins

- There are so many brown rice varieties, which one to choose

- What body-mind shifts can brown rice bring in if one consumes it regularly

- About the documentary ‘The Spirit of Rice’

- In what forms Sheri eats her brown rice in a day

Visit Sheri’s website here: https://www.macromagic.com/

Visit Sheri’s TV show here: https://rvntelevision.com/tv-show/macro-magic/