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Today the guest of our column "Healthy guests" became Marina Gaivoronskaya, founder and CEO of beauty salons MG Style and MG Style Prestige in Almaty, Miss Fashion People Awards 2013 and the heroine of Philip Kirkorov and Sergei Zverev’s music videos.
One of marathon participants was our today’s guest, beautiful woman, Mom of three kids, loving and beloved wife — Zarrina Slamkulova.
At one of the favourite for most Almaty citizens street, in a spacy ultramodern place there is COSMOTHECA beauty shop, store of healthy cosmetics from around the world, and also of niche perfumery products.
Please meet the first guest of our “Healthy Guests” column – Stanley Currier, Director, Department of Corporate Development, KIMEP University.
“A human is a large, but slowly burning, without smoke and crack, fire” — Interview with Diaz Baiseitov
The leader of such group is Diaz Baiseitov, a fan of healthy life style, active sport, who energizes everyone, make his relatives and friends closer to sport, and in everyday life – promoting innovation technologies in Technopark of Nazarbayev University. Fortunately, Diaz became our next guest.
Z: Hello, Diaz. I am sure you were not surprised why you became the next goal of Healthy Guests column at DiningSmart, right? What do you think about healthy dining?
D: Hi! I am extremely pleased! Western proverb says: we are what we eat. It is hard to argue about it, since from the view of systems biology, a human is a large, but slowly burning, without smoke and crack, fire. Eating the food, we slowly acerbate it by inhaled oxygen, absorbing the energy out of it and digesting it until aminoacids, which we are further building up our body. Thus the food is our main material and energetic component. Therefore, it shall be at least balanced depending on our needs and lifestyle. Until the recent times, there were no issues about it – a man certainly was spending a lot of energy, getting the food via hunting, farming, crafting. Now, in the age of excessive production and consumption, together with sedentary lifestyle, there are a lot of issues with overweight, metabolic diseases.
There are a lot of things written about it, so I would like just to ask not to eat a lot, but have more vegetables, and not to be fan of fast food. If you are struggling the overweight, it is important to note that everyone is different, and there is no a single recipe for everyone. In the sport there are stayers, sprinters, runners with different body shape and metabolism specifics. Also in dining, scientists highlight at least three types of microbiome of human’s intestines, with its specifics of absorbing the fat, protein and carbohydrates. In future the human will be able upon the results of fast genotypic test to find out the most suitable diet, and as for now you just shall test and choose your type of diet.
Z: It was an interesting note. You mentioned not to be fan of fast food: it is a good advice, but how to do it, since it is so difficult nowadays, where there are so many adverts, and all is about fast food!
D: The same recommendations are suitable for the spiritual food – it is very important to filter the information which we get. We need to be selective on what we read, watch on TV, and even who we have in our surrounding. Our children shall adopt such habits – since our spiritual bowl is not limitless, and it is being filled in since the first years of life. What we fill in it with is what we are. That is why I would like to mention vegetarians. They are brave and progressive people who try to get closer to the future. The necessity to become the “superpredator” was in the early levels of evolution, in order in the end of difficult path to be able not to think of animal needs as food only, but turn on the human thinking and be concerned about culture, society, technologies. Thanks to this, theoretically there is no need of animal based food. And I am sure that in the developed countries the synthesis of high quality and undistinguishable protein in coming decades will replace the meat which will become the culinary specialty being sold only in a la retro restaurants. Plant products will be more intensively cultivated thanks to integrated aeroponic technologies of “vertical gardens” which let minimize the land area of gardens and investments.
D: Astana Adventure club is the group of like-minded people united by the love to active lifestyle, nature and sport. It is not a secret that many guests of the capital find it boring in relation to the active leaisure time – here are no mountains, deep forests, sea sides, and the climate is rather harsh. We do not complain about it though, but try to change our surrounding to better, looking for interesting places and activities for any year season, thus making a significant contribution promoting the healthy lifestyle.
Jumps on Pyramid in Astana
Summer meetings of the club
Winter kiting – almost like the snowboarding, but you are being moved by the wind power
D: Well, it is not that picturesque – there is a lot of time devoted to work and daily routine. However, the rest of time should be full of life. Motorcycle was and is the symbol of free nomadic spirit, available both to students and businessmen. Each mototrip, even not too far awaу – is an adventure. The road, first of all, hardens the temper. It often brings the surprises and tests, i.e. weather difficulties, breakage, wandering and losses. The ability to find the way out and take decisions along the road will certainly be the useful skill to all “victims of civilization” and office clerks. When you are far away from the cities, civilization, you start to notice and value the things which you forgot in the childhood – the color of the sky, smell of the grass, taste of the fire baked potato and simply tea with sugar. Most importantly, the road changes your mind, your view to the surrounding world. For example, in the village of high mountain Tajikistan one young mother asked me in a poor Russian – What do you know? She meant what is new in the world, since they did not have proper communication means, no electricity, the house was out of stones, but was very nicely decorated by handmade blankets. But I could not properly reply to such a simple question. What could I, a man from the city, even with two diplomas and higher education, big work experience, could tell her, who knew how to survive in a harsh cold winter in the mountains and save the kids; how to bake the bread when there is no proper harvest climate on the small land area between the cliffs; when and how to tend a cattle and hide the holes in a stone house? My knowledge and diplomas were useless for her. And what about third generation sorceress from Khakass - how could I explain how the boiler on the fire started to boil with foam and then became silent exactly at the time when she was throat singing, and the camera refused to make the pictures at that moment? Road is a really amusing endless book. The plot of this book never repeats for anyone, but being always rewritten.
Interview led by Zhibek Karamanova. February 2014. www.DiningSmart.com
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One of marathon participants was our today’s guest, beautiful woman, Mom of three kids, loving and beloved wife — Zarrina Slamkulova.
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