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Diet Truth Beats The Latest Fad Any Day - Nourishing Traditions

Like many other people, I have been confused by all the diets that multiply like rabbits from year to year. Eat carbs and eliminate protein. No, eat protein and eliminate carbs. Eat meat. No, veggies only is the way to go. How about grapefruit? The problem is that many of these ways will encourage short term weight loss but don't necessarily help you build health.

After jumping on and off that merry-go-round a few times, I have concentrated on finding what is really healthy to eat and what works for me. It's a no brainer that processed food is bad for you. You can't eat vitamin packed cardboard and expect your body to work the way it was designed to. Live foods make sense but you can't live on lettuce either.

As part of my search to find viable alternatives to the normal standard American (sad) diet, I came across a very interesting book by Sally Fallon called Nourishing Traditions. More than just a cookbook, it is full of information for what, why and how we can eat tasteful, nourishing food.

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Food That Is Nourishing

as well as delicious

There seems to be a trend in some of the diet information that is being published today. I have noticed that such diet advocates as Dr. Mercola, Rev. Malkmus at Hallelujah Acres and Jordan Rubin all seem to be focusing on basic food and nutrition rather than simply a way to lose weight. Don't get me wrong, you can't lump them all together because each emphasizes the truth as they understand it but it's a welcome change. They are finally putting the losing weight issue where it belongs in the middle of the quest for better health. So do you know what basic nutrition even is?

That's a question a dentist named, Dr. Weston A Price, was asking back in the 1930's. Dr. Price began traveling to as many groups of people that he could find that had not been influenced by Western Civilization. His goal was to study their natural diets and determine what it was in each case that made them healthy. He could compare many of them with people who had moved from there to "civilized society" and what happened when they changed diets. In every case, those who ate natural, healthy diets, had normal tooth structure and were in better health. His next step was to analyze what it was about their diets that made them healthy and how to introduce his findings into modern society. His work is carried out today by the Weston A. Price Foundation for Wise Traditions in food, farming and the healing arts. Sally Fallon Morell is President of the Foundation. You become a member and receive quarterly updates of their findings.

If You Are Serious About Healthy Eating

this is a serious book

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Base Your Diet on Valid Information

and you won't be at the mercy of fad diets.

Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon explains all of the above and more. She gives you the background stories about things like why food producers stopped using coconut oil and how it got a bad rap. Why fermented food is good for you and how to make it at home. Raw and cooked calories are different. What the best beverages are to drink and why diets that claim you can't combine food types are wrong.

As a matter of fact, if you have had a nagging question about what you are eating, you will probably find the answer here and that's only Section 1!

This book contains many, many enticing recipes along with such off beat facts as why you shouldn't reuse vegetable cooking water (even tho Adelle Davis promoted it.)

It's a fascinating book that won't stay on your bookshelf because you will return to it again and again.

More Information To Help You Choose Healthy Foods

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Did you Know that...

Your body needs old-fashioned animal fats
Polyunsaturated oils can be bad for you
Modern whole grain products can cause health problems
Traditional sauces promote digestion and assimilation
Modern food processing denatures our foods but
Ancient preservation methods actually increase nutrients?

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Answers to What Is This?

# is Jello Pudding and Pie Filling
* is Slender Diet Meal for Weight Control (chocolate)
^ is Gatorade Thirst Quencher, Lemonade Flavor
& is Town House Fancy Tomato Catsup

Yes, there are 48 of these in the book. Talk about testing your shopping skills :0)

When cooking is done well

and with care...

the good smells all go together to contribute not only to the pleasure of the meal but also to its thorough digestion. That satisfying aroma coming from the kitchen activates the secretion of saliva and digestive juices. The stimulation of the taste buds by delicious tastes has the same beneficial effect.

A meal well presented by the harmony of its forms and colors, evocative of a work of art, is not a simple esthetic exercise; it is also an aid to digestion as the sight of an appetizing dish stimulates the digestive juices, just as does its good smell and taste.

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