There are as many diets as there are eaters. Fortunately, a vast variety of food and cooking techniques can be considered healthy and satisfying. I am not a scientist. I don’t believe in using calculators, scales, and perfectly portioned food items as part of my eating experience. What I do rely on is a few basic guidelines developed by traditional cultures. As studied by Weston A. Price, these cultures had full jaw lines, intact teeth, robust skeletal frames, and few health issues. That is, until our modern food industry stepped in.
Want to eat like a traditionalist, too? Here are some easy and extremely healthful tips:
- Eat seasonal foods in their whole and natural state from the best sources possible! Local and organic is KEY! Nutrients in the soil are necessary to be transferred into nutrients in your food; freshness is important!
- Use only traditional fats. This includes butter and other animal fats, extra virgin olive oil, sesame, flax, and coconut oil. Avoid hydrogenated oils at all costs.
- Include live fermented foods in the diet - sauerkraut, kefir, kombucha, yoghurt, and pickles.
- Prepare mineral rich bone broths, stocks, and sauces.
- Soak or sprout whole grains and nuts to reduce phytic acid (a naturally-occurring digestion inhibitor) content.
- Consume natural, free-range poultry, beef, lamb, organ meats, eggs, and wild-caught fish and seafood.
- Eat with gratitude!
Interested in finding out how I can help you find your inner traditionalist? Check me out at www.nichewellness.com!
Changed my life for the better! I've never looked back since! And thank you for mentioning phytic acid!! No one mentions it.
Like pus in your milk from mastitis laden cows who happen to be suffering through hell. All for a little cream in your coffee, eh? Wait, I mean, all to keep the cream in your coffee cheap...
There are pros to that fact though. Everything we enjoy would be made illegal if someone wasn't getting insanely rich off of it. I'm all for being healthy, but if I want to indulge a little I'm glad to have the option
Chemicals in everyday products are ruining your health-find out what you can do about it. One hundred years ago, the promise of "a better living through chemistry" was given to consumers, setting us on a slippery slope that introduced thousands of man-made chemicals into our food, water, medicine and environment. In The Hundred-Year Lie, investigative journalist Randall Fitzgerald shatters dozens of myths being perpetuated by the chemical, pharmaceutical, and processed foods industries. He shows how early advances led to a build-up of industry, and how the profit motive then led companies and even our own government to ignore troubling signs of widespread illness and disease.
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