Healthy Eating the Traditional Way
This website is about practicing healthy eating habits by getting back to the traditional diets our ancestors followed.
These traditional diets come in many forms, but they all include natural, real food which is rich in vitamins and minerals.
Early in our history, most folks ate clean, nutrient dense food like grass fed meat, vegetables from their own backyard gardens, fresh butter, raw milk and cream, and free range chicken and fresh organic eggs.
Until the 1970s, pasta, bread and potatoes were known to be "fattening", and smart people avoided these foods when they wanted to lose weight and feel good.
Before about 1915, Americans rarely died from heart disease or diabetes. Today, instead of being healthier, Americans experience higher rates of heart disease, diabetes and cancer thanks to the low fat, high carb dietary advice our nutritional "experts" push and the availability of processed, chemical laden, low nutrient food.
This is the legacy of our industrialized civilization - foods are chosen for convenience instead of nutrition.
The themes of this site include the benefits of:
- Whole, real foods: Good health begins with whole, nutrient dense, organically grown foods which are naturally low in carbohydrates. This would include raw milk and other clean dairy products, pastured, grass fed meats, poultry and eggs, organically grown vegetables and the proper preparation of nuts, seeds and other natural foods.
- The avoidance of artificial, processed foods which rely on chemical additives for flavor, appearance and texture, and genetically modified ingredients for a cheap price. These foods have long shelves lives and even longer ingredient labels. The chemicals used to create these foods aren't supportive of human health, and many have never been tested in the combinations that they are used in food manufacturing.
- An increased awareness of the profit oriented agendas and dynamics which drive the health advice promoted by the Federal Government and our American medical organizations. Much of this advice is driven by the false belief that the consumption of saturated fat and cholesterol causes heart disease. This lie is at the core of the healthy eating advice promoted by the National Institutes of Health, the American Heart Association, the American Diabetes Association, and all of the dietary agencies which follow. The unsound health propaganda these agencies promote exerts great influence on how our doctors determine the dietary advice and drug treatments they provide, and opens the door for the FDA and the pharmaceutical industry to endanger the health and the wallets of the American public through the sales of new but ineffective and often dangerous drugs.
- Using whole foods as medicine to treat and heal chronic illness and to build and support vibrant health without the use of modern drugs. Most health problems are based in a unhealthy diet. Switching to whole, clean foods can transform illness into vibrant health.
There are still societies in the world eating diets which are free of processed, polluted foods. These people enjoy a disease free, healthy existence, without the intervention of doctors and drugs.
How much clearer could the relationship between healthy eating and disease be?
No Fads Here
If you're wondering whether traditional diets are just another fad, remember that whole, clean food has sustained human populations for thousands of years. If traditional diets weren't healthy, the human race would have died out long ago from heart disease and cancer.
Here are some facts you may not know about how our ancestors ate and how our modern diet has impacted our health.
Read on to discover more on healthy eating and real food. I hope you find the information on this website helpful.
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