SPA FORESIGHT™ PLAYING WITH FOOD
4. TASTE SENSATIONS
Living Food – a concept from biology and robotics student Minsu Kim – proposes the addition of live organisms to fine dining. She foresees a time where we move beyond the oyster to where “a vegetable plays with your fork, while noodles tickle your tongue as you eat them,” and plates of food become living, pulsating things. The colour, shape, weight and size
of cutlery and crockery also affects taste. Researchers from Oxford University, UK have found that food tastes saltier if eaten with a knife and feels denser and more expensive if a light plastic spoon is used. Drinks served in cold-coloured glasses seem to quench the thirst more.
Live organisms are
incorporated into fine dining in Minsu Kim’s Living Food concept
Cellular health: this subtle
element of wellbeing is unseen and rarely researched, so
education to raise awareness will be the first step
STRIKING A BALANCE 5. CELLULAR HEALTH
We anticipate increasing awareness of the importance of cellular health – something few people have any knowledge of. Many of the systems which run our bodies at a cellular level work through ten- sions between opposites and the balance between them determines our health. For example, the health of the gut – which
underpins the immune system – relies on the balance between fungi and bacteria. If either dominate, our health is undermined: consume too much sugar or yeast and fungus flourishes, which leads to disorders such as candida, athletes foot and thrush. The cellular pump, which keeps our
cells clean and our blood pressure healthy, relies on the correct balance between
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Good cellular health is the foundation of wellbeing, but few people are aware of this
sodium and potassium in the body. Get the balance wrong and the result will be disease and high blood pressure. A wide range of health factors are
reliant on balance – exercise and rest, acid and alkali, oxygen and carbon dioxide. Good balance means excellent cellular health and a greater likelihood of freedom from disease.
We expect to see a more widespread
recognition of the importance of good cellular health, its role in the fundamental underpinning of wellbeing and of its importance as the ultimate tool in the prevention of disease. This subtle element of health is unseen
and rarely researched, so education to raise awareness will be the first step.
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