I am passionate about real food, meaning food in its un-altered form--things that most people don't know what to look for anymore.
The obvious things to avoid are cookies, fair fries, and doughnuts, but what about organic chips and protein powder?
The food industry is a twisted mess that is trying to confuse us and the diet system isn't much better. Do you go vegan? Plant based? Paleo? Low carb? Atkins? WAPF?
Honestly, I don't adhere to a "diet" regime. Sure I love some plant based recipes and I find myself following a lot of Paleo and WAPF (Weston A. Price Foundation) standards, but I don't fall into anyone's legal system.
Why?
Because I believe in real food. I believe that consumed by a healthy digestive system, prepared correctly, eaten in reasonable amounts, with minimal processing, many foods can offer nourishment.
I believe in bread. Lard. Saturated fat. Dessert. Rice. Bacon. Kale. Coffee. Nuts. Sweet Potatoes. Beets. Collard greens.
The food system is so confusing that we have lost track of how to identify real foods. We've become so accustomed to purchasing our food in plastic bags that we have forgotten that the ingredients had to come from somewhere, and that that "somewhere" is less than ideal. The food industry wants you distanced from where your food comes from. They put health benefit advertisements on their packages, but most of them never want you to see where these products came from and how they were created.
Most of use have at some point or another been tired, fatigued, overweight, sluggish, caffeine dependent, sick, allergenic, and/or chronically ill.
This is simply because the cells your body reproduces are created from the nourishment you offer. You literally are what you eat.
I'll try to break down some myths about health and help with identification of what is real food and what is pretending to nourishment. I'll also talk about health outside of food, because I really do believe it is a lifestyle concept, not a diet plan.
Bottom line? Eat real food. Because you deserve the real thing. Not someone's science experiment in a box.
