ABOUT

Dr. Avital Sebbag–Nutrition and Natural Medicine Expert and a Healthy Food Chef

Dr. Sebbag, an N.D.LI.ac certified natural therapist, has worked and taught in the field for many years. She specializes in nutrition and ancient Chinese medicine, using various schools of thoughts, sources and physical methods.

Avital's credo is that nutrition awareness plays an important and contributing role in the healthy functioning of the body's systems. Dietary change is used as a central and important tool in combined therapy.

Avital has many years of experience in therapy and through her personal experiences as a mother raising five children on a natural and healthy diet.

She believes that making habitual changes in our lives, especially those we carry from childhood, is no easy task. The changes come only through practical experience, an understanding of the relationship between diet and health, and the acknowledgment that the food we eat influences our physical, emotional and spiritual selves.

Avital emphasizes that not all philosophies or ways of life work for everyone. People's body types and medical histories are different; each and every one of us comes from a different cultural background and with it its traditions and customs. Each and every one of us has different caloric needs and diet affects each individual in different ways.

Diet needs to meet the patient's needs with attention paid to the choice of ingredients, the need for toxin free organic foods and developing an awareness to the preparation of food.

Avital gives workshops in healthy gourmet cooking for her patients and the general public with the intention of connecting the theoretical knowledge she teaches them to the practical knowledge they attain from applying the theories in the way they live their lives. 

Organic products, preservative, color and chemical free are additionally connected to the nature and its seasons.

 Avital publishes natural diet articles and recipes inthe Israeli magazines "Aht Gourmet" [You Gourmet], "Derech Ha Osher" [the Way of Joy], "Menta" [Mint], as well as internet magazines on YNet, "Idan Ha Dli" [the Age of Aquarius], and "Labriut" [To Health]. She also guest on various television talk shows speaking about the visual-aesthetic element which she considers important as well.

Her articles weave philosophies on nutrition and the seasons, seasonal foods, the different cooking types for each season, food combinations according to the seasons, preparation of the body for summer and winter, when to fast, who should fast and more.