I believe in the power of food. Few would dispute the good feelings that arise from a delicious home-cooked meal enjoyed with friends and family. Yet I have personally experienced that food has a power greater than good feelings -- wholesome foods can contribute to vibrant health. Indeed, food can create and enhance wellness. On the flip side, poorly chosen, overly processed and degraded foods can negatively impact health.
The power within good food is surely inscribed in our consciousness. The yen for a steaming bowl of homemade chicken soup when we are ill . . . the desire for fresh crunchy salads in the spring . . . each of us possesses an instinct that would lead us to the proper food, if only we would listen. Unfortunately, this instinct is often muted by years of poor food choices, not to mention the over abundance of highly processed, fractionated, chemicalyized foods.
How do we find our way back to our instincts when our grocery store aisles are laden with non-foods and our magazines, newspapers and tv's report the latest finding that this well-loved food is now bad yet the bad food of last year is now good? In spite of an overabundance of junk food and not-much-better-than-junk advice, there is a non-controversial answer: whole, real foods grown and raised the way nature intended.
You would be hard pressed to find a study that suggests real, home-cooked foods are bad for you! I use the terms "whole," "real," and "natural" in reference to vegetables and fruits, whole grains and beans, nuts and seeds, spices, fresh -caught ocean fish and organic, antibiotic-free poulty and meats.
These are the true natural foods that form the base of "real" pyramid, the evolving "live" pyramid. When you base your diet on these foods, you may find yourself consuming more fat one week, more protein the next and more carbohydrates the following -- that is because as a living, evolving human being who is alive within the changing seasons of our planet, your dietary requirements may -- surprise--change and fluctuate.
Because we are each individuals with our own body types and chemical makeups, we will each have our needs met differently with natural foods. One way to think about how natural a food is or not is: how many things have been done to it before it reaches your kitchen & where did it come from? Even within this seemingly simply concempt of natural foods there are debates and controversies: is vegetarian better? are dairy foods bad? This is where we must connect to our intuition and find our own answers.
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