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'Some of the books I have read over the past year
Here is a list of some of the books I have read over the last year, sorry I cannot remember all the authors names, they were library books and I haven't got time to look them all up.
Real Food
150 Healthiest Foods on Earth
Cholesterol and the French Paradox
Nourishing Traditions
We want Real Food
Fast Food Nation
Eat Fat, Lose Fat
Cancer: Cause and Cure
Plus I have studied extensively the "WholeFoods Course" I purchased online.
Notice the Theme?
I have been trying to make changes in our diet, in order to become more healthy and avoid the seemingly inevitable problems that seem to strike as aging occurs. I am starting to realise though, that what has always been promoted as "Healthy Eating", isn't actually healthy. We have been sold some very dangerous lies from people with less than honourable motives. For instance, the whole "Eat Fat, Get Fat" mantra was based on one study in the fifties and has been misproven so many times it is ridiculous how it is still preached.
Slowly but surely we have been making changes, we still have a long way to go, but when I consider what our family was eating a year or two back, it really doesn't compare to how we eat now.
My husband commented the other day how it had become an interest of mine to study these books and try to implement them, and its true, I am finding it incredibly interesting and stimulating.
Here are some of the changes we have implemented so far:
Switched exclusively to raw milk (finding this was a real answer to prayer)
Switched to free-range eggs (finding an economical source was another answer to prayer)
Only use un-refined sea salt, not the white processed stuff
Gone back to saturated fats - butter for baking and spread, lard or dripping for roasting and frying
Eating a good amount of fat with meals, loving the luxury of eating good amount of butter and cream without guilt
Use only homemade stock, not the stock powder I used to use to flavour everything
The Next Changes I would like to Make:
Investigate soaking grains and sprouting
Sorting out breakfasts, getting used to healthier options
Figuring out how to make our own yoghurt - no luck so far!!
Buy a dehydrator to make soaked grain snacks, muesli and nuts.
I guess the changes can be summed up by saying we are going back about a century, to how our great-grandmothers cooked before all the processed muck entered our supermarkets. We eat very "old-fashionedly", like people did before heart disease, cancer and diabetes became prevalent. But the food we eat is full of nutrition, and hasn't had all the goodness taken out of it by modern technology.
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Posted: 7:07 PM, Mar. 26, 2009 |
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