Healing Through Nutrition - Down-To-Earth

Restaurant

by Diana

organicgardeningbali@gmail.com

“Fling open all doors. Get your feet muddy with Mother Earth.

Give it all you’ve got—its your Divine purpose, after all. No

holding back. Give… so that it stretches you. Humans, plants

and animals are a dynamic expression of this web of life,

flowing with the order in the universe,” she iterates as she

searches her memory to find the essence of the experience. Her

head turns back to me, green eyes sparkling with the sweet

memory, “And the universe will give back in boundless,

mysterious, impossible ways!”

“It is our relationship with food that affects the rest of our life—

especially the quality of life. For instance, it really matters…

what a person eats before they are in a car wreck…instantly!

Also, many of our negative emotions and thoughts can be food-

related, such as: depression; anger; jealousy; and mood

swings.”

Liat’s long dark hair dances as her passionate words spill their

light across the bamboo tables (by Arief) of her newly-opened

macro biotic restaurant, bakery, and health food store (on JL

Goutama in Ubud between Bali Mode and Taksu Spa). This

entrepreneur makes a point of teaching her staff how to grow

organic gardens and recycle. When she can, she sells products

that support “women’s projects”, creating new, green jobs for

themselves, such as tropical dried fruit.

Liat, the owner of three Bali restaurants, is trained

professionally in macrobiotics, Chinese Medicine and nutrition.

She also uses some traditional Balinese jamu. For years, she

cooked for Breast and Ovarian Cancer patients; AIDS patients,

and the terminally ill, including some famous stars.

Her quest for life is deep-rooted in the cavernous angst of

having 12 women in her family die from cancer, including her

mother, who was a master of many parts of her professional

world; but not her own diet. Liat cooked a healing diet for her

mother, but found evidence of how often her mother was

cheating herself by secretly ordering from the Deli (which took

her life too soon at age 54).

As for this restaurant, healing through nutrition is its mission.

Each meal is nutritionally balanced. It is a place to gather with

friends and have fun while eating healthy; or take it home and

cook it yourself.

In her first healing consultation in Bali, a woman flew all the

way from the Galapagos Islands with a 5.00 cm (in diameter)

tumor. The doctors recommended a hysterectomy followed by

chemo therapy and radiation. The woman refused their advice,

but didn’t know where to turn until she heard of this woman in

Bali who heals through good food.

As a result of this consultation, for her month in Bali, she began

baths; teas; and an unconventional diet of roasted lobster shell,

whole beans, veggies, etc. Three months later at home, she

enthusiastically reported that her tumor had shrunk to .35 cm!

She successfully adapted her new diet into her life.

Another consultation was with a club manager in Bali who had a

drug/ alcohol habit which gave him a stroke at age 38. He

entered, unable to concentrate. He was losing his hair, had poor

eyesight. He couldn’t drive and could barely walk or talk. After

3 months on a prescribed diet, he could see, concentrate, and

read again. After one year, he was healthy and strong once

more.

Just recently this healing consultant had her second experience

with dengue fever, which for many sufferers can be fatal.

Instead, she used primarily Balinese jamu (herbal maedicine)

and quickly recovered to resume her busy family and business

life. She used a combination of tofu, cabbage leaves, sari kurma

(Javanese Date syrup), temu cunci fresh cut as tea, beras merah

(roasted red rice) tea; and other tools for dehydration.

What we can enjoy in Bali, and especially in Ubud, is to really

connect with the Earth again. Grow humus-based organic

gardens hiring Balinese gardeners trained in jamu and organic

methods. For centuries, the Balinese fed the Earth daily so that

the earth could feed them. We can feed our little piece of Earth

as well. We can eat together as a family and find the harmony

in breaking bread together as a sustainable community. I

believe in families eating the same food together around the

table. It creates the same blood sugar and a harmony.

“One peaceful planet through nutrition is what I offer. We can

do it!” she asserts, green eyes twinkling.”