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Nourish

Free.

I  love free.  Especially something of value for free.

This week, I twice mentioned my favorite cookbook Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats.  The author, Sally Fallon is also a co-founder of The Weston A. Price Foundation,  a foundation that is “dedicated to resorting nutrient-dense food to the human diet through education, research and activism.”

So back to free.

The Weston A. Price Foundation also offers this free Healthy 4 Life downloadable e-booklet. It’s filled with easy to read information and recipes. It’s a great place to start if you are curious about traditional foods and how you can incorporate them into your modern day life.

Did I mention it’s free.

Why I follow “traditional food” principles?

Over the years, I’ve read more books and articles on nutrition than I can count from vegetarianism to pale and things in between.  At some point I think one needs to go with their “gut” instinct.

A traditional foods diet is more of a philosophy or method or lifestyle than a diet.  I don’t like “diets” and I don’t like eliminating entire food groups.  The traditional diet eliminates very very little- mostly processed and junk food.  All the food groups are “allowed”  as long as they raised or prepared in a way that makes the nutrients beneficial or available to body, hence the raw dairy, soaking and sprouting.  (The free guide books explains this stuff way better than I can as I’m not scientific AT ALL.) There is also a strong emphasis on protein, fat, and fermented foods.

The only downside is that it can take a little more thought in terms of preparation have and sometimes time.  But for me the time has paid off.  When I follow this approach t0 food I feel amazing. Truly. When I revert back to old ways and start eating junk I feel like crap.  Shocking, I know.  It’s pretty simple. Over the years, I’ve found what works for our lifestyle and learned to incorporate what I can.  Cooking my own beans?  Yes.  Making my own sprouted grain bread?  No.  Brewing my own kombucha?  Yes.  Milk kefir?  Not yet.

I’m still experimenting and I’m still learning.  All the time.

If you are interesting in learning more about traditional food methods check out the free Healthy 4 Life e-booklet!

Happy reading!

Hugs and High Fives,
Jenn

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I'm so happy you stopped by my little corner of the web where I write about fitness, food, and amazing women I "meet". I live in California with my wonderful husband and two rambunctious boys. I'm a personal trainer and dreamer. I enjoy most things but some of my favorites are reading, acting, camping, cooking, music, writing, traveling, and being in the moment with my favorite people! You can read more about me here! I hope you stop by often!
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4 Responses to “Nourish”

  1. On July 29, 2011 at 7:44 pm Katie responded with... #

    I’ve done coconut milk kefir; it was just meh. But I don’t like coconut, so I’m not really sure why I tried.

    I love free too. Downloaded the pdf and planning on reading in t-minus 10 min. Thanks!

    Reply
    • On August 1, 2011 at 11:06 pm jennincat responded with... #

      I’ve always wanted to try coconut milk kefir. Thanks for commenting. This were a little quiet around here. :-)

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  2. On July 30, 2011 at 6:07 am Tamara responded with... #

    Interesting stuff, Jenn… thanks for sharing!!

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    • On August 1, 2011 at 11:06 pm jennincat responded with... #

      You’re welcome. Thanks for reading. :-)

      Reply

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